CNN's Elie Honig Says Judge Could 'Defer' to Trump in Lisa Cook Case

CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said Friday that a federal judge may defer to President Donald Trump’s judgment in the controversy surrounding Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook’s real estate dealings.

Trump said Monday that he was firing Cook over her alleged mortgage fraud. During a segment on “The Arena With Kasie Hunt,” Honig said a judge could side with Trump in the case, citing both political pressure and Cook’s own questionable mortgage filings.

“Look, when you do a mortgage, there’s all sorts of paperwork flying in terms, and maybe you can get confused or lost. I don’t know if you’re gonna buy that from Lisa Cook, but the bottom-line question, as Caitlin just said, is who has to show what here? I think that the allegations on their face could be enough for a judge to say, ‘Look, I’m gonna defer to the president on cause,'” Honig said.

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