Elie Honig: ‘There Is Serious Reason to Doubt’ Newsom’s Allegation That He’s Being ‘Targeted by Donald Trump for Political Retribution’

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HONIG: “Well, based on what we know right now, Kaitlan, I think there’s serious reason to doubt the narrative that’s being offered by Gavin Newsom, which is that he is being specifically targeted, by Donald Trump, for political retribution. Now, to be sure, it is a fact that this administration has done that, time and again, from Letitia James, to Jim Comey, to Jerome Powell, to Mark Kelly, on down the line. But based on the facts we know here, we don’t know everything, it does not appear that that’s what’s happening here. First of all, very importantly, as Paula said, the reporting is that this investigation did not initiate from Donald Trump or even from prosecutors in D.C.. So, not from Pam Bondi, when she was AG. Not from Todd Blanche. Rather, it arose organically from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, out in the Eastern District of California, based on a whistleblower complaint, reportedly, which is a normal way that cases start.”