‘I’m Gonna Spoil The Bottom Line Here’: CNN’s Elie Honig Says Trump Is ‘Not Going To Get Sentenced’

CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig on Wednesday asserted a Fulton County judge's decision to toss six counts against former President Donald Trump will definitely hurt District Attorney Fani Willis' case. Photo: Screenshot/Rumble/The Daily Caller

CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig said Friday that Judge Juan Merchan will never end up sentencing President-elect Donald Trump, despite his New York conviction.

Merchan issued an order Friday indefinitely postponing Trump’s sentencing that he originally had scheduled for Tuesday, giving the defense until Dec. 2 to submit a motion to toss the case and directing prosecutors to respond by Dec. 9. Honig, on “CNN News Central,” asserted that the sentencing would never take place and that the case would “go away” at some point.

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“It means that the sentencing is on hold indefinitely and quite possibly for more than that, probably never to actually happen, because what they have to do before that is litigate the whole issue of, is Donald Trump immune? Can a state-level prosecution proceed against him while he’s president-elect and then president?” Honig said. “I’m gonna spoil the bottom line here: He’s not going to get sentenced on this case. He’s not going to get sentenced before he becomes president. He’s not going to get sentenced while he’s president.”

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in a Tuesday filing suggested delaying remaining case proceedings until Trump’s term concludes in 2029.

“And [Bragg] earlier this week actually floated the possibility — they said, ‘We may want to hold open the option of sentencing him after he’s done his second term,’ meaning in 2029. That is not going to happen,” he continued. “That is a ridiculous request legally and practically. So essentially, we’re playing out the string here. I think eventually this case will go away. It’s just a question of what the niceties will be down the stretch.”

The president-elect’s defense attorneys argued on Tuesday that Merchan must dismiss the case immediately “in order to facilitate the orderly transition of executive power following President Trump’s overwhelming victory in the 2024 Presidential election.”

MSNBC legal analyst Kristy Greenberg said Friday she “would be shocked” if Merchan tosses the case.

“There’s no basis for that. Nothing I’ve seen in the very short submission already from the defense cites to any legal authority suggesting that that should be the proper outcome to just toss a jury’s verdict because now Trump is going to be president again,” Greenberg said. “I expect that Judge Merchan will deny that, but I do think that staying the proceedings is where we will be, and that this sentencing won’t take place until after his term is concluded.”