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The Bulwark Podcast
The book explored how powerful individuals, including politicians, celebrities, and mob bosses, evade accountability for serious wrongdoing, drawing on the author's experience as a federal prosecutor. It used Donald Trump as a central figure to analyze systemic shortcomings in the justice system.
So joining me on the podcast today to talk about his blockbuster new book with amazing timing, Ellie Honig who's a former federal prosecutor and who's worked for eight plus years as an assistant U.S....
— Episode: Elie Honig: Is Trump Untouchable?
Episode: Elie Honig: Is Trump Untouchable?
The book explored how powerful individuals, including politicians, celebrities, and mob bosses, evade accountability for serious wrongdoing, drawing on the author's experience as a federal prosecutor. It used Donald Trump as a central figure to analyze systemic shortcomings in the justice system.
So joining me on the podcast today to talk about his blockbuster new book with amazing timing, Ellie Honig who's a former federal prosecutor and who's worked for eight plus years as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, senior legal analyst for CNN and is out with a new book, Untouchable, How Powerful People Get Away With It.
What your rant today brought to mind was the way that Donald Trump has a hold over people around him to prevent them from testifying against him, to prevent them from becoming witnesses against him.
The engaging book demonstrates how those who can exert substantial power of some kind through public office, great wealth, control of a crime family have consistently been able to avoid paying a price for serious wrongdoing.
I go inside the Justice Department. I got people to speak to me. I say in the book well over half a dozen people who were all over this case, different perspectives. And the story, the inside story is really revealing.
He has successfully intimidated witnesses. He's intimidated prosecutors. He has intimidated his political opponents. And there is that sense that he is kind of untouchable.