CNN legal expert decimates Biden's false claims about special counsel report — and reveals how it helps Trump

CNN legal expert Elie Honig fact-checked President Joe Biden for denying key facts established in special counsel Robert Hur's investigation.

At a press conference held late Thursday, Biden denied that he shared classified information with his ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer — screaming at NBC News correspondent Gabe Gutierrez for daring to ask him Hur's about allegations — and claimed that Hur concluded that he did not break the law.

The claims left Honig astonished because they're not true.

"Here are the facts," Honig said afterward on CNN. "Joe Biden retained sensitive, classified documents after he left the vice presidency ... marked classified — highest level, top secret SCI. They related to our international affairs, to war plans, to foreign relations. He knew it. He knew it. He's on tape, after he's out of the vice presidency, saying to his autobiographer, 'The classified documents are in the basement.' He knew it."

"That is what blew my mind about Joe Biden's statement," Honig exclaimed.

Honig, a former federal prosecutor, explained:

There are two things he said that are completely the opposite of what Robert Hur found. First, Joe Biden says, "I did not act willfully." Willfully just means voluntarily, intentionally. Well, the second sentence of this whole summary says, "President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials." The facts in here show it was willful. He knew. He talked about it. And the second thing he says is, "I did not disclose classified documents to my ghostwriter." Page three says that he did that. It says, "Mr. Biden shared information, including some classified information from those notebooks with his ghostwriter."

Later in the broadcast, Honig explained why Biden's case helps Trump, both politically and legally.

"Let me tell you two ways it's helpful. One is just atmospherically, right? We've all seen a thousand times the photos of documents strewn around the bathroom in the stage of Mar-a-Lago. Now there's similar-looking photos in this report," he began.

"But here's the technical way that Donald Trump's team is going to use this. Mark my words," Honig promised.

According to Honig, Trump "has a basis" to bring a motion for selective prosecution in his own classified documents case because Biden "did essentially the same thing" that Trump is accused of doing. Such motions, however, are difficult to win, Honig noted.

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