CNN legal analyst skewers Hillary Clinton's comments on Jack Smith's case against Trump: 'Got her facts wrong'

CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig called out former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Monday for claiming that there is "nothing out of the ordinary" in how the legal system is treating former President Trump.

On Thursday, Honig wrote a column for New York Magazine where he scorched Special Counsel Jack Smith's "procedurally irregular" 165-page federal court filing regarding Trump’s immunity from prosecution.

"The larger, if less obvious, headline is that Smith has essentially abandoned any pretense; he'll bend any rule, switch up on any practice — so long as he gets to chip away at Trump's electoral prospects. At this point, there's simply no defending Smith's conduct on any sort of principled or institutional basis," Honig wrote.

He also wrote, "Anyone who objected to James Comey’s outrageous announcements about the Hillary Clinton email investigation on the eve of the 2016 election should feel the same about Smith’s conduct now," and rhetorically asked what distinction there could be between these two cases.

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Clinton rejected the comparison, however, arguing there is "nothing out of the ordinary" in this case.

"I think the situation is completely different, and this is in the context of an ongoing criminal procedure that the special counsel has brought against Donald Trump many, many months before the run-up to the election," Clinton said in an interview. "It was, frankly, motivated by the orders of the judge in this trial, who has, it appears to me, been extremely favorable toward Trump, so I think that there is nothing out of the ordinary."

The CNN legal analyst, when asked for his response, argued Clinton has "got her facts wrong," including