CNN host Phil Mattingly found himself unnerved after watching the latest interview of former President Donald Trump.
While discussing the former president's interview with Univision, in which he vowed to use the United States Department of Justice to arrest and indict multiple political opponents, Mattingly emphasized that he didn't think that anyone should believe Trump was merely speaking off the cuff.
"Those aren't flippant remarks," he said. "That's insane."
Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig shared Mattingly's analysis.
"If he says he's going to do this, I believe him," he said. "If we look back at the first Trump administration... Trump would often call for the prosecution of his political enemies, whether it was James Comey, Andy McCabe, the prosecution of Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton."
Honig then said that even former Attorney General Bill Barr, whom Honig wrote an entire book attacking, deserved at least a little credit for refusing to carry out Trump's every order.
"Barr had a line he would not cross," he said. "He wasn't going to go out and indict Barack Obama or Andy McCabe. What Donald Trump is telling us, I'm going to pick different types of people the next time around, people who don't even have that line, and that to me is really really dangerous."
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