Untouchable

How Powerful People Get Away With It

By: Elie Honig

Narrated by: Elie Honig

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#1 ON COSMOPOLITAN'S 11 BEST NEW NON-FICTION BOOKS TO ADD TO YOUR TBR PILE IN 2023

CNN senior legal analyst and nationally bestselling author Elie Honig explores America’s two-tier justice system, explaining how the rich, the famous, and the powerful—including, most notoriously, Donald Trump—manipulate the legal system to escape justice and get away with vast misdeeds.

How does he get away with it? That question, more than any other, vexes observers of and participants in the American criminal justice process. How do powerful people weaponize their wealth, political power, and fame to beat the system? And how can prosecutors fight back?

In Untouchable, Elie Honig exposes how the rich and powerful use the system to their own benefit, revealing how notorious figures like Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, and Bill Cosby successfully eluded justice for decades. He demonstrates how the Trump children dodged a fraud indictment. He makes clear how countless CEOs and titans of Wall Street have been let off the hook, receiving financial penalties without suffering criminal consequences. This doesn’t happen by accident.

Over the four years of his administration, Donald Trump’s corruption seemed plain for all to see. The former president obstructed justice, flouted his responsibility to the Constitution, lied to the American people, and set the United States on a dark path to disunity and violence. Yet he has never been held accountable for any of his misdeeds. Why not?

Untouchable holds the answer. Honig shows how Trump and others use seemingly fair institutions and practices to build empires of corruption and get away with misdeeds for which ordinary people would be sentenced to years behind bars. It’s not just that money talks, Honig makes clear, but how it can corrupt otherwise reliable institutions and blind people to the real power dynamics behind the scenes.

In this vital, incisive book, Honig explains how the system allows the powerful to become untouchable, takes us inside their heads, and offers solutions for making the system more honest and fairer, ensuring true justice for all—holding everyone, no matter their status, accountable for their criminal misdeeds.

©2023 Elie Honig (P)2023 HarperCollins Publishers

insightful

it can ramble at times but overall interesting content from someone with real experience.

Excellent!

Insightful and infuriating. Merrick Garland and Alexander Acosta get what they deserve. I think Honig goes too easy on Alvin Bragg though. I learned a lot.

Untouchable Review

An excellent review by a former SDNY prosecutor of just why former President Trump has been so hard to prosecute and what it will likely take to bring him to trial. A great reading by the author.

Shameful but not surprising

Most of these anecdotes shared by Elie Honig in an insightful and entertaining way are frustratingly not surprising. He does a solid job adding narrative to what could otherwise be a redundant cycle of powerful men avoiding justice.

EXCELLENT

Absolutely brilliant book and Elie’s narration was excellent. Don’t hesitate to pick up this book.

Excellent

Very informative. It’s what you expect to happen and he explains why. I highly recommend this book.

Untouchable Indeed

Incisive narrative by an expert on the methods by which Trump has insulated himself and used legal (and extralegal) maneuvers to avoid indictment and prosecution. Reveals the unfortunate shortcomings of our legal system.

Frustrating but great

The truth is frustrating: top dogs get preferential treatment because of systemic flaws. But it is better to know this and to understand the flaws than to remain in the dark. Ellie Hong illuminates this topic. Ignorance is not bliss.

Honig Never Disappoints!!!

Informative and illuminating look at the criminal justice system, a system that has always baffled me when it comes to high profile figures. Reassuring even if justice is imperfect. I love Honig’s way of weaving his real life experience into our real world’s conundrums.

I enjoyed this!

I have seen Elie on several TV shows and heard him interviewed on sirius xm radio. He has a lot of knowledge and has experienced a lot through his career! I really enjoyed how he compared different famous people/cases and explained how and why they got away with things or had sentences that didn't seem fair. the entire book was tied together very well. I also learned a lot about the legal process.