Elie Honig, the legal analyst for CNN and a former Assistant US Attorney, appeared on CNN News Central on Thursday with an ominous warning in Trump’s Georgia legal case.

Trump has spent the last few days in court in New York, ranting to anyone who will listen about the fraud trial going on there right now. NY Attorney General Letitia James brought the suit after gathering copious evidence of Trump lying about the value of his various properties.

That suit has been a major headache for Trump. But Georgia is the one of the four indictments against him he has been worried about the most.

That case involves his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and he was named along with 18 co-defendants. All initially pled not guilty to the election fraud conspiracy. Sidney Powell played a role by claiming that voting machines had been compromised. She is a pro-Trump attorney whose antics have led to sanctions against her in multiple states.

Now Powell has changed her plea after accepting a deal that will require her to testify against Trump in upcoming hearings.

WATCH: Sidney Powell pleads guilty pic.twitter.com/NBH8kTQd7Z

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This news rocked the legal world, to say nothing of the media. On CNN, Honig had lots to say, basically all bad news for the former President:

ELIE HONIG: It’s important to remember who Sidney Powell is, she’s one of Donald Trump’s closest loyalists. She’s somebody who Donald Trump has claimed he relied on her advice to proceed in his effort to try to steal this election.

This is a major breakthrough for prosecutors, potentially a devastating development for Donald Trump, because what’s going to happen now is Sidney Powell is going to testify for prosecutors in Georgia, and presumably she’ll also be prepared to testify for Jack Smith in his federal case in Washington, D.C. She’s not indicted in that case, but she’s listed as a coconspirator in that case. She’s going to be able to provide insider information that could be really devastating towards Donald Trump.

JOHN BERMAN: She was in the room where some things, if not happened, were at least discussed. She was part of some of these contentious meetings that allegedly took place in the White House before January 6. How can prosecutors now use her?

HONIG: So you use her to bring your jury into that very room. She will be the guide. She will be the narrator. She will be able to say, I was in this room with Donald Trump, with Rudy Giuliani. Here’s what we discussed. Here’s who said what. Here’s what we knew.

And John, really importantly, in order to take this plea in this deal, Sidney Powell is going to have to acknowledge what we did was criminal. It was illegal, it was a crime. And so that’s going to lend a lot of credibility, I think, obviously, to prosecutors assertions that what Donald Trump did was knowingly a crime, was an intentional crime.

So now they’ve sort of got an ultimate insider, somebody who has remained steadfastly loyal to Donald Trump, to the stolen election narrative. Now she has flipped. Now she has come clean. Now she’s going to be a prosecution witness.

As Honig points out, even in a plea deal, a guilty plea means the admission of a crime. Every single time.

If Powell admits it was a crime, in order for her to avoid future prosecution based on further revelations of fact, she’ll have to be truthful in court. She’ll have to testify on everything she was even a witness to, but especially what she participated in.

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10.19.23 10:15 PM BREAKING NEWS CNN's John Berman @JohnBerman and Kate Bolduan , @KateBolduan Hosting Senior Reporter Katelyn Polantz @kpolantz and Former Federal Prosecutor Elie Honig @eliehonig as Sidney Powell takes a plea deal in Georgia Election Case FULL SEGMENT… pic.twitter.com/Z8IPzJM3k0

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