Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe looks at Alan Dershowitz’s likely defense of Trump ahead of the Senate impeachment trial: “Alan is completely wacko on this.” Aired on 01/17/20.
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‘Alternative Law:’ Constitutional Scholar On The Dershowitz Defense Of Trump | All In | MSNBC
So what Dershowitz is trying say here, is that a president can do anything, from bribery, obstruction of justice, abuse of power, to shooting someone on 5th Ave, BUT….. if he lies about a b. job, then he must be impeached and removed from office immediately. If you don’t think about it, it almost makes TOO much sense.
@MattiasWikstrom ha ha ha yes AD was so honest he denied he is a individual 1 sycophant even though everyone knows he is pathetic
When you have NO Defense you have to argue something crazy. Sad part is Senate will exonerate him and he will go around saying he was innocent all along.
Well, there is no evidence that any of that happened, so……..
@Brandon Burns Ya’ll missin’ the point! Congress didn’t impeach Clinton for the BJ, they dropped it on him for “Lying to Congress” about it!
Having Alan Dershowitz’s cuts both ways. He has defended a lot of bad people (OJ SImpson, Jeffrey Epstein, and Harvey Weinstein). He Has name recognition going for him. I hope his opinion is sliced and diced and exposed for being ludicrous.
_Truth isn’t truth._ Rudy Guliani
It’s ok. AOC has made the statement that’s it’s better to be morally correct then factually correct.
Ummm… if you’re correct…what does it matter if it’s factually or morally? Correct is correct.
But…what do you expect from a person that gets confused by a garbage disposer? She also thinks there’s 3 CHAMBERS of Gov’t.
@Freewheelin’ Franklin
Company not even inside the borders of Ukraine ?
@karin backstrom
An investigation into Burisma stopped by daddy Joe .
Pelosi said it when she admitted the impeachment started in January 2017, and that “evidence is not important, the accusations are important.” What a vacuum head.
Trump hired his staff from fox news. Plain and simple. Dershowitz has been on fox news for months now putting in his application to be Trump’s defense attorney.
@Jazz Haze Hey, you’re preaching to the choir here, I agree 100%.
@Barbara Roberts well after defending a pedoohile like Epstein representing Trump must be a downgrade.+
All you have to be is a pedophile and you are on Team Trump.
Douchowitz claimed during an interview on CNN that Laurence Tribe agrees with his basic premise. He’s become pathetic.
Trump wishes everybody watches Fox.
It’s a cult of ignorance.
@Patriot Spring and you don’t see the same thing happening in the U.S.? Big business is calling all the shots. You and me aren’t equal in that regard with them. Remember corporations are people too? Those are your overlords. And it’s been happening in America for a very long time.
Oh…like other media sources are better?
You realize that CNN just lost a multi million dollar lawsuit, over lying?
Oops!
@Dark Star I’d kinda like to see that.
What would really impress me is: If someone like you, would actually come round us up, to be put in said stadium. I’d actually PAY to see that!
Oh well. I guess I’ll just settle for the “brave” online talk.
Fux-nut Noose entertainment, is team pedophile!
Alan is whacko on this. Sums it up. Alan thinks talking over someone and fast, makes him correct
Trump must have pictures of Dershowitz in very compromising positions. No other reason for him to make such legally asinine arguments.
Trump has some kind of leverage to turn Dershowitz into this blithering fool. Could be Trump got Barr to cover up Dershowitz’s Lolita Express mess in exchange for his support of Trump. Could be related to their shared Zionist connections. Hopefully, the truth will all come out one day.
Tellthetruth n/a All roads lead back to Putin, The Master Class Professor of kompremat. He has so much on just about all of them and gives it to trump to use when necessary. When it all comes out, and it will, a lot of 💩is going to be flying around. Trump’s will be bigly bad but wow some of the others may be so much worse.
Ding Ding💯👀
The final Trump defense argument will be something like “What is law anyway? Or justice? Do words have a real meaning? I rest my case.”
Sad. But true.
You nailed it! That is what they’ll say, huh?! It’ll be a karaoke version of the song playing while they sing in Tina Turner wigs: “What’s law got to do with it!” “What’s law got to do with it!” “What’s law, but some second hand words!”
Republicans have become so pathetic.
The “Law” is clear on this matter!
Federal Election Campaign Law:-
Soliciting or Receiving:-
“It shall be unlawful” for an individual who is an officer or employee of the Federal Government, including the “President, vice President, and Members of Congress”, to
“solicit or receive a donation” of “money or other thing of value” in
connection with a “Federal, State, or local election”, while in any room
or building occupied in the discharge of official duties by an officer or
employee of the United States, “from any person”.
I guess you are right . Clinton and all her cronies belong in jail .
@Johnathan Miller so your argument is: Clinton belongs in jail so trump should be exonerated.
Even dear old Deshowitz would be able to see the flaws in that line of defense.
Clinton spent hours in front of House committees and was not charged or censured. That alone should tell you something is wrong with your defense of trump. How many hours has trump appeared to give evidence for? Too busy golfing I guess…
Are you posting that just because of Trump or are you saying EVERY POLITICIAN should now be investigated for high crimes of treason?
Where did the dossier from ???
@Johnathan Miller Assuming you are talking about the Steele dossier it came from a company called Fusion GPS. The executives of the company tell their story here.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/624779/crime-in-progress-by-glenn-simpson-and-peter-fritsch/
Enjoy and be informed.
Why is it that everyone who comes into contact with Trumpworld, seems to lose their minds?
Drugs N Money ?
lost their minds before joining
@james splinterpoof Drugs N Or Money ?
Easy…Money
And reputation.🤦
I can’t wait to see these so called professionals embarrass themselves.
Warren H ……………… The question is: When Dershowitz makes his case live during the Impeachment trial, will he be wearing his underwear or not ?
@JoeyFiveandDimes oooook lol that would be a whole different kind of charge
A Crooked Senator (Moscow mitch) Rigging A Crooked “Trial”, For A Crooked Traitor President, To Preserve Their Crooked putin N Crooked Oil Money .
Too late, the dems have already proved how stupid they are . Even though they will never be embarrassed, due to lack of conscience and morals, they have already proved there goal is to do whatever it takes to distract from their years of robbing the hardworking American taxpayers. All you fools are paying hundreds of millions to cheer on these criminals. Ince the Bidens are on the stand the real show will begin. I laugh at all you mindless shills and sheep. Trump 2020.
Yeah, professional deep stater Bob Mueller didn’t embarrass himself aaat aaall.
Dershowitz was a frequent flyer on the Lolita Express
judd stoned give dirtshowitz a break,he said that he kept his pants on.
Yeah, he loved getting “massages” from 13-year-old girls.
…..and it makes him perfect for the trump team.
Notice how everything pointed to prince Andrew ( which of course it should). But not a word about Clinton and trump?
Not as much as Clinton!
Let him talk. He thinks he’s helping his case but the more he talks he’s just helping trump to get removed.
Donald will most assuredly not be removed. It is very likely he will win re-election in November.
No, it’ll give the Republican senators enough cover to vote not to remove. That’s all this is about. It doesn’t matter if the argument is ridiculous or not. Y’all have to stop thinking Republican senators will do the right thing just because it’s the right thing.
@Darrin Fry That ship has been sailed.
The very presence of Dershowitz in a case is an admission of guilt.
Dershowitz is doing this because he has no friends and needs attention, desperately.
David Sanger – correct, he needs airtime for his new book, any media time is beneficial, gobbledygook narrative out of the snakes mouth is what you see.
All I can say to Dershowitz is, “get paid in advance and insist on cash.”
David Sanger Hes been assigned to Trump by Benjamin Netanyahu and AIPAC.
Alan Dershowitz was friends with Epstein I don’t believe anything that he says!!
Alan ‘It’s ok to bomb the Lebanese civilians because they were “a resistant population”‘ Dershowitz
This interview was to short. I enjoy listening to professor Tribe.
why did Nancy not think about this Tribe would have destroyed Dershowitz when it comes to constitutional law..pity no archibald cox
She Ham he gives the feel of clarity where Alan gives you the feel that you are being scammed
Dershowitz is driven at this point by greed combined with early dementia.
dementia all round bro
Look, he’s a grandstanding defense attorney, another Clarence Darrow. This is the biggest locked room mystery of his life! Getting the President off a slamdunk guilty verdict when the accused has already confessed and 17 people saw or heard him do it will be the greatest triumph. He may even produce in court a small, bloodied glove – it would have to be a very small one for Trump, of course, a doll’s glove maybe, for it to not fit.
I don’t know about that, I suss it has something to do with Epstein. The hold over him that Epstein seems to have had, must have been passed to someone else.
@Sterling Pound Please don’t compare that fool to Clarence Darrow.
@Graeme SYDNEY Reports suggested that Alan D was reluctant to take this case. He claims he’s not doing it for money. Perhaps he’s being blackmailed. Now that’d be something….