As DOJ comes under fire for perceived strong-arm tactics against Trump supporters, famed Harvard law professor warns current search for criminal charges to pin on Trump could create “dangerous” precedent.
Rather than follow the letter of the law and the evidence wherever it leads, Democrats, academics, and other critics of Donald Trump are twisting the law in hopes of seeing the former president criminally charged as part of the Justice Department’s probe into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, according to renowned civil liberties lawyer Alan Dershowitz.
“The thing most upsetting to me as a liberal Democrat and civil libertarian is how hard they’re searching for a crime,” Dershowitz told Just the News in an exclusive interview. “It reminds me of [former head of the Soviet secret police] Lavrentiy Beria saying to Josef Stalin, ‘Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.'”
Dershowitz, professor emeritus at Harvard Law School, cited examples of prominent legal experts taking wild swings at Trump — everything from saying he attempted to murder former Vice President Mike Pence to saying he’s guilty of dereliction of duty — to argue he should be charged with a crime for his actions during the Jan. 6 Capitol breach and more broadly his efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election.
“What all these arguments have in common is they stretch the law however it needs to be stretched in order to get Trump,” said Dershowitz, who said prosecution not grounded in the law sets a “dangerous” precedent. “Today they’re targeting Trump. Tomorrow it could be Black Lives Matter, or union organizers, or even a progressive president when the roles are flipped.”
Dershowitz’s comments came a few days after the Washington Post reported the Justice Department is investigating Trump’s actions as part of its criminal probe into the storming of the Capitol and efforts to challenge the 2020 election results.
His followers should not be held accountable and jailed. He should, he stood behind bulletproof glass in a ballistic gabardine overcoat like a Columbian Cartel boss and worked his believers into a fantasy frenzy the like of which we have not seen since Hitler and they stormed the Capitol thinking they were going to DO WHAT? Stop the certification of the election? LOL. Grunting and groaning in mom jeans white sneakers and in various camo and commando drag sounding like Alex Jones or pro-wrestlers fat assed goateed weekend Bikers and plumbers. It was not Republican or Patriotic in any way whatsoever just a sad failed spectacle that shed light on Trump never wanting to actually BE president understanding Law or Foreign Policy he just wants to be his brand TRUMP and be loved by his followers like his foreign trophy wives. I’d take the DEEP STATE over a figurehead feel good fanatical like him again.
Dershowitz lost all credibility when he got involved with Epstein and Trump. So sad.
ONLY critics are the Criminal Democrats !!!! Rest of country VOTED for TRUMP 2020 & he WON !!!!!!!!
These liberal losers spend all their energy on Trump. He TERRIFIES them with his power.
The news networks don’t hardly have a word to say about Biden, sometimes NOTHING AT ALL for an entire broadcast.
BUT, they will spend 10-20 minutes trashing Trump and telling everyone how dangerous he is — the first President to declare he was standing up for AMERICA, not Mexico, or India, or Bolivia, etc.
A President who had more women, hispanic’s, and black people WORKING than ANY democrat President in the last 50 years or more. Including the first black president. A president who made the USA energy INDEPENDENT and allowed the USA to EXPORT oil, not BEG Muslim leaders to increase production so he wouldn’t look like the total dumb ass that biden is….
A president who made AMERICA his top priority.
A president who, WITHOUT A “TREATY”, lowered carbon emissions more than any other country who signed a “treaty”.
A president who was securing our southern border from illegal immigration — not presiding over the entry of MILLIONS of people who can’t speak our language and have no skills other than building decks, bringing diseases that were not here before, and having more children while waiting for U.S. taxpayers to fund welfare and give them ID’s and SSN’s.
F’ing DEMOCRATS. They HATE America. They cheer when biden wants to trade one of the biggest arms dealers in the world (responsible for the deaths of perhaps hundreds of thousands of people– read THAT again…)) for a black lesbian drug user who got herself in trouble in a foreign land. One who complained that the National Anthem OFFENDED her.
F’ing DEMOCRATS. They can’t win an election without lying, cheating, and stealing their way to victory.
They gave eighty-one miilion (gave…..) votes to a guy who was too afraid to leave his basement to campaignand when he did, he couldn’t draw 50 people to his appearances. 81 million votes. MORE THAN OBAMA??!
Democrats. All for illegal immigration until those illegal immigrants SHOW UP IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD. LOL!
Democrats. Stupid dumb ass democrats. They live in a country where capitalism created the greatest and most powerful nation the world has EVER seen — in 250 years — but think that SOCIALISM is the greatest form of government. They won’t move to any socialist country, however.
Many of those loser democrats would be killed or jailed for how they look and behave in those wonderful, highly successful, world-saving socialist countries.
Democrats.
We’d better much better off trading them, one for one, for illiterate Guatemalans.
Keep cheering.
Trump should be Sueing the Hell out of Democrats & their Anti-American Party !!!!!