Alan Dershowitz Savages Justice Department’s Dirty Tactics Against Trump

Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan M. Dershowitz has been a notable voice in the discussion over the Democrats’ constant efforts to weaponize the government against former President Donald Trump. Ever since officials working with federal agencies concocted the Russia collusion hoax, he has spoken out against these politically-motivated smear jobs even though he did not vote for Trump in 2016.

Now, the professor is taking on the latest Justice Department indictment against the former president. During an exclusive interview on “Breitbart News Sunday” on SiriusXM, Dershowitz discussed the latest development in this ongoing saga in which Special Counsel Jack Smith is trying to convince a judge to issue a protective order to limit Trump’s access to information that his team could obtain through discovery. The objective appears to be to keep the former president from speaking publicly about these details.

Dershowitz argued that Trump has the right to see what evidence the prosecution plans to use against him, saying that despite Smith using the former president’s recent posts on Truth Social as an excuse to obtain the protective order, “There’s no basis for restricting his free speech.”

Instead of restricting Trump’s right to post on social media, or even to share documents obtained during discovery, Dershowitz said prosecutors could simply question Trump about his remarks or “introduce that as evidence against him, if it’s relevant.”

In a trial where a former — and possible future president — was at peril of losing his liberty, or his life, Dershowitz said, the public should be allowed to see prosecutors’ evidence against him, “unless there’s some very compelling reason for keeping it secret.”

“He has a First Amendment right — and we have a First Amendment right — to know what’s in the documents,” Dershowitz said.

He agreed with Pollak that Smith should not have accused Trump publicly of inciting the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol without charging him with incitement in his indictment. “Nor should the prosecutor have purported to quote from [Trump’s] January 6 speech” while leaving out Trump’s urging to protest at the Capitol “peacefully and patriotically,” Dershowitz said.

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