Dershowitz Points to Big 'Lie' in Jack Smith's Indictment Against Trump

[Kamaji]

Dershowitz Points to Big 'Lie' in Jack Smith's Indictment Against Trump

By Nick Arama
August 05, 2023

We’ve reported on some of the legal opinions in the wake of the indictment that Special Counsel Jack Smith dropped against former President Donald Trump this week. Neither George Washington law professor Jonathan Turley nor former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy thought much of it. They both pointed out the flaws, including that it was going after free speech and stretching the law into a pretzel in the process. McCarthy even described Smith’s statement on the matter as “demagogic.”

However, Alan Dershowitz made some other interesting points on multiple media programs.

This video covers what Dershowitz said to Fox’s Brian Kilmeade on the matter.

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But the main point of principle that I really want to get over is that, and this applies to both parties, the leading candidate against the incumbent president should never be prosecuted by the attorney general of the president, of course, unless the case against him is overwhelming and beyond any dispute.

The “Nixon standard” was what he called it. Indeed. A banana republic is another way of looking at it.

He said none of the indictments have come up to that standard, except perhaps the classified documents case, but he thought that failed as well.

It’s the paper technical crime. So I just don’t think that they have it, enough against this candidate who’s now running 44 to 44 in the New York Times poll, to use the criminal justice system to interfere with the election.

Dershowitz noted that Trump had a right to express his opinion about the election and legally challenge the results. He noted that the question of alternate slates of electors had come up before in history. He pointed to 1960 and 1876. Yet, that didn’t result in anyone trying to criminalize such efforts. He said a Hawaii court even said that was okay, referencing the 1960 case.

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Source:  https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/08/05/dershowitz-points-to-big-lie-in-jack-smiths-indictment-against-trump-n788091

[libertybele]

Dershowitz brings about some good points. All in all this is nothing more than a continued witch hunt. We had a stolen election, SCOTUS looked the other way and the existing DOJ is corrupt (most of us acknowledge that).

Until someone (I don't know who or how) is able to drain the swamp, this country will continue to crumble with the leftists push towards globalization, open borders and climate change.