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Title: Alan Dershowitz: Media is 'weaponizing a cliche' by saying Trump is 'above the law'
Post by: mystery-ak on June 06, 2018, 03:02:57 pm

Alan Dershowitz: Media is 'weaponizing a cliche' by saying Trump is 'above the law'
by Eddie Scarry
 | June 06, 2018 12:00 AM



President Trump’s opponents say he believes he’s “above the law,” but famed constitutional lawyer Alan Dershowitz says are simply “weaponizing a cliche.”

In an interview Tuesday with the Washington Examiner, Dershowitz said Trump’s detractors, many of whom are in the media, are mischaracterizing the president’s legal team and its stated argument about executive authority in the context of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

It was suggested by reporters and commentators repeatedly on Monday that Trump and his legal team believe he is “above the law” after his lawyers argued in letters and TV appearances that Trump could not be prosecuted by his own Justice Department, especially without having been impeached by Congress first. Trump seemed to argue that even if this did happen, it was within his authority to pardon himself.

At the White House press briefing Monday, NBC reporter Peter Alexander asked Sarah Sanders, “Does the President believe that he is above the law?”

“Certainly not,” she said. “The president hasn't done anything wrong.”

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Title: Re: Alan Dershowitz: Media is 'weaponizing a cliche' by saying Trump is 'above the law'
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 06, 2018, 06:36:38 pm

Then the GOP should reprise the old line about Clinton from the Impeachment years:  "President Trump isn't below the law, either."