***Please sign up for CBN Newsletters and download the CBN News app to ensure you keep receiving the latest news from a distinctly Christian perspective.*** And he said the FBI's recent raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago home and the search for and seizure of classified documents was not justified, or legal. government documents, he predicts the former president will not be indicted. Despite the rejection, Dershowitz still defends Donald Trump when warranted.Īlthough he believes the feds have the evidence to indict Trump for possessing classified U.S. He says several lawyers have shared they won't defend President Trump because they don't want to be 'Dershowitzed' – they don't want to be treated like him. 'He is my former student and I was congratulating him for the Abraham Accords.'

You're disgusting!' because I patted Mike Pompeo on the back,' Dershowitz explained. He starts screaming at me and yelling, 'You're disgusting.

We can't be in the same room with that person.' Larry David came over to me while I was trying to have lunch. 'My wife worked out in a gym and somebody walked in and said, 'Oh, that's Alan Dershowitz's wife. 'And she said, 'If I knew you had been invited, I wouldn't have come.' This is the ambassador to Australia who is supposed to be able to be in the same room with the leaders of foreign countries who won't be in the same room with a man who showed a profile in courage, to paraphrase her father's book.'įriends and acquaintances have also rejected his family members. I was seated next to Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of the former president, at a dinner party,' Dershowitz recalled. 'It's been both personal and institutional. Dershowitz said even the public library has banned his books, and he's no longer welcome at most social gatherings. Once accepted by his community, the former Harvard Law professor isn't getting invitations to return to venues like New York's Temple Emanuel and the 92nd Street Y. He contends hypocrisy and a far-left agenda elevate identity over principle. He details the experience in his latest book – his fiftieth – The Price of Principle: Why Integrity is Worth the Consequences.ĭershowitz writes that today in America, partisan advocacy masquerades as principled argument. 'So, of course, I would defend him.'Īnd for that, Dershowitz says he's paid a high price. They charged him with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress that are unconstitutional,' Dershowitz explained. They didn't charge him with any kind of criminal type or like behavior. 'The Constitution provides only four grounds for impeachment, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. But it's another client that caused prominent liberals, friends, and even some family members to reject him: the noted lawyer's defense of Donald Trump during impeachment. Alan Dershowitz is known as a defender of notorious newsmakers, including O.J.

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