LOS ANGELES.–Going after 85-year-old libertarian Harvard emeritus and criminal defense Atty. Prof. Alan Dershowitz, the liberal press is outraged he said 77-year-old President Donald Trump has been the victim of criminal justice weaponization. Dershowitz said Trump is well within his legal rights criticizing 62-year-old Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan and 50-year-old lead prosecutor District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Bragg wants Trump fined for disparaging on his Truth Social platform Stormy Daniels and his former Atty. Michal Cohen. Yet Bragg has no problem selling his case to the public or Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen spending a lot of time on 24/7 liberal TV stating that Trump is guilty of paying off the adult film star before the 2016 presidential election for an alleged affair Trump had with Daniels sometime in 2006, 10 years before he ran for president.
Most honest observers can’t fathom why Trump is being tried at all for an alleged affair 18 years ago, then was
extorted by Stormy for $130,000 so she wouldn’t go public with allegation about a 10-year-old affair. Why is it OK for Bragg, Stormy or Cohen to go public with their opinions about the case but not OK for Trump to do the same? Bragg wants Merchan to fine Trump for speaking out on Truth Social about Cohen and Daniels. Making Cohen his star witness, Bragg embraces a multiple convicted felon who’s done time in prison for perjury, income tax evasion, taxi medallion crime, bank and wire fraud, etc. How can any sane juror believe the testimony from a known felon with a personal vendetta against Trump? Yet that’s who Bragg relies on to make his case against Trump. Bragg campaigned in 2021 on going after Trump if he because Manhattan District Attorney.
Slamming Dershowitz for saying the gag order against Trump was illegal, the liberal press is heavily invested in seeing Trump convicted whether it conforms to the Constitution or not. “The gag order is unconstitutional,” Dershowitz said on Fox News. “You cannot prevent the defendant from attacking the witnesses, for attacking the judge’s daughter, if the judge’s daughter could be a basis for disqualification,” Dershowitz said. Dershowitz simply points out that if it’s good for the goose, it’s good for the gander, meaning that why is it OK for witnesses for disparage the defendant but not OK for the defendant to disparage witnesses? Bragg’s attempt to slap Trump with a violation of the gag order must apply to Trump but also to witnesses denigrating Trump on national TV. Dershowitz wants Bragg’s office to recognize the hypocrisy of restricting free speech of only the defendant.
Dershowitz said the legal system had been weaponized by Democrats, saying the hush money case against Trump amounted to “election interference.” Democrats and the press want Trump convicted at the earliest possible time to prevent him from running for president. Whether Trump is guilty or not, Democrats and the press would do anything possible, like they did in 2016, to see Trump lose the election or drop out. Back in 2016, former FBI Director James Comey, 63, conspired with the Obama Justice Department to charge Trump with Russian collusion. Turns out Comey’s probable cause was based on former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s fake Steele Dossier, accusing Trump to working with the Kremlin to win the 20216 presidential election. Hillary’s dossier was fully exposed as pure political fabrication to discredit Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Dershowitz doesn’t see Trump involved in witness tampering, only responding in kind when it comes to Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen. Cohen routinely appears on liberal CNN and MSNBC, disparaging Trump, talking about his guilt for paying off adult film star Stormy Daniels. Merchan and Bragg need to look at the hypocrisy of placing a gag order on Trump but no on their own witnesses they expect jurors to believe when the complete jury selection. When you consider that 24/7 liberal TV and radio have tried-and-convicted Trump for over a year, presenting unending streams of legal experts and pundits, how is it possible for any prospective juror not to be persuaded by over a years of incriminating testimony. Merchan thinks Trump is the only one that should be gagged, largely because he knows Bragg’s case against Trump subverts the U.S. Constitution and rule of law.
Dershowitz shocks the liberal press because he’s not a rubber stamp of the Democrat and press bias against Trump. Dershowitz wants to preserve the integrity of the criminal justice system, knowing the deck is stacked against Trump in Manhattan, Washington D.C, Atlanta and Miami. Each case against Trump has much in common when it comes to weaponization of the criminal justice system, going after Trump for almost nothing. Imagine Special Counsel Jack Smith saying worthless, old classified documents found in White House moving boxes by the FBI in Trump’s locked Mar-a-Lago basement threaten U.S. national security. How much more bias needs to come from Smith’s lips, knowing the obsolete docs threaten no one, only serve to charge Trump under the 1917 Espionage Act? If that doesn’t expose government weaponization, then nothing will.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
