Alan Dershowitz: 'Should Joe Biden Pardon Donald Trump?'

Source:Alan Dershowitz talking about whether President Joe Biden, should pardon former President Donald Trump.

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To personally answer Alan Dershowitz's question:  of course not. It's a ridiculous question and I'll explain why. 

Keep in mind, none of us at The New Democrat are lawyers. And we don't pretend to be lawyers, or know as much or more about these issues, as Alan Dershowitz and other accomplished American lawyers. We go off the evidence that we see and what we see in the news. 

The reason why President Biden shouldn't pardon Donald Trump, is I believe very obvious. For the rule of law to mean anything in America, rules and laws have to apply to everyone equally. Not arguing that our justice system is perfect or that it even has to be. Nothing that's run by humans can be perfect anyway, for obvious reasons. 

For the rule of law to mean anything in America, no one can be above the law. And the justice system has to do its best to make sure that everyone whose committed crimes in America, is held accountable for those crimes. That doesn't mean prison time for everyone, but everyone who commits crimes in America, has to be justifiably held accountable in this country. Otherwise, our beautiful system of checks and balances and the rule of law, gets thrown out in the trash. 

Alan Dershowitz argued in this video and referenced President Gerald Ford's 1974 pardon of Richard Nixon, as a reason for Joe Biden to pardon Donald Trump. And he even said it unified the country and it could unify the country again if the President pardons Mr. Trump. (I'm trying not to laugh as I paraphrase what Alan Dershowitz said here) 

First of all, the Nixon case is very different. President Nixon didn't represent any real threat to our democracy or our system of checks and balances. He resigned the presidency, his political career was over at that point. He even took some responsibility for what he did during Watergate and got emotional about it years after he resigned the presidency. 

As far as unifying the country: didn't happen in 1974, 75, 76, etc. The decision to pardon Richard Nixon was very unpopular in 1974 and 75. And President Ford is almost elected President anyway in 1976. If the decision to pardon Richard Nixon had unified the country, President Ford gets reelected fairly easily, because again, the country is united behind Gerald Ford as President and as Alan Dershowitz said himself in this video, Jimmy Carter was a fairly weak national candidate in 1976, who if it wasn't for Watergate, probably doesn't even run for President at all, at least in 1976.

And as far as a potential Biden pardon of Trump today unifying the country: Mr. Dershowitz might want to consider a career in comedy. He's too smart to actually believe that. Not just the Democratic Party would freak out about that, but now the Biden presidency is essentially over, because he's lost most of his party on this and now has to worry about not even getting nominated for reelection. And you would probably see 10-20% of the Republican Party, the no so-called never-trumper wing of the party, that's looking for any Republican whose not Donald Trump, or like Donald Trump, an ally of Donald Trump, a wannabe Donald Trump, to win the Republican nomination for President, oppose President Biden over his Trump pardon. Not going to happen, if anything it would just unite the country against Joe Biden. Not bring the country together.

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