Alan Dershowitz: What Happens if Donald Trump Gets Convicted Before The Election?

Source:Alan Dershowitz talking about Donald Trump's legal cases.

"The Dershow staring Alan Dershowitz: My legal analysis: what happens if Trump gets convicted before the election?" 

From Alan Dershowitz

Just to give you my political analysis as far as what happens if Donald Trump goes to trial in Washington: (which is the only case that has a shot of being tried and getting a decision on before the 2024 elections) 

The election would be over at that point. There are polls including from CNN and other places, where 1/4, perhaps even as many as 1/3 Republicans, would not vote for Donald Trump if he's a convicted of a felony, before the 2024 election. Trump can't afford to even lose 10% of the Republican Party, especially if there's a large Democratic turnout and President Biden wins Independents overwhelmingly again. 

There were polls in even Iowa and New Hampshire that showed a large percentage of Republicans wouldn't vote for Donald Trump, if he's a convicted felon before the 2024 election. You could argue that the Donald Trump doesn't need a conviction even, before he loses the election, because of all the evidence against him relating to the January 6 insurrection, as well as his own people from his own administration, testifying against him, perhaps in the late spring or summer this year. 

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Alan Dershowitz: 'Donald Trump Fights Political Trial With Political Answers'

Source:Alan Dershowitz talking about Gaza and Donald Trump's New York State fraud trial.

"This is Alan Dershowitz's video podcast called The Dershow. We discuss politics, law, the constitution and current events." 

From Alan Dershowitz

I'll cover Gaza, Hamas, and Donald Trump's New York State fraud trial, in this post, which is what Alan Dershowitz talked about. 

As I said a couple weeks ago on The New Democrat Alan Dershowitz sounds like: 

"One of those Hippie lawyers from the 1960s and 70s (and he was born in the late 1930s) who made his career defending left-wing militants, who seem like the coolest people in the world, other than being political terrorists who are prone to violence and go by the notion of, "by any means necessary) to accomplish their political objectives. I'm thinking that Alan Dershowitz is a big fan or admirer of the famous left-wing defense attorney William Kuntsler." 

And Mr. Dershowitz even compared Donald Trump's New York State fraud trial, to the Chicago 7 trial in 1968, with all of these militant, left-wing, radicals, who were charged and prosecuted for trying to incite a riot in Chicago, to protest the Vietnam War, during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. 

Mr. Dershowitz doesn't criticize the fraud case against Donald Trump, probably because he probably knows that DJT is guilty, at least according to the evidence, the documents, and testimony against him. So he instead goes after the prosecutor, who are led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, for being a partisan Democrat. Ignoring all the documents, the bank records, and testimony, that AG James has against Donald Trump. 

As far as Gaza, Hamas, and Hamas's left-wing supporters in Europe and here in America: don't take any leftist seriously, when they say they're pro-women, pro-minority, pro-gay, pro anyone who has a history of being discriminated against in America, simply because of their DNA, gender, etc, when they support organizations like Hamas, who have a long record of being against everything that these left-wingers claim to support. I completely agree with Alan Dershowitz on this point. 

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Alan Dershowitz: Can Donald Trump Survive His Friends Turning On Him?

Source:Alan Dershowitz talking about the case against Donald. J. Trump.

"This is Alan Dershowitz's video podcast called The Dershow. We discuss politics, law, the constitution and current events." 

From Alan Dershowitz

I don't mean this as insulting or as complementary, but Alan Dershowitz is now sounding like one of those Hippie lawyers from the 1960s and 70s (and he was born in the late 1930s) who made his career defending left-wing militants, who seem like the coolest people in the world, other than being political terrorists who are prone to violence and go by the notion of, "by any means necessary) to accomplish their political objectives. I'm thinking that Alan Dershowitz is a big fan or admirer of the famous left-wing defense attorney William Kuntsler. 

Alan Dershowitz going through the whole process of how prosecutors make their cases against lead defendants, but going after the smaller fish in the pond. Convincing the associates of the top defendant, the leader of the criminal conspiracy (in this case Donald J. Trump) to tell them what they know about their role and their boss's role in the criminal conspiracy and they'll get a lesser penalty and perhaps avoid prison all together, if they give them truthful testimony and tell them what they know about the conspiracy and lead defendant. 

Dershowitz is implying that the prosecutors in Atlanta and Washington, are essentially buying testimony from the co-defendants and basically telling them to lie about Donald J. Trump. He's basically accusing the Washington and Atlanta prosecutors, of corruption against Donald J. Trump, without even bothering to try to offer any evidence in support of that. in order to put Mr. Trump in prison. That's what he's telling his viewers here and if his viewers tend to be Trump supporters, of course they're believe Mr. Dershowitz. 

The problem is, the facts and evidence are out now and are less you are prone to conspiracy theories, (perhaps you drink too much and are a drug addict) it's really hard to honestly ignore all the fact and evidence against Donald Trump, including from his own former lawyers and employees at The White House.  If Alan Dershowitz really wants to be Donald Trump's defense lawyer, (and he can afford to work for free) he knows who to call to make that happen for himself.

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

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

"This is Alan Dershowitz's video podcast called The Dershow. We discuss politics, law, the constitution and current events." 

From Alan Dershowitz

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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WGBH News: 'What Alan Dershowitz Said About Impeachment During Watergate'

Source:WGBH News- criminal defense attorney Alan Dershowitz in 1973.

"On Nov. 1, 1973, Alan Dershowitz appeared with two other legal scholars on the WGBH News program "The Reporters." The one-hour show focused on the theme "Treason, Bribery Or Other High Crimes and Misdemeanors," and aired as the U.S. House was considering impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon." 

From WGBH News 

On this panel, on this Boston public TV show called The Reporters, they're basically discussing when a President of the United States should be impeached and for what for. Should there have to be evidence that the President (in that case Richard Nixon) committed a felony or multiple felonies, while in office. Or should there be a lower standard for when and why a President should be impeached, like failing to adequately supervise his own appointments and the people that he's supposed to supervise while they're in office. 

As far as Alan Dershowitz in general: I don't think the Alan Dershowitz in 1973, even recognizes the Alan Dershowitz of 20 years later, 30 years later, 40 years later, or even today. Which is probably a good thing that he never became a politician. He defended O.J. Simpson when Simpson was on trial for a double murder in 1995. And he defended Donald J. Trump when former President Trump was on trial in the Senate, for being impeached for the second time, for his role in the 2021 insurrection in Washington. 

I believe the only thing that's consistent about Alan Dershowitz, is that he's a criminal defense lawyer. And when you are a criminal defense lawyer, it's not always facts and evidence that matter. Which is something else that he has in common with Donald Trump and the broader MAGA movement. What really matters when you are a criminal defense lawyer, is what's the best thing that you can do for your client at the time, regardless of the facts and evidence that's against you and your client.

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