Democrats are keen to point out that “no one is above the law” when they talk about prosecuting former President Donald Trump, but one Democrat voter — a self-described liberal who said he voted against Trump twice — says New York Attorney General Letitia James has put Trump “below the law.”
In an interview with Newsmax TV, famed Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz argued that James doesn’t really care if a likely Trump conviction gets overturned on appeal after the election; she just wants him to be branded a ‘criminal’ so as to potentially diminish his brand.
“The goal of the ‘get Trump posse’ is simply to get him guilty, found liable before the election,” Dershowitz said during an appearance on “Newsline.” “Then they’ll be reversed after the election. They don’t care. Their goal is to influence the election negatively toward Donald Trump.
“Look, I’m not a Trump supporter. I want to see Trump lose in a fair election where there is no thumb of Democratic-appointed politicians on the scale, and that’s not going to happen if these efforts succeed,” Dershowitz, who defended Trump during one of his impeachment cases, said.
The legal expert went on to tell host Bianca de la Garza that Democrats are attempting to force Trump to burn through his money and resources by charging him “for crimes that never ever have been prosecuted before, like the New York crime of not disclosing hush money on a corporate form.”
“My God, Alexander Hamilton would have been put in jail under that theory,” Dershowitz said, adding that other wealthy real estate developers likely have inflated the value of their properties, too, for the purposes of getting a loan.
“There must be a hundred real estate moguls in New York who have inflated the value of their properties for purposes of getting a loan or other purposes, but she’s targeted only Donald Trump,” Dershowitz said.
“If she went after every single real estate person, she might say, No one is above the law. But what she’s basically saying is Donald Trump is below the law. We’re going to apply a different standard to him, and we don’t want the public to see it,” he added.
He also said that Dershowitz added that Judge Arthur Engoron should not be overseeing Trump’s case.
“There’s a dispute, whose [property] assessment is correct, the judge’s assessment or Trump’s assessment,” Dershowitz said. “And who’s going to decide it? Duh, the very judge who’s assessment is in question.
“This case ought to be in front of a jury. It would be on television. It ought to be fairly analyzed, not part of the, quote, ‘get Trump posse,'” he said, going on to remind viewers that James campaigned on a platform to “get Trump.”
“She promised to get Trump, and now she is getting Trump, and she got the right judge to get Trump, and he doesn’t want the public to see what he’s doing in that courtroom,” Dershowitz said.
“He was perfectly happy to pose and smile, glasses off to look a little better, but when it came to having the American public access to whether justice is happening in that courtroom or whether it’s part of a get Trump partisan political, he doesn’t want that before the American people,” Dershowitz added.
