Constitutional law professor Alan Dershowitz said he still doesn’t know what crime former President Trump has been convicted of and asserted that the Democrat prosecutors and judge in the case “took it a step further than Stalin” in the Soviet show trials.
Dershowitz, a former Harvard Law professor who’s practiced constitutional law for over 60 years, said he still doesn’t understand the crime of which the jury found him guilty on 34 counts.
“I want to say right now, I side with President Trump’s assessment of the judicial system more than President Biden’s assessment. I’m a liberal Democrat. I voted for Biden. Biden is dead wrong. We should not respect the legal system that is rigged,” Dershowitz said Friday on Fox Business’ “Kudlow.”
“In my book, Get Trump, I predicted months before this case ever came to trial that it was a foregone conclusion there’d be a conviction. A biased judge, a biased jury, a biased prosecutor, a man who ran for office on the theory of, let’s find a crime to prosecute Trump for, and they couldn’t find the crime, so they made it up.”
“We’re now a day after the verdict. I’ve known criminal law. I’ve been involved in criminal law for 60 years. I still don’t know what the crime is. Was he found guilty of intending to violate tax laws, to violate the federal election laws, to defraud voters? I still don’t know. And we’re a day after this. This is the most outrageous case.”
Dershowitz went on to argue that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Judge Juan Merchan turned Trump’s case into a show trial that went beyond the 1930s Moscow show trials led by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
Everybody knows the quote from Lavrentiy Beria, the head of the KGB under Stalin, when Beria said to Stalin, ‘Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.’
He tried to find the crime, and he couldn’t. So he made up the crime. He took it a step further than Stalin and Lavrentiy Beria. This case will go down in history as one of the most abusive prosecutions since the trial of Aaron Burr back in ’18, whatever. This is a stain on our criminal justice system.
Dershowitz also called on Trump’s legal team to expedite the appeal straight to the Supreme Court where he expects them to overturn the case.
“Again, he was convicted of things that weren’t crimes…I think there’s a way of expediting the appeal, skipping the appellate division, going right to the Court of Appeals, ask for an expedited appeal with a decision within a month, and then take it to the Supreme Court,” he said.
“The Supreme Court should take this case, should reverse the conviction, and let the voters decide who should be president without the thumb of an illegal prosecution on the scales of the election,” he added.
