Alan Dershowitz: Impeachment “Is A Show Trial And I’m Not An Actor”
On Fox Across America with Jimmy Failla, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz denied he is a member of the legal team representing President Trump in his potential 2nd impeachment trial and criticized the recent use of the impeachment process.
“This is not a real trial. It’s a show trial. It’s theatrical, and I’m not an actor and I’m not a politician. It’s political theater. There’s no role for a lawyer here. Yesterday, they impeached the President of The United States without a single bit of evidence, lawyer, defense. It wasn’t any kind of a trial. It was just a vote. And that’s exactly what Alexander Hamilton said shouldn’t happen. So they broke a record yesterday, they broke two records. We all know they impeach the President for the second time. That’s a record. But they also violated six provisions of the Constitution in one day.”
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DERSHOWITZ: “I don’t like anybody being impeached unless they commit impeachable offenses. So we’re going to see every president impeached on the first day he gets into office. It’s going to become a routine political weapon and it will not be available for when we really need it, like in the Nixon case. Nixon was the only appropriate impeachment in American history.”
FAILLA: “To be clear, you are or aren’t representing the President in this case?”
DERSHOWITZ: “I’m not. I’m a private citizen. I’m just expressing my views. I’ve taken a consistent view. I’m a liberal Democrat. I’m not a Trump partisan by any means. I’m going to keep defending the First Amendment in the marketplace of ideas, but I’m not his lawyer.”
