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Dershowitz to Newsmax: To Indict Trump, It 'Better Meet the Nixon Standard'
News Max ^ | 08/23/2022 | Jeremy Franke

Posted on 08/24/2022 6:37:49 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

If the ''Get Trump Squad'' wants to see former President Donald Trump indicted, it ''darn well better meet the Nixon standard,'' retired Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz told Newsmax on Tuesday.

When ''Rob Schmitt Tonight'' host Rob Schmitt asked Dershowitz why the public hasn't heard anything of substance over the last two weeks since the FBI searched Trump's Mar-a-Lago home, Dershowitz declared that the ''Get Trump Squad'' will do anything to do so, without any regard for the Constitution.

He added, however, that any potential indictment must meet the ''Nixon standard,'' referring to former President Richard Nixon, who resigned in 1974 after his involvement in the cover-up of the 1972 Watergate break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters amid a potential impeachment and erosion of support in his own party.

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The Nixon standard? The hell does that mean?
1 posted on 08/24/2022 6:37:49 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“The Nixon Standard” must mean Republican “plumbers” breaking into DNC headquarters. Just like the Democrats broke into Trump’s house. So they should go after the Dems who orchestrated the break-in of Trump’s house the same way they went after the “plumbers.”

Right?


2 posted on 08/24/2022 6:44:07 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you”)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Nixon who? Orange Man bad is all we need.”


3 posted on 08/24/2022 6:45:13 PM PDT by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Thank you. I was just thinking to respond similarly, but you did it as well as could be done.


4 posted on 08/24/2022 6:48:29 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I think he means irrefutable proof. Dershowitz is a liberal, but he’s an honest liberal and a fine lawyer.


5 posted on 08/24/2022 6:48:47 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every leftist is a blood-thirsty fascist yearning to be free of current societal constraints.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Trump has had no erosion of support.


6 posted on 08/24/2022 6:51:33 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Yes, that’s what he means. But the parallels between the Nixon “plumbers” and the FBI are very apt. In both cases, the opposing party sent its henchmen into it’s opponents offices to steal campaign plans.

The big difference today, of course, is Biden did it under [false] color of law using a thoroughly corrupt and weaponized FBI and DOJ. And sleaze bag Biden pretends he wasn’t consulted and didn’t know!

Will there be any honest reporters wanting to win a Pulitzer and tell the truth? I doubt it.


7 posted on 08/24/2022 6:53:37 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you”)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Honest journalists covering this would never get a Pulitzer because they would expose the corruption on the part of the government.


8 posted on 08/24/2022 7:07:12 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: laplata

Right you are. Worse, they’d lose their careers.


9 posted on 08/24/2022 7:09:20 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you”)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Puhlease! They don’t need irrefutable proof. They’ll use the “Ham Sandwich “ standard and a DC jury won’t hurt a bit!


10 posted on 08/24/2022 7:14:13 PM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

no such standard exists on the dem side


11 posted on 08/24/2022 7:46:36 PM PDT by joshua c (where did my tagline go? if you see it please call someone else. i was tired of it.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Dershowitz declared that the ''Get Trump Squad'' will do anything to do so, without any regard for the Constitution.

The people without any regard for the Constitution are the same ones Dershowitz votes for every election. He has some kind of cognitive dissonance problem.

12 posted on 08/24/2022 7:49:55 PM PDT by lasereye
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To: Blood of Tyrants

He always argues a case from the defense angle. He was a defense attorney. So when he talks about Trump it’s from the defense teams standpoint.


13 posted on 08/24/2022 8:13:37 PM PDT by political1 (Love your neighbors)
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To: political1

And he was ostracized for even daring to defend Trump. See my tagline.


14 posted on 08/24/2022 8:34:35 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every leftist is a blood-thirsty fascist yearning to be free of current societal constraints.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Yes, that’s what he means. But the parallels between the Nixon “plumbers” and the FBI are very apt. In both cases, the opposing party sent its henchmen into it’s opponents offices to steal campaign plans.

That is just conjecture.

Many like me believe it was a setup by the Democrats.   As Marxist as McGovern and his henchmen were, the administration was likely suckered into looking for ties to International Communism.

15 posted on 08/25/2022 12:33:05 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
And if it doesn't, the Dersh will still be out there, concern-trolling, until he's raided, then busted for the Lolita Express and tax evasion.

16 posted on 08/25/2022 8:25:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So far the score card appears like there’s more evidence on the FIb’s than on Trump.

Clean up in isle one


17 posted on 08/25/2022 8:45:30 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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