Posted on 01/23/2020 9:04:12 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
There's been a lot of talk about President Donald Trump's choice of Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr as lawyers participating in his Senate impeachment trial defense. Most of this has rightly focused on the arguments both men presented at President Bill Clinton's impeachment in 1999, which stand in almost laughable contradiction to the arguments they now seek to present. But when these two hired guns are examined alongside their latest famous client, another more troubling thread emerges, one that has been all too common for those in Trump's orbit. These guys really don't like women.
While the president still stands accused of sexual misconduct, including rape, by more than 20 women, both of these lawyers are deeply embroiled in their own sexual misconduct and assault scandals.
You don't have to go back very far to find skeletons in this legal odd couple's closets. The two famous Fox News faces teamed up to help billionaire Jeffrey Epstein — a man Trump called a "terrific guy" who enjoyed "younger" women. Starr has come under fire for assisting in Epstein's defense in 2007. That effort resulted in an egregiously lenient 2008 plea deal.
Dershowitz's involvement with Epstein goes considerably further. Not only did Dershowitz help negotiate the part of the plea deal that granted total immunity for named Epstein co-conspirators and unnamed "potential co-conspirators," but the lawyer himself stands accused of participating in the abuse, a charge he vehemently denies.
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Wow NBC challenging CNN for the Fake News crown.
Yes, and Alan Dershowitz was on the “Dream Team” that helped OJ Simpson get away with murder.... SO?
Oh Lor!!!! The democrats and their media are really struggling to find something...ANYTHING...To come at President Trump with....
This is so pathetic...Do they not realize just how juvenile they are looking???
As opposed to NBC management who treat women as sex objects....
True to form, the new democrat national socialists of America and their propaganda machine intend to deny the right to counsel to the POTUS.
Frank Figliuzzi, an analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, is a former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence and former previous chief inspector of the FBI.
Karen Schwartz is a contributing editor at Marie Claire magazine. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Glamour and The New York Sun, among other publications.
Just when you think the media can’t sink any lower and spout anything more nonsensical in their deranged partisan assault on Trump they prove you wrong.
Imagine having a card in your hand that won every time it was played. Imagine having that card still in your hand even though you just played it. Imagine trying to find anyone who would continue to play with you.
If Trump had resurrected Mother Terresa to defend him, within hours there would be dozens of accusations against her.
Dersch also represented OJ and other unsavory characters. Lawyers often don’t share the values and characteristics of their clients. Their job is to represent them, not promote them.
I don’t know the details of the sexual accusations against him, but until his case (if there even is one) has been heard and adjudicated, I’ll withhold judgment.
Not only did Dershowitz deny any “involvement”, he proved it.
So THIS is what the media draws from this....they don’t like women????? The stupidity is strong in the networks.
“These guys really don’t like women.”
Occams razor suggests that when a laywer gets paid millions to defend a sleazeball, it’s because the lawyer likes money, rather than hates the victim.
I wonder if they said the same about every Kennedy lawyer?
I don’t know a lawyer that doesn’t.
That’s why they’re lawyers!
Hey, Frank and Karen, get a room.
This must be satire. The Bee could not have done better.
A dense lawyer is OBLIGATED to use their knowledge and talent to AGGRESSIVELY defend their client.
I have a niece who is a public defender. She hates her clients. She gets most of them to plead into drug rehab programs. She’s defended bad people. But she does it because everyone is constitutionally guaranteed that.
Do I think of these guys are saints? Nope. No one does.
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