in a brief filed Saturday called the president's behavior"the Framers' worst nightmare" and a"danger to our democratic processes." In response, the White House said the two articles of impeachment against Trump are a"dangerous attack on the right of the American people to freely choose their President."
Asked about Dershowitz's assessment, Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., told"This Week" that he agrees with the Harvard law professor"at this point." "But I would still wait and hear the arguments," Shelby said."I haven't focused on it. Professor Dershowitz is an esteemed scholar of constitutional law. And he's followed this and he's outspoken, and a lot of people follow him. We have a lot of respect for a lot of his opinions. But ultimately, we will make that decision in the Senate.""Well, that's the argument I suppose you have to make if the facts are so dead set against you.
And on CBS's"Face the Nation," House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said he was"surprised" to see Dershowitz's assessment.Is it your position that President Trump should not be impeached even if all the evidence and arguments laid out by the House are accepted as fact?
I see what you're doing there. 😡
Stop lying he never said!!!!
Dershowitz is a HUMBUG. Wonder with he wants from Trump🙄
MikeDelph “This time”... Last time Dershowitz argued the opposite.
Sorry Alan: you’ve lost it!
You’re a crazy old man!
Alan Dershowitz is wealthy; he doesn’t care about regular Americans anytime he can defend Trump; knowing he is a danger to the American people and a serial liar. It’s the wealthy protecting the wealthy.
Trump is a Perfect Man, because God ordained him🤗
It's time he retire, quietly, and well away from kids.
Of course not, the trump sheeps still need to be fed with lies. We wouldn’t want them to starve.
FINALLY We discovered a WISE man with perspicacity . Impeachment cause much more harm than good for the Nation.Elections of new President R almost there. Isn't time to focus on best interest of the world's safety than sabotaging the main universal suffrage?
So, if he did in fact seeks to use the levers of power to manipulate the next election, it's not justification for removal? Then, just scrap the whoke impeachment clause, then.
Nice liberal spin and edit NBC🤦🏻♀️
Alan Dershowitz, who recently admitted to having massages from underage girls,... Fixed it.
He didn’t vote for Trump...let’s see how this plays out.
Alan can blow it out his shorts, nodody cares what Alan thinks😐
Sounds like Trump logic.
That’s what money buys.
Translation obuse of power and obstruction are allowed. Is that really what this country wants?
Many of us believe these aren’t impeachable offenses
He is talking about the Constitution. NBC reports trash about Trump every chance it gets. Go Trump.
AlanDersh is a child molester and a reason Epstein was released. His opinion doesn't matter.
Who listens to a man accused of sleeping with a child?
I remember when Conservatives cared about the Constitution.
He defends pedophiles and murderers. What do you expect.
Yes America needs a crazy man with his hand over a nuclear weapon.
What a bunch of bull...Trump violates his oath period😡
Maggot
No one is above the law
He has broken no laws. He was just elected president and the Democrats have been trying to impeach him every sense. The first president that could be investigated at this intensity and could find nothing wrong in his career
You don't have to be a legal whiz kid to figure out the so called articles of impeachment are lame.
Nice biased way of saying the “charges” do not warrant impeachment and removal from office. There are no crimes. Only inferences and feelings. Sad red letter date for the republic. Every president from now on will be impeached by the majority party.
He is a Lawyer! Did he go to Trump University?
What do you suggest, Mr Dershowitz?: House arrest? Gag order? No Tweeter? No more decisions to endanger the lives of Americans or anyone for that matter? That he gets no more briefs about the military? That he has to share quarters with Melly Mel?
Dickwitz
Notice the Fake News wording of NBC's tweet. The President can't be 'guilty' of carrying out his rightful and Constitutional duties to administer foreign policy. The lunatic Democrats have not accused him of anything that is in a criminal statute. Yet NBC uses the word 'GUILTY'
Dershowitz is a brilliant lawyer. It would be a mistake to underestimate him.
Looks like he just got a massage.
No, what he said was the house charges are bullsh*t charges. There, fixed it.
Faaack him! Get the bum out n change the locks.
He also said Jeffrey Epstein shouldn’t go to jail.
This is an opportunity for Republican senators to rid of trump and b their own man once again. Once trump is impeachment in the senste trump will be a nobody and silent.
PRRRTTT!!!!
He’s a Harvard professor eh?
And Dershowitz is correct. Congress has no authority to remove President for Obstruction of Congress or Abuse of Power. Only vulnerable to impeachment for high crime or misdemeanor. ImpeachmentHoax ImpeachmentBackfire
Explain what he did wrong, murder, tax evasion, rape, embezzlement, robbed a store?
Idiots, everywhere around realDonaldTrump i see just idiots. And criminals .....
Also Alan Dershowitz - 'I had no idea they were raping girls upstairs. I was always in the kitchen because that's where the Nintendo was..'
Stupid if you don't
Do an Epstein
What 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Like it or not, but OJ had to demote dershowitz's ass otherwise he would've been convicted. Dershowitz has always been fuckin overrated, now everyone is going to be seeing his ineptitude in HD.
How many of you OJ haters didn’t like Dershowitz when he was one of OJ’s lawyer defending him, but, love him since he’s working for Trump?
rolandsmartin Because it is important for the great unwashed to know that the President or Emperor is legitimately above the law. Everything works better when his word is the last word. A Perfect Man governing by Devine Right can do no wrong, like Louis XIV: “L’ etat, c’ est moi.”
Wow. I'm speechless!
HOW STUPID IS THAT DONT PUNISH A CRIMINAL OF COURSE HE IS YOUR CLIENT YOU ARE GETTING OLDER
Alan Dershowitz!?...thank God I had a better Con Law Professor
He thinks president is above the law
How much does trump hat on this guy
rolandsmartin Media don't do it again this is why Trump chose Captain I left my underpants on!! Making excuses for Trump! Where was he when his buddy Epstein committed 'suicide'! They'll never learn! Until he can explain why he was getting massages by underage girls he shouldn't be on TV!💯
Epstein's pals Trump and Dershowitz. Birds of a feather flock together. How much are they lying and hiding. We know they repeat the same word - perfect.
Hmmm a defense atty doesn't support the potential consequences his client could face. This must be a first...
Getting paid big bucks to say that
rolandsmartin What drug is he on? And does he follow the same constitution as the rest of the US?
This Nazi he is in America by mistake.
Supreme court eligible?
I don't think Alan Dershowitz is ignorant! I agree, there are NO impeachable offences there.
Just to be clear, Dershowitz represented murderer OJ Simpson, and pedophile rapist Jeffrey Epstein. It's no coincidence that Trump wants this unscrupulous lawyer to assist him.
What kind of weed does trump give this guys. One minute they are sane, the next they are Bonkers
Wrong
If that holds up under Senate scrutiny, we will be nearing the end of American ideals.
That would make him a dictator! sorry not gonna happen in America
Summ bag
lol the fuck is this shit?
Says the pedophilia defender. Anyone that takes this schmuck serious anymore needs their compass checked.
He won’t be removed from office. Not even in the next election.
Dershowitz is wrong. Congress decides what hi crimes are not the criminal code. Plus, the GAO has found that Trump broke the law by impounding Federal funds. It doesn’t matter to Alan. What a hypocrite he is in 1998 he wanted Clinton removed for lying
Dershowitz has a conflict of interest.
Trump and his minions are the worst thing that ever happened to the country. Miller, Dershowitz, Barr, MoscowMitch are all working against comon sense, decency and simple rights & wrongs we've grown up with. Protect your mind & hold firm to whats right. NoneOfThisIsNormal
😂😂😂😂😂
Then what is even the point of impeachment?
AlanDersh
AlanDouchewitz
pedophile says what?
How tidy & convenient.
Another joke trump defense TV CLOWNS
Absolutely insane. Nothing but total insanity here.
That is Dershowitz’s opinion. Then there are people who believe Elvis is alive, Paul McCartney died in the ‘60s, and we never went to the moon. ( I left out the flat earth people because, well you know).
So criminal acts are ok? We no longer punish people if you like them?
Alan Dershowitz also said that having sex with children should be legal.
The founders debated abuse of power and did not include it as a condition for impeachment because it is way too broad. Dershowitz is right.
Y’all always do these headlines knowing none of your followers will actually read the article 🤦🏻♂️
...because what they accuse him of is not an impeachable offense. My goodness the lame stream, liberal media is so damn corrupt. Have fun with your Indoctrination Sheep
I wonder if Nadler's brain is going? He looks sick.
Why is this a big surprise? Every lawyer shown on the news states that their client is innocent and should be set free. It is up to everyone hearing it to decide if the reasoning behind the lawyer's defense is legitimate.
Go get an island massage - the REPUBLICANS GOT taped massages on this guy or something
this idea will fuck trump's whole team up !
Soooooo, he's guilty? That's the defense?
He goes whichever way the wind blows. He's the equivalent of an ambulance chaser
I hope that the old guy presents this as Trump's defense - and something tells me he will - because it's an obvious fail with the American people. Let alone anyone who knows anything about the Constitution and our system of law.
Trump* used the presidency to bribe a foreign government for dirt on his political rival, lying and obstructing for his own benefit. If this is not impeachable, what is? Donald John Trump* was impeached on December 18, 2019 for the AbuseOfPower and ObstructionOfCongress.
He's a pedophile
Yuck yuck yuck
He’s a pedo
Dershowitz was Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's lawyer who got Epstein off on a super lite sentence so Epstein could rape more underaged girls. What the Hell is he doing on Trump's legal team ? Trump was Bro-Mancing with Epstein at the height of Epstein's sex trafficking & raping !
And there you are, voicing it. Repeating it. Normalizing it.
This would be hilarious if it wasn’t true
Wow
WHY ?
I have never seen or heard any GOP dotard say Trump didn't do what he is being impeached for, but this guy is very different from everybody. Guilty but should not be removed?
Really?
realDonaldTrump The bar has just been moved! “He did what he has been accused of but he needs to be left in place for an election.”
One year close to POTUS and will end up in jail.
Alan Dershowitz, friend and lawyer to Jeffrey Epstein, doesn't give a shit about the law.
As if they already know that he is broke the law and now just want to prove constitution wrong, in order to save him.
'I shouldn't be sent to prison for murdering someone' What the actual fuck is this defense?
Well Alan, let's then roll over and die! AlanDersh Didn't you teach law at Harvard ? And you re selling your soul to whom?
The old doesn’t matter that he’s guilty defense. Brilliant!
Apparently, there are pictures.
If your defense attorney says this, you're guilty realDonaldTrump GOP RemoveAndIndict
100% insane statement
For the sake of our democracy and our great country, Trump* must go. Donald John Trump* was impeached on December 18, 2019 for the AbuseOfPower and ObstructionOfCongress.
That sounds about right
The media in attack mode. God bless President Trump and give wisdom to those that will defend him and our Constitution!!
This seems to be the equivalent of having your defense lawyer tell the jury that even if found guilty of crimes that you should not go to jail because you learned your lesson by just being in court.
lordy
The fundamental point is that what Trump is accused of true or not aren't impeachable offenses.
Sounds like someone who thinks his guy’s guilty
Also Alan Dershowitz: 'When I don't have the facts, I play to the media.'
1st President impeached with no citations to violation of law. I hope this lasts until summer tying up Pocahontas & Red Bernie in this latest farcical attempt to undo 2016 election. Trump gets stronger every day from Dems' lunatic leftist antics. GOP Congress/Trump wins 2020.
Well, someone fails to realize what the point of this trial is. And one of those people is Trump. I see Trump has about as adequate of legal help as I would expect him to have. :)
Dersh, that makes ZERO sense......
😳 WTF? So it’s fine to ask foreign governments to interfere in our election?
Typical of a defense attorney.
Then Alan is a monarchist.
Cosby should be allowed to be a barman and Weinstein should head the woman’s marches, GOP logic basically.
Duh...that's what he's being paid to say. Did you actually think AlanDersh has integrity?
WTF!
Really
this, coming from a pedophile
We can’t let him stay. Donald Trump scares me when he acts like being President is the same thing as being king. He does not seem to grasp that he is a PUBLIC SERVANT and not an authoritarian leader. The president has many roles, but authoritarian leader is not one of them.
Then, the question comes to be, why does the constitution even bother to give us impeachment and removal, is we shouldn’t impeach or remove someone who all accounts seem to point to a rather corrupt character?
Isn't AlanDersh the guy who was friends with the sex trafficker JeffreyEpstein? Didn't he also admit to receiving a 'massage' while in his 'underware' by a young girl who may or may not have been underage? This is Trump's defense team?
Because none of it is a crime!
This coming from the lawyer that defended Epstein so he could continue raping kids JustSaying
🤦♀️ AlanDersh retire already. What is the point? Oh? To save your name from pedophilia? You could have disappeared by now. 🙄
If that is truly what he believes then I disagree!
One would think that he would want to stay out of the limelight considering the most recent accusations against him.
Trump has the Epstein tapes on Dersh no doubt.
Yeah stop being such a sore loser just because he screwed up why should he be punished after all like he says he is above the law. So there. Plus he is adorable.
I’m very disappointed in Dershowitz
Correct, the impeachment article's are that weak.
Right here a white guy protecting a man that is corrupt.
He’s right. The Democrats are trying to prove that Trump did something that was perfectly legal for him to do.
Things one say for cheap money.
What is wrong with this assclown?
This guy's a sick, perverted Republican.
If not removed How about hanging or waterboarding? 😎
snarkytoes Criminals stick together. Especially those that remain unindicted.
Misleading narrative Disgusting
Bastard. Get out.
snarkytoes He’s compromised as well
So Dershowitz really thinks that lying about a B.J. is worse than Obstruction of Justice or Bribery? Wow. Somebody needs to put him in the looney bin!
So Trump has a pedophile defending him
🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ Oh AlanDersh you are a colossal embarrassment.
RemoveTrump
And pelosi says it is not about facts or guilt it is about accusations
Abusing loopholes in the the law to condone Trump's nefarious goings on, and he doesn't care that we know it either. What a pig.
So guilty but no punishment? That's his defense?
No way break the law you pay just like everybody else
Very anti Semitic. How bout the 6 million.?
Wow that how far justice has come. Find him guilty but he gets a get out of jail card? Why? Privilege! How many of Trumps base could get the same sweet deal?
whyfund Dersh is worried! Along with the rest of the dirty, fascist GOPutin party of corruption. They know tRump won't go down alone. That explains a lot from the lying, 'rule of law,' family values party. They will say and do whatever it takes to hold onto their power and control.
So let's play this out. When Warren becomes president, she could kill all the lawyers, rebalance the high court (which is sorely needed), and round up the billionaire balloons. It's all on the table, Elizabeth. You can do whatever you want, during office. (That's their argument.)
Lolool so our system is meaningless and the constitution is just a 'suggestion'?
Dear Alan picks the best clients. He did wonders for a child sex trafficker.
He also said Jeffrey Epstein was no danger to children
Once a corrupt fraud, always a corrupt fraud.
:v The sooner Trump is gone the better!
NBC is not news. They are a liberal mouth piece. Nothing more.
Then according to AlanDersh the president is king despite the Take Care Clause commanding: “[The President] shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed....” U.S. Const. art. II, § 3.
The audacity of white men!
Wow
Douchebagowitz 🤥🤡
Dershowitz should be removed, what a clown!
What’s this IF shit?!
What an ass
And why are you giving airtime or digital space to someone as mentally diminished as he is?
Dershowitz quid pro quo on Trump=Jeffrey Epstein
He is one person with his opinion..
This is the same guy that went to bat for Epstein, so not exactly known for good judgment
I'm so tired of the same cabal telling us about our rights and politicians based only on what they believe, and are then able to promote to us via the lying media. I no longer trust the 4th estate aka the media.
Because they aren’t impeachable offenss and every President has abused his power. There I fixed it for you 🙄
I think Allan is being blackmailed
Alan Dershowitz is a social pariah and he only has the criminals to cling to now. It’s obviously affected him mentally.
Sounds like you think he is “Guilty.”
A cuckoo defending a cuckoo.
What WOULD?
These millionaires covering for millionaires typical
Dershowitz is just as crazy as trump. No wonder he was hired. But the facts don't lie. Trump is guilty and should be impeached and removed!
Let the series of “The Apprentice” begin in Washington. realDonaldTrump ImpeachmentTrial ImpeachedForLife TrumpCrimeFamilyForPrison
What psychological hook does trump have on him? His actions regarding tRump are not rationale from anomce brilliant attorney.
What has IMPEACHED Trump promised this guy?
Cause they arent Impeachable crimes. FAKE NEWS can't process that.
What? What da hell kind of statement is that?
Oh lord . This guy is lost.
Of course he has to defend Trump. Trump probably has first hand knowledge of his time with Epstein and “friends”.
Let me get this straight. I drive 100 mph down a residential street. Security cameras verify. Police pull me over, arrest me. I am so guilty of speeding, reckless driving and the proof is there. So, I should not be penalized even though I am obviously guilty, verifiably guilty?
Going for Senatorial jury nullification?
OKayOjay
We will remove him in Nov. with our voice, our vote
What did you expect him to say? He's on Trump's defense team.
Huh; yeah. What president hasn't abused power and obstructed Congress...
Why isn't Alan Dershowitz in a federal lock-up, like R. Kelly?
Feels a bit like an admission that Trump is guilty of everything the House has accused him of in the articles of impeachment.
Dershowitz is wrong on the law and wrong on history. Edmund Ross, the final vote that saved Johnson from removal, claimed he was influenced by confederate general Ewing, a close friend and Johnson supporter.
Coming from a guy that got blow jobs from children. He shouldn't even be free.
He’s just another member of the Epstein pedo club of which trump is a member.
We shouldn’t have Drunk Grandpa 👴 give interviews and you the media stop enabler these liars. You are giving them free press to spread lies & you r not making it better.
AlanDersh seriously? realDonaldTrump is this nations NATIONALSECURITY threat. You really haven’t been paying attention. TrumpIsACriminal
Your duty to your country is to help escort Trump out.
Will he leave his underwear on for this legal challenge?
So dumb.
Wow really? What would you expect him to say?
Quit giving him a platform to try this on national TV.
Oh course he's going to say that... He's going to believe his client! That's for all LIEYERS! I mean Lawyers. And your bonus is?
Here is pushing out White House talking points to help Trump deflect from impeachment.
Lawyers as WHORES on the next RickiLake
SoOoo no more lame excuses & cover ups from the trump team of morons - now Trumps most capable defense attorney has seen the evidence that makes his client guilty AF & knows theres no way to defend him so they've decided to go with... Trump is above the law 😂 ...yeah sure he is
Absolutely insane.
NicolleDWallace SpeakerPelosi AdamSchiff Dershowitz said that even if Trump is guilty of everything he was Impeached for he should not be removed from office. What Dershowitz is saying is that every one that is Guilty of a crime should not go to Prison. What an ass....
Says he who has talked down about African descent people with datk skin
I DID NOT HOLD BACK THE MONIES I DID BUT FOR CORRUPTION IN UKRAINE IT WAS A PERFECT CALL I DID NOTHING WRONG APPARENTLY TRUMP DID DO SOMETHING WRONG, SCARY PART IS THAT HE HAS THESE EVANGELICALS WILLING TO TURN THEIR BACK ON GOD... AND THE CONSTITUTION!
Well, we all knew OJ was guilty of murder and we all know Trump would not only sell you his own mother, he’d send her COD, so this fuzzy tap dance by Dershowitz can only turn even more of the electorate against Trump.
It always comes down to he did it, so what.
The GOP is going with the 'so what' defense because they know Trump did everything described in the articles of impeachment.
Says it all about GOPethics.
He thinks his client is guilty
Wanna see sparks fly. Since Dershowitz is supposedly hired as a constitutional lawyer for the defense, the prosecution should hire Barack Obama as their constitutional lawyer. He doesn't have to do much, just be in the news and maybe show up at a session or two.
he waffles so much it is hard to keep up...
What a shame. Another formerly well respected attorney has deteriorated into a complete loon.
There is no crime to remove him from office
AlanDersh is a dirt bag. Period 🇺🇸
The same man who advised and represented Epstein, and allegedly played the dirty games with him he was involved in. Trash
He was a Nixon apologist.
So if the crime fits..still acquit!
Can you find a more biased person to interview about the impeachment than one of LoserDonalds defense lawyers?
Douche-witz
Isn't he a criminal defense lawyer?
That’s just a silly position to take. If he is guilty of abuse of power, he needs to be removed.
He must be getting a huge payoff for this!
to me thats like saying embezzelment shouldnt be a crime its just money who cares where it comes from
What a dumbass. If that’s not Impeachable behavior then the only one that can top it would be if he had his political opponent removed.
So he doesn't agree with any type of impeachment. POTUS can do whatever whenever he wants. That's just insane
AllenDershowitz where’s your clown nose?
Alan voted for Hilary and was anti Trump in 2016 election. Smart people change their mind when new facts come in!
He is right of course. The left is just a bunch of haters.
The Constitution is pretty clear about the fact that Congress has no authority on matters of foreign policy other than the Senate ratifying treaties. Since that gives the President virtually unlimited power to conduct foreign policy, it appears that Mr. Dershowitz is correct.
Smarmy men stick together.
Well that's quite the strategy
Wow, the ignorance of Trump and everyone surrounding him and supporting him is just astounding....and extremely dangerous.
Because they are not impeachable offenses, just ones that piss the radical left off. Get another drink Nancy.
He is defending Trump by saying that crimes are no longer crimes.
This is insane. If this absurd and irrational argument convinces Senate Republicans, Donald Trump will be treated like a King. Surely U.S Constitution should be suspended and there would be no oversight on the executive branch. I hope it never happens.
Gee.. undermining the Constitution and you get to stay in office?
Douchowitz defended OJ, too.
Sounds like Alan Dershowitz thinks Trump is above the law. I wonder why Dershowitz would say that for Trump?....blackmail.
Alan Dershowitz convinced everybody that OJ was innocent when everybody actually knew he was guilty as Hell.
Damn right. You have no business de-electing Trump over a policy difference. Wait until Republicans hold Congress and Democrats have the Presidency - the payback will be on a mammoth scale. We will repay this 100 x 100.
That’s a poor characterization of his opinion
Correct. The dems didn't present enough evidence to show a crime was committed.
You big dope.
Scumbag
Nothing the Dems claim he's guilty of is an impeachable offence.
Good luck with that strategy, you old goat.
And he wants to sing with R.Kelly age is just a number.
D should be in jail
Absolutely correct.
Now that's what I call a good lawyer! NOT
It’s not a crime if you keep your underwear on.
Hes Wrong. PERIOD. But we posted all the reasons here yesterday.
Then, he’s a bad attorney and a fool, to boot.
Crazy, old man says what now?
No one is above the law!
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