Sitting here watching the impeachment "trial" and wondering who, among Trump's lawyers, is the most repulsive. Pam Bondi is arguably the most corrupt—in 2013, when she was Florida's attorney general, and Trump's sham "university" was being investigated by other state attorneys general who were citing hundreds of consumer complaints, including many out of the state of Florida, her office took some tentative steps toward joining the effort until her campaign received an illegal $25,000 donation from Trump's foundation. And now here she is logging time on TV defending him in the Senate! Looks like she possibly went shopping for some new things to wear while inveighing against the Bidens. "Beware," said Henry David Thoreau, "of enterprises that require new clothes."
But Alan Dershowitz gets my vote. Are his legal arguments or personal life more a mess? Yesterday, responding to the charge that Trump was pursuing his personal interest when holding up congressionally approved aid to Ukraine, Dershowitz said that no president can be impeached for anything he does in seeking reelection, since he must surely believe that his reelection is in the national interest. Wow! I personally and sincerely believe that everyone would be better off if I had ten percent of Trump's money, but there's a chance I'd be prosecuted if I robbed him of it. Legal immunity arises only from the president's beliefs about what would be good.
Adam Schiff is right now pointing out that at the constitutional convention delegates worried about the prospect of a president bribing electors in the electoral college. According to Dershowitz, perfectly okay, so long as the president thinks it would be better if he won! And presumably he wouldn't offer the bribe unless he did! His crime proves he's innocent!
But Dershowitz is as shameless as his client, with whom he shares the attribute "partied with Jeffrey Epstein." In Dershowitz's case, one of Epstein's prisoners has sworn in an affidavit that she was repeatedly directed to have sex with him (Dershowitz) while still a minor. Dershowitz says she's a prostitute and a liar and, moreover, that the woman who gave him a massage at Epstein's mansion was of age and that he kept his underwear on. So there!
If I'd said that in a television interview, I don't think I'd go out in public (except to buy groceries and liquor), let alone to advance ridiculous arguments on behalf of Trump on the floor of the Senate on national TV.
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