Alan Dershowitz is throwing a fit about Mueller's presser. He clearly understood

[pnwmom]

how bad it was for Trump. If this Trump-apologist is so unhappy, that's good news for people who care about the truth.

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/445983-dershowitz-shame-on-robert-mueller-for-exceeding-his-role

Dershowitz: Shame on Robert Mueller for exceeding his role

Until today, I have defended Mueller against the accusations that he is a partisan. I did not believe that he personally favored either the Democrats or the Republicans, or had a point of view on whether President Trump should be impeached. But I have now changed my mind. By putting his thumb, indeed his elbow, on the scale of justice in favor of impeachment based on obstruction of justice, Mueller has revealed his partisan bias. He also has distorted the critical role of a prosecutor in our justice system.

[grumpyduck]

1. He's grasping at straws.

[malaise]

2. You know the saying

Fling a stone in a hog pen - who bawl get lick

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. The way I heard it was, the one that squeals is the one you hit -

but I like yours better.

[malaise]

5. Jamaican version

[MyOwnPeace]

20. Actually, I didn't..............

know the saying - but DAMN, that one says it all!

[malaise]

32. Ha

[oldlibdem]

15. help a city boy out...

what does "Fling a stone in a hog pen - who bawl get lick" mean? Thanks.

[MyOwnPeace]

26. OK, city..........

Here 'ya go:

there's a pen (where they keep hogs) and you walk up and throw a stone.

It hits one.

It squeals (or, "who bawl&quot !!!!!!

THAT is the one who "get lick."

MEANING:

If you make a statement accusing someone of something, and THAT is the one that complains, BINGO, there's your guilty one!

In defense of questioning the quote, it is SO DAMNED HARD to figure just which one is guilty in this administration!

[malaise]

34. Perfect

[oldlibdem]

56. thank you

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. See #4 - if you throw a rock into a pig pen,

the one that squeals is the one you hit. So if someone is complaining about something it means you "hit" them.

[dem4decades]

3. Alan telling Mueller how to be a prosecutor.

[11 Bravo]

6. Shouldn't he be working on OJ's appeal?

[emmaverybo]

9. Oh that's rich! nt

[genxlib]

7. That was my take on the Guiliani melt down earlier as well

[MyOwnPeace]

29. JUST OMG!!!!!

Does IQ45 know how to surround himself with "the best of the best" or what!"

And that's who's leading our national leader as he leads our nation?

[BootinUp]

8. This guy...SMDH. Nt

[barbtries]

10. fuck dershowitz.

someone should tell him to read the report. to my knowledge Mueller said nothing that is not in there.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

47. As Jeffrey Toobin recently asked Dershowitz:

"What happened to you ?"

[barbtries]

52. right?

i'm thinking it's some kind of kompromat. wasn't he involved with epstein too?

[emmaverybo]

11. For those complaining Mueller has not said enough...by DOJ rules, he's said and done plenty.

Dershowitz points that put. By DOJ rules, if no indictment, no statements about the investigation subject. So Mueller has gone over and beyond.

[Baitball Blogger]

12. That's reassuring.

[OnDoutside]

13. Shouldn't he be off kiddy fiddling ?

[Takket]

14. Would he rather Mueller had lied about the facts?

And the answer to that question is: yes.

[Kid Berwyn]

16. Dershowitz, the guy accused of sexual assault on a child?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-alan-dershowitz-and-pals-accused-of-sex-trafficking-ring

[pnwmom]

19. Yup. He used to claim he was a Democrat but something's changed.

And that kind of accusation might be why. He's been caught up with some R's involved in the same thing.

[Kid Berwyn]

55. Alexander Acosta, Secretary of Labor, of all things.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/alexander-acosta-trumps-labor-secretary-broke-the-law-in-jeffrey-epstein-case-judge

[Pepsidog]

17. STFU you pedophile.

[blue-wave]

18. So my take on this

Is that Dershowitz is calling Mueller a patriot.

[Vinca]

21. "Mueller has revealed his partisan bias." Huh???? He's a Republican.

[Moral Compass]

22. Dershowitz is completely corrupt

Dershowitz is completely in thrall to Trump. He knows that if he fails to vigorously defend his lord that he can expect certain things about underage girls and rape and what Trump and Epstein knows he did...to leak out.

That he is this craven and this compromised astounds me. It is hard to watch the complete dissolution of a man that had standing and respect from both sides.

Now Dershowitz is no better than Dinesh D’souza, Sean Hannity, Rudy Giuliani, Rush, Glen Beck etc.

[mr_lebowski]

42. I'd argue that based on what we pretty much know ... he's worse than all them (nt)

[Hortensis]

48. He's one of several I always wonder might be blackmailed.

He was never overly admired for his integrity, but he's one of a number who've astonished those who knew them by seemingly undergoing dramatic personality and behavior changes.

WHY would he be "in thrall to" Trump? Or would it be to agents of Putin, one of our own wannabe kleptocrats, McConnell, whoever? Whatever. This came out and Dershowitz, and others, went to work.

Oh, speaking of others, here're a pair of Lindsay Graham quotes from the announcement of Jaime Harrison, the former chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party, that he's running for Graham's seat.

“He’s a race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot.” Before election.
“No, I don’t think he’s a xenophobic, race-baiting, religious bigot, ... deserves the Nobel Peace Prize and then some.” After.

Harrison is also a former aide to SC's senior Democratic Rep. James Clyburn.

Go, Harrison!

[Marcuse]

23. Suppose Mueller really was a partisan Democrat. Would his report have been much different?

[pnwmom]

31. If he was a Barr-style Democrat, he would have ignored the rules that he felt bound by

and just offered his own conclusions.

But he's the same rule-following Marine he's always been. His greatest strength and his greatest weakness, depending on the situation.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

24. Dershowitz and Guiliani sitting in a tree.

Kissing Donnie's ass as hard as can be.

[Mr. Evil]

25. I am tiring of this blatantly corrupt republican shitshow so much so I can barely contain myself.

We are becoming farther and farther away from having something resembling a decent and more equitable society that we may never be able to recover enough to begin to work toward that goal. With our corporate controlled media always allowing the depraved and 'detached from reality' republicans to control the narrative, I don't see for the foreseeable future any positive outcome.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

28. Dershowitz is trying to remain relevant.

Once he was a well-respected civil rights lawyer; now he's just a washed-up old has-been like Giuliani who has hitched his wagon to the wrong horse.

[patphil]

30. It's impossible for Mueller to have his thumb or elbow on the Scale of Justice

He would have had to wait for Barr to get his fat ass off the scale first.
Actually, I thought Mueller was way deep into non-partisan territory.
Dershowitz, on the other hand (or should I say thumb), is extremely partisan, and always has been.

Patrick Phillips

[Achilleaze]

33. republican traitors will get what's coming to them

for betraying the USA. That's why Dershy is having a hissy.

[Cicada]

35. The instructions to Mueller included more than prosecution

He was instructed to investigate, not just prosecute. His primary role was to find out what happened. Prosecution was only a secondary task. The government is not required to do only what Mr Dershowitz thinks they should do. It is free to walk and chew gum at the same time.

[sop]

36. Jeez, it didn't take long for the rightwing attacks on Mueller to start

Trump's initial reaction was to insanely proclaim Mueller's statement fully cleared him, but once he figures out this bit of gaslighting isn't working, the twitter attacks on Mueller will begin in earnest. By Friday Trump will be calling for Mueller's arrest.

[Honeycombe8]

37. Yep. If Trumper lackey Dershowitz is upset, it was bad for Thumper. nt

[paleotn]

38. Alan, shut up.

You're talking out of your arse once again.

[spanone]

39. Fuck dershowitz

[struggle4progress]

40. "... it is important that the office's written work speak for itself ... The order appointing me

Special Counsel authorized us to investigate actions that could obstruct the investigation. We conducted that investigation and we kept the office of the Acting Attorney General apprised of the progress of our work. As set forth in our report, after that investigation, if we had confidence that the President clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said that. We did not, however, make a determination as to whether the President did commit a crime. The introduction to volume two of our report explains that decision ...The Special Counsel’s Office is part of the Department of Justice and, by regulation, it was bound by that Department policy. Charging the President with a crime was therefore not an option we could consider ... And beyond Department policy, we were guided by principles of fairness. It would be unfair to potentially accuse somebody of a crime when there can be no court resolution of an actual charge. So that was the Justice Department policy and those were the principles under which we operated. From them we concluded that we would not reach a determination – one way or the other – about whether the President committed a crime. That is the office’s final position and we will not comment on any other conclusions or hypotheticals about the President ..."
Mueller's full remarks

Coming up next: Dershowitz stamps foot, promises to hold breath and turn blue! Oh, dear! What if somebody rolls their eyes at him?

[gordianot]

41. If OJ Simpson had not shed Dershowitz from his defense team OJ would be on death row in California.

I cannot remember who said that but it comes to mind whenever I see or hear Dershowitz name. I wonder if he is available to defend Trump?

[panfluteman]

43. Dershowitz Calls Not Going Along With Treason and Corruption

putting your thumb or elbow on the scales of justice? Then what exactly does justice look like to him? And what is treason and corruption??? We here at DU overwhelmingly feel that Mueller didn't go far enough. Regardless of which side you're on politically, or what judgment you consider to be "partisan" or "just", the sobering truth that Robert Mueller left us with is that we need to improve our election security in the interests of our national sovereignty and security - which transcends Democrat or Republican. Ultimately, if we are to survive as a free and independent nation, we must have confidence that we ourselves are choosing our own leaders.

[comradebillyboy]

44. Dersh got rich and famous defending guilty people.

[TrollBuster9090]

45. "Until today, I have defended Mueller against the accusations that he is a partisan."

"Until today, I have defended Mueller against the accusations that he is a partisan."

Uh...B-U-L-L S-H-I-T, Alan!

(I watch Fox so you don't have to)
EVERY SINGLE TIME Dershowitz has appeared on Hannity, it was to soften the ground to discredit Mueller's report. If I had a dollar for every time he said "I'm worried Mueller will produce a report that lists SINS and not CRIMES..." in his little munchkin voice. Dershowitz is not reversing his position. He's always had the SAME position. (ie-with his head right up Trump's colon.)

[SunSeeker]

46. Mueller said nothing about Trump that he didn't say in his report.

Didn't Dershowitz read the report?

[Tarc]

49. Dersh should be more concerned with his rides on Epstein's Lolita Express plane

when all that comes to light. Mueller and Trump should be the least on the old boy's mind right now,

[catbyte]

50. "Three things that cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." --Buddha

One of my favorite quotes.

[Xipe Totec]

51. If Muller was a partisan, wouldn't that make him a Republican partisan?

Because, um,... he's a card carrying Republican.

[redstateblues]

53. Boom!

[Submariner]

54. Here's hoping "liberal" Dershowitz gets shit on during this years Martha's Vineyard season

by the Liberals he says are his friends.