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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsREPORT: Dershowitz Lobbied Trump To Pardon Maxwell
The Sunday Times reports:
Jeffrey Epsteins former lawyer lobbied Donald Trump to pre-emptively pardon Ghislaine Maxwell during the final days of his presidency after talks with her family. Alan Dershowitz, 83, a former Harvard Law School professor, represented Epstein during the noughties and Trump during his first impeachment trial. He has since been accused of abuse by one of Epsteins under-age victims, which he denies.
Trump, 75, used his executive powers to pardon or commute the sentences of various convicts, some of them political allies, and even considered pardoning himself for unspecified crimes. He was also reported to have taken a sudden interest in Maxwells fate. According to Landslide, by the American journalist Michael Wolff, he asked aides: Has she said anything about me? Is she going to talk? Will she roll on anybody?
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https://www.joemygod.com/2022/01/report-dershowitz-lobbied-trump-to-pardon-maxwell/
Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)Poiuyt
(18,123 posts)Wasn't he once respectable?
Dershowitz has always been corrupt AF
Poiuyt
(18,123 posts)I'm old and my brain is mushy.
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)The man is a total narcissist. In TFG's league.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,986 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)Bristlecone
(10,127 posts)That underwear story is pure BS.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Not even so much as a 'anonymous sources told (our paper) that this happened'.
Knowing Dershowitz, they're about to be sued.
My guess is this article will be taken down within 24 hours, and possibly a retraction issued.
Seems like highly irresponsible reporting.
Just saying.
Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Yeah, no ... that's NOT what the headline says.
Or am I getting a different version of the article than you?
Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)What earthly reason would Dershowitz have to discuss the Maxwell case?
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)To answer more directly ... because they both know her?
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)enough to post such headlines as if there is evidence.
Agree, its irresponsible if you cant even say according to an unnamed source.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Hekate
(90,690 posts)Eugene
(61,899 posts)a couple of corrupt Republicans and an ex-cop who sicced a K-9 on an already subdued suspect.
Many more commutations though.
The key was being connected or politically useful.
calimary
(81,267 posts)"Alan Dershowitz, 83, a former Harvard Law School professor, represented Epstein during the noughties and Trump during his first impeachment trial."
Indeed? The "noughties"?