Alan Dershowitz: Both sides are to blame
Had Hillary Clinton been elected president, Republican partisans would be doing and saying about President Clinton what Democrat partisans are now saying about President Trump.
There would be shouts of Lock her up! as there were even before the election. There would be efforts to reopen the email investigation, as President Trump is now tweeting. There would be demands to appoint a special counsel. There would be claims that foreign contributions to the Clinton foundation and other entities were emoluments.
If there were a D.C. grand jury investigating Clinton, there would be efforts by the prosecution to move it to a less-overwhelmingly Democratic venue, like Virginia. There would be arguments that Bill Clinton obstructed justice by initiating a conversation with then-Jeff Sessions Lynch in her airplane and that Lynch tried to influence the FBI director to refer to the email investigation as a matter.
If President Hillary Clinton had fired FBI director James Comey as she might well have done there would have been allegations of a cover up. There would be calls for her impeachment and prosecution.
My partisan Democrat friends would be appalled at these efforts to undo the election of their candidate. They would be railing against expanding the criminal law to target a political opponent. They would be dismissing the emoluments argument as the stretch that it is.
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/346307-opinion-dershowitz-the-partisan-shoe-is-on-the-other
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)That is all.
jrthin
(4,836 posts)Lint Head
(15,064 posts)CatMor
(6,212 posts)but this is the only way that media whore can stay in the news.
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)These asshats wouldn't be out on the street running over people.
Paladin
(28,264 posts)Yeah, that's what I thought. All that full-scale multi-year whoring for the right does take a toll. Deservedly so.
Gothmog
(145,296 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)STOP BEING SUCH A REPUKE WHORE
murielm99
(30,745 posts)JI7
(89,251 posts)TomCADem
(17,387 posts)It seems that Alan got the official WH talking points.
https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/8/12/16138982/trump-charlottesville-false-equivalency
After white supremacists held violent rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Friday and Saturday, President Donald Trump had a chance to denounce the hate and bigotry that led to the current situation during a Saturday bill signing ceremony. Instead, he blamed many sides.
We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides, on many sides, Trump said.
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In short, there arent multiple morally equivalent sides here. Theres one side white supremacists that has long oppressed all other groups of people. Their protests aim to ensure that oppression continues, even if it means using violence. The people counterprotesting, on the other hand, are trying to end that oppression.
So while its true that both sides participated in the brawls seen throughout the protests, one side in a country that supposedly values equality has the much stronger case by actively working against the hate, bigotry, and violence that the white supremacist side is actively trying to perpetuate.
BigmanPigman
(51,608 posts)It is best for my mental health and the health of my TV set.
SunSeeker
(51,571 posts)Man, he must REALLY want that Israel position with the Trump administration.
Doug the Dem
(1,297 posts)Remember how he came on TV the day after 9/11 and started advocating torture?
BlueMTexpat
(15,369 posts)Dershowitz is nothing but a contemptible douchebag! He is certainly a predictable one.