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Judi Lynn

(160,515 posts)
Sat Jul 21, 2018, 12:18 AM Jul 2018

Alan Dershowitz: Comparing Trump's Summit Performance to Kristallnacht is a 'Form of Holocaust Denia

Alan Dershowitz: Comparing Trump’s Summit Performance to Kristallnacht is a ‘Form of Holocaust Denial’
by Joseph A. Wulfsohn | 10:01 pm, July 20th, 2018

Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz blasted critics of President Donald Trump who have compared his performance at the Helsinki summit alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Holocaust.

Dershowitz began by dismissing those who called Trump “treasonous,” telling Hannity guest host Judge Jeanine Pirro that treason consists only “in levying war against the United States or adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.”

“You can’t just throw that term around,” Dershowitz insisted. “It’s the only crime defined specifically in the Constitution.”

But before moving on, he took pundits to task who have invoked the Holocaust, particularly MSNBC contributor Jill Wise-Banks for comparing Trump’s remarks at Monday’s press conference to Kristallnacht.

More:
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/alan-dershowitz-comparing-trumps-summit-performance-to-kristallnacht-is-a-form-of-holocaust-denial/

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Alan Dershowitz: Comparing Trump's Summit Performance to Kristallnacht is a 'Form of Holocaust Denia (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jul 2018 OP
Who dropped Dershowitz on his head? Cary Jul 2018 #1
He really has lost it. MBS Jul 2018 #5
Who the hell compared it to Kristallnacht?--yet another Dershowitz strawman? hlthe2b Jul 2018 #2
Jill Wise-Banks hack89 Jul 2018 #4
Just One More Reason I Call Him Douchbagowitz DoctorJoJo Jul 2018 #3

MBS

(9,688 posts)
5. He really has lost it.
Sun Jul 22, 2018, 05:42 AM
Jul 2018

He's been increasingly bizarre over the last 20 years or so, but he's now descended into a whole new level of right-wing loopiness.

hlthe2b

(102,196 posts)
2. Who the hell compared it to Kristallnacht?--yet another Dershowitz strawman?
Sat Jul 21, 2018, 08:11 AM
Jul 2018

Just go away Dersh. You lost any integrity you ever had years ago when you defended torture. Now, you are just a sad sad pathetic figure.

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