In recent days, there hasn’t been any shortage of two-decade-old videos of key players in impeachments then and now talking about the “issues.” Whether these videos related to Ken Starr and Brett Kavanaugh, Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), or Donald Trump well before he was president, these videos have been eye-opening for self-explanatory reasons. You can add this video below of Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz to the mix.
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Dershowitz, putting on his criminal defense attorney hat for a CNN appearance in 1999, was asked how he would approach defending Bill Clinton in the Senate. His answer? “The first thing I would is say, ‘Fire Dershowitz.’ We don’t want to get involved with people saying, ‘O.J.’s lawyer is representing the president.'”
Speaking of O.J. Simpson’s and Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer acting as a defense attorney for the president, Dershowitz denies that this is what will be happening at President Trump’s impeachment trial. Instead, Dershowitz says–and a number of his legal peers disagree with the distinction–he will merely be defending the Constitution in a way that is favorable to the president, not acting as a “full-fledged member” of Trump’s impeachment team.
The video above hasn’t been the only one to recirculate over the last day or so. After Dershowitz said days ago that “Abuse of power, even if proved, is not an impeachable offense,” Dershowitz’s pro-impeachment Harvard Law colleague Laurence Tribe quoted remarks from another interview back in 1998.
“It certainly doesn’t have to be a crime if you have somebody who completely corrupts the office of president and who abuses trust and who poses great danger to our liberty,” Dershowitz said at the time.
Then the video popped up.
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A Twitter spat ensued when Dershowitz said there was “no inconsistency between what I said during the Clinton impeachment and what I am saying now.”
[Image via CNN screengrab]
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