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Longtime trial attorney and legal analyst Alan Dershowitz described the Manhattan “hush money” verdict against former President Donald Trump as one of the most absurd he has seen throughout his 60-year legal career.
“From a pure legal perspective, how sound was this verdict?” host Piers Morgan asked Dershowitz, who was joined on a panel by a number of conservative and liberal commentators.
“On a, from one to ten, it was a below 20. It’s the worst legal verdict I’ve seen in 60 years of practicing, writing, litigating cases,” Dershowitz answered without hesitation. “It’s now days since the verdict. I still don’t know what he was convicted of. Was he convicted of intent cheat on his taxes two years later, although he didn’t take it as a deduction? Was he convicted of defrauding voters who obviously knew that he was a sexual scoundrel? Was he convicted of seeking to make an illegal campaign contribution, although the contribution didn’t have to be listed until after the election.”
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged Trump with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records after copy/pasting the same offense 34 times, one for each instance. While falsifying business records is generally considered a misdemeanor, defendants can be charged with felonies if prosecutors allege the falsification was done in concealment of another crime.
Even after Trump has been convicted, Bragg’s office has yet to identify the underlying crime, while Judge Juan Merchan told jurors that they did not need to agree on what the supposed underlying crime was.
“I have never seen a case where even after the verdict came down, we don’t know what he was convicted of. No one in history, in history, has ever been convicted of failing to disclose hush money payment paid to somebody. Why would anybody pay hush money if they had to disclose it?” Dershowitz told the panel. “This is a case where the prosecutor simply decided to get Trump.”
A longtime Democrat, Dershowitz went on to stress that he is not a Trump supporter. “I’m not a Trump supporter. I voted against him. I’m a liberal Democrat, but I care more about the weaponization and distortion the weaponization and distortion of the criminal justice system,” he said.
On Friday, Judge Merchan released a bombshell court filing that could lead to a mistrial in the case. According to a letter sent to former President Trump’s attorney Todd Blanche, a Facebook user alleged that he had a cousin on the jury and stated that they were going to convict. The comment was made before the verdict was handed down.
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