Lawyer Alan Dershowitz slammed the FBI’s raid of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s home, likening the United States to “banana republics.”
“In banana republics, in Castro‘s Cuba, in many parts of the world when a candidate loses for president, they go after the candidate, they go after his lawyers, they go after his friends,” Dershowitz said in a podcast interview with host John Catsimatidis on Sunday.
“That’s happening in America now. They’re going after Rudy Giuliani,” he continued.
The FBI raided Giuliani’s Manhattan home and office last Wednesday, investigating whether he illegally lobbied the Trump administration on behalf of Ukrainian officials.
Giuliani has slammed the raid as “completely illegal” and “unconstitutional,” and his attorney said he “can demonstrate that his conduct as a lawyer and a citizen was absolutely legal and ethical.”
“It is outrageous that the Trump Derangement Syndrome has gone so far that hatred has driven this unjustified and unethical attack on the United States Attorney and Mayor who did more to reduce crime than virtually any other in American history,” his attorney, Bob Costello, said in a statement last week.
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Dershowitz said he will also aid the former NYC mayor with “constitutional advice” and argued on the podcast that authorities should have used a subpoena instead of a search warrant.
“A search warrant on a lawyer or a doctor or a priest? You don’t use search warrants,” Dershowitz said. “You don’t use search warrants when people have privileged information on their cellphones and in their computers. You use a subpoena. The difference between a subpoena and a search warrant is like night and day … It’s just not constitutional.”
