Meghan McCain knocked her co-hosts for laughing at President Trump’s impeachment attorney Alan Dershowitz by citing his successful representation of O.J. Simpson.
On The View, co-host Whoopi Goldberg aired a clip from Wednesday night’s impeachment question-and-answer session, where Dershowitz said that every politician believes his or her election is in the “public interest.” He argued that Trump may have been looking out for the public interest and his personal interest when he asked for an investigation into Joe Biden.
Goldberg and her fellow co-hosts mocked Dershowitz’s argument. Sunny Hostin, a former attorney, claimed Dershowitz’s logic was similar to that of a first-year law student. McCain warned her co-hosts that they should not be mocking Dershowitz.
“I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know,” McCain admitted. “I will say that Alan Dershowitz helped a serial killer get off, O.J. Simpson, so he must be a pretty good lawyer because he did a really good job with that, and I think O.J. Simpson is guilty. So he must be a pretty good lawyer. So we’re laughing all the time at him, and I don’t think, like, that’s a person to be laughed at.”
Dershowitz, 81, has a long list of famous clients, including Simpson. He represented accused murderer Claus von Bulow and accused sexual predators Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein. Beyond his work in the courtroom, Dershowitz earned a reputation in the classroom as a prominent legal professor at Harvard Law.
Many others criticized Dershowitz for his “public interest” argument. Joe Lockhart, who worked as press secretary under President Bill Clinton, said, “This is what you hear from Stalin. This is what you hear from Mussolini. This is what you hear from Hitler — all of the authoritarian people who rationalized, in some cases genocide, based on what was in the public interest. It was startling.”
