Famed attorney Alan Dershowitz said if he were on Donald Trump‘s legal team, the first thing he would do is move to have New York Attorney General Letitia James recused and disqualified from prosecuting the former president and his family on fraud charges.
“I like Letitia James. She’s a very nice person, but she campaigned on the promise to get Trump before seeing any evidence, and so she is just fulfilling a campaign promise,” he told Newsmax. “You can’t have prosecutors even civilly prosecuting a defendant if they made a campaign promise that they have to fulfill. They are not neutral and objective.”
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Dershowitz, who is also a professor emeritus at Harvard Law School, wondered why James and her office were involved in this to begin with.
“Look, who are the people who were defrauded here, they claim? The biggest banks in the world. Why can’t the biggest banks sue him and take care of themselves? Why does Letitia James have to be out there protecting and defending the biggest banks in that country who haven’t sued him at all? So this doesn’t pass the test of a legitimate civil complaint, and I think they should challenge this vigorously,” he added.
Following the announcement, Eric Trump tweeted a video of James making statements in the past about wanting to “be a real pain in the a**” to Trump.
“Not a political ‘witch hunt?!’ What a joke…” Trump posted on Twitter.
Not a political “witch hunt?!” What a joke… pic.twitter.com/dzuGaW9vNy
— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) September 21, 2022
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“I don’t think she cares as much about losing as having brought the lawsuit. And that’s not the way the criminal justice system or the civil justice system should work,” Dershowitz said.
