Dershowitz on Mueller move against Roger Stone: ‘Trump is the target’

Published January 25, 2019 5:27pm ET



Robert Mueller is trying to force Roger Stone to “flip” and incriminate President Trump by indicting the veteran Republican operative on charges that leave him facing the prospect of dying in jail, according to Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz.

“The obvious purpose of indicting him on these obstructing and false statement charges is to put pressure on him to flip. That’s the goal,” said Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor emeritus.

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