Law professor Alan Dershowitz could represent President Trump in his impeachment trial in the Senate.
The president and his advisers have considered expanding the legal team to add the controversial attorney, according to ABC News. Dershowitz was at the White House on Wednesday and spoke briefly before Trump signed an executive order on anti-Semitism.
The lawyer often appeared on TV to defend Trump during special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. He has more recently made headlines over his connections to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in his jail cell in August.
Dershowitz was part of Epstein’s legal team in the mid-2000s. Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre has alleged that she was lent out to Dershowitz for sex by Epstein, which Dershowitz has denied.
He wrote in an opinion piece earlier this week that the two articles of impeachment proposed by the House Judiciary Committee “are so vague and open ended that they could be applied in partisan fashion by a majority of the House against almost any president from the opposing party.”
Republican Rep. Mark Meadows, a Trump ally, supported adding Dershowitz to the legal team.
“I have advocated that there needs to be one other attorney that’s added to the mix for the president, and that is Alan Dershowitz,” Meadows said Wednesday. “I think he’d be great to come in, get Alan Dershowitz in to be part of that defense team.”
The Washington Examiner has reached out to Dershowitz for comment.
