The Biden administration was shaken up this week after news of classified documents found in the president’s private office and residence were revealed, but one U.S. attorney maintains that “nothing’s going to come of this.”
Attorney Alan Dershowitz, who serves as a professor emeritus at Harvard Law School, said President Joe Biden’s document haul and those found during the FBI raid at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort last August will “neutralize” each other.
This will make it difficult for the Justice Department to make anything stick, he said.
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“The end result here, by the way, will be a tie. Each of these allegations neutralizes the other,” Dershowitz said Friday evening in an interview with The National Desk.
“It means that it’s impossible that Donald Trump will ever be prosecuted for his mishandling of classified information at Mar-a-Lago, and obviously, the special prosecutor will not prosecute President Biden,” he added.
It was revealed earlier this week that the DOJ sat on the knowledge of the Biden documents for nearly two months before the information was leaked to the media and made public.
Dershowitz said it should have been disclosed much sooner as more documents continue to surface.
“We should have, of course, known about it, and we should have known about it before the midterm elections. The public is entitled to judge for itself whether this is worse than what happened at Mar-a-Lago,” he argued. “So the timeline is a real problem.”
His comments come one day after Attorney General Merrick Garland announced his appointment of U.S. Attorney Robert Hur as the special counsel to investigate the documents found in Biden’s private office at the Penn Biden Center and in his Wilmington, Delaware, garage.
The DOJ appointed two special counsels focusing on the Trump administration: Robert Mueller investigated claims of Russian interference in the 2016 election, and most recently, the department chose attorney Jack Smith to look into the documents found in the Mar-a-Lago raid.
“Justice not only has to be done, it has to be seen to be done,” Dershowitz said, explaining that the appointment is just for show.
“Maybe we’ll get some changes in the law, but I think we’re seeing two shows here with the special counsels. Nothing’s going to come of it,” he said, reiterating that “there will be no prosecutions.”
Further pressed on why the appointment matters, Dershowitz pointed to a potential Biden-Trump rematch in 2024 and preventing a conflict of interest.
“If you have two candidates running against each other, you can’t do anything that favors the incumbent because he’s the person who, after all, appoints attorneys general and can promote them and put them on the Supreme Court,” he said.
“So you want to have somebody neutral, and in both cases, we have people with impeccable credentials … people who have worked for multiple administrations. And people whose credibility can’t be questioned,” Dershowitz added.
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The famed attorney also pointed out that the Biden documents may have flown under the radar had Democrats not been so “high-handed” when going after Trump.
“If that hadn’t happened, this wouldn’t even be noticed. It wouldn’t even be an issue involving Biden. It’s because tit-for-tat politics and the media … and that’s why we see both of these,” Dershowitz said.
“But I think Garland is going to try to be fair and, again, nothing’s going to come of this,” he added.
