Famed attorney Alan Dershowitz went on the record to call out the Department of Justice over former President Donald Trump’s indictment, which was announced Thursday by Trump on Truth Social.
The latest investigation, which alleged 37 counts of federal charges against Trump, must “be at least as strong as the case against Richard Nixon” during the Watergate scandal, Dershowitz said in an interview with Fox on Friday.
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“If this indictment is as weak as it appears to be, from what has been disclosed so far, it may be the most dangerous indictment in political history,” he told Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo.
The Harvard Law School professor emeritus argued that, in a just case, it’s crucial that Trump’s indictment be met with bipartisan support. However, he said he fails to see that in practice.
“I haven’t seen any suggestion that Republicans agree with this indictment,” Dershowitz said.
This marks the second time Trump has been criminally indicted this year. In April, the former president was hit with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, to which Trump pleaded not guilty.
The recent indictment, Dershowitz said, is unprecedented in that President Joe Biden is playing an active role in preventing Trump from running in the 2024 election.
“It’s the first time that a man who is the leading candidate against the incumbent president has been indicted by the incumbent administration in an effort to prevent him from running,” he said.
Dershowitz also revealed the public could soon be seeing a criminal indictment against Biden and his son, Hunter.
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“If I were a Republican leader, what I would do is draft a potential indictment against Biden and his son based on the information that’s now available, and present that in the court of public opinion in juxtaposition with the indictment that will come down on Tuesday,” he said, “and let the public judge whether or not there’s a single standard of justice.”
The indictment charges against Trump include willful retention of national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document or record, corruptly concealing a document or record, concealing a document in a federal investigation, and making false statements and representations.
Trump is expected to appear at the Miami federal courthouse on Tuesday at 3 p.m.
