REPORT: Dershowitz Lobbied Trump To Pardon Maxwell

[tenderfoot]

The Sunday Times reports:

Jeffrey Epstein’s former lawyer lobbied Donald Trump to pre-emptively pardon Ghislaine Maxwell during the final days of his presidency after talks with her family. Alan Dershowitz, 83, a former Harvard Law School professor, represented Epstein during the noughties and Trump during his first impeachment trial. He has since been accused of abuse by one of Epstein’s under-age victims, which he denies.

Trump, 75, used his executive powers to pardon or commute the sentences of various convicts, some of them political allies, and even considered pardoning himself for unspecified crimes. He was also reported to have taken a sudden interest in Maxwell’s fate. According to Landslide, by the American journalist Michael Wolff, he asked aides: “Has she said anything about me? Is she going to talk? Will she roll on anybody?”

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https://www.joemygod.com/2022/01/report-dershowitz-lobbied-trump-to-pardon-maxwell/

[Kingofalldems]

1. And there are people demanding a new trial for her.

[Poiuyt]

2. Am I remembering things correctly?

Wasn't he once respectable?

[budkin]

11. NEVER

Dershowitz has always been corrupt AF

[Poiuyt]

16. Thanks for the correction

I'm old and my brain is mushy.

[Tommymac]

18. Tried to read his autobiography until I threw up in my mouth perusing the first chapter.

The man is a total narcissist. In TFG's league.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Hope he kept his underwear on when he asked

[Kingofalldems]

4. Kick for the secret internet Maxwell fans to read.

[Bristlecone]

5. He is a scumbag and I have no doubt he was involved

That underwear story is pure BS.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

14. No doubt... any and all offenders need to be prosecuted without exception.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

6. Wow. There is literally not one source for the headline content actually cited in the article.

Not even so much as a 'anonymous sources told (our paper) that this happened'.

Knowing Dershowitz, they're about to be sued.

My guess is this article will be taken down within 24 hours, and possibly a retraction issued.

Seems like highly irresponsible reporting.

Just saying.

[Kingofalldems]

7. Last paragraph.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

8. What, this?

Dershowitz declined to discuss his contact with Trump. Asked if it would be correct to say he raised the Maxwell case with Trump, a source said: “It would not be unreasonable to report that.”

Yeah, no ... that's NOT what the headline says.

Or am I getting a different version of the article than you?

[Kingofalldems]

9. Yeah, yeah.

What earthly reason would Dershowitz have to discuss the Maxwell case?

[Hugh_Lebowski]

13. Why not just report the known facts ... correctly?

To answer more directly ... because they both know her?

[Hoyt]

10. Although I'm sure Dersch had reason to want a pardon, that's just not

enough to post such headlines as if there is evidence.

Agree, it’s irresponsible if you can’t even say “according to an unnamed source.”

[Hugh_Lebowski]

12. The two words 'may have' would've gone a very long way here (nt)

[Hekate]

15. Did Trump pardon any women at all? Or just men?

[Eugene]

17. A handful. Susan B. Anthony (posthumously), Duncan Hunter's wife,

a couple of corrupt Republicans and an ex-cop who sicced a K-9 on an already subdued suspect.

Many more commutations though.

The key was being connected or politically useful.

[calimary]

19. This part caught my eye:

"Alan Dershowitz, 83, a former Harvard Law School professor, represented Epstein during the noughties and Trump during his first impeachment trial."

Indeed? The "noughties"?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

20. For this thread

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