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cannabis_flower

(3,764 posts)
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 12:34 PM Aug 2018

What do you guys think of Dershowitz?

I've got a cousin who says "That’s because the Clinton’s and Obama corrupted the leadership of both the FBI and the Justice Department. That’s the only reason Hillary got a pass. Even that big Lib Allan Dershowitz admitted that."

I said he's more recently been a while for Trump. What do you think?

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What do you guys think of Dershowitz? (Original Post) cannabis_flower Aug 2018 OP
I almost never think of him at all, frankly. MineralMan Aug 2018 #1
I Strenuously Try Not To ProfessorGAC Aug 2018 #2
An old man trying to stay relevant but is starting to sink into oblivion shraby Aug 2018 #3
They dredge up these people ever so often ProudLib72 Aug 2018 #18
Add Santorum to that list. brush Aug 2018 #26
Dershowitz didn't say that. Goodheart Aug 2018 #4
I don't think much of him, i.e. low estimation and not often. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2018 #5
He's a conman, just like his Fuhrer. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Aug 2018 #6
Lost his credibility some years ago. elleng Aug 2018 #7
Batshit crazy atreides1 Aug 2018 #8
He's for anyone that will get him on TV-Like Rudy redstateblues Aug 2018 #9
dick-dripping H2O Man Aug 2018 #10
Okay..... that made me laugh. Nevilledog Aug 2018 #42
He claims to be not be pro-trump MichMary Aug 2018 #11
Fuck him... ADX Aug 2018 #12
Sideways,... With a rusty - oozing with yellow puss - dick. magicarpet Aug 2018 #22
Dersh isn't liberal in the sense cons mean, he's an anti-law enforcement libertarian. Big diff. nt RockRaven Aug 2018 #13
Long past any sell date he ever had. haele Aug 2018 #14
Obama and Clinton were stacking the FBI during the Bush years. NCTraveler Aug 2018 #15
Worst attorney ever. we can do it Aug 2018 #16
He's not a liberal. dawg day Aug 2018 #17
I Never EVER Liked Him Dirty Socialist Aug 2018 #19
Ghouliani like limelight drive? empedocles Aug 2018 #20
he parked his brains and integrity in the same hole ghouliani did shanny Aug 2018 #21
He's a... Mike Nelson Aug 2018 #23
He's a Lifelong Democrat! Tommy_Carcetti Aug 2018 #24
+1 dalton99a Aug 2018 #28
He's a traitor enabling a traitor lame54 Aug 2018 #25
He is a demented cultist. dalton99a Aug 2018 #27
A rightwing tool C_U_L8R Aug 2018 #29
He is rumored to be among the pedo ring that Trump used to hang with. fleur-de-lisa Aug 2018 #30
+1 dalton99a Aug 2018 #40
he's metastasized into a cretin. JHan Aug 2018 #31
I think duforsure Aug 2018 #32
I would laugh my ass off at anybody who used Dershowitz as an authority on liberal thought. Downtown Hound Aug 2018 #33
Douchowitz. Historic NY Aug 2018 #34
He really wants to be a banker world wide wally Aug 2018 #35
Has Been (or Never Was) Totally Tunsie Aug 2018 #36
Douche a witz Power 2 the People Aug 2018 #37
I think your cousin is an idiot and Fox-watcher SharonClark Aug 2018 #38
He's compromised by Epstein scandal. I think he did something naughty. mainer Aug 2018 #39
horrible human being, and poor scholar. Liberal? Don't make me laugh! librechik Aug 2018 #41

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
18. They dredge up these people ever so often
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 12:42 PM
Aug 2018

Palin, Gingrich, Dershowitz, even Guiliani is a has been with a Rump addled mind. They are scraping the bottom of the barrel.

atreides1

(16,079 posts)
8. Batshit crazy
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 12:39 PM
Aug 2018

Is my descriptive word for him!!!

The man jumped the shark after 9/11...he acted like the attack on the towers was directed against him personally!!!

And for someone he keeps insisting that he isn't defending Trump, he seems to be defending Trump!!!

redstateblues

(10,565 posts)
9. He's for anyone that will get him on TV-Like Rudy
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 12:39 PM
Aug 2018

Wasn't Rudy supposed to be a "liberal Republican". LOL-What a joke

MichMary

(1,714 posts)
11. He claims to be not be pro-trump
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 12:39 PM
Aug 2018

I think I heard him say he hadn't voted for him.

Maybe he's just trying to sell books. Or, maybe he legitimately thinks there isn't anything there. Don't know. What I do know, is that he has long been well-respected, is very knowledgeable about the law, and just because he may not agree with us on this issue it's no reason to throw him under the bus.

haele

(12,654 posts)
14. Long past any sell date he ever had.
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 12:40 PM
Aug 2018

He's still considered a "Liberal" because it was a bandwagon cause he hitched his legal career on back in the 1980's and 1990's.
He's just a typical smooth-talking shark who got into the legal business because people are more impressed by a lawyer and would take him more seriously than if he became a news announcer or PR hack to get in front of a camera to preen.


Haele

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
15. Obama and Clinton were stacking the FBI during the Bush years.
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 12:40 PM
Aug 2018

It was a great plan. Putting the Republican Comey in charge was one of their best moves. The manner in which he helped to install Trump worked out brilliantly for Clinton.

Overall, these agencies are littered with conservatives/Republicans. Similar to police forces. They still do a pretty good job. Most do have good character and a respect for law.

I don't do Dershowitz.

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
17. He's not a liberal.
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 12:42 PM
Aug 2018

He's been carrying water for Trump for years. I don't know why Trump hasn't hired him as a defense attorney... Alan sure has auditioned for the job often enough.

He's probably pretty smart (Harvard Law, etc), but his TV arguments never sound very convincing. He's into this sort of "realpolitics" "pragmatic" law-- kind of "whatever we can get away with". Not very intellectual, more cynical.

But he's certainly not liberal in a normal sense, and he's been trotting around Trump licking up his droppings for a long time. Liberals actually wouldn't do that.

And tell your cousin-- "You love Trump, and he's now insisting you have to hate about everyone else-- law enforcement, your family, football, Europe, Bruce Springsteen. Oh, he does insist you love Putin and Kim Jong Un. Is this really what you want out of life?"

I wonder if Trump fans ever stop and think about how much Trump requires them to hate.

fleur-de-lisa

(14,624 posts)
30. He is rumored to be among the pedo ring that Trump used to hang with.
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 12:55 PM
Aug 2018

They would host parties with rich old white dudes and young (some under age) immigrant model types, mostly from Eastern European countries.

I believe this is the basis for the dirt Putin has on Trump. Video of Cheeto with an underage model, probably shot during the 1990s or 2000s. I don't give a shit about any pee tapes. This is the real dirt that Russia has over Shitler.

Dersh is a vile, disgusting pedophile. May he rot in hell.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
32. I think
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 12:56 PM
Aug 2018

Trumps got something really bad on him , and is the reason behind his speaking out for him. He should be very nervous because it all will be discovered and exposed.

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)
33. I would laugh my ass off at anybody who used Dershowitz as an authority on liberal thought.
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 12:57 PM
Aug 2018

Probably call them an idiot too.

SharonClark

(10,014 posts)
38. I think your cousin is an idiot and Fox-watcher
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 01:49 PM
Aug 2018

who states 3 lies in 3 sentences. You should refute him on all three.

mainer

(12,022 posts)
39. He's compromised by Epstein scandal. I think he did something naughty.
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 01:58 PM
Aug 2018

And is desperate that the Kompromat not get released.

I don't see any other explanation for why he's gone so completely bonkers and supports Trump.

Off topic, I once waited in a green room with him. That was ages ago, just after the OJ Simpson case. He was sleazy then, and he's even sleazier now.

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