Why does Dershowitz keep appearing on Russian propaganda channels?

The president's most prominent legal defender has found a new outlet for his views.

CASEY MICHEL
MAR 29, 2019, 12:40 PM

Alan Dershowitz, President Donald Trump’s most prominent legal defender, has found a new outlet to share his views: Russian propaganda channel RT.

Dershowitz’s multiple appearances on RT over the past few months come as questions continue to swirl about the Trump campaign’s relationship with Russia. Special counsel Robert Mueller submitted his final report on Russian interference last week, and Attorney General William Barr’s four-page synopsis cleared the campaign of collusion while also describing the multiple ways Russia attempted to influence the 2016 election. Trump and his supporters have celebrated the news, but have thus far refused to release the entirety of Mueller’s report, which is reportedly over 300 pages long.

Following Barr’s letter, Dershowitz appeared on RT to condemn the entire investigation. “It was a mistake to appoint a special counsel because there was no evidence of a crime,” Dershowitz said, calling for contempt of court proceedings to begin against those who lobbied for FISA warrants.

The Harvard professor emeritus referred to himself in his most recent appearance on RT as a “centrist, thoughtful, liberal Democrat,” while the RT host described Dershowitz as “the only person on the left that came through [the Mueller investigation] unscathed, and I would say enhanced.” He was joined by William Binney, a noted conspiracy theorist who has claimed that Russia did not hack Democratic emails, but that an internal leaker disseminated the emails.

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