Dershowitz critical of lawfare against Trump

 American Action News:

Attorney Alan Dershowitz said Wednesday that the United States could wind up in “Banana Republic Land” if New York Judge Juan Merchan sentences former President Donald Trump before the 2024 election.

Trump was convicted in May on 34 counts of falsifying business records, and is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 18. Dershowitz said that Merchan risks influencing the election on the basis of an “invalid verdict,” saying that the sentencing would be akin to what was going on in Venezuela, where dictator Nicolas Maduro is trying to imprison political opponents after a disputed election.

“Judge Merchan should put off the sentencing until after the election and then he can do his sentencing and then the courts will reverse the conviction, but it will not have had an effect on the election,” Dershowitz said during an episode of his podcast, “The Dershow. “But if he sentences him before the election and it has an effect on the election, and then the conviction is reversed, we’re in Banana Republic land. That’s what’s going on today in Venezuela.”
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I believe the case against Trump is totally without merit.  It took place in an atmosphere where Democrats decided that they could not defeat Trump in a fair election so they decided they would try to criminalize him with a bogus case to tie him up in court and make him spend money on defending himself.  They did this by bringing these cases in courts dominated by left-wing activists.

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