Expert Sounds Alarm on Trump Trial

By Epoch Times - Mr. Dershowitz - 23 April 2024

Retired Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz accused the office of New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg of violating voters’ rights by prosecuting former President Donald Trump, with the legal scholar arguing that the case amounts to a criminal conspiracy to influence elections.

The former president has been charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records to hide non-disclosure payments—which has been popularly termed “hush money”—in a deal made to prevent the other party seeking publication of damaging but unproven claims, which prosecutors allege amounted to a “criminal conspiracy” to influence the 2016 presidential election.

In opening arguments, Assistant District Attorney Matthew Colangelo portrayed the payments as part of a “planned, coordinated, long-running conspiracy to influence the 2016 election, to help Donald Trump get elected through illegal expenditures to silence people who had something bad to say about his behavior.” “It was election fraud, pure and simple,” Mr. Colangelo alleged, claiming that “the case is about a criminal conspiracy and a cover-up.”

In his interview on Newsmax, Mr. Dershowitz challenged the New York prosecutors’ claims when asked for his take on their allegations that President Trump orchestrated a criminal conspiracy to influence the 2016 election. He insisted that the case amounts to an abuse of the law for “partisan political purposes and to constitute election interference.”

“It’s the state that’s violating the right of all of us as voters to vote for a candidate based on the pros and cons of his candidacy, not on some made-up, fake criminal charges,” he said.