Posted on 07/16/2021 8:28:09 AM PDT by Signalman
Harvard legal professor and Trump legal defender Alan Dershowitz made clear that former President Donald Trump is wrong in his baseless and consistent claims that the 2020 general election was stolen. The fact that he made these claims to Fox News host Sean Hannity, in full view of millions of Hannity viewers who likely disagree, is no small thing.
Hannity started the conversation by discussing ongoing audits of elections in key swing states that went for President Joe Biden, arguing that the audits were a healthy exercise for the body politic as people need confidence in the results. This ignores the fact that many people see the audits as a politically motivated effort designed solely to undermine that very confidence, and that the results in Arizona and Pennsylvania had already been certified and vetted and recounted during the end of 2020.
Dershowitz followed Hannity’s intro by making two salient points. “Number one, there’s never been a perfect election,” he said. “JFK’s election wasn’t perfect, George Bush’s election was imperfect and the current election wasn’t perfect.” He then added, “Number two, the evidence seems to strongly suggest that it wasn’t stolen and that the outcome was right.”
Gregg Jarrett then opined with his signature Gregg Jarrett-style analysis, after which Hannity noted: “a lot of these states were very close.” He then hypothetically asked Dershowitz “what if an audit shows that a state would flip, and what would the remedy be, professor?”
“The answer is crystal clear, no one knows,” the Harvard professor replied. “It’s never happened. The supreme court would duck the issue in the way it ducked to the issue in 2000, in the way it ducked the issue in 2020 and 2021.”
And then Dershowitz doused any embers of hope some Hannity viewers might have that Trump could be reinstated as president. “There would not be a reversal of fortune, a reversal of the election. That would not happen, unless we found — unbelievably — it didn’t happen here, massive, massive, deliberate fraud. But it’s just not going to happen.”
“I think we have to look to the future,” he continued. “We have to accept the fact that Joe Biden is the President of the United States, he will be the president of the United States until the next election but we have to make sure that future elections are transparent.”
“It’s a very unhealthy thing in a democracy if 30 million, 50 million people don’t trust the outcome of an election,” he said. The election has to be trusted and for that we need transparency and that is why I’m in favor of audits,” he claimed because he is confident they will show “lack of perfection” and that the election wasn’t stolen.
This is why Trump should have NEVER run as a republican.... even in 2016.
He was surrounded by the GOP with traitors from day 1.
Dervishowitz spinning again. No wonder Faux News loves him.
And Lindell thinks Dersh is his friend.
Dersh never fails to announce how much he loves Hillary.
So how would he have gotten in in 2016?
He was still up against the GOP-e while in office, even if he had succeeded as third-party or independent. Nonsequitur.
“WATCH: Dershowitz Tells Hannity the Election ‘Wasn’t Stolen and the Outcome Was Right’ (Last night on Hannity)”
He is a Democrat after all and will posture against some of their antics but will only criticize them so far.
It’s understandable to many who think it’s impossible to steal a nationwide Presidential election, they can’t grasp massive cheating that would be required and the thousands of people who would be involved, Dershowitz has no knowledge of the evidence so he’s uninformed, the Maricopa County Audit has shown that massive fraud took place combined with 4-5 other places and you realize that stealing a Presidential election can be done
Someone got to him. Trump’s greatest failure was trusting in those who hate him or were not loyal. The overall 2020 election was a complete failure and I am certain the cheating and irregularities are real.
We need to know if there’s any point in casting a vote at all, or if it’s a rigged game. Even Dershowitz can see that.
At the very least, the states that can decertify senate and house results should do so.
I’ve said it before, take out Kelly in AZ, and the 2 scum in GA - real consequences of the cheating and hold new elections.
Biden will be wounded and his communist policies will be harder to complete.
In general, I like Dershowitz. He did a good job defending Trump in the impeachment proceedings. But when I heard him say this last night, it really ticked me off.
I wished Hannity had asked him, “OK professor, why did the vote count stop in the swing states at 11PM with Trump leading by hundreds of thousands of votes, and then resume at 4:00AM with Biden leading? Doesn’t that sound a little suspicious?”
“So how would he have gotten in in 2016?”
The fix was in, but they didn’t anticipate how strongly Trump would win. They just didn’t cheat hard enough — but they learned their lesson.
Dersh probably has been threatened with his association/ behavior with Epstein. He is not a reliable source anymore
Actually the evidence strongly suggests the opposite. Circumstantial evidence like Biden winning the fewest counties in 120 years, or receiving the lowest African-American vote since 1960 - except in a few swing-state cities. Or the unprecedented shut-down of vote counting in the middle of the night in swing states. Or Biden's completely loss of all historic bell-weather races.
And now we are seeing direct evidence.
so stop with the propaganda and throw-away slogans, Dershowitz
Dershowitz is wrong in his pronouncement about a lack of evidence of material fraud - that is to say fraud of such a magnitude it likely altered the outcome.
He’s also wrong to dismiss the imperfection of this election because previous elections were imperfect. That’s not how civil societies should view First Principle infirmities like unreliable elections.
But, he’s correct insomuch that nothing is going to come from it no matter how compelling or irrefutable the evidence of fraud becomes. There are a lot of reasons why nothing will happen like the risk-adverse nature of the Court and the gaping holes in statutory and constitutional law surrounding electoral fraud. There simply isn’t a constitutional framework for undoing an election months after it has been certified per constitutional requirements.
The best outcome that could possibly be hoped for is that there would be a groundswell of popular support to secure future elections. But, the media and the Dems are hellbent in making sure that these allegations are dismissed as crazy ‘rightwing’ conspiracy theories...and that will likely work because the power of the media and big tech today to control narratives is enormous, far greater than what Robber Barons could have dreamed about.
The forensic audit showing specific evidence of massive fraud?
Or that weasel democRAT Dershowitz claiming there was no evidence of fraud?
There will never be an admission from the Left that they cheated and stole the election, no matter what evidence is presented. That would make Biden and Harris illegitimate.
Assuming Dershowitz is following events in AZ and GA, he has to assume that there is no upside to him supporting the notion that Trump won. He’s never been a Trump supporter, he’s always been a Dem - why would we expect him to go out on that limb?
When the full audit results - in AZ, in GA, in PA, etc....are revealed, it won’t matter what Dershowitz thinks.
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means...
“unless we found — unbelievably — it didn’t happen here, massive, massive, deliberate fraud.”
Interesting how he hedged his statement... by including unless we found... “massive, massive, deliberate fraud”. That is exactly what is becoming more and more clear every day.
Translation: The election won’t be overturned and Trump won’t be reinstated because the people in power won’t allow it and the Supreme Court won’t touch it. So we must pretend the election was proper whether is was or not.
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