I knew it.
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.
Not to mention that nothing in the Constitution supports it.
I did not think about them. And you are right. It was a concreated effort. Everything but a few of the People was against President Trump. Most prefer living as Government Slaves than free people.
Yes, there is that
I will never accept that liar, cheat , thief, bastard as president. Nor Willie Brown's whore as my vice president. Donald Trump is my President. Dershowitz can go to Hell.
I knew the real Democrat would come out soon. Mike Lindell better beware.
Yeah, I saw that. And Greg Jarret was no better.
The only silver lining was that they were both in favor of audits and this “Biden won and the audits will prove it” narrative could actually work in our favor.
By saying the audits will prove Biden is legit, it’s possible this narrative could generate public support for the audits, even among Democrats.
In fact, I’ve heard President Trump and Rudy Giuliani say almost he same thing:
[Paraphrasing] “If the Democrats are so sure Biden won, then they should welcome audits, since they will validate his presidency.”
We already know. We saw massive election coup on Nov 3rd with our own eyes.
He lost the case against OJ.
Blah, totally upside down there. He lost the case for justice for Nicole and Ron.
Y’all need to watch the minute the verdict was read and see Kardashian’s face. He turned fifteen shades of green knowing he’d just let a murderer out on the streets.
That's easy. They massively underestimated the amount of fraud they needed in 2016. They didn't make that mistake in 2020.
Rutherford B. Hayes...... vs. Southern Democrat Tilden.
Resolved that Hayes would be allowed to be President in a meeting of Reps and dems. The election of 1876... Hayes was elected, as a result and Reconstruction over. Such that on On April 3,1877 right after inauguration, President Hayes ordered Secretary of War George W. McCrary to withdraw federal troops stationed at the South Carolina State House to their barracks & then April 20, he ordered McCrary to remove the federal troops stationed at New Orleans. The last of the Union troops of the occupation of the Reconstruction in GA, were finally removed from GA beginning in 1877 and finally out in 1878. Occupying a State from 1866 to 1878, as demanded by the so-named Radical Republicans of the day who did not support Lincoln and HIS concept of unifying the country nor did they support Lincoln’s Vice President- in fact impeached him.
The Dersh is correct on this point. On his other lies? Well, they're just lies,
John S Money,
Thanks,
Later tonight I’ll read up on the election of 1876.
Once again, thank you for the information provided.
Should be Mosby not Money.(sic)
>>> But I was talking about the Federal Bureaucracy !
lol... who do you think is “behind” Dominion?
You’re so astute !
lol.. did you just call me a commie?
No, Comrade. “Commie” is capitalized. Seriously, REAL Communists die from the common cold, such as we learned when Brezhnev, Chernenko and Andropov expired. You are made of much hardier stuff! How’s your latest Five Year Plan going, BTW? lol
Sorry Dersh but there is going to be a reversal. You’re right about the Supreme Court. Its going to come down to a military intervention because you cannot allow the car thief to keep the car.
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