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.
But that is exactly what happened.
You bring up the right point. Massive cheating only had to occur in certain key locations. And in the states that flipped red to blue the margins of victory were thin.
Let’s say your claim that thousands of people were involved. Is it possible there are that many people who hated Trump enough to cheat in an election? Yes, there were a lot of people who hated him.
Were that many people willing to risk jail time? Well you can see the answer: all the violence in 2020, including blinding Federal law enforcement officers, and very few offenders stood trial yet alone were convicted.
if this past fraud isn't addressed, forget the future.....the cabal/rats control the future....
we're not talking a few people that voted twice....
we're talking fraud on a grand scale.
It seems the “atmosphere of politics” causes even the most talented and successful of people to suddenly lose their ability to evaluate the character of people they depend on to get things done and to be successful. Even Trump was affected as evidenced by the number of people, including people in and around his inner circle, who turned on him or who were able to hide their duplicity until they could effect harm him. I just don’t understand why this happens ... but it happens a lot!
> Dersh probably has been threatened with his association/ behavior with Epstein. <
Dershowitz was Epstein’s lawyer, and he visited Epstein’s island at least once. Now, Dershowitz is a smart guy. He had to have known what was going on there.
I am still amazed that Trump would have anything to do with him.
I agree with what you wrote word for word. President Trump ain’t getting back in the White House. They used every part of the Government to get him out. The Republican Party. The Democrat Party. The Military as was learned yesterday. The Court System. The FBI. The CIA. They all agreed that he was not coming back in. To Hell with the sheep wanted. And want. To the Sheep: Fu. From the sheep : Baa!
Dervishowitz never was a repub nor a conservative dim.
He not only has some very radical ideas, he can not be trusted to say the same thing twice.
He is the dim version of Lindsay Graham.
The swamp is the swamp. It isn’t the advisors that make law, too. Imagine if Ryno had worked with him instead of against him?
And it’s being found. Much of it has already been found.
“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.”
So he should have staffed up with Democrats? Remember, neither you, nor I , nor Trump KNEW who all the RINOs were in 2016.
Why should I believe that Professor Dershowitz is any better informed on the election cheating than any random person?
Well, he’s obviously better informed than most people on most issues, and he’s obviously a smart guy. Uh oh. That means he’s probably shilling for the cheaters. I don’t see any other way. They cheated. It’s open and obvious.
Yes he is. The machine is not all-powerful. Trump’s 2016 win showed them that, but they are not listening.
Saying “probably shilling” is being kind.
What’s the point of having Elections anymore just have Politicians or people apply for the jobs
Add tech and most GOPe to that list stiflin g dissent and information
Yeah, I was holding out the possibility that maybe he just isn’t up to speed on the subject, but that’s highly unlikely.
Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor would reportedly write in his diary, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
>>> 2. If Trump had run as an independent in 2016 he wouldn’t have done much better than Ross Perot in 1992.
Possibly then, but I don’t think it can be said now.
If Trump were to have left the party, the vast majority of the conservatives would have left with him.
Hell.. they are doing that now anyway.
I think Trump is making the same mistake twice.
Better to start from scratch as an independent NOW while he CAN, instead of trying to squeeze out all the maggots from within.... like Vietnamese tunnel warfare.
But what do I know?... It’s just what I think.
>>> Remember, neither you, nor I , nor Trump KNEW who all the RINOs were in 2016.
Well, thats a good point.
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