[Leaning Right]

> You fit nicely with the mobs who condemned Trump... <

You made some interesting and logical points. But then you just had to close with a personal insult. Pity. Because such an insult weakens the rest of your argument.

[ek_hornbeck]

The problem with Dershowitz's "principled stance" and Red Monkey's defense thereof is that both are transparently self-serving.

If (for instance) some crazy Neo-Nazi was arrested for firebombing a synagogue, do you really think Alan Dershowitz would calmly say "Let's not jump to conclusions. Everyone's innocent until proven guilty in America." I doubt it. Similarly, if instead of Epstein's friends being accused of running an underage pimping operation it were Bill and Hillary Clinton, would Red Monkey also righteously state that they're innocent until proven guilty? Probably not.

That's why both his statements and Dershowitz's are a bunch of self-serving tripe masquerading as dispassionate concern for fair trial.