Dershowitz, 84, made the announcement during an appearance on The Charlie Kirk Show shortly after Trump, 76, pleaded not guilty to more than 30 counts of falsifying business documents in the Supreme Court. of Manhattan.
“I don’t think I can get this case dismissed,” Dershowitz, who represented Trump in his first impeachment trial, told Kirk. “I don’t think even if you had the best lawyers in the history of the world, Abraham Lincoln and John Marshall, a judge in New York would have dismissed this case, because that person’s life as a judge in New York would have ended,” the lawyer explained. “Everyone was pointing at it like they showed me when I defended Trump: ‘My God, here’s the man who helped Trump get free.'” , concluded Dershowitz, quoted by the New York Post.
The former Harvard Law School professor said his former client was “likely” to be convicted by a New York jury that voted to “teach Trump a lesson”. “This decision will be reversed on appeal, it will never be confirmed before the Supreme Court,” predicted Derskovitz, who has experience in high-profile cases: in the so-called “dream team” of the famous American athlete and actor O. Jay Simpson, acquitted of charges of murdering his wife and her lover. He also brokered a non-prosecution agreement that saw billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein avoid prison in 2006.
Trump himself has repeatedly called the charges related to alleged silence payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels a “witch hunt.” His lawyers, including Joe Tacopina, have also vowed to fight the charges. In an interview with CBS Mornings on Wednesday, Tacopina said the charges against his client would be dropped.
Trump is due back in court on December 4.
