There’s a drop of integrity left in this clown?
Well color me–genuinely–shocked.
Crocodile tears. Now that the outcome is favorable to his fellow cultists, he’s trying to pretend he’s not partisan. False outrage.
No, Alan. You may not come back and play with us.
An obvious effort to ingratiate himself with Democrats so he’ll be invited to parties in the Hamptons again.
I finally agree with this assclown on something. Whatever happened here to create this particular result, we’ve been handed an unmitigated disaster as far as the integrity of our justice system is concerned. We basically don’t have one now.
He’s sharing these opinions with regard to a report that he hasn’t read, of course, the only summary of which was produced by someone who is in his current job solely and precisely because he had indicated he would protect the President.
We, the American public, are entitled to a yes or no decision,
We, the American public, got a yes or no decision if you properly phrase the question:
Yes, I will hold the president of the United States to the highest level of trust and integrity and call him accountable for all acts that breach the rule of law or public trust, or
No, I will give the office the benefit of any doubt short of standing in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shooting somebody.
Dershowitz:
“We, the American public, are entitled to a yes or no decision, not some law school essay on what arguments there are on both sides of this issue. That was a serious mistake.”
True – but Barr’s “summary” may or may not be a reliable guide to the underlying report.
You beat me to it. (Again.)
He was never shunned in the Hamptons to the degree he was on the Vineyard.
Good to know that Alan, a buddy of Jeffrey Epstein and his underage rape ring, is still called upon for “expert advice.” Fuck Fox Forever.
That’s exactly what it is. No more, no less.
Gosh Alan…by ‘copping out’ maybe NOW Congress can do it’s job…
I didn’t watch the clip for context, but this could be saying, rather, that although Barr says there’s nothing, “the cultists” wanted a true, full exoneration from Mueller and the report itself. Mueller’s “law school essay” didn’t say in black and white “Donald Trump has never done anything even remotely questionable as to legality and is, indeed, making America great again as only the greatest President in U.S. history can do.”
But also, as others have pointed out, Dershowitz has no more idea what’s in the actual report than any of us do.
Man, now I’m really confused.
This is, of course, renders Dersh’s blast absolutely astonishing. Barr managed to include, what, 4 snippets and not a single complete sentence from the report. Nor did he so much as mention the length of the report. We may be witnessing one of the great propaganda coups.
The goal was to set the dominant narrative, reducing the Dems to the appearance of quibbling. I wonder if it can possibly fail.
If the situation goes tits up , Mr Dershowitz wants to be in the right boat .
So he is an expert on a report that has not been released.
We are talking about the president. We deserve a lot more than just a prosecutorial decision, especially one that is institutionally predisposed not to indict a sitting president. We deserve to see all the evidence.
The political standard for removing a president for office trumps the legal standard for criminal prosecution.
Nah, he’s just muddying the water.
Sunlight is the only cure for this swamprot. You’re correct, Dershowitz is not only relying on the sparest of morsels from the report, he’s inferring massively about Mueller’s process, reasoning and the case he made. If he wants to critique something, let it be Barr’s outlying theory on Presidential Obstruction, first proffered as an audition for the job, and how he amplified it in his “summary” (i.e. constructing legal theory out of whole cloth) document.