Dershowitz: ‘Trump Cannot Be Guilty of Obstruction While Exercising His Constitutional Authority’

Alan Dershowitz has a long and storied career spanning decades.  His work has been heralded in many different circles and is well-respected by both the Left and the Right, even though he primarily focused his efforts for Leftist causes.  His opinion work on many high-profile cases has brought him a lot of guest spots and interviews over the years precisely because he applies a common sense approach to his arguments that defy contrarian debate.

Leave it to the Left to completely abandon its own when it comes to someone applying the actual Constitutional law to a case that they find an appalling blemish on the political world in Washington, D.C.  Dershowitz appeared on CNN’s Anderson Cooper’s cable show the other night and was treated to a shameful display of Leftist condescension that is usually only reserved for Right wing guests.  The question that he was attempting to delve into was whether or not he believed, based on his extensive experience in the field of law and the many precedent cases that he has represented over five decades, that President Trump was guilty of obstruction of justice.  As the senior jurist explained his position, based only on law, a female in-studio guest derisively giggled in the background of his audio.  The other male guest, another lawyer, treated the elder attorney as if he was behind-the-times, lecturing him on Watergate.

Interestingly, the in-studio attorney didn’t quite look old enough to have been studying law at the time of Watergate and dismissed out-of-hand any explanation of the actual Constitutional law that Dershowitz continuously pointed to in order to flush out the truth.  In a very good example, Dershowitz asked if they were called to the Congressional hearing to be expert witnesses and were posed the question, “Did President Trump commit an obstruction of justice” when he dismissed Director Comey?” could they answer “yes,” and his answer was “absolutely not.”  In answer to this simple question was the sophomoric politically impotent response by the other attorney of, “Well, Alan, you’re throwing around a lot of hypotheticals here.”

Of course, the old “hypotheticals” argument.  Whenever a person doesn’t want to answer the question honestly, or he just doesn’t know the answer, the best defense of either the intellectually dishonest or the ignorant is to claim that the question is “nothing but a hypothetical.”

At the end of the day, Congressional hearings done and over with, the Republicans will conclude that President Trump was within his Constitutional authority to dismiss Comey and to request that he lay off on the Flynn investigation.  Also, it will be concluded that asking for loyalty is not only expected, but is definitely not obstruction.  The Democrats on the other hand, true to form and recalling their moments of triumph and grandeur at forcing Nixon from office by mere accusation, will not let this go.  They will continue for the next four years (and beyond, if necessary) in order to drive Trump from office as well.

This time around, however, we have a much savvier constituency and a much more balanced press.  The mainstream media will continue to spin their webs of deceit and the alternative press will continue to post the truth.