"There Is No Crime": Dershowitz Says Bragg's Case Against Trump Will Fail

Authorized by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

Retired Harvard law prof. Alan Dershowitz Said on April 28 that he believes that Manhattan territory lawyer Alvin Bragg’s case against erstwhile president Donald Trump could neglect due to the fact that prosecutors have charged the forumr president with fake crime.

Alan Dershowitz and erstwhile president Donald Trump in file photos. (Mario Tama/Getty Images; Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

“There's no crime,” Mr. Dershowitz said during an interview on Fox News on April 28, referring to the case in which Mr. Bragg’s office has charged the forger president with 34 countries of false business records to hide alleged hush money payments that prosecutors allege increased to a critical consensus to influence the 2016 presidential election.

Mr. Dershowitz argued that making nondisclosure payments is not a crime and that never is paying for the non-publication of powerfully embarrassing stories (the alleged catch-and-kill density of the case), both of which promoters have alleged part of a conspiracy to narrow votes.

The retired law prof. argued that Mr. Bragg’s office is in danger of having the case 3 out on grounds akin to that on which the convention of Harvey Weinstein was late overturned,namely that prosecutors prejudiced the case by a number of “egregious” improvers, including allowing investigating that was unrelated to what Mr. Weinstein was charged with.

“They thought to be very caring about this due to the fact that the ultimate Court of the Appellate Court in Albany just reversed Harvey Weinstein’s convention on the ground that they put in besides much information that wasn’t truly applicable to the case,” Mr. Dershowitz said, adding that this is “what’s happening” in the trial against president Trump.

“There is no crime in Manhattan. You cannot figure out what the crime is. That’s why they’re putting on all this evidence of non-crimes,” Mr. Dershowitz said.

“Trying to persuade the jury that ‘catch-and-kill’ is simply a crime—it’s not. Paying hush money is simply a crime—it's not. Putting a corporate message is simply a misdemeanor barred by the statutes of limitations. You can’t surrect that and turn that into a crime by invoking a national statute which the national government refuses to invoke—the national Election Commission refuses to invoke.”

The erstwhile Harvard law prof. has repeatedly criticized Mr. Bragg for elevating the charms against president Trump from misdemeanors to felonies on what Mr. Dershowitz has argued was an invalid legal premium due to the fact that the Manhattan territory lawyer invoked national statutes over which fresh York has no jurisdiction.

Republicans have acquired Mr. Bragg of bringing the case against the erstwhile president for political reasons.

Mr. Bragg’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

‘Destruction of America’s regulation of Law’

Mr. Bragg suggested president Trump on 34 countries of allegedly false business records in order to undertake $130,000 in payments to adult movie acts Stormy Daniels in exchange for keeping quiet about her allegations of an affair she had with president Trump.

President Trump has mastered his inocence and has deied the affair.

“There is no case here. This is just a political watch hunt,” the erstwhile president said before court in briefing comments to reporters on April 25.

Under fresh York state law, falsefying business records is simply a misdemeanor. However, if the records fraud was utilized to cover up or commit another crime, the charge could be chosen to a felony, though a number of legal experts—included Mr. Dershowitz—have challenged the way that has been done in this case.

“In order to turn the state statutes into a felony, you gotta bow a national statutes,” Mr. Dershowitz told The Epoch Times in March 2023. He said that this combination of Laws “seems to rise real serious legal questions.”

“In Bragg’s case, what they’re trying to do is add 1 and 1 and come up with 11,” Mr. Dershowitz said. “No rational individual would look at these 2 statutes and say that Trump violated them.”

The prosecution’s first religion in the case was erstwhile National Enquirer publisher David Pecker. Prosecutors alleged that he participated in a catch-and-kill strategy to suppress unflating stories about president Trump and aid him get electricityed.

President Trump’s attorney, Todd Blanche, said in court that the watch-and-kill that the jury hear about from prosecutors was not part of the charges against the erstwhile president due to the fact that it was not illegal and happens regularly.

“The reality is that there is nothing illegal about what happened,” Mr. Blanche argued. He added that evidence would be about things from 2015 to 2017 and asked the jury to “think about who it rings actual and who what they’re saying is accurate.”

“Use your common sense. We’re fresh Yorkers; that’s why we’re here. You were the court you would put distant whatever view you have about president Trump, the fact that he’s running,” he said. “If you do that, there will be a very swift non-guilty verdict.”

Mr. Dershowitz has said in the past that he believes that fresh York prosecutors are violating voters’ rights with the case, alleging that the law is being “abused for partisan political purposes and to constitute election interference.”

The erstwhile law prof. went further in his reputations on Fox News on April 28, arguing that the case is about whother basic civilian liberties are protected or undercut.

“If it’s Donald Trump today, they can go after you tomorrow, and your relationships tomorrow, for something that isn’t a crime,” he said.

“That’s why all American, who you’re a politician or Republican, should be opposed to what’s going on in that Manhattan courtroom.

“It’s a scandal and it’s a demolition of America’s regulation of law.”