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| Subject: Trump Defender Alan Dershowitz on Michael Flynn: 'Lying to the FBI Is Not a Crime' Mon Dec 17, 2018 8:41 pm | |
| Alan Dershowitz, the longtime civil libertarian attorney and defender of President Donald Trump, said Michael Flynn should be given leniency during his Tuesday sentencing because "lying to the FBI is not a crime."
The 80-year-old Harvard Law School professor emeritus responded to Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani's latest interview, in which he told Fox News on Sunday the president would be interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller "over my dead body." Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser, is set to be sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty in December 2017 to a felony charge of lying to federal investigators about contacts with the Russian ambassador during Trump's presidential transition period. Dershowitz, who was a defense attorney for O.J. Simpson when he was tried for murder in 1995, said "every reasonable defense attorney" would agree with Giuliani's argument and have Trump refuse to cooperate with the Mueller investigation. Dershowitz cited the cases of Flynn and Martha Stewart as evidence for why clients should never willingly choose to speak with the FBI or other federal investigators. “Look, the Flynn case is fascinating,” Dershowitz told Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer. “I hope the judge understands when he has the case tomorrow that Flynn did not commit a crime by lying, because the lie has to be material to the investigation.... Mueller will do anything to try to get people to sign or perhaps even to compose, and that cooperation is now off the table."
https://www.newsweek.com/alan-dershowitz-mueller-michael-flynn-trump-fbi-lying-impeach-rudy-giuliani-1261947 _________________ Anarcho-Capitalist, AnCaps Forum, Ancapolis, OZschwitz Contraband “The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”-- Max Stirner "Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the government officials committing it." -- Kurt Hofmann |
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