On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz stated President Trump “had a point” when he raised the prospect of making it illegal to flip witnesses, but that Trump doing so is “self-serving.”
Dershowitz said, “[T]his is very reminiscent of the Clinton impeachment. Again, it started as Whitewater. It moved toward sex in the Oval Office, efforts to try to find whatever they could against him by Ken Starr. That’s why I have been skeptical and critical of special counsels, special prosecutors. They want too much to target somebody and they’re willing to engage in questionable conduct in order to target the right person. And that’s why, you know, the president had a point, when he said we should make it illegal to flip witnesses. I wish this president hadn’t said it, because it’s self-serving. But I’ve been saying that for 50 years. Civil libertarians have always been concerned about flipped witnesses.”
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