Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz said Monday the charges being filed against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his former business partner have nothing to do with President Trump’s campaign or colluding with Russia.
Instead, Dershowitz said prosecutors likely want to use anything in Manafort’s past to get him to spill the beans on any wrongdoings he witnessed during the 2016 presidential election.
“It’s all about leverage. They’re going after Manafort on something that apparently has nothing to do with Trump — years ago, his own business,” Dershowitz told Fox News Monday morning, shortly after Manafort was photographed turning himself into the police.
“But what they’re saying to him is ‘we gotcha now, and we don’t care about that, but if you can tell us something about Trump and the campaign and collusion, we’ll give you a get out of jail card free,'” Dershowitz added. “So it’s all about leverage. That’s the way prosecutors work.”
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