Alan Dershowitz, professor emeritus at Harvard Law School, argued Monday morning that the accusations against President Donald Trump on campaign finance law violations don’t rise to a serious or impeachment offense.
“I don’t think he’s in trouble on campaign finance because people forget that a candidate can contribute as much as he or she wants to their own campaign,” Dershowitz told host Laura Ingraham on “The Laura Ingraham Show” on Monday morning. “The only issue in the case is whether or not the hush money, which was legal, was paid properly.”
Trump was recently implicated in a campaign finance-related crime by his own former lawyer, Michael Cohen.
Cohen told authorities that the president directed him to arrange payments to two women to keep them quiet about alleged affairs ahead of the presidential election of 2016 — affairs that Trump has denied.
“Was it done through personal funds, corporate funds, campaign funds?” Dershowitz said. “And we don’t know the answer to that question, so it does not seem to me that is an impeachable offense or an offense that would result in any kind of serious prosecution.”- READ MORE