Dershowitz received criticism for arguing on the Senate floor that if a president believed his or her reelection was in the best interest of the nation, then he or she has a wide range of discretion in pursuit of the goal of being elected. According to the Harvard attorney, this even includes knowingly seeking foreign interference–which is what Democrats are alleging Trump did to harm his 2020 opponent Joe Biden.
CNN’s @wolfblitzer and @JeffreyToobin challenge Trump attorney Alan Dershowitz’s controversial impeachment arguments about presidential power https://t.co/AKKUTXMvEE pic.twitter.com/xn56T0wCSl
— CNN (@CNN) January 31, 2020
Dershowitz said on the Senate floor, “If a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment.”
As he was being interviewed by CNN’s Blitzer, Dershowitz claimed the network had knowingly taken his comments out-of-context. – READ MORE