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Professor Dershowitz on Trump’s Bluff
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | June 23, 2017 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 06/23/2017 12:36:30 PM PDT by Kaslin

RUSH: I don’t know why has happened to Professor Dershowitz, but whatever it is, I like it. I’ve always admired Professor Dershowitz from the first time I met him in 1989. It was in a hallway at the New York radio station where the EIB Network was temporarily headquartered. Professor Dershowitz was strolling in to appear on another show. It wasn’t mine because I don’t do guests. He already knew who I was and he stopped and he kind of cocked his head to the right and pointed, “I know who you are! I know who you are. You think you’re a smart guy!

“You think you’re a smart guy, but you’re on the wrong side,” and he walked on down the hall and went to the studio. I’ve seen him a couple, three times since. But this past number of months, he’s been a full-fledged, 100% Trump… Well, I can’t say that because there might be things he said that I’m not aware of. But the public positions he has taken are 100% Trumpist. The latest is (laughing) Trump’s two tweets yesterday about the taping that may or may not have happened of Comey except that he, Trump, didn’t do it, and the left is having a fit here because they think Trump is behaving irresponsibly.

They think what’s guiding Trump on these two tweets is Trump still thinks he’s being surveilled. Trump went out there and said Obama was “tapping the wires” at Trump Tower. So he thinks it’s going on and he went out there, and his two tweets make it clear he’s not recording, but he can’t say for sure that somebody else isn’t. He can’t say for sure there aren’t tapes of his conversations with Comey, only that he didn’t make ’em. So the left is going nuts thinking that Trump is provoking them — and he may be.

I think Trump is toying with them and having fun with ’em. But what has happened here, if you look at the timeline, is it is entirely possible that Trump bluffed Comey. What did Trump want that Comey had? Comey had told Trump thrice (three times, for those of you in Rio Linda) that he was not a suspect. Three times. Trump wanted Comey to go public with it! Comey had told members of Congress that all the way back on March 30th. He had told members of Congress, he had told the media practically from the beginning of March all the way through the last congressional testimony last month of Comey.

Everybody knew that Trump was not a target and not a suspect of the collusion probe — everybody — and they continued to act like they didn’t know it; that he was a target. From Pencil Neck Schiff up there in the House committee to everybody in the media, to Comey himself, they continued to act and treat Trump as though he were a target, even though they all knew he wasn’t ’cause Comey had told ’em. So Trump drops this bit about the tapes, and it has been interpreted by Professor Dershowitz that Trump ran a brilliant bluff on Comey in order to get this news out.

Professor Dershowitz has written about it. He said, “Now that President Trump has tweeted that he didn’t tape James Comey, the anti-Trump zealots are accusing him of witness intimidation.” Professor Dershowitz says, “This is most the absurd of the many absurd charges leveled against Trump by those out to get him without regard to the law. Trump’s bluff was calculated to get Comey to tell the truth. How can that be witness intimidation? If it were, Abraham Lincoln would have gone to prison rather than the White House.

“As a young lawyer, he, too, bluffed a witness into telling the truth. In one of his most famous murder cases, a witness testified that he saw Lincoln’s client kill the victim. The time it occurred was at night, so the witness testified that he was able to see the crime because there was a full moon. Lincoln then handed the witness an almanac and asked him to turn to the date in question. The almanac showed that there was no moon on that night, and the witness broke down and admitted that he had not seen the crime.

“The defendant was acquitted. Lincoln later acknowledged that he had deliberately fooled the witness into telling the truth by handing him an almanac for the wrong year. The correct year’s almanac indeed showed a full moon.” Lincoln fully bluffed a witness and got him to change his story, which was a lie. Dershowitz says that all Trump has done here is bluff Comey into releasing news that Trump wanted Comey to release. You know, they’re treating this… Remember when the Democrats and the media were acting all frustrated over the remaining 30,000 Hillary emails?

She gave the State Department and law enforcement 30,000, but there were 60,000. So 30,000 were on her server that she said were of no relevance. They were about Chelsea’s wedding and yoga lessons and fast chefs and whatever else. So she held on to those, and then one day they were gone; she didn’t know where they were. So everybody’s having a cow over it, so Trump at one of his… It might have been an appearance or at a press conference. He made an appeal to the Russians. “Hey, maybe the Russians can find the emails,” ’cause the Democrats have been going overboard. The Russians are doing everything.

So Trump rams it back down their faces. “Hey, maybe the Russians can find those emails! I make a direct appeal to Russia to find Hillary’s emails and turn them over to the media.” Well, that was all it took. The media thought that Trump was now encouraging the Russians to hack Hillary’s computer system. They cannot spot a joke when they’re told. So it’s the same situation. Trump was joking, and now he’s bluffing Comey. Comey fell for it and official Washington is acting like a major crime has occurred in the process.


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1 posted on 06/23/2017 12:36:30 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

I have to agree with the Professor on this one.


2 posted on 06/23/2017 12:42:03 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Kaslin

Bible says God uses “the foolish things to confound the wise”..... That’s our Trump!!


3 posted on 06/23/2017 12:42:32 PM PDT by hulagirl (High Horse Drifter)
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To: Kaslin

Bible says God uses “the foolish things to confound the wise”..... That’s our Trump!!


4 posted on 06/23/2017 12:42:33 PM PDT by hulagirl (High Horse Drifter)
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To: Kaslin
Liberals are unable to process jokes. They perceive that every joke is at someone or something's expense and is thus a microagression at least and the joker is necessarily speaking literally and from his evil soulheart. I forgot. Liberals don't believe in souls.
5 posted on 06/23/2017 12:47:31 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: Kaslin

If you have followed Trump for any length of time you knew right away he was bluffing to get inside their heads. And boy did he ever.


6 posted on 06/23/2017 12:52:31 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Kaslin

Think of President Trump as the Road Runner, and the Democrats as Wile E. Coyote. Every time they think the latest contraption they’ve bought from ACME Corporation will bring them success, they end up going over a cliff instead.


7 posted on 06/23/2017 1:00:41 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Kaslin

Nobody should think Dershowitz is anything other than a liberal Democrat. But he is part of a vanishing breed, an honest liberal. He is also a brilliant lawyer who does not suffer fools. And a lot of fools have been flapping their gums about so-called “obstruction” when they haven’t a clue what it is.


8 posted on 06/23/2017 1:01:36 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker

Yes and no.

Trump said HE didn’t have tapes but he may KNOW of tapes that exist. Combover can’t be sure.


9 posted on 06/23/2017 1:03:59 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LS

You make a good point. I wouldn’t put it past a POS like J. Edgar Loser to tape a conversation with the President without his knowledge.


10 posted on 06/23/2017 1:09:05 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: GreenHornet

The president should invite Dershowitz to the White House. And have a discussion with him and tape it and play it.


11 posted on 06/23/2017 1:13:23 PM PDT by magua
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To: Kaslin
official Washington is acting like a major crime has occurred in the process

They wouldn't have time to clutch the pearls over Trumpisms if they were all learning how to dance in the Spandau Ballet...

12 posted on 06/23/2017 1:28:33 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: Kaslin

Alan is a committed leftist. But, he is frequently honest...
unlike most socialistic commie types...

gotta give him credit when he says something that’s honest instead of just more Obama/SOrozNazi/Pelosi/HilLIARy type doctrinaire lies

(Alan is also smarter than the whole bunch of them...)


13 posted on 06/23/2017 1:42:43 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: Kaslin

Had Comey stepped forward on or about January 21, 2017 to announce that our newly inaugurated President Trump was NOT a target of the FBI's investigation into the "Russian Collusion" in Election 2016, the entire investigation in the House and Senate would have never grown legs.

But no. Comey decided to play politics. Dirty, deceitful politics. He only imparted that information to President Trump. Privately.

Worse yet, Comey went on to impart this same information to President Trump two more times, again in closed-door settings.

Senators Grassley and Feinstein and Congressmen Nunes and Schiff were also informed by Comey that President Trump was NOT a target, had never been a target, and yet NOT a leak.

In fact, Democrat Schiff continued to appear on every TV show he possibly could to spew his lies about Trump's "involvement," based upon that false and discredited dossier obtained through channels by McCain.

Comey started this fiasco by withholding pertinent information from all Americans: Newly inaugurated POTUS was NEVER a target!

Comey is responsible for the appointment of Special Counsel Mueller.

Comey merits indictment.


14 posted on 06/23/2017 1:48:03 PM PDT by onyx (Donate Monthly ~ Join 300 Club!)
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To: Kaslin

Dershowitz is an intellectual beast. He carves people up for fun, because he can. One admires the application of genius intellect. One further surmises Prof. D is taking out some late-life long knives against rivals, deep staters, and others who porked him over for Bubba’s AND Bobo’s 2 SCOTUS slots apiece...


15 posted on 06/23/2017 3:11:11 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Prosecute the win. Run up the score.)
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To: GreenHornet
Think of President Trump as the Road Runner, and the Democrats as Wile E. Coyote. Every time they think the latest contraption they’ve bought from ACME Corporation will bring them success, they end up going over a cliff instead.

That's a terrible analogy!

I always rooted for the coyote...

16 posted on 06/23/2017 6:03:35 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Kaslin

Trump! You marvelous bastard! I read your book!


17 posted on 06/23/2017 7:33:02 PM PDT by Colonelbuzzsaw (USAF- 35y,10m,11d....but who's counting?)
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