Posted on 06/23/2017 12:36:30 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: I dont know why has happened to Professor Dershowitz, but whatever it is, I like it. Ive 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 wasnt mine because I dont 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 youre a smart guy!
You think youre a smart guy, but youre on the wrong side, and he walked on down the hall and went to the studio. Ive seen him a couple, three times since. But this past number of months, hes been a full-fledged, 100% Trump Well, I cant say that because there might be things he said that Im not aware of. But the public positions he has taken are 100% Trumpist. The latest is (laughing) Trumps two tweets yesterday about the taping that may or may not have happened of Comey except that he, Trump, didnt do it, and the left is having a fit here because they think Trump is behaving irresponsibly.
They think whats guiding Trump on these two tweets is Trump still thinks hes being surveilled. Trump went out there and said Obama was tapping the wires at Trump Tower. So he thinks its going on and he went out there, and his two tweets make it clear hes not recording, but he cant say for sure that somebody else isnt. He cant say for sure there arent tapes of his conversations with Comey, only that he didnt 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 didnt 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 wasnt 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 didnt 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. Trumps 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 Lincolns 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 years 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, theyre 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 Chelseas wedding and yoga lessons and fast chefs and whatever else. So she held on to those, and then one day they were gone; she didnt know where they were. So everybodys 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 Hillarys 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 Hillarys computer system. They cannot spot a joke when theyre told. So its the same situation. Trump was joking, and now hes bluffing Comey. Comey fell for it and official Washington is acting like a major crime has occurred in the process.
I have to agree with the Professor on this one.
Bible says God uses “the foolish things to confound the wise”..... That’s our Trump!!
Bible says God uses “the foolish things to confound the wise”..... That’s our Trump!!
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.
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.
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.
Yes and no.
Trump said HE didn’t have tapes but he may KNOW of tapes that exist. Combover can’t be sure.
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.
The president should invite Dershowitz to the White House. And have a discussion with him and tape it and play it.
They wouldn't have time to clutch the pearls over Trumpisms if they were all learning how to dance in the Spandau Ballet...
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...)
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...
That's a terrible analogy!
I always rooted for the coyote...
Trump! You marvelous bastard! I read your book!
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