Alan Dershowitz couldn't be more wrong - or idiotic

No, Alan.  Look at what you've said:  "The 25th Amendment" is "unconstitutional"!

As for obeying the law: tell it to your president.    Also an idiot, along with Tucker Carlson, for publishing your dimwitted comment.

Why, oh why, is Alan Dershowitz carrying Trump's dirty water?  I think we can make an educated guess.

A second alleged trafficking victim of financier and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has reportedly claimed the billionaire “directed” her to have sex with Alan Dershowitz—but the renowned lawyer has dismissed her claim as “delusional,” saying he’d never met her. Sarah Ransome’s allegation against Dershowitz—who previously represented Epstein—is included in a public transcript in Manhattan federal court.

  Daily Beast

Previously represented but still advising.

Maybe think about how horrible Trump makes sex trafficking sound lately, with his sordid and salacious details such as the use of blue duct tape, together with the fact that he is also implicated in Epstein's sex trafficking of young girls.

In a statement to The Daily Beast provided through a spokesperson, Dershowitz said of Ransome: “I never met her. If she claims I did, I challenge her to go on the record and accuse me of having sex with her. She won’t because it never happened and if she were to falsely allege that it did, I would sue her for defamation.” Dershowitz described Ransome as mentally unstable and said she’d previously claimed to be in possession of sex tapes involving President Trump and both Bill and Hillary Clinton. Virginia Roberts was the first alleged Epstein victim to claim that he directed her to have sex with Dershowitz—he also denies meeting her.

[December 3, 2018]

Jeffrey Epstein, who is now 65 years old, was one of the most powerful money managers in the world up until his 2007 indictment for sex crimes. After working at the investment bank Bear Stearns in the early 1980s, he founded his own firm, J. Epstein and Co., in 1982, advertising his services for those with assets worth more than $1 billion — and was soon managing billions of dollars in client assets. By 1992, he owned the largest private residence in Manhattan. For tax purposes, he has run his business from the island of St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands since at least 1996, and near that island, he owns the island of Little St. James.

[...]

Jeffrey Epstein could have gone to prison for life.

The money manager was accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls at his Palm Beach mansion between 2001 and 2006. But as Julie K. Brown reports at the Miami Herald, he ultimately got just 13 months in a county jail, thanks to a deal signed by Alexander Acosta, then the US Attorney for Miami and now President Trump’s secretary of labor. On Tuesday, Epstein settled a lawsuit in which some of his accusers were expected to testify, avoiding yet again the prospect of facing the women in court.

Epstein has said that any encounters he had with his accusers were consensual, and that he believed they were 18 at the time.

The story of how Epstein got such a light sentence — and who was involved — is a master class in the power dynamics that have been exposed by the #MeToo movement but have yet to truly change.

When authorities began investigating Epstein, he assembled a team of private investigators to dig up dirt on the girls who accused him and the police and prosecutors working the case.

  Vox

There's a familiar ploy.

[Epstein] was also good friends with Donald Trump, who described Epstein to New York magazine in 2002 as someone who “enjoys his social life.”

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“I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years,” Trump said at the time. “Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”

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Michael Stroll, who sued Epstein over a failed business deal in the 2000s, told New York magazine in 2007, “Everybody who’s his friend thinks he’s so darn brilliant because he’s so darn wealthy. I never saw any brilliance, I never saw him work. Anybody I know that is that wealthy works 26 hours a day. This guy plays 26 hours a day.”

Sounds like someone else we know - one of his famous friends. There's money to be made in nefarious ventures.

According to Axios, Dershowitz is still advising Epstein, saying, “He has called me a couple of times about legal issues, because I’m still technically his lawyer.”

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Epstein was proud of his “collection” of famous friends, which included Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, and there’s long been speculation that some of these friends may have participated in his abuses. But because he has been able to avoid harsh punishment and minimize publicity around the details of his case, he’s also been able to keep details about anyone else who may have been involved out of the public eye.

The fact that Epstein is free today is a reminder that the American justice system has long been all too willing to ignore the words of girls and women, especially when they accuse a wealthy and influential man. It’s a reminder that those with enough money and connections, from Epstein to Harvey Weinstein, can often manipulate the legal system to serve their own ends. And it shows how one powerful person can protect not just himself but anyone who might be connected to him, all while exploiting those who are powerless.

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Finally, in 2005, a woman reported to Florida police that a wealthy man had molested her stepdaughter, according to the Daily Beast. The tip led Palm Beach detectives to investigate, and they identified multiple girls who said Epstein had abused them. The case was eventually referred to the FBI, and in 2008, after years of investigation and legal wrangling, Epstein pleaded guilty to charges of solicitation of prostitution and procurement of minors for prostitution in a deal with federal prosecutors.

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[B]ecause Epstein was able to keep all the details of his prosecution quiet, it’s impossible for the public to know exactly who else was involved in his crimes.

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The FBI had prepared a 53-page sex crimes indictment for Epstein in 2007 that could have sent him to prison for life, according to the Herald. Instead, he cut a deal with Alexander Acosta, then the US attorney in Miami, which allowed him to serve just 13 months — not in federal or state prison, but in a private wing of a Palm Beach county jail.

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Epstein’s deal, called a “non-prosecution agreement,” granted immunity to “any potential co-conspirators,” meaning that if any of Epstein’s powerful friends were involved in his crimes, they would face no consequences. And Acosta agreed that the deal would be kept secret from the victims, preventing them from showing up in court to try to challenge it.

How in the name of Sam Hell is it legal to grant immunity to co-conspirators?  Surely that can be challenged.

Perhaps Acosta knows Trump is involved in Epstein's crimes. Perhaps that's why he was given a post in the Trump administration. Perhaps Acosta was involved in those crimes himself. If he wasn't directly, he certainly is in making this great deal for Epstein.

A lawsuit set for trial in Florida state court in December was expected to bring more details of Epstein’s crimes to light. Some of Epstein’s victims were slated to testify for the first time. But on December 4, Epstein reached a last-minute settlement in that suit just before jury selection was to begin, according to the Associated Press. That means that, at least for now, the women will lose the opportunity to testify.

[O]ne of Epstein’s victims, Virginia Roberts, told The Herald that Epstein didn’t just abuse her himself, he also “lent” her out to “politicians and academics and royalty.” She claimed in a 2015 affidavit that she’d had sex with both Prince Andrew of Britain — she included a photograph of them together — and with one of Epstein’s attorneys, Alan Dershowitz, now best known for his public defenses of Trump. (Dershowitz has said Roberts lied to try to extract money from wealthy men. In 2015, a federal judge, Kenneth A. Marra, struck the allegations from the court record; attorneys for Roberts called the filing a “tactical mistake” and withdrew the allegations.)

  NYT

A tactical mistake. Why? The judge was involved with Epstein, too?

It is the perverse good fortune of Alexander Acosta, Donald Trump’s secretary of labor, to be part of an administration so spectacularly corrupt that it’s simply impossible to give all its scandals the attention they deserve.

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The investigation, more than a year in the making, described Epstein as running a sort of child molestation pyramid scheme, in which girls — some in middle school — would be recruited to give Epstein “massages” at his Palm Beach mansion, pressured into sex acts, then coerced into bringing him yet more girls. The Herald reported that Epstein was also suspected of trafficking girls from overseas.

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[Acosta, t]he labor secretary, whose purview includes combating human trafficking, has done nothing so far to rebut [the] reporting.

There are many Trump appointments that are clearly meant to destroy the agency to which the person was appointed, but the appointment of Acosta to a position combating human trafficking may be the ultimate thumbed nose to US voters.

[W]hile Acosta’s record covering up for a depraved plutocrat makes him a good fit for the Trump administration, it should disqualify him from public service.

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Acosta, a rising star in Republican circles, short-circuited the federal investigation, letting Epstein plead guilty to two felony prostitution charges in state court. “Not only would Epstein serve just 13 months in the county jail, but the deal — called a non-prosecution agreement — essentially shut down an ongoing F.B.I. probe into whether there were more victims and other powerful people who took part in Epstein’s sex crimes,” wrote Brown. It was, she wrote, “one of the most lenient deals for a serial child sex offender in history.”

Despite Florida’s strict sex offender laws, Epstein was given work-release to spend up to 12 hours a day, six days a week, in his Palm Beach office. Housed in a private wing of Palm Beach County jail, he hired his own security guards. During a subsequent year of probation, he was nominally under house arrest, but permitted to take his private jet on trips to Manhattan and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Had the federal case gone forward, it could have shed an embarrassing spotlight on Epstein’s many famous associates, including Bill Clinton, a frequent passenger on Epstein’s private plane, nicknamed the “Lolita Express.”

During the 2016 presidential campaign, some pundits expected Trump to bring up Clinton’s relationship with Epstein. But after predicting in early 2015 that Epstein would cause Bill Clinton “a lot of problems,” Trump rarely if ever mentioned it again. Perhaps that’s because Trump also counted Epstein as a friend.

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Epstein’s ability to evade justice is of a piece with the elite impunity that Trump pretended to challenge, but actually embodies. Congress can send a message: Time’s up.

So we know Trump is likely implicated in the Epstein crimes and that he's put another implicated slime ball in his administration. But, shifting back to Trump's tweet this morning late last night, what about Tucker Carlson? He seems too young I think. Maybe not. But maybe they have nothing on him. Maybe Tucker is simply the idiot he seems to be.

We also know that the DOJ has just opened an investigation into Acosta's plea deal - Trump's DOJ with Bill Barr now at the helm. I'm guessing the only reason the DOJ is doing it is because Democrats took over the House in November and might have done it properly. They should still open their own investigation. But how many of them might be implicated? After all, they confirmed him. 

This is why we desperately need good investigative journalists. And why Trump brands the press enemies of the people.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:



Exactly.