Before Trump, this thug defended a series of celebrity thugs, including pornographer Harry Rheems, attempted murderer Claus von Bülow, Nazis marching in Illinois, rapist Mike Tyson, killer Patty Hearst, evangelist Jim Bakker, murderer OJ Simpson, sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein, rapist Harvey Weinstein. IS THERE A PATTERN HERE?
Dershowitz has a long record as a legal thug. While touting the claim of being a Harvard Professor of Constitutional Law, the man built his fame on use of the law to protect wealthy celebrities from the clutches of the laws.
This record goes way back to his view of the Nixon crimes. Back in November of 1974, The Associated Press quoted the crimson caped crusader as coming to the defense of Nixon‘s colleagues who had resigned three months earlier for their part in plotting “to obstruct the investigation of June 17, 1972, break‐in at the Democratic national headquarters at the Watergate complex.” According to the man who would one day defend Trump “some crimes may be so heavily publicized that no defendant can get a fair trial.” Dershowitz offered his opinion that the trial should have been moved outside the District of Columbia: “I’m not happy seeing Richard Nixon’s gang being tried by blacks and liberals in the District of Columbia,” said Dershowitz. He said, it would have been “a lot fairer” to have moved the trial to “a district of Maryland where [the 1972 election] was very close, and where you had a mixture of whites and blacks.”
A majority of the Watergate coverup jury was black.