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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Jul 18, 2019, 04:18 PM Jul 2019

Dershowitz writes panicky op-ed in anticipation of a New Yorker 'hit piece' about him & underage...

Dershowitz writes panicky op-ed in anticipation of a New Yorker ‘hit piece’ about him and underage girls

Published 55 mins ago on July 18, 2019 By Brad Reed

Trump-defending attorney Alan Dershowitz has written an op-ed for right-wing publication Newsmax that reveals the New Yorker is working on an expose about him and women who have accused him of having sex with them when they were under 18 years old.

In the op-ed, Dershowitz accuses New Yorker editor David Remnick of commissioning “a hit piece against me for the explicit purpose of silencing my defense of President Trump, Prime Minister Netanyahu, and the State of Israel.”

Dershowitz then claims, without offering any evidence, that “Remnick explicitly told people that I must be silenced because mine has been the most persuasive voice in favor of what Remnick feels pose dangers to values he holds dear, and that he will use the credibility of The New Yorker to accomplish this goal.”

“Four years ago, a woman who I had never met was ‘pressured’ — her word — by her lawyers to falsely accuse me of having underage sex with her,” Dershowitz writes. “They expected a big payday, but I was able to prove from travel records that I could not have been on the Caribbean island, New Mexico ranch, or other places where she perjuriously claimed we had met… Having seen the initial accusation demolished, her lawyer told people he was trolling for a second accuser because ‘two is better than one.’ This time they ‘found’ a real doozy: a woman who had tried to get the New York Post to publish her claim that she had sex tapes of Hillary and Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, and Richard Branson.”

Dershowitz’s op-ed concludes by warning his supporters to not believe anything written about him whenever the story is finally published. “So when you read The New Yorker attack on me, read it with an understanding of its source, motive, and methodology,” he says. “Remember that you are not reading The New Yorker of old that had well-earned credibility. You are reading a glossy version of the National Enquirer, with partisan and personal agendas.”

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https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/dershowitz-writes-panicky-op-ed-in-anticipation-of-a-new-yorker-hit-piece-about-him-and-underage-girls/
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Dershowitz writes panicky op-ed in anticipation of a New Yorker 'hit piece' about him & underage... (Original Post) DonViejo Jul 2019 OP
It's just me being curious but I wonder what Mia Farrow -- mother of Ryan Farrow - thinks of in2herbs Jul 2019 #1
Don't you mean Ronan Farrow? /NT sdfernando Jul 2019 #13
Why, yes I do. thanks nt in2herbs Jul 2019 #14
Dershowitz is claiming that the National Enquirer has partisan and personal agendas?!? Foolacious Jul 2019 #2
I didn't inhale and I kept my underwear on... pbmus Jul 2019 #3
Dershowitz is writing for NewsMax now? gratuitous Jul 2019 #4
... Scurrilous Jul 2019 #5
I hope the New Yorkeer has gone all the was back to the 80's and Raven Jul 2019 #6
If he thinks that, he's welcome to sue for libel Clash City Rocker Jul 2019 #7
Uh-oh peggysue2 Jul 2019 #8
Ha-ha... Mike Nelson Jul 2019 #9
Dersperado Blue Owl Jul 2019 #10
Dershowitz is a pervert Skittles Jul 2019 #11
Alan Dershowitz used to be someone I admired, and then he went downhill ... marble falls Jul 2019 #12
Newsmax CEO, Chris Ruddy, talks to Trump octoberlib Jul 2019 #15
That Op Ed has rivers of flopsweat dripping off it lunatica Jul 2019 #16
Now hoping for a seized video of Dershowitz showing his scrawny behind. Vinca Jul 2019 #17
Cry me a river you Trump ass kissing creep. oasis Jul 2019 #18
This message was self-deleted by its author Aaron Pereira Jul 2019 #19

in2herbs

(2,945 posts)
1. It's just me being curious but I wonder what Mia Farrow -- mother of Ryan Farrow - thinks of
Thu Jul 18, 2019, 04:21 PM
Jul 2019

Dershowitz now.

Foolacious

(497 posts)
2. Dershowitz is claiming that the National Enquirer has partisan and personal agendas?!?
Thu Jul 18, 2019, 04:26 PM
Jul 2019

That should go over well with Duh Base!

Scurrilous

(38,687 posts)
5. ...
Thu Jul 18, 2019, 04:34 PM
Jul 2019

So he's being smeared for supporting Bibi?


Meanwhile Netanyahu is attacking Barak for his ties to Epstein:

Epstein’s Ties to Former Israeli Leader Shake Up Election Campaign

<snip>

"A former Israeli leader who is seeking to topple Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing scrutiny over his financial and personal ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the American financier charged with sex trafficking and abusing underage girls.

Ehud Barak, 77, a former prime minister and defense minister, received some $2.3 million in payments from a foundation associated with Mr. Epstein from 2004 to 2006, and Mr. Epstein invested a reported $1 million in a limited partnership established by Mr. Barak in 2015.

Mr. Netanyahu, who is facing possible indictment in three corruption cases involving his relations with tycoons, has demanded an investigation into Mr. Barak’s relationship with Mr. Epstein.

Mr. Barak, a longtime critic of Mr. Netanyahu’s, has denied wrongdoing, said he did not know then about the allegations against Mr. Epstein and accused Mr. Netanyahu’s camp of exploiting the episode to distract from the prime minister’s own legal woes."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/world/middleeast/epstein-israel-barak-ehud.html



British newspaper reissues 2016 photos of former PM visiting disgraced financier’s NY home ‘within hours’ of several young women, in apparent hint at unsavory motives

Barak vows to sue Daily Mail for ‘sordid insinuations’ over his ties to Epstein

https://www.timesofisrael.com/barak-vows-to-sue-daily-mail-for-sordid-insinuations-over-his-ties-to-epstein/

Raven

(13,890 posts)
6. I hope the New Yorkeer has gone all the was back to the 80's and
Thu Jul 18, 2019, 04:35 PM
Jul 2019

his "activities" as a professor at Harvard Law School. This guy's history with women is an open secret in some quarters.

Clash City Rocker

(3,396 posts)
7. If he thinks that, he's welcome to sue for libel
Thu Jul 18, 2019, 04:39 PM
Jul 2019

He won’t, of course, because then the truth would come out in court.

peggysue2

(10,828 posts)
8. Uh-oh
Thu Jul 18, 2019, 04:40 PM
Jul 2019

Dersh sounds somewhat panicky, don't ya think?

I read recently that once the lid is taken off the Epstein files, a treasure trove of the rich and famous face exposure for their (ahem) acquired tastes and appetites.

But this? Sounds desperate.

Mike Nelson

(9,953 posts)
9. Ha-ha...
Thu Jul 18, 2019, 04:41 PM
Jul 2019

… the old "an attack on me is an attack on Israel!" game... he should have retired years ago...

marble falls

(57,080 posts)
12. Alan Dershowitz used to be someone I admired, and then he went downhill ...
Thu Jul 18, 2019, 04:48 PM
Jul 2019

after defending Klaus von Bulow. Waaaaay downhill. He was brilliant at civil rights in the movement of the '60's and '70's.

octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
15. Newsmax CEO, Chris Ruddy, talks to Trump
Thu Jul 18, 2019, 05:14 PM
Jul 2019

almost every day and was with him on his state visit to England.

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