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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo, this happened. File under Dershowitz keeps surprising me.
https://spectator.us/ghislaine-maxwell-know-jeffrey-epstein-alan-dershowitz/
Brother Buzz
(36,423 posts)GemDigger
(4,305 posts)flying_wahini
(6,591 posts)And Ghislaine knows much, much more about Epstein and Trump connection.
Besides its Not about the girls, but money laundering.
The DOJ knew about it years ago.
As Nancy said, all roads lead to Putin.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Hes just there to stop it from rolling further up the line.
Gross.
dalton99a
(81,475 posts)UpInArms
(51,282 posts)qazplm135
(7,447 posts)to give yourself protection.
They didn't make that deal with her, nor she with them.
Doremus
(7,261 posts)I highly doubt she'll live long enough to testify. The only question is how they will do it and if they even care about making up plausible stories anymore.
MaryMagdaline
(6,854 posts)1. One witness lied about me and al gore so other witnesses must be lying, too
2. Did I mention Al Gore, Tipper Gore, bill and Hillary? You liberals better defend Ghislaine or she will open a can of worms.
3. Ghislaine never tried to have sex with me, my wife, the Clintons and other septuagenarians so theres no way she would molest an underaged girl
4. One of the witnesses lied about an Israeli prime minister so you pro-Israel people need to see this as an attack on Israel
5 Netflix was mean to me so the SDNY must have a bad case
6. Ghislaines attorneys better get this case thrown out under Statute of Limitations or crooked Florida plea deal OR ELSE
7. Did I mention Ghislaine went to Oxford?
chowder66
(9,067 posts)blogslut
(38,000 posts)It's pretty damning:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/05/alan-dershowitz-devils-advocate
It's all pretty gross but here's an excerpt:
Some students thought that he strained logic in order to defend men. In Dershowitzs view, men who are accused of rape, there has got to be a defense, one female student from the 1991 class recalled. He had convoluted ways of thinking about how men could misinterpret lack of consent. And it wasnt relegated to when we were speaking about a rape case. Wherever we were on the syllabus, he would bring it up.
William Kennedy Smith, a nephew of John F. Kennedy, had recently been accused of raping a woman on a Kennedy family estate, and Dershowitz frequently spoke to the media about the case. (Smith argued that the sex was consensual, and he was later acquitted.) In class, according to a second female student, who is now the chief executive of a nonprofit, he would talk about Smith and the woman frolicking in the waves, ripping off their clothes. Midway through the semester, a woman raised her hand and said, essentially, O.K., enough rape examples! There are women in this class who have been raped. Can we move on to something else?
His hair just caught on fire, Murph Willcott, a male student who was in the class during the confrontation, recalled. He seemed to take that as a challenge to his authority, and he made it clear he was going to teach what he wanted to teach.
Under The Radar
(3,401 posts)...for the wealthy and powerful. I do appreciate Alan for writing this because he added a couple of other clients to the suspect list.
Is Alan making the point that if you are wealthy and friends with the Rothschilds and educated at Oxford that a suspicion of wrongdoing is absurd?
ck4829
(35,070 posts)Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)Hekate
(90,674 posts)That photo was stark.
The guards fell asleep? They were doing double shifts, but a little rohypnol in their coffee would account for them dropping off at the same time and having a little amnesia. And prison guards are expendable people, right? only they and their families will care if theyre fired.
Good luck Ghislaine.
PurgedVoter
(2,217 posts)Honestly, having Dershowitz defend your reputation is like having Hitler call you a good German.