Dershowitz: Giuliani Likely Hired To Encourage Cohen To 'Stay Strong'

[DonViejo]

By Nicole Lafond | April 20, 2018 2:53 pm

Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz told MSNBC Friday that adding former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani to President Trump’s legal team won’t cause much turmoil for special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

But apparently it’s sending a lifeline to Trump attorney Michael Cohen.

“I think this does send a powerful message to Michael Cohen,” he told MSNBC. “The message is, ‘Hey, stay strong, we have a really good lawyer in our team, on our team, to focus on the Southern District of New York where your problems are.’ So I think it was a very, very smart move.”

Link to tweet

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/dershowitz-giuliani-cohen-stay-strong

[IluvPitties]

1. And Alan seems to be giddy about it.

[Fred Sanders]

4. This is same guy who circle jerked with Hannity to attack Mueller over something that M.

was patently never involved with, the Whitey Bulgar case...has the Harvard prof apologized for that or explained why he is a conspiracy theorist?

Harvard...you gave this guy tenure??

[CatMor]

2. Harvard should rethink who they have teaching.

[jrthin]

10. My thought exactly! nt

[Poiuyt]

14. He probably has tenure

If he does, Harvard wouldn't be able to let him go just for being an idiot.

[PJMcK]

3. What?!

Guiliani’s a really good lawyer?!

Some message.

[Eyeball_Kid]

8. Guilliani's a chutzpah meister (?).

Has he worked on high profile criminal cases in the past few decades? No. He's reading the back pages of his resume and turning them into "breaking news." Under normal circumstances, that would be called a "con job". Maybe even a bald faced lie. Rudy's been spending the past few decades getting rich off his brand, and that's it. That's all he's got, although it's more than enough to pay off his third spouse in divorce court.

[duforsure]

5. No ,

Hired to threaten and intimidate , or try to, towards Mueller.

[Eyeball_Kid]

6. Dersh is a wad of spit.

I heard him on MSNBC yesterday spew out nonsense about lying under oath, and how unenforceable such behavior is, as if Mueller's charges against people for lying to the FBI never really happened. Dersh may be referencing perjury allegations in some Municipal Court records somewhere around Tinseltown, but he sounds like an amateur on MSNBC.

And another thing: when will MSNBC decide that Dershowitz is fraudulently representing the legal community and give him a bus ticket to points westward? And when will MSNBC decide that there ARE intelligent, powerful speakers from the Democratic Party who can also be guests on their programs? The news channel is saturated with Republicans, both behind the anchor desk and on the guest lists. Now they're stooping to making Dershowitz a household name, and this (Hollywood) ambulance chaser has nothing to add to conversations that don't involve his family dog.

[FakeNoose]

13. I wish they'd get Seth Abramson on MSNBC

There's a guy who has the street cred, law cred, and university tenure. He could run rings around Dershowitz too.

[Historic NY]

7. He's going to encourage him to do the right thing.............

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. "Really good lawyer"?

Giuliani hasn't practiced law in almost 30 years. And anyhow, he's a bull in a china shop who won't be able to get a damn thing out of Mueller. Spanky needs someone who currently practices in the area of white-collar criminal defense in federal court, but no lawyer with a reputation to protect will touch him with a ten-foot copy of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.

[C_U_L8R]

11. If Cohen falls for that, he's really an idiot

Everyone can see, Trump has already thrown Cohen under the bus.
And wouldn't hesitate to back up over him.

[hlthe2b]

12. Dersh is a douche and deserves quite a bit of karmic backlash, but he does serve some useful purpose

as I see it. I think Trump is being placated/reassured in such a way that is anything but really honest to the situtation--and Dersh, whether intentionally or not is adding to this effort. Let Trump believe he has nothing to worry about and keep digging his hole. As long as he thinks this, he is less likely to do something intensely destructive/irreparable to our constitutional government.