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Trump's new impeachment defense team has been on Fox News over 350 times in the past year
WRITTEN BY BOBBY LEWIS
PUBLISHED 01/17/20 12:08 PM EST
On January 17, CNNs Kaitlan Collins and Pamela Brown reported that attorneys Ken Starr, Alan Dershowitz, and Robert Ray are all expected to join President Donald Trumps legal team for his impeachment trial in the United States Senate. The Washington Posts Josh Dawsey reported that former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi will also be joining the team. Combined, Starr, Dershowitz, Bondi, and Ray have made at least 365 weekday Fox News appearances since January 2019.
Starr is a former independent counsel whose work led to President Bill Clintons impeachment. He also was president and chancellor of Baylor University until he was forced to leave the school following harsh criticism of his handling of sexual assaults. Starr has recently provided Fox with reliably pro-Trump analysis of the House hearings and debates around impeachment, accepting that Trump did seek an investigation into his political opponent but refusing to acknowledge wrongdoing because there wasnt a corrupt bargain. Starr had previously said that Trumps statement of no quid pro quo sufficiently covered himself from consequences, despite considerable evidence that there was a quid pro quo with Ukrainian security aid and the investigation Trump sought. Starr, who was a Fox News contributor until joining Trumps legal team, has made at least 125 Fox News appearances since January 2019.
Dershowitz, a Harvard emeritus professor of law and reported sexual predator, has also given Fox News consistently pro-Trump commentary, arguing that impeachment is unconstitutional because even if Trump did put electoral interests before the national interests, it wouldn't even be close to being an impeachable offense. Dershowitz is being sued by Jeffrey Epstein trafficking victim Virginia Giuffre, who reported Dershowitz for sexual assault. After months of appearing on Fox News without addressing the reports, Dershowitz protested that he had a perfect, perfect sex life during the relevant period of time and said that Giuffre is a sleazy person. Dershowitz has made at least 110 Fox News appearances since January 2019.
Bondi is the former attorney general of Florida who memorably chose not to sue Trump University in 2016 shortly after then-candidate Trump donated $25,000 to her reelection campaign. She has also provided Fox News with standard pro-Trump commentary, calling impeachment a sham from the beginning and attempting to discredit former special counsel Robert Mueller for being associated with the same attorney who represented one of Clintons people. She also lied that Mueller found no collusion, no obstruction. Bondi has made at least 60 appearances on Fox News since January 2019.
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Trump's new impeachment defense team has been on Fox News over 350 times in the past year (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Jan 2020
OP
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)1. Murdoch to the rescue?
His Media company created this POS,and he needs this same POS to guarantee his Tax Breaks.