Dershowitz Blasts Media Double Standard on Trump Hush Money

Nicholas Fondacaro | December 10, 2018
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During a Monday night appearance on Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz was in rare form as he tore into the liberal media and the left for their double standard of outrage at President Trump’s affairs and hush money payments.

“I want everyone out there to imagine the following scenario,” Dershowitz began as he asked viewers to think of how the reaction would change if it was President Bill Clinton:

Let's assume when Bill Clinton was running for president, Paula Jones came up to him and said, “unless you pay me $130,000 I will reveal our affair.” And let's assume that Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton together did exactly what it is alleged that Donald Trump and Michael Cohen did together.

I guarantee you that The New York Times, NBC, MSNBC would be railing against any prosecutor who dared to suggest that this was a violation of the campaign finance law. Everybody would be on the other side of this issue,” he declared.

He argued that Democrats would be the ones calling it a “witch hunt” and Republicans would be calling for Clinton’s impeachment. “We need a single standard,” Dershowitz pleaded. “If you would not go after Bill Clinton, don't go after Donald Trump. If you are going after Donald Trump, then you have to go after Hillary Clinton for everything that she allegedly did.”

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