Longtime liberal icon Alan Dershowitz, a professor emeritus at Harvard Law, says that billionaire financier of far-left causes George Soros told Barack Obama the name of a target he should investigate.
According to a report from Breitbart, Dershowitz was being interviewed by Breitbart News Sunday when he made the statement:
“President @BarackObama personally asked the @FBI to investigate somebody on behalf of #GeorgeSoros...” -@AlanDersh on @BreitbartNews Sunday with @joelpollak. For #dershowitz's full commentary on #WilliamBarr, #RogerStone, and the #Impeachment trial, go to @siriusxm OnDemand! pic.twitter.com/KM7szKoH3s
— SiriusXM Patriot (@SiriusXMPatriot) February 17, 2020
The report said Dershowitz did not identify the person Soros wanted questioned, because that is to be coming out "in a lawsuit in the near future," the law professor said.
Dershowitz is known as a longtime liberal, but in recent months took a position in defense of President Donald Trump against leftist demands he be impeached.
In fact, the Democrats' impeachment agenda failed.
As part of the months-long campaign by Democrats against the duly elected president, what some people have described as nothing more or less than a coup attempt, Dershowitz said Democrats were making up crimes like the KGB did.
He also warned that based on the totally political nature of the Democrats' agenda, the next Democratic president also can expect to be impeached.
He explained, as part of Trump's defense arguments in the Senate, nothing alleged by the Democrats was an impeachable offense.
He also corrected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's sarcastic claim that President Trump was "impeached forever" by noting the impeachment was actually just an accusation, and Trump was acquitted in the Senate.
He also accused those making claims against the president of simply not understanding the law.
Breitbart said the revelation of Soros' influence over Obama, to the point he could tell him who should be investigated, came in the Breitbart News Sunday interview.
"The revelation was so startling that this host had to double-check," the report said.
That exchange went like this:
Q: But let me just ask you — you said that George Soros asked Barack Obama to have his Justice Department investigate somebody?
Dershowitz: We’re — that’s going to come out in a lawsuit in the near future. Yeah
Q: Wow, well, we look forward to hearing more about that new.
The law professor also noted such requests are not unusual.
"People whisper to presidents all the time. Presidents whisper to [the] Justice Department all the time. It’s very common. It’s wrong, whoever does it, but it’s common, and we shouldn’t think that it’s unique to any particular president. I have in my possession the actual 302 form [an FBI record of an interview], which documents this issue, and it will, at the right time, come out. But I’m not free to disclose it now because it’s a case that’s not yet been filed," he said.
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