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The Ben Shapiro Show

Alan Dershowitz | The Ben Shapiro Show Sunday Special Ep. 85

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News Commentary, News

4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Alan Dershowitz — the youngest full professor in Harvard Law history where he is now the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus, writer of numerous best-selling books including, "The Case Against Impeaching Trump," and his latest, "Guilt by Accusation: The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo" — joins Ben to discuss being a civil libertarian, Trump, Obama, Israel, #MeToo, O.J. Simpson, impeachment, going from loved to hated by the Left, and much more.  Subscribe to the Daily Wire to watch the bonus questions! https://bit.ly/2q0wopL Date: 03-08-2020 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The left knows the truth with a capital T.

0:03.0

The truth is if you're a white male, you're guilty.

0:06.0

If you're a woman of color, you're a victim.

0:09.0

Alan Dershowitz is one of the most famous legal minds of the last half century.

0:14.0

After graduating first in class from Yale Law School in 1962,

0:17.0

Dershowitz clerked for Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg.

0:20.0

Just a few years later, at 28, he became the youngest person at the time to ever become a tenured professor at Harvard. He then went on to defend some of the most high-profile defendants in the history of the country. From O.J. Simpson and Jeffrey Epstein to Harvey Weinstein and Mike Tyson, Alan Dershowitz has played a significant role in crafting the defenses of major figures accused of a litany of heinous crimes.

0:39.3

But the one that has arguably drawn the most controversy is one in which his defendant was not accused of any actual crime.

0:45.3

In January 2020, during the impeachment trial of President Trump, Alan took the stage to present the case against impeachment.

0:51.3

Allen, being a lifelong liberal Democrat and a 2016 Hillary Clinton supporter,

0:56.0

believes everyone has a right to defense in a court of law, even Donald Trump.

1:00.0

Alan and I will discuss his rules on deciding which clients to represent,

1:03.0

how the media deeply misrepresented his case against impeachment,

1:06.0

his new book, Guilt by Accusation, The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of Me Too,

1:10.0

as well

1:11.1

as whether or not OJ did it.

1:20.8

Hey, hey, and welcome.

1:21.7

This is the Ben Shapiro Show Sunday special.

1:23.4

Today, we are joined by Professor Alan Dershowitz.

1:25.5

Just a reminder, we'll be doing some bonus questions with Professor Dershowitz.

1:28.3

The only way to get access to that part of the conversation is to pay us money and become a subscriber. Go over to DailyWire.com, become a subscriber. You'll have access to all of the full conversations with every one of our awesome guests. Professor Dershowitz, thanks so much for stopping by. My pleasure. Thank you. Well, we start with the obvious question. How did you, a defense attorney, best known for being a

1:45.0

lifelong Democrat and defending who a lot of people would consider on the Republican side to be

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