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The Dershow

Ken Starr:impeached Clinton defended Trump

The Dershow

Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media

News, Politics

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Dirt Show. The other day I talked a lot about why lawyers won't defend

0:09.7

President Trump because they don't want to be Dirt Showitz. They don't want to be treated

0:13.2

the way my family. And I have been treated. I got to let a lot of letters about that. But

0:18.9

tragically yesterday, one of America's great lawyers, a lawyer who was fearless and would

0:26.3

represent anyone, died at the young age of 76. That was my friend Ken Starr. I work closely

0:35.4

with Ken Starr on the defensive Trump against the first impeachment. I also work very, very

0:41.6

hard against Ken Starr when he was the special counsel, special prosecutor, prosecuting

0:51.1

President Clinton, trying to get him impeached on the ground of his affair with Monica

0:57.0

Lewinsky and his alleged uproar tree. I was part of the defense, I consulted and advised

1:03.7

with the defense on that. Make no mistake about it. Ken didn't prosecute Clinton and then

1:11.5

defend Trump because he's a Republican. He is a Republican and he was appointed to the various

1:17.1

positions that he had by Republicans. But he was a man of great, great principle. He did

1:25.4

it because he thought the law justified the impeachment of Clinton. I disagreed and we argued

1:31.1

about it. We argued about it in public. I wrote a book about it called Sexual McCarthyism. I wrote

1:37.8

a preface to the Star Report, which I was very critical of the Star Report. I think he was

1:48.3

wrong, but I think he believed it. He was completely principled in his decision to leave the

1:55.0

match. Here was a man who was on the match. He was the very important judge in the United States

2:03.2

Court of Appeals, which is a segue to the Supreme Court. Justice Scalia came from the DC Circuit,

2:09.7

and Justice Ginsburg came from the DC Circuit. Justice Kavanaugh came from the DC Circuit,

2:17.5

and there was every expectation that Ken Starrer would live his life dream on the Supreme Court,

2:25.0

where he would have been a conservative, but very honest, honest judge. But by taking on the

2:30.3

Clinton assignment, which he did because he was a patriot, he ruined his chances of going on

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