Ken Starr:impeached Clinton defended Trump
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Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media
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🗓️ 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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