Retired Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said Sunday that he believes Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against former President Donald Trump could fail because prosecutors have charged the former president with fake crimes.
“There is no crime,” Mr. Dershowitz said during an interview on Fox News on April 28, referring to the case in which Mr. Bragg’s office has charged the former president with 34 counts of falsifying business records to hide so-called “hush money” payments that prosecutors allege amounted to a criminal conspiracy to influence the 2016 presidential election.
Mr. Dershowitz argued that making non-disclosure payments is not a crime, neither is paying for the non-publication of potentially embarrassing stories (the so-called “catch-and-kill” dimension of the case), both of which prosecutors have alleged were part of a conspiracy to sway voters….
