Dershowitz Compares Evidence of Non-Crimes to Trump Cases to Weinstein’s Conviction Reversal: ‘There Is No Crime in Manhattan’

BARTIROMO: “I got to get your take on what’s going on in this Manhattan DA’s courtroom where Donald Trump has been spending all his days. What is the crime?”
DERSHOWITZ: “There is no crime. That’s why they’re putting on people like Pecker talking about catch and kill, they’re putting on McDougal, they’re putting on — there’s no crime. And you know, they ought to be very careful about this because the Supreme Court, the appellate court in — in — in Albany just reversed Harvey Weinstein’s conviction on the ground that they put in too much information that wasn’t really relevant to the case. And that’s what’s happening. There is no crime in Manhattan. You cannot figure out what the crime is. That’s why they’re putting on all this evidence of non-crimes, trying to persuade the jury that catch and kill is a crime. It’s not. Paying hush money is a crime. It’s not. Putting a corporate statement is a misdemeanor barred by the Statute of Limitations. You can’t suddenly resurrect that and turn that into a crime by invoking a federal statute which the federal government refused to invoke.”
BARTIROMO: “Yeah.”
DERSHOWITZ: “And Federal Election Commission refused to invoke. There is no crime.”
BARTIROMO: “Wow.”
DERSHOWITZ: “And if it’s Donald Trump today, they can go after you tomorrow, and your relatives tomorrow, for something that isn’t a crime. That’s why every American —“
BARTIROMO: “Wow.”
DERSHOWITZ: “— whether you’re a Democrat [indecipherable] should be opposed to what’s going on in that Manhattan courtroom. It’s a scandal and it’s a destruction of America’s rule of law.”