Dershowitz: Trump should push to disqualify Letitia James

The first move former President Donald Trump’s attorneys should do to fight back against New York Attorney General Letitia James’ civil lawsuit against him and his family members is to push that she be recused and disqualified from the case, Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said on Newsmax Wednesday after her announcement.

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“I like Letitia James,” Dershowitz said on Newsmax’s “American Agenda.” “She’s a very nice person, but she campaigned on the promise to get Trump before seeing any evidence, and so she is just fulfilling a campaign promise. You can’t have prosecutors even civilly prosecute a defendant if they made a campaign promise.” …

But Dershowitz pointed out that the state is claiming the “biggest banks in the world” are claiming damages and wanted to know why they were not able to fight for themselves.

“Why does Letitia James have to be out there protecting and defending the biggest banks in the country who haven’t sued him at all?” said Dershowitz. “This doesn’t pass the test of a legitimate civil complaint, and I think they should be challenging it very vigorously.”

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