by Sundance at The Conservative Treehouse
Professor Alan Dershowitz went to New York City to sit in on the ridiculous trial of President Donald Trump. Apparently, Dershowitz just had to see for himself what he was hearing from others about the insane rantings and rulings of Judge Merchan.
Mr. Dershowitz said he sat in the front row and had a ringside seat to some of the worst judicial conduct he has ever witnessed in a judge.
There are two videos. One short video with Larry Kudlow, and one longer video from Dershowitz podcast. Mr Dershowitz explains what he witnessed first-hand, and it was apparently just as bizarre as the stories he was hearing.
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I was inside the court when the judge closed the Trump trial, and what I saw shocked me
by Alan Dershowitz at New York Post
I have observed and participated in trials throughout the world. I have seen justice and injustice in China, Russia, Ukraine, England, France, Italy, Israel, as well as in nearly 40 of our 50 states.
But in my 60 years as a lawyer and law professor, I have never seen a spectacle such as the one I observed sitting in the front row of the courthouse yesterday.
The judge in Donald Trump’s trial was an absolute tyrant, though he appeared to the jury to be a benevolent despot. He seemed automatically to be ruling against the defendant at every turn.
Many experienced lawyers raised their eyebrows when the judge excluded obviously relevant evidence when offered by the defense, while including irrelevant evidence offered by the prosecution.
But when the defense’s only substantive witness, the experienced attorney Robert Costello, raised his eyebrows at one of New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan’s rulings, the court went berserk.
Losing his cool and showing his thin skin, the judge cleared the courtroom of everyone including the media…
Click headline to keep reading Dershowitz’s telling of what he saw happening in Merchan’s courtroom yesterday…
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