{"id":1014807,"date":"2021-11-15T11:58:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T16:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1014807"},"modified":"2021-11-15T11:58:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T16:58:41","slug":"exclusive-alan-dershowitz-cnn-are-the-vigilantes-not-rittenhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-alan-dershowitz-cnn-are-the-vigilantes-not-rittenhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive &#8212; Alan Dershowitz: CNN &#039;Are the Vigilantes, not Rittenhouse&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-alan-dershowitz-cnn-are-the-vigilantes-not-rittenhouse%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1014807&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1197517066-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">CNN and other left-wing news media television outlets are \u201cvigilantes\u201d seeking to influence the outcomes of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz, author of&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Case-Vaccine-Mandates-Alan-Dershowitz\/dp\/1510771026?tag=breitbart035-20\"><\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em>said on SiriusXM\u2019s <em>Breitbart News Sunday<\/em> with host Joel Pollak.<\/p>\n<p>Dershowitz rejected ubiquitous framing of Rittenhouse as a \u201cvigilante\u201d across leftist news media.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cCNN and some of the other TV stations have become vigilantes,\u201d he remarked. \u201cThey\u2019re the vigilantes, not Rittenhouse. They\u2019re the ones who want to put not the thumb, but the elbow on the scale of justice. They want to influence the outcome of this case, and there are others who are threatening violence if there is anything but convictions in this case, as they threatened violence in previous cases and will in subsequent cases unless something is done about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized, \u201cIt\u2019s the&nbsp;<em>New Yorker<\/em>&nbsp;and CNN that are the vigilantes.&nbsp;They\u2019re the ones who are trying to influence&nbsp;justice without regard to [the] evidence or the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe should be acquitted. The jury should not even be able to consider the attempted murder of the guy who would admitted on the witness stand he pointed a gun at him before was shot in the shoulder. That is a clear case of self-defense \u2014 no doubt about it \u2014 and it should never go to the jury.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong>LISTEN<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>CNN operates as the communications arm of \u201cthe mob,\u201d Dershowitz held. \u201cThe fear is that we\u2019ve turned our criminal system over to the mob,&nbsp;CNN being part of the mob.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cI hope [Rittenhouse] is acquitted. He shouldn\u2019t be convicted based on the evidence that I\u2019ve seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>Rittenhouse\u2019s life and body were threatened when he shot Gaige Grosskreutz, Dershowitz assessed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOliver Wendell Holmes once said reason can\u2019t be expected in the presence of an uplifted knife, and what about in the presence of guns and skateboards and other threats?\u201d he asked, before&nbsp; expanding on the theme adding \u201ct<\/span><span>hat was the same thing with the Zimmerman case, where Zimmerman had his head bashed against the concrete before he grabbed the gun and shot and he killed [Trayvon Martin]. In that case, I also said there should be an acquittal, and there was.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\" readability=\"32\">\n<p><em>Breitbart News Sunday broadcasts live on SiriusXM Patriot 125 from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Eastern.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN and other left-wing news media television outlets are \u201cvigilantes\u201d seeking to influence the outcomes of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz, author of\u00a0,\u00a0said on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}