{"id":1653670,"date":"2022-09-22T15:04:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T19:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1653670"},"modified":"2022-09-22T15:05:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T19:05:13","slug":"alan-dershowitz-new-york-ag-should-be-removed-from-trump-family-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alan-dershowitz-new-york-ag-should-be-removed-from-trump-family-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Dershowitz: New York AG Should Be Removed From Trump Family Investigation"},"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\">24<\/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%2Falan-dershowitz-new-york-ag-should-be-removed-from-trump-family-investigation%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=1653670&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--><p>Legal scholar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-alan-dershowitz\">Alan Dershowitz<\/a> suggested that former President Donald Trump should move to have New York Attorney General <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-letitia-james\">Letitia James<\/a> recused and disqualified from the investigation into Trump\u2019s business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like Letitia James. She\u2019s 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,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/air.tv\/?v=bENkQtyZTz20boSkEmC0oQ\">told<\/a> Newsmax on Thursday. \u201cYou can\u2019t have prosecutors even civilly prosecuting a defendant if they made a campaign promise that they have to fulfill. They are not neutral and objective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Harvard Law professor emeritus, Dershowitz was making note of James\u2019 2018 campaign proclamation that she would prosecute Trump when in office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe should be charged with obstructing justice,\u201d James <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nowthisnews\/status\/1040673535503392768\">said<\/a> in a video released at the time. \u201cI believe that the president of these United States can be indicted for criminal offenses. And we would join with law enforcement and other attorneys general across this nation in removing this president from office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>James has been investigating the Trump Organization, the former president, and his children. Her office filed a civil lawsuit against the Trumps and their company on Wednesday, which the former president decried as a politically motivated attack.<\/p>\n<p>Dershowitz, a longtime criminal defense attorney, wondered why James and the attorney general\u2019s office are involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, who are the people who were defrauded here, they claim? The biggest banks in the world. Why can\u2019t the biggest banks sue him and take care of themselves?\u2019 he asked on Thursday. \u201cWhy does Letitia James have to be out there protecting and defending the biggest banks in that country who haven\u2019t sued him at all? So this doesn\u2019t pass the test of a legitimate civil complaint, and I think they should challenge this vigorously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dershowitz added that he doesn\u2019t believe James, a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legal scholar Alan Dershowitz suggested that former President Donald Trump should move to have New York Attorney General Letitia James recused and disqualified from the investigation into Trump\u2019s business. \u201cI like Letitia James. She\u2019s a very nice person, but she campaigned on the promise to get Trump before seeing any evidence, and so she is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"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-1653670","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\/1653670","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1653670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653670\/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=1653670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}