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‘Misleading the Jury’: Bragg’s Team Told Two Lies During Closing Arguments, Says Dershowitz

Charlie Kirk Staff

05/29/2024

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‘Misleading the Jury’: Bragg’s Team Told Two Lies During Closing Arguments, Says Dershowitz

Alan Dershowitz, a prominent attorney and former Harvard Law School professor, accused prosecutors from the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of telling two lies to jurors during closing arguments in the trial of former President Donald Trump.

Closing arguments in Trump’s trial, based on the 34 felony counts of falsifying business records secured by Bragg in March 2023, took place on Tuesday. During Tuesday’s episode of “The Dershow” on Rumble, Dershowitz claimed that prosecutors misled the jury about Michael Cohen’s assertions regarding Trump’s motives for the $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels as part of a confidentiality agreement.

“The other claim is that he was intending to defraud the voters of New York, who obviously thought Donald Trump would never do anything wrong sexually and they would have been shocked to learn that maybe he paid hush money to a porn star,” Dershowitz said. “They would have yawned, ‘This is New York, ho-hum, so he paid money to a playmate. So he paid money to a prostitute, big deal.’ He was sparing his wife some embarrassment, but you know everybody knows who Donald Trump is and nobody’s voting for him on the grounds that he’s celibate.”

“But the government’s case just crumbles of its own weight and the prosecution is misleading the jury when they say that everything Cohen says is corroborated,” Dershowitz added. “Yeah, everything Cohen says is corroborated except the two major points, except what turns it into a crime. What’s not corroborated is his testimony that he told Trump he was gonna list these things as legal expenses instead of as compensation and Trump knew all about it. Those are the two things that are not corroborated, so the prosecution is misleading the jury when it makes that closing argument.”

Later, Dershowitz accused the prosecution of falsely asserting that the payout to Daniels affected the 2016 election, citing the timing of the payment, which occurred shortly after the release of a tape featuring a conversation between Trump and “Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush.

“The other lie that the prosecutors told the jurors is he wouldn’t, Trump would not have been elected in 2016 if the Stormy Daniels issue had come out,” Dershowitz said. “Really? The jury, the voters had already heard the ‘Access Hollywood’ tape where he said I can touch, you know, any anybody’s genitals.”

“If that didn’t affect somebody, would having consensual sex with a porn star have an effect on the election?” Dershowitz continued. “I mean, how could the prosecution be allowed to argue to the jury this would have… this would have changed the election? This would have caused Hillary Clinton to be elected president instead of Donald Trump? I mean, that’s such a stretch and surely, if that’s what has to be found by a jury, no reasonable jury could ever, could ever, find that.”

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Charlie Kirk is the Founder and President of Turning Point USA, a national student movement dedicated to empowering young people to promote the principles of free markets and limited government.

Charlie is also the host of “The Charlie Kirk Show” podcast, which regularly ranks among the top-10 news shows on Apple podcast news charts, and is the host of the nationally syndicated daily radio show on the Salem Radio Network live from 12 - 3 PM ET.
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