It sure looked awkward for Alan Dershhowitz — a former attorney for pedophile Jeffrey Epstein — being a leading defender of Epstein on Newsmax, given that he was accused by an Epstein victim of having taken part in sexual escapades and was given a documentary by Newsmax to attempt to clear his name after the allegations were recanted. The awkwardness continued as attention shifted to Epstein’s partner in crime, Ghislaine Maxwell. Eric Mack noted in a July 22 article noting Maxwell’s appearance with Trump administration officials:
Former Epstein attorney Alan Dershowitz had predicted this sit-down in appearances on Newsmax recently, saying if you want full transparency, Maxwell “knows everything.”
“Ghislaine Maxwell is basically serving the sentence that Epstein would have gotten,” Dershowitz told “Sunday Agenda.” “She should never be in jail for 20 years. What should happen is that she should be freed. She should have her sentence commuted. She should then be called in front of Congress, have Congress give her total immunity, and then she can tell everything.”
Mack repeated Dershowitz’s defense of Maxwell in another July 22 article. It was not mentioned that one of the people who kept Epstein from getting that sentence, prosecutor Alex Acosta, is now a member of the Newsmax board of directors.
Dershowitz rhapsodized over Maxwell in a July 24 TV appearance:
Ghislaine Maxwell is the “Rosetta Stone” in the Jeffrey Epstein case and “she can provide not only verbal testimony, but probably records, travel records,” says Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz.
“Look, it would be interesting to know who was on Epstein’s island during the relevant time period when there were young women on the island,” Dershowitz told Newsmax’s “The Record With Greta Van Susteren” on Thursday.
“We know that [former President] Bill Clinton was not on the island, [President] Donald Trump was not on the island … I think Ghislaine Maxwell is the Rosetta Stone. I think she can provide information. Look, the files, the grand jury minutes, which have just been turned down by a federal district court judge in Florida, they’re going to say nothing because, you know, as I do, that prosecutors don’t put anything in grand jury testimony except minimum necessary to get an indictment, which is very little,” he added.
Dershowitz cooed further about Maxwell in a July 25 appearance:
Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law professor emeritus, told Newsmax Friday that a five-year prison sentence is “more than enough” for Ghislane Maxwell.
Appearing on “National Report,” Dershowitz called Maxwell, the “Rosetta Stone” in the case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell was convicted for her role in helping the New York financier traffic underage girls.
Dershowitz got in another Maxwell plug in a July 27 appearance:
Former Jeffrey Epstein girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell should be able to tell the “whole truth” about the disgraced financier, but at the same time, that truth will be “very disappointing” to people hoping for salacious details about a rumored client list, Harvard Law professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz told Newsmax on Sunday.
“I hope that Congress will subpoena her,” he said on Newsmax’s “Sunday Report.” “I hope that she’ll have her sentence commuted, and she’ll be able to tell the whole truth [but] the whole truth is going to be very, very disappointing.”
That’s because there is “no client list,” said Dershowitz, a former attorney for Epstein.
[…]“She shouldn’t have been in jail for 5 years for what she is alleged to have done,” Dershowitz said. “She served more time than anybody has ever served for any comparable offense.”
Dershowitz also labored to exonerate Trump — and, in the process, whitewash Epstein:
Dershowitz also on Sunday dismissed a Wall Street Journal report stating that President Donald Trump was told in May that he was in Epstein’s files.
“There’s no scoop,” he said. “Everybody knows there are photographs. Everybody knows that Donald Trump knew Jeffrey Epstein. So did [businessman] Bill Gates. So did Bill Clinton. I mean, I was on a phone call once. I was at [former ambassador to Australia] Caroline Kennedy’s house having dinner with President Clinton. He was then president. The phone rang, and he took the phone and talked for 10 or 15 minutes. And then he handed me the phone. It was Jeffrey Epstein.”
He added that he often went to science seminars that Epstein sponsored at Harvard, “where Nobel Prize winners, the president of Harvard, the provost of Harvard all came. Of course, everybody is in the files. That doesn’t mean anything.”
What is essential is proof whether anyone “had sex with underage people or whether there was any trafficking,” Dershowitz said. “Those are issues that are right now extremely speculative, and we have to get to the bottom of it.”
He went on to whine:
He also questioned why the Epstein matter has become the “biggest story in the world.”
“I’ve gotten interview calls from India, from Russia, from Saudi Arabia,” he said. “It’s as if there’s nothing else happening in the world.”
If Dershowitz doesn’t know why the Epstein story is a major one, maybe he’s not a very good or effective talking head. Meanwhile, he sounded like he was still on Epstein’s payroll in an Aug. 6 appearance:
Two of disgraced financier and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers “made up” claims about being trafficked to men for sexual purposes, attorney and legal expert Alan Dershowitz said.
Dershowitz, who previously told Newsmax he had seen no credible evidence Epstein trafficked women to other people, on Tuesday challenged people to “come up with any testimony” that proves otherwise.
This evolved into a rehash of his own, Newsmax-aided self-defense:
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who earlier this year died by suicide, had claimed that Epstein had forced her, while she was a minor, to have sex with Dershowitz and others. She later admitted she may have been mistaken about Dershowitz.
Newsmax in May aired a documentary called “Newsfront: Guilt by Association,” which centered around the accusations about Dershowitz and how he fought back.
“People right from the beginning said, ‘Just ignore it, let it go away,'” Dershowitz said on Newsmax’s “Sunday Agenda.” “I don’t want it to go away. I want everyone to understand what happened and that I was falsely accused and that if I was falsely accused, anyone could be falsely accused, and that if you’re innocent, you have to fight back.”
Dershowitz didn’t explain why he’s fighting so hard for an obviously guilty client who has been dead for years.