Alan Dershowitz has been working hard as a right-wing talking head for Newsmax. Some examples from recent months:
- Dershowitz to Newsmax: Protesters ‘Should Be Subject to Rule of Law’
- Dershowitz to Newsmax: Hamas and Supporters ‘Like Khalil’ Don’t Want Peace
- Dershowitz to Newsmax: Iran Must ‘Capitulate’ to Avoid Conflict
- Dershowitz to Newsmax: High Court Backs Trump on Deportations
- Dershowitz to Newsmax: Green Card Holders Not in US Unconditionally
- Dershowitz to Newsmax: Central Park Five Will Regret Defamation Suit
- Dershowitz to Newsmax: Boasberg Should Be Held in Contempt
- Dershowitz to Newsmax: ‘Blood on Universities’ Hands’ in D.C. Murders
- Dershowitz to Newsmax: I’m ‘Persona Non Grata’ at Harvard
- Dershowitz to Newsmax: Abrego Garcia Could Have Been ‘Free Man’
- Dershowitz to Newsmax: US Has to Worry About More Political Assassinations
Newsmax has rewarded Dershowitz’s sticking to approved narrative by giving him a documentary about his association with Jeffrey Epstein and accusations he was a client. From a May 16 preview article:
Newsmax’s latest documentary, “Guilt by Accusation,” focuses on famed criminal defense attorney Alan Dershowitz and his response to accusations made by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims. It premieres Sunday at 9 p.m. ET.
The episode includes a careful examination of the allegations made against Dershowitz by the late Virginia Giuffre, who was sexually trafficked by Epstein.
Giuffre had previously accused Dershowitz as one of many men she was trafficked to but later recanted the claim against the prominent attorney, saying she may have erred in accusing him. At one time, Dershowitz represented Epstein.
Dershowitz, from the beginning, denied the allegations and mounted a relentless defense to clear his name during and since the height of the #MeToo movement.
In a Newsmax appearance, Thomas and executive producer Mandy Del Rio Smith touted the documentary, claiming it was a “witch hunt” against Dershowitz, and that the idea for the documentary came from Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy himself. Dershowitz helpfully plugged the show himself in a May 18 Newsmax TV appearance:
Famed criminal defense attorney Alan Dershowitz, the subject of a documentary airing on Newsmax Sunday night about the fight to clear his name after being accused of a crime by one of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s victims, said Sunday he has not seen the program but insisted everyone knows he was falsely accused.
“People right from the beginning said, ‘Just ignore it, let it go away,'” Dershowitz, a Harvard Law professor emeritus, told 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.”
Then again, Dershowitz served as a lawyer for Epstein and presumably made a pretty penny doing it, so it might be a little difficult to take all of this at face value.