Alan Dershowitz spent a good part of the last few years trying to clear himself of unsavory links to Jeffrey Epstein (aside from the fact that he was Epstein’s lawyer), so it’s a bit odd to see him effectively beg to testify about Epstein. Sandy Fitzgerald wrote in a Feb. 6 article:
Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, who has faced accusations in connection with former client Jeffrey Epstein, strongly insisted Friday on Newsmax that he wants the House Oversight Committee to call him in to testify publicly, but also demanded that the names of those accusing him and others be made public as well.
“I’m delighted that there are public hearings,” Dershowitz told “Bianca Across the Nation.” “I invite them to call me. I’m happy to testify.”
His comments come after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has agreed along with her husband, former President Bill Clinton, to testify before the committee, has demanded that the hearings be held in public.
Dershowitz demanded that accusers be named and shamed:
“You know, again, let’s have a public hearing, but let’s name these accusers,” he added. “These accusers have no right to accuse and then hide behind anonymity.”
Dershowitz said that in his own case, “it says not a minor,” so that consideration should not come into play when deciding whether to release the accusers’ identities.
“What right does an adult woman have to level an accusation of false, totally false accusation against me and hide behind redaction and anonymity?”
Fitzgerald then pointed out his role in Epstein’s defense:
Dershowitz was part of Epstein’s legal team in 2007, which negotiated his non-prosecution agreement in Florida while later representing the financier and accused sex trafficker as civil suits expanded against him.
Dershowitz was no longer serving as legal counsel to Epstein in July 2019, when he was facing charges of sex trafficking of minors.
Dershowitz apparently didn’t explain why Epstein deserved to get off the criminal prosecutions he faced, or why that non-prosecution was deserved.
Fitzgerald then gave Dershowitz even more space to defend himself and smear accusers:
Dershowitz added that he won’t claim any privileges.
“I won’t claim any inability to remember,” he said. “I remember everything, and I know a great deal about it. But they won’t call me because they’re not interested in the truth. They’re interested only in gossip.”
However, the ongoing controversy about Epstein “is really not about Jeffrey Epstein anymore,” said Dershowitz.
“This is about the worst form of McCarthyism that has afflicted America since the 1950s,” he said.
Dershowitz continued that the Department of Justice has released a list of “prominent names,” but “every single name of every accuser has been blacked out.”
“So, for example, let’s turn to me,” Dershowitz said. “It says blank, blank, blank, blacked out. Stated she gave him a massage on Epstein’s plane. Parenthesis. Not a minor.”
“I was never on Epstein’s plane with a young woman,” he insisted.
“So let’s understand that this is an adult, a woman who was on Epstein’s plane, she says,” said Dershowitz. I was never on Epstein’s plane with a young woman. I never got a massage.
“This is total defamation, a total lie.”
However, he said he can’t disprove what was said “because they won’t give me her name.”
The article concluded with Dershowitz feeding the conspiracy theory that Epstein didn’t commit suicide in jail:
Dershowitz also insisted that Epstein “was not suicidal.”
“The lawyers told me that he was told he had a good chance of getting out on bail Monday or Tuesday, following the weekend when he allegedly killed himself, so there’s a good argument that he didn’t kill himself,” said Dershowitz. “But then you have to ask yourself, who killed him?”
Heck, maybe Dershowitz did it. Can he prove otherwise?