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Dershowitz blasts Trump conviction: 'Worst legal verdict I've seen in 60 years'
Harvard law proffessor
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Dershowitz said he was unclear what exactly the crimes Trump was convicted of were.

"I still don’t know what he was convicted of," he said. "Was he convicted of intent to cheat on his taxes two years later, although he didn’t take it as a deduction? Was he convicted of defrauding voters, who obviously knew that he was a sexual scoundrel?"

"Was he convicted of seeking to make an illegal campaign contribution, although the contribution didn’t have to be listed until after the election?" Dershowitz asked.

"I have never seen a case where, even after the verdict came down, we don’t know what he was convicted of," Dershowitz continued. "No one in history — in history — has ever been convicted of failing to disclose hush money payments paid to somebody."

"Why would anybody pay hush money if they had to disclose it?" he asked. "This is a case where the prosecutor simply decided to get Trump."
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"I am not a Trump supporter. I voted against him," he said. "I’m a liberal Democrat, but I care more about the weaponization of the criminal justice system."
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https://www.foxnews.com/media/dershowitz-slams-trump-conviction-worst-legal-verdict-ive-seen-60-years