Dershowitz Walks Back ‘Public Interest’ Argument

Alan Dershowitz, who is part of President Trump’s impeachment team, is trying to backtrack on an argument he made yesterday that anything a president does to win re-election can be seen “in the public interest.”

Dershowitz specifically claimed that CNN and MSNBC “distorted” his argument: “They characterized my argument as if I had said that if a president believes that his re-election was in the national interest, he can do anything. I said nothing like that, as anyone who actually heard what I said can attest.”

However, the video shows that Dershowitz said exactly that.