Liberal Professors Dershowitz, Turley Prove the Jan. 6 Committee Hearings Are a Sham – Opinion

Harvard’s Alan Dershowitz and George Washington University’s Jonathan Turley, both famous law professors and self-proclaimed liberals, slammed the Thursday night January 6 Committee 6 hearing for being “unethical“ and for failing to prove the charges.

Referring to the video of Trump’s speech that the committee aired, Dershowitz told  Newsmax’s “Spicer & Co.” Friday: “They doctored the tape!” for leaving out a key line.

The lawyers were both liberal darlings for years, DC cocktail circuit fixtures who could be relied on to appear on CNN and give an air of authority while commenting on the day’s topics.

Trump made all this possible. Dershowitz notably started appearing on conservative media, suddenly popping up on Fox News instead of MSNBC, eventually even testifying at Trump’s second impeachment trial in defense of Trump.

Turley also testified on Trump’s side for that impeachment effort, and more recently has been vocal about his disdain for the current hearings.

It’s quite the turnaround for this pair. Poor Dershowitz has been shunned by his “tolerant” Martha’s Vineyard “friends” for daring to question liberal orthodoxy. Turley was repeatedly threatened for his daring defense of Trump.

They’ve been among the few voices of sanity among liberals since the arrival of Trump, and a source of hope among conservatives that not everyone has lost their minds.

Dershowitz continued:

I’m wearing my [Boston]Today, Celtics shirt. This is not only to prepare for tonight’s great matchup, but also as an analogy. It’s as if the [Golden State]Yesterday, Warriors emerged [in the NBA Finals]They started to shoot towards the basket but the Celtics kept them off the court. We only saw one team scoring, one team missing jump-shots and a couple of layups. But there was no defense. That’s what we saw last night.

He’s referring to the fact that, unlike in the impeachment trials, there are not two sides to this story. There’s only one because House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to have serious Republican opposition on the committee. Instead she added Trump hater Liz Cheney to the committee, as well as Adam Kinzinger who is always sarcastic.

The proceeding was unfair. Even if it were one-sided it was still unethical. What was the point of it being unethical? Take for example President Trump’s speech on January 6th. That speech was a slap in the face. I didn’t think it was done well. I didn’t think he should have done it. However, he stated at the conclusion of his speech that he wanted the people to voice their support for the flag and be peaceful. The tape was altered! These were the words they edited.

Click Here to view the fake tape Trump refers to. More importantly, Dershowitz claims Trump didn’t violate the law:

Donald Trump has not been accused of any crime. All that recitations of crimes, it would be the same if a leader of Black Lives Matter stood up somewhere on the west coast and made a firebrand speech saying, you know, we’re going to bring down this, we’re going to do that, and then people went out and burned buildings.

Jonathan Turley, meanwhile, thinks the committee was unfair from the start and didn’t prove its case:

Pelosi’s decision to shred the long tradition on balanced committees was a signature muscle play. All pretense was removed from the Jan. 6 Committee. It was as subtle as her ripping up President Trump’s State of the Union speech on the House floor… https://t.co/gqRvC6be3S

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) June 11, 2022

In a blog, he also stated that Trump is the cause of all the chaos and that it failed to show its core point.

Trump was a master of whipping the crowd to commotion on that day. While he gave the speech, I had my doubts. However, Trump never actually called for violence or a riot…

He expressly told his followers “to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”

It would seem that this pathetic attempt to use a partisan committee to prove what an impeachment proceeding could not—that Former President Trump plotted a coup on January 6 and is solely to blame for the violence that occurred that day—continues to fail. When your side loses the backing of two former vocal supporters, you know you’re losing the battle.