Dershowitz: Trump Indictment Makes America ‘Look Like Banana Republic Land’

Constitutional lawyer Alan Dershowitz blasted special counsel Jack Smith’s latest 4-count indictment against former President Donald Trump related to the 2020 election as the beginning of “banana republic land.”

Dershowitz said on FBN’s “Kudlow” that the federal indictment makes Joe Biden appear “afraid of the democratic process.”

“We know that President Biden urged his attorney general to indict the man who he knew was going to be the leading opponent if against him,” Dershowitz said Friday.

“That begins to look like banana republic land. That’s what happens when people in power are afraid of the democratic process. What they do is they seek the indictment and prosecution of the people who are running against them.”

Dershowitz went on to argue that he has the right as a U.S. voter to vote against Trump and that right shouldn’t be left up to political prosecutors.

“I have a constitutional right to vote against Donald Trump for the third time,” he continued. “I voted against him twice, I intend to vote against him again, but I want to have that right to vote against him and not have that right taken away from me by prosecutors and by the president, who wants to see him imprisoned. That’s just not the American way.”

When asked by guest host David Asman if America was now a banana republic, Dershowitz responded that the choice of venue for the trial and the highly partisan makeup of the court — including the anti-Trump judge — gave that impression.

“We’re not there yet, but this is a step in that direction, and also placing the case in the District of Columbia, which is 95% anti-Trump, putting it in front of a judge with a history of anti-Trump,” he said.

“If the government thinks they have a strong case, they ought to join the defense and agree to move it to West Virginia or Virginia and put it in front of another judge who doesn’t have a long history of anti-Trump attitudes.”

“So, I don’t believe he can get a fair trial in the District of Columbia. And this indictment is deeply, deeply flawed. The government will have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt did he actually believe that he had genuinely lost the election,” he added.

Trump was arraigned last Thursday where he pled not guilty and his next hearing for this particular case is scheduled for August 28.