Dershowitz Calls Report A ‘Cop-Out’ On Obstruction: ‘Sounds Like A Law School Exam’

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Trump fan and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz spewed some unexpected criticism of Robert Mueller’s report on Sunday evening, suggesting he made a “cop-out” decision by allowing Attorney General Bill Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to determine whether Trump obstructed justice.

“I thought it was a cop-out for him to say there was not enough evidence to indict … and we’re going to put out a report, on obstruction, we’re going to put a report out that says ‘on the one hand, on the other hand,’ it sounds like a law school exam,” he told Fox News on Sunday. “That’s not the job of the prosecutor. The job of the prosecutor is to decide, yes or no. Make a decision. And then if you say yes, you indict. If you say no, you shut up.”

“But I think it did an abysmal job on the issue of obstruction of justice,” he continued, drawing parallels between the Mueller report and former FBI Director James Comey’s assessment on Hillary Clinton’s email scandal. “We, the American public, are entitled to a yes or no decision, not some law school essay on what arguments there are on both sides of this issue. That was a serious mistake.”

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  1. There’s a drop of integrity left in this clown?
    Well color me–genuinely–shocked.

  2. Crocodile tears. Now that the outcome is favorable to his fellow cultists, he’s trying to pretend he’s not partisan. False outrage.

  3. No, Alan. You may not come back and play with us.

  4. Avatar for pdxer pdxer says:

    An obvious effort to ingratiate himself with Democrats so he’ll be invited to parties in the Hamptons again.

  5. I finally agree with this assclown on something. Whatever happened here to create this particular result, we’ve been handed an unmitigated disaster as far as the integrity of our justice system is concerned. We basically don’t have one now.

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