Dershowitz: Trump should use his mug shot as campaign poster
Alan Dershowitz Says Trump Should Use His Mugshot As 2024 Campaign Poster As Allies Rush To Defend Former President
- Attorney Alan Dershowitz said Thursday that former President Donald Trump could use his mugshot as a 2024 presidential campaign poster.
- Dershowitz is close to the former president and was one of his lawyers during Trump’s first impeachment trial.
- They will take a mugshot of you and take your fingerprints. There’s really no way around that,’ the lawyer said, though he said Trump could use it for his political benefit.
Attorney Alan Dershowitz said Thursday that former President Donald Trump could use his mugshot as a 2024 presidential campaign poster as the former president’s allies and enemies reacted to news of the impeachment.
Dershowitz, who is close to the former president and was one of his lawyers during his first impeachment trial, appeared Thursday night on former White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s Newsmax show.
They will take a mugshot of you and take your fingerprints. There’s really no way around that,” the prominent attorney said.
Dershowitz then argued that Trump could use the images for political gain.
Trump allies and supporters have been speculating in recent weeks that an impeachment would actually give the former president’s 2024 campaign a boost.
Attorney Alan Dershowitz said Thursday that former President Donald Trump could use his mugshot as a 2024 presidential campaign poster, as the former president’s allies and enemies reacted to news of the impeachment.
They will take a mugshot of you and take your fingerprints. There’s really no way around that,” the prominent attorney said. Dershowitz (left) then argued that Trump could use the images for his political gain.
Polls conducted earlier this month showed that nearly 75 percent of likely American voters believed Trump would not be hurt if he was impeached for his role in Stormy Daniels’ hush-money scheme before the 2016 presidential election.
A Trafalgar Group survey of likely American voters polled last week found that 37.5 percent believed impeachment would have no effect, while another 36.8 percent thought a criminal charge would give the former president a political boost.
About one in four 25.7 percent, said it would hurt Trump’s presidential run.
Sentiment was divided along party lines, with Republicans more likely to believe that an impeachment would ultimately help the former president. Democrats were more likely to believe that an impeachment would hurt Trump’s chances of retaking the White House.
So far, Trump remains in leaps and bounds behind other GOP primary rivals.
The Real Clear Politics polling average has him at 45.7 percent support among Republican voters.
Former President Donald Trump at a rally Saturday in Waco, Texas. Nearly three-quarters of likely American voters suggested impeachment would not harm the former president politically, and Republicans are more likely to say so.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is in second place, but with 28.9 percent.
In third place is former Vice President Mike Pence, who toured Iowa yesterday while exploring a presidential run, with support at 6.3 percent.
Despite being critical of Trump on other issues, DeSantis, Pence and other candidates have followed the party line and suggested that the prosecution outside of New York is politically motivated.
“This is the thinnest case, this is the most stretched case I’ve ever seen,” Dershowitz told Newsmax’s Greta Van Susteren on Thursday.
Dershowitz shook his head as he explained that the politics now looked: with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, in charge of the case, and Bragg “plans to vote for Biden again if he runs against Trump.”
“It’s time for the banana republic,” the lawyer sneered.