Retired Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz accused the office of New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg of violating voters’ rights by prosecuting former President Donald Trump, with the legal scholar arguing that the case amounts to a criminal conspiracy to influence elections.
Mr. Dershowitz made the remarks in an interview on Newsmax on April 22, which marked the first day of President Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan. The former president has been charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records to hide non-disclosure payments—which has been popularly termed “hush money”—in a deal made to prevent the other party seeking publication of damaging but unproven claims, which prosecutors allege amounted to a “criminal conspiracy” to influence the 2016 presidential election.
