{"id":91348,"date":"2017-12-18T21:41:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T01:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=91348"},"modified":"2017-12-18T21:41:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T01:41:30","slug":"dershowitz-mueller-playing-into-trumps-hands-no-need-to-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=91348","title":{"rendered":"Dershowitz: &#8220;Mueller Playing Into Trump&#8217;s Hands, No Need To Fire&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz told Fox&#8217;s<em>\u00a0America&#8217;s Newsroom<\/em>\u00a0that President Trump doesn&#8217;t need to fire special counsel Robert Mueller, as the former FBI Director is conducting a &#8220;sloppy investigation&#8221; and was &#8220;really foolish&#8221; for not obtaining warrants for Trump transition team emails.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user237925\/imageroot\/2017\/12\/10\/694940094001_5686381218001_5686369234001-vs_0.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alan Dershowitz, Robert Mueller (Fox News)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dershowitz says Trump &#8220;has Mueller in a good position now,&#8221; adding &#8220;a lot of the American public think he [Mueller] is biased against Trump, and that may lead him, because he cares so much about his reputation, to lean over backwards in favor of Trump.\u00a0<strong>So if I were Trump, I wouldn&#8217;t try to fire him.\u00a0<\/strong>I would continue to keep pressure on and raise issues about the emails, etc.\u00a0<strong>Mueller&#8217;s playing into his hands.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Dershowitz then said Mueller was &#8220;<strong>really foolish in not seeking warrants.<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;<strong>Why not seek the warrant? Getting warrants is like getting candy at Christmas.<\/strong>\u00a0It&#8217;s very easy to get. And not getting a warrant gives the defense an opportunity to challenge it in court&#8221;<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump transition attorney Kory Langhofer wrote a letter on Saturday to two congressional committees investigating the election with claims that Mueller&#8217;s team had\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-12-16\/mueller-obtained-tens-thousands-trump-transition-emails\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">improperly obtained<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0tens of thousands of emails from the Trump Transition Team from the General Services Administration &#8211; the government agency responsible for hosting and maintaining the transition team&#8217;s &#8220;ptt.gov&#8221; email system.<\/p>\n<p>The trove of documents, which includes sensitive emails to and from Trump son-in-law and top advisor Jared Kushner, comprise 12 email accounts &#8211; one of which reportedly contains around 7,000 emails.\u00a0<strong>Mueller&#8217;s team has reportedly been using the emails as the basis for witness interviews<\/strong>, sources told\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.axios.com\/scoop-mueller-obtains-tens-of-thousands-of-trump-transition-emails-2517994590.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Axios<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Mueller&#8217;s office\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/national-security\/365318-mueller-team-defends-obtaining-trump-transition-emails\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">responded Sunday<\/a>, denying any wrongdoing. In a statement to\u00a0<em>The Hill<\/em>, a spokesman for the special counsel&#8217;s office said\u00a0\u0013When we have obtained emails in the course of our ongoing criminal investigation, we have secured either the account owner\u0012s consent or appropriate criminal process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dershowitz also pointed to\u00a0<a href=\"dershowitz: Mueller Playing Into Trump's Hands With 'Sloppy Investigation' - No Need To Fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bias on Mueller&#8217;s team<\/a>, noting that the special counsel investigation has a credibility problem after FBI counterintelligence investigator\u00a0<strong>Peter Strzok\u00a0was removed from his team for sending anti-Trump text messages to his FBI-Attorney mistress Lisa Page while the two agents were working closely on the Hillary Clinton email investigation<\/strong>. Strzok infamously downgraded the FBI&#8217;s assessment of Clinton&#8217;s mishandling of classified information from &#8220;grossly negligent&#8221; to &#8220;extremely careless,&#8221;\u00a0<strong>a move which effectively decriminalized Clinton&#8217;s behavior.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you&#8217;re going after the president, you have to be Caesar&#8217;s wife, you have to be above reproach. You can&#8217;t give the other side any ammunition, and he has given the other side plenty of ammunition,&#8221; Dershowitz said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Watch below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dershowitz Says Mueller &#039;Playing Into Trump&#039;s Hands,&#039; Should Have Obtained Warrant for Emails\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mjhYxQxgNZE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-12-18\/dershowitz-mueller-playing-trumps-hands-no-need-fire\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-12-18\/dershowitz-mueller-playing-trumps-hands-no-need-fire<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}