Dershowitz: If Trump Colluded with Russia, It’s Still Not a Crime

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DERSHOWITZ: ". What happens in America is if you don’t like someone politically, lock them up, throw the key away! Each side criminalizes political differences with the other side. They did it with Hillary Clinton, with the espionage and the e-mail server, that was never going to be a real crime, and they are doing with Donald Trump. I’m against it in both instances, but I am getting such heck for my liberal Democratic friends, 'How dare you stand in the way of this prosecution and impeachment?' I will stand in the way because I don’t believe the Constitution permits the prosecution of a president, especially for obstruction of justice on the basis of him doing what he is constitutionally entitled to do, firing the director of the FBI, even telling them to terminate an investigation. As for the Russian collusion, the worst-case scenario is still not a crime. It maybe should be a crime, but there’s nothing in the statute books that would make it a crime. If Donald Trump called Putin and said, 'Hey, Putin, help me become president and I will be good to Russia,' that would be terrible, but it wouldn’t be a crime."