{"id":1439,"date":"2023-05-16T14:16:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T14:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/05\/16\/dershowitz-on-durham\/"},"modified":"2023-05-16T14:16:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T14:16:10","slug":"dershowitz-on-durham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/05\/16\/dershowitz-on-durham\/","title":{"rendered":"Dershowitz on Durham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dianebrady\/2023\/05\/16\/alan-dershowitz-on-the-durham-report-good-people-doing-bad-things\/?sh=5289ce5048d7\">Forbes<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">The basic conclusions reached by the Durham report mirror the thesis of my book&#0160;<a aria-label=\"Get Trump\" class=\"color-link\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.skyhorsepublishing.com\/9781510777811\/get-trump\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhorsepublishing.com\/9781510777811\/get-trump\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.skyhorsepublishing.com\/9781510777811\/get-trump\/\"><em data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.skyhorsepublishing.com\/9781510777811\/get-trump\/\">Get Trump<\/em><\/a>: namely that good people have been willing to do bad things in order to prevent Donald Trump from being elected (or reelected) as president. These good people honestly believe that the noble (at least in their view) end in \u201cgetting\u201d Trump and preventing him from being president justifies ignoble means, including mendacity and violation of long-established principles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">There can be no doubt that the Durham report is correct in having concluded that government officials \u2013 from the top down \u2013 viewed the evidence (or lack thereof) through the prism of resolving all doubts against Trump and in favor of his opponents. This was not so much a partisan bias, favoring Democrats over Republicans, because some of the worst offenders are Republicans who honestly believe that the Trump presidency endangered the national security of the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes: The basic conclusions reached by the Durham report mirror the thesis of my book&#0160;Get Trump: namely that good people have been willing to do bad things in order to prevent Donald Trump from being elected (or reelected) as president. These good people honestly believe that the noble (at least in their view) end in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/05\/16\/dershowitz-on-durham\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dershowitz on Durham&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}