The Daily Beast reports:

Emeritus Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz entered the latest public spat around the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his friendship with President Donald Trump by arguing that Epstein wasn’t all that bad.

Speaking with Chris Cuomo on NewsNation on Friday, Dershowitz thought it prudent to clarify the nature of Epstein’s crimes.

“The predecessor on your show described Epstein as a convicted pedophile,” Dershowitz complained to Cuomo.

“[Epstein] pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. That’s not a pedophile.”

While Epstein is alleged to have committed far more numerous and wide-ranging crimes, the case Dershowitz is referring to is that of his 2008 plea deal, under which he served 13 months (of an 18-month sentence) in a work-release program.

However, that investigation began after accusations were made about his interactions with a 14-year-old girl, and federal officials identified 36 similarly aged girls whom Epstein allegedly abused. [Continue reading…]

In 2019, CNN reported:A woman who claims to be a victim of multimillionaire alleged pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has filed a defamation lawsuit against high-profile attorney Alan Dershowitz, claiming that he made “false and malicious” statements about her.

According to the lawsuit, which was filed in April in the Southern District of New York, Dershowitz – who used to represent Epstein – knowingly made “false and malicious defamatory statements” against Virginia Giuffre, formerly known as Virginia Roberts, who claims to have been a victim of sex trafficking and abuse by Epstein when she was underage.

Giuffre alleges in her suit that Dershowitz, 80, was a participant in Epstein’s sex trafficking operation, and that she had sex with Dershowitz as part of that operation. Giuffre has made similar allegations against Dershowitz in court filings in the past.

“Defendant Dershowitz was Epstein’s attorney, close friend, and co-conspirator. Dershowitz was also a participant in sex trafficking, including as one of the men to whom Epstein lent out Plaintiff for sex,” the lawsuit alleges. [Continue reading…]
HuffPost reports:

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Friday pushed back against President Donald Trump for saying any Republican who supports the release of documents about Jeffrey Epstein, the late sex offender who once called him his “closest friend,” is “stupid.”

Greene responded in a “CBS Mornings” interview, noting her concern is for “the victims.”

“These women have been waiting, some of them for decades,” she said. “I talked to several victims that were raped by Jeffrey Epstein back in the ’90s, and so this is information that has needed to come out for a very long time, and the American people have demanded it.”

Greene was one of only four House Republicans to support a discharge petition from Democrats on the House Oversight Committee to force a vote on the release of documents on Epstein. Trump called those Republicans “very bad” earlier in the week.

During the Friday interview, Greene said “the American people deserve to see transparency from their government” and that “rich, powerful people should not be protected.” She added that her stance is “a message” to all children, rape and human trafficking victims that the government supports them. [Continue reading…]