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Former Harvard Law Professor: Government Will ‘Cherry-Pick’ Trump Affidavit Redactions

by Jack Phillips


Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard Law professor emeritus, predicted that Department of Justice lawyers will “cherry-pick” what they want to be redacted when disclosing an affidavit that sought a search warrant on former President Donald Trump’s Florida home earlier this month.

Those redactions, Dershowitz said in a recent interview, will be unfavorable for Trump. Because they are unfavorable, the judge in the case will allow the redacted affidavit to be released, he added.

“They will not redact anything unfavorable to Trump,” Dershowitz told Newsmax on Saturday. “They will redact things that are favorable to Trump. They’ll claim national security.”

The former criminal defense attorney then predicted that Trump’s lawyers will not be allowed to be present when determining what should be redacted. The reason why is because the former president’s attorneys “would find out the names of informers,” Dershowitz explained…


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