January 22, 2020--Trump Dream Team

Trump continues to fill out his dance card of impeachment lawyers, including one former member of O.J. Simpson's dream team--Alan Dershowitz--and the most famous special counsel of them all--Bill Clinton tormentor Kenneth Starr.

True to form Trump is seeing his trial in the Senate as an opportunity to produce and script a TV reality show. Sort of like Keeping Up With the Kardashians or The Apprentice. I'm sure he's aware of the fact that the Kardashian sire was Robert Kardashian, another O.J. lawyer.

As the Trump saga continues to inflate things get curiouser and curiouser.

One curiosity being speculated about is why Trump would add to his team lawyers such as Dersh and Starr. Mostly, it is being said, because he wants them on his team because they are frequently on Fox News and are thus well known to him and his redoubtable base.

This is true but why would Trump, who has his own sparsely spoken about relationship to sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, who specialized in providing to powerful men underage girls (see picture below), why would Trump want these compromised men  serving as the most visible of his defenders?

Both Dershowitz and Starr were on Epstein's own dream team of defense attorneys in 2008 when he was convicted of sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl and procuring another for prostitution.  The lawyers did such a good job that Epstein avoided jail time and served just 13 months under house arrest. A slap on the wrist considering the heinous nature of his crimes.

In addition, the aforementioned Dershowitz was accused in 2019 by one of Epstein's under-age girls of having being directed by Epstein to provide sexual massages to the Harvard professor. The case was settled out of court with the disposition sheltered from public view. Dersh, though, has said that he "kept his underwear on." 

There have been no equivalent accusations directed at Starr though he was a key member of Epstein's legal defense team and lost his job as president of Baylor University in 2016 when he ignored sexual assaults on campus.

And let us recall that the Starr Report about his investigation of Bill Clinton was full of lurid sexual details that went way beyond what Clinton was accused of, including an entire section of the report that discussed Clinton's penis. 

One could say that Trump really knows how to put on a TV show. Or one could say that Starr and Dershowitz are fun guys for the likes of Trump to pal around with.

December 12, 2019--Dershowitz

If he can get a leave of absence from Fox News where he seems to be happily ensconced, Alan Dershowitz will likely join Trump's impeachment defense team. 

Not quite the equivalent of OJ Simpson's Dream Team, but he would eagerly sign up if Trump would agree to offer him in lieu of a fee a supply of 14 year-old girls.

Their mutual pal Jeffrey Epstein may be gone but I feel certain Trump inherited his little black book.

April 18, 2018--Poor Sean

If Sean Hannity's connection to Donald Trump's "personal lawyer" and self-acknowledged fixer, Michael Cohen, is not a big deal (as Sean claims), why then is he making such a big deal out of being outed as one of Cohen's three clients? 

He could simply have shrugged it off, saying, "Next." 

Instead, he was on TV the other night with Alan Dershowitz, who disappeared from view after serving on O.J. Simpson's Dream Team before resurfacing as a Fox News favorite and Trump flunky (All Dershowitz seems to care about these days is who he thinks will be most supportive of Israel.)

Hannity fessed up to talking to Cohen a few times but not as a lawyer, merely seeking his advice and insight about a couple of possible real estate deals. Not for the hush-treatment Cohen is famous for concocting for, among others, Stormy Daniels. Thus far, Hannity doesn't appear to require one of these. Though, stay tuned.

So, I have been wondering, what kind of deals might Hannity have sought Cohen's advice about? In the wild west world of real estate development in New York City, Cohen is hardly known as either a player or the shiniest penny.

But he does have one potential source of information, insider information about potential real estate deals--those his Don, Donald Trump is involved in.

It is thus not difficult to imagine what Hannity and Cohen might have spoken about during those encounters late in the summer of 2016, just moths before the election. Conversations they appear not to want anyone, especially prosecutors, to know about. One of these might have gone this way--

"Michael? Sean here. Got a minute?"

"For you, buddy, any time. What's happening?"

"You know how I hate the stock market and how all my investments are in real estate?"

"I know that Sean. Everyone does. You've talked about it on the air. On Fox and on the radio. I can hardly blame you. Trading stocks is like gambling in a casino."

"I just signed a contract extension with Fox and between that show and the radio I'm looking at 36 big ones next year. As in millions. So I have some spare change that I want to put somewhere. And thought . . ."

"You've come to the right place, pal. I got a couple of things that might interest you."

"I'm taking notes."

"Be sure to tear them up and swallow them when your done."

[Both laugh]

"We're not talking about this, right?" Sean said, "If anyone asks we say we were just talking about the weather."

"I already forgot you called.

[Again they both laugh]

"So what have you got for me? The deal in Dubai worked out pretty well. It included that golf course designed by Tiger."

"Well, there's another golf deal in Aberdeen, Scotland  I now you're into golf and so this could be nice. You'd own a piece and never have to wait for a tee time."

[More laughing]

"Wait, there's one more thing. You're gonna love this."

"Shoot."

"What do you think about us cutting you a piece in Trump Tower . . . Moscow?"

"Really? I thought he gave up on that one? Without Putin . . ."

"Let's just say it could be back on track."

"Who could resist that deal."

"Again, off the record. Very off the record."

"My lips are sealed."

"I just got back from . . ."

"Moscow?"

"No. That would be to chancy. This is all one-off stuff. From Prague."

"In Czechoslovakia?"

"It's now in the Czech Republic."

"And?"

"The Russians who were at the meeting were all hush, hush, wink, wink. But I got the strong feeling it'll be a go. Depending of course on what happens in November."

"I'm in," Sean said. "And I'll do all I can on the show to get out the vote."

[Lots of laughter]

"So, how's the weather out there on the island?"