"I don't see any evidence of crimes" is also what Dershowitz says when one of his friends rapes dozens of children, though, so it might be worth getting a second set of eyes on the question.
Since the tweet above and the thread linked below are blowing up again this morning, I just want to say one thing about them.
A year ago, when I posted the original thread, and again this week, a bunch of people have suggested that Dershowitz was just doing ordinary defense attorney stuff in his work for Epstein, and shouldn't be criticized for that.
Yeah, no.
Yeah, no.
To begin with, Dershowitz's work for Epstein wasn't just standard defense attorney stuff. It included—just for instance—hiring PI's to hassle Epstein's victims, then dragging their names through the mud with the cops when they complained about it.
And I say "victim" rather than accuser here intentionally, because the child I'm discussing specifically in the above tweet was later proven to have been telling the truth when she said she'd been at Epstein's house.
(Proven how, you ask? Well, a search by the police turned up one of her high school transcripts. She was 16 when he raped her. He was fifty.)
And of course many of Epstein's victims were even younger than sixteen.
Second, this was of course no ordinary case. As recent reporting has reminded us, it was deeply corrupted by Epstein's wealth and political connections. It was a travesty of justice, and one that Dershowitz eagerly signed up to participate in.
And he did it for money, and he did it out of friendship with the monster he defended. And he's still swanning around making threats against people who dare to criticize him for it, years later.
All of which is his right. But just as he has has the right to take blood money from whoever he pleases, befriend whichever rapists he chooses, and contribute to the perversion of justice however he likes, the rest of us have the right to draw inferences based on those choices.
