Speaking candidly with radio host Zev Brenner on “Talkline with Zev Brenner,” Dershowitz did not hold back, stating, “It was the most anti-Jewish, anti-Israel, anti-Zionist convention I’ve experienced.” His words resonate with a growing discontent among many who feel that the party has strayed far from its roots. “I was disgusted at the Democratic National Convention. Absolutely disgusted,” he added, highlighting the alarming shift within the party.

Now, after seemingly turning a blind eye to the anti-Israel rhetoric that has permeated the Democratic ranks, Dershowitz has made it clear: “I am no longer a Democrat. I am an Independent.”

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This declaration is not just a personal choice; it reflects a broader disillusionment with a party that appears to be embracing divisive ideologies. He has indicated that he will withhold his presidential vote until after November 1, wanting to see how the current administration handles critical issues like Iran, while simultaneously urging them to support Israel.

Dershowitz’s departure was not a sudden whim; rather, it was a culmination of events that he describes as a gradual resignation from the party. “Alot of things pushed me in that direction,” he explained, pointing to Vice President Kamala Harris’s conspicuous absence during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress as a pivotal moment. This lack of support from key Democratic figures, coupled with the protest by some members who chose to skip Netanyahu’s speech, has left many questioning the party’s commitment to Israel.

The Chicago convention, however, was the final straw for Dershowitz. He specifically called out prominent figures like Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders, labeling them as anti-Israel. He also condemned Rev. Al Sharpton, who has faced accusations of antisemitism in the past. The presence of anti-Israel protesters outside the convention, calling for the destruction of Israel, only solidified his decision. “That’s not my party,” Dershowitz declared, underscoring the stark contrast between his values and those now represented by the Democratic Party.

As the Democratic Party grapples with internal divisions following the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas, it is clear that the party’s stance on Israel and its treatment of dissenting voices is under intense scrutiny. Many Democrats have been reluctant to condemn Hamas, instead placing blame on Netanyahu for Israel’s military response. This troubling trend raises critical questions about the party’s future and its commitment to fairness and justice for all.

In a political climate rife with tension and division, Dershowitz’s departure serves as a clarion call for those who value a strong, unwavering support for Israel. Will the Democratic Party heed this warning, or will it continue down a path that alienates its traditional supporters? Only time will tell, but one thing is certain: the stakes have never been higher.

“She ought to be on trial for perjury, conspiracy to commit perjury, witness tampering,” Mr. Dershowitz told Newsmax in an April 2 interview. “The evidence is overwhelming that she committed perjury, including technical scientific evidence and several witnesses.”

Mr. Dershowitz’s remarks add to those made by a number of analysts, who have said that Ms. Willis perjured herself during statements she made in court last month when she claimed her relationship with former Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade didn’t begin until after his appointment to the case against former President Donald Trump.

There have also been allegations that Ms. Willis tampered with a witness by discouraging testimony.

President Trump and over a dozen other co-defendants have been charged for allegedly seeking to illegally overturn the 2020 presidential election in Fulton County. The former president has pleaded not guilty, calling the case an underhanded attempt to thwart his 2024 comeback bid.

In January, a co-defendant of President Trump accused Ms. Willis and Mr. Wade of being in a secret relationship in which they both allegedly profited.

The pair denied any financial benefit from the relationship, while insisting they didn’t begin dating until after Mr. Wade became special prosecutor and that they broke up in the summer of 2023. While they both said that Ms. Willis either paid for things herself or used cash to reimburse him for travel expenses, they did not provide any records or receipts to back up the repayment claim.

Mr. Dershowitz previously pointed to the lack of records of repayment as a possible indication that they were lying.

“When you admit that you paid for all these trips on your credit cards, then the burden of proof shifts to the other side to demonstrate that there was payback in cash,” he said in mid-February.

“The fact that there are no records and the payments all have records but the repayments have no records gives rise to a plausible interpretation that that’s not true,” he added.

More Evidence

There’s also witness testimony pointing to possible perjury on the part of Ms. Willis.

Robin Yeartie, a former friend and co-worker of Ms. Willis, testified on Feb. 15 that she saw the two hugging and kissing long before Mr. Wade was hired in November 2021.

While Mr. Dershowitz didn’t specify what technical scientific evidence of perjury he had in mind, cell phone location data brought up in court points in that direction.

Defense attorneys submitted an affidavit from investigator Charles Mittelstadt that analyzed Mr. Wade’s cellphone data showing that he had texted and called Ms. Willis thousands of times months before he was hired in November 2021. The data also allegedly showed that he visited the neighborhood where Ms. Willis had lived numerous times in the same time period.

In regard to Mr. Dershowitz’s allegation of witness tampering, it’s likely this was in reference to a motion filed by Trump co-defendant David Shafer earlier in March. In the filing, Mr. Shafer’s attorney cited testimony from Cindi Lee Yeager, a prosecutor in nearby Cobb County, who said she had overheard Ms. Willis tell witness Terrence Bradley, Mr. Wade’s former divorce lawyer and law partner, that, “They are coming after us. You don’t need to talk to them about anything about us.”

Still, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ruled there wasn’t enough evidence to back claims that Ms. Willis benefitted financially from Mr. Wade’s appointment, although he did describe their relationship as a “tremendous lapse in judgment.”

The judge then ordered that either Ms. Willis or Mr. Wade needed to stop working on the case, with Mr. Wade later resigning.

‘Open and Shut Case of Perjury’

President Trump and several codefendants appealed Judge McAfee’s decision not to disqualify Ms. Willis, arguing in a court filing that there was “damning evidence” of a “significant appearance of impropriety” that the judge’s decision failed to rectify.

In his Tuesday interview on Newsmax, Mr. Dershowitz lent credence to this view, arguing that not only should Ms. Willis be disqualified but she should also face a criminal investigation.

“Essentially she got kickbacks for appointing this highly unqualified person to head the prosecution,” Mr. Dershowitz told the outlet.

“I sure hope the appellate court takes the case and throws her out of the case and recommends that there be a criminal investigation,” he continued, adding, “we have to have an independent prosecutor of some kind looking into what is an open and shut case of perjury.”

The Fulton County DA’s office did not respond to a request for comment on the legal scholar’s remarks.

However, Ms. Willis said in a recent CNN interview that she is “not embarrassed by anything” she’s done and stressed she did not do “anything that’s illegal.”

Ashleigh Merchant, an attorney for one of President Trump’s co-defendants, recently suggested that there is more evidence and new leads to be revealed during the appeals process.

Ms. Willis told CNN that her office has continued to work on the case throughout the disqualification hearings, calling the various allegations against her a delay tactic.

“While that was going on, we were writing responsive briefs, we were still doing the case in a way that it needed to be done. I don’t feel like we’ve been slowed down at all. I do think there are efforts to slow down this train, but the train is coming,” she told the outlet.

Smith secured a four-count indictment of Trump relating to his efforts to contest the results of the 2020 election after he previously secured a 37-count indictment against Trump in June based on an investigation into allegation surrounding classified documents, which was supplemented with a superseding indictment issued Thursday that included charges against Carlos De Oliveira, a maintenance worker at Mar-a-Lago, the Florida estate owned by former President Trump. Trump was ordered to appear before a federal magistrate Aug. 3.

“I read the indictment very carefully. There is no smoking gun,” Dershowitz said. “There is no one who is credibly prepared to testify that Donald Trump said to him, ‘I know personally, I lost the election.’ There’s a lot of evidence people told him he lost the election, but you know Donald Trump and you know he’s gonna make up his own mind and they’ll have a very hard time proving it. Now, it’s the District of Columbia, 90-someodd percent of the jury pool will have voted against him. So, they may actually get a conviction from a D.C. jury, but will it survive appellate review and review in the Supreme Court? I don’t think so.”

“This indictment strikes me as an amateurish joke. Frankly, Jack Smith, the special counsel, should be indicted for stupidity, it’s that bad,” Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said. “But he has this disreputable habit of bringing politically-driven prosecutions by contorting the law and mangling the evidence.”

Smith prosecuted then-Republican Gov. Bob McDowell of Virginia over receiving gifts, and secured a conviction on multiple charges that the Supreme Court unanimously threw out in 2015.

“I’ve never seen an indictment this messy and sloppy in my life,” former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker said. “Really at the end of the day, they are saying it is not, it should be a matter of what Donald Trump thought or didn’t think but instead, they tried to use a reasonable person test to suggest that because Director [of National Intelligence John] Radcliffe, Attorney General Barr and others had told president that he lost, somehow, no reasonable person would believe that.”

“It’s a junk indictment and it is politically motivated,” Jarrett said.

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