re: Dershowitz on Tucker now..

Dershowitz said their visit was right after Epstein purchased the island. So it probably had just not earned that reputation yet at the time. So that being the case (if accurate) then we're simply talking about a free tropical vacation for Dershowitz and his family, having no cause to suspect anything nefarious going on otherwise.

Well. There it is.

If you argue that he's guilty then I'm sure he's smart enough to try and provide himself cover. By taking his family it's a lot harder to believe he'd be doing these things with them there than if he just sneaked over there alone

Doc Doogan, you're right, it's an unfortunate look at the current time when combined with these allegations. No doubt. But a couple of things to remember are that he's a criminal defense attorney who dealt then and still deals in mitigating damages for clients accused of things like that. So his authorship of that article was squarely in line with his professional station in life.

And as PaperTiger mentioned, Dershowitz was exclusively talking about statutory rape wherein there was factual consent by the alleged victim, but in the eyes of the law there was not legal consent only due to age. I took from the article that he was questioning the premise behind setting an arbitrary age number on that, and it does ring true in those high school senior with a underclass girlfriend situations. But he also stated that there should be no disagreement that there is indeed an age cutoff, perhaps just no less than 15. And sure, even that would sound wild to some people, and I certainly understand such a position.

Emily Compagno on Sensei Hannity tonight. Holy frick... hot

I actually respect Dershowitz and think he is a brilliant legal mind- but my biggest criticism of him is he is way too academic at times and doesn't always grasp the appearance aspects of presenting a case (or that a lawyer representing himself has a fool for a client).

So I agree to an extent with what he was saying in that article, but he apparently forgot about it completely in his self-defense or the impact it could have on his attack-his-former-billionaire-client's-victim-defense.

He also didn't consider being impeached by savvy sleuths like Frogglet who scooped 23 year old articles from the bowels of the internet.

That's what I keep saying, that he stated he and family's visit there was so soon right after Epstein purchased the island that it completely reasonable to believe that the island had not gained that reputation yet. If there hadn't began the vile activities at the island at the time of their visit, for what reason would Dershowitz have declined an invitation like that? It wasn't yet Pedo Island....it was still just Regular Tropical Island at that point.

I'd have thought by now that people, especially those who would claim to support Trump, would be severely skeptical of sexual misconduct allegations without any other credible corroborating evidence.....specifically in light of what we've seen of the same nature thrown at Trump, Kavanaugh, etc.

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It was frickin Pedo Island dude not Destin.

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Some of you have pretty active imaginations

no one has actually alleged pedophilia, or no one who knows what the word means anyway.

Do you suppose there were prepubescents hanging from trees to be picked at random?

Julie Brown is an investigative journalist at the Miami Herad & wrote a book about Jeffrey Epstein which was then made into a series at HBO.