President Donald Trump lavished praise Tuesday on Alan Dershowitz – a longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein and lawyer who helped secure Epstein’s unprecedentedly lenient plea deal in 2008 for child abuse – after Dershowitz floated a plan to help Trump expunge his 2019 impeachment.
“Alan, one of the greats, should do it!” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social in reference to Dershowitz's proposal on how to expunge the president’s 2019 impeachment.
Trump was impeached in 2019 after the House found that the president had solicited foreign interference in the 2020 election, but, according to Dershowitz, Trump could ask Congress – which is currently controlled by Republicans – to expunge the impeachment.
Dershowitz was not only Epstein’s attorney, but a close friend, according to reporting from The New Yorker. Their friendship was so strong that Epstein was the “only person outside his family whom he trusted to evaluate drafts of his books,” the New Yorker reported.
Like Epstein, Dershowitz has also faced allegations of assault, most notably from Virginia Giuffre, who claimed that Dershowitz had abused her when she was 17, an allegation Dershowitz has fiercely denied. Dershowitz has not faced any criminal charges related to the allegation.
In 2019, Dershowitz admitted to having received a massage by an adult woman at Epstein’s New York mansion in an interview with a local Florida news station, but claimed “I kept my underwear on during the massage,” and has continued to deny any wrongdoing.