Ex-Trump lawyer reveals 'best thing that could happen to Trump' after 'laughingstock'

Alan Dershowitz thinks a Hunter Biden acquittal would heal America as it would prove former President Donald Trump's guilty verdict to be a "laughingstock."

"The best thing that could possibly happen to Donald Trump is if Hunter Biden gets acquitted," the Harvard law professor emeritus said Monday night during an appearance on Fox News's "Hannity." "Because the evidence against Hunter Biden is so much more compelling of the legal issues which were compelling than anything against Donald Trump and it will prove beyond any doubt that this is all about where the trial was conducted. And that if you're Trump and you're tried in New York, it's automatic guilt, and if you're Biden and you're tried in Delaware — it's a different bird."

He continued: "The best thing that could possibly happen to Donald Trump is the acquittal of the Biden case... it would also be a good thing for America.

"It would uncover and disclose the horrible double standard that our criminal justice system is going through; maybe we can get some reform. Maybe we can do something about it."

Last week, Trump became the first former American president to be convicted of felony crimes when New York jurors found him guilty of all 34 charges in a conspiracy to cover up a plot to unlawfully corrupt the 2016 election by shielding six-figure hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, who said they had sex.

Trump has denied the two had an affair and vowed to appeal after he's sentenced July 11.

A jury was deliberating Monday in the federal gun case against Hunter Biden where he stands accused of using drugs but lying about it on a gun application back in 2018.

The 54-year-old also accomplished a first by being criminally prosecuted as the son of a sitting U.S. president.

For Dershowitz, who defended Trump when he was impeached back on 2019, the verdict has indelibly shaken his trust in the law itself.

"I've been able for 60 years of my life to try to defend and explain the legal system based on neutral principles," he said. "That legal system is gone. The Trump case destroyed it."

"And if there were an acquittal in this case, at least it will expose that."

Dershowitz added that America is not a pillar in the law but being pilloried after last week's conviction.

"Right now our criminal justice system is the laughingstock of the world and I feel so horrible about it," he said.