“I wasn’t wrong. I am just far more correct now than I was then.”

— Alan M. Dershowitz

Interview on Ac360, CNN (January 20, 2020)
<nowiki>'</nowiki>I Have a More Sophisticated Basis for My Argument': Dershowitz, Backing Trump, Denies Flip-Flop on Impeachment https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2020/01/21/i-have-a-more-sophisticated-basis-for-my-argument-dershowitz-backing-trump-denies-flip-flop-on-impeachment/, law.com (January 21, 2020)

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