The Department of Justice (DOJ) is likely attempting to ensnare former President Donald Trump on obstruction of justice charges, predicted Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz.
“The only possible case that they could consider making against the former president and a future presidential candidate—it’s not going to be mishandling of classified information—it would be the Nixon crime: obstruction of justice,” he said in a recent interview with Newsmax, referring to former President Richard Nixon.
Dershowitz pointed to a recent disclosure that empty folders were allegedly discovered by FBI agents during the Aug. 8 raid targeting Trump’s Mar-a-Lago.
“And the only way you get an obstruction of justice conviction—and I don’t think there’s any evidence of it now—is to show that there was willful and deliberate destruction of subpoenaed material, which is what happened in the Nixon case….