Alan Dershowitz to Newsmax: CNN 'Is Quaking in Their Boots'

Editing someone's statement to make it fraudalent is finally being challenged!

The basis for Dershowitz's lawsuit is CNN having first played a full version of his Senate impeachment statement, in which he claimed that if presidents make decision in the “public interest” — they should not be impeachable even if the decision is also politically beneficial to them.

In his defense speech for Trump, Dershowitz made clear the president could not engage in “unlawful and illegal" conduct.

But CNN cleverly edited out Dershowitz’s important qualifier, and continuously ran an edited video clip implying Dershowitz said the president could do anything and not be impeached.

“CNN presented an abridgment of Dershowitz’ answer to Senator Cruz’ question,” U.S. District Court Judge Raag Singhal wrote in his opinion. “The abridgment is not accurate, to the extent that it omitted a crucial qualification: that an illegal motive for a quid pro quo would be corrupt. As a result, the commentators’ statements – that Dershowitz believes a president can do anything, even commit crimes if it would help his re-election – are not based upon a fair and accurate summary of Dershowitz’ statement to the Senate.”