Hewson's View: A very Trumpian response on sports rorts

By John Hewson
Updated July 2 2021 - 3:26am, first published February 6 2020 - 7:00pm
Defending the indefensible: Prime Minister Scott Morrison is following the lead of US President Donald Trump in his handling of the sports rorts affair. Photo: Aaron Schwartz, Shutterstock.com
Defending the indefensible: Prime Minister Scott Morrison is following the lead of US President Donald Trump in his handling of the sports rorts affair. Photo: Aaron Schwartz, Shutterstock.com

Alan Dershowitz, Emeritus Harvard Professor in constitutional and criminal law, and a key member of Trump's impeachment defence team, has famously said: "The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defence attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth". It is obvious that he set out to muddy the impeachment waters by making a statement in Trump's defence in the Senate impeachment trial, that was initially interpreted as saying that a president can do anything if he believes that his election is in the public interest to get re-elected - it is reasonable for a public official to equate what is in their own political interest with the public good.

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