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Ken Starr and Alan Dershowitz are part of Donald Trump’s defense team against impeachment. They said a lot about how this trial is going to go. Starr led to the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Dershowitz and Starr will unsurprisingly join the White House counsel Pat Cipollone and the president’s personal attorney Jay Sekulowut. Starr lent his support to Christopher Kloman (a teacher who pleaded guilty to molesting several of his students). Starr was ousted as president of Baylor University in 2016 after he was alleged of turning a blind eye to allegations of sexual assault by football players on his campus. Some have criticized that the lawyer had of course pinned Clinton down for a sexual relationship.

But don’t forget Alan (the former Harvard law professor) isn’t to be outdone when it comes to defending contentious characters. Dershowitz is from OJ Simpson to Harvey Weinstein, has a list of notable cases. He has solved some very difficult cases, so it’s no wonder Trump’s impeachment trial is his next contest. Dershowitz said, “I think of myself like a doctor or a priest. If they wheel Jeffrey Epstein into the emergency ward, the doctor is going to take care of him”. But, there are allegations against the lawyer. His name crops up again and again next to Epstein. Two women claimed that they were directed to have sex with Dershowitz while the lawyer was in the toxic sphere of Jeffrey.

A powerful article of New Yorker from summer 2019 explains the allegations against the American lawyer. It includes an alleged lengthy relationship with Epstein. They flew to parties and drank champagne together. One of Epstein’s most vocal victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre said in 2014 and mentioned in a court filing that Epstein lent her out to his friends for sex, and named Dershowitz as one of them. Dershowitz has repeatedly denied all of these allegations. He also challenged Giuffre to repeat these claims to his face. Donald Trump is on trial, not Alan Dershowitz. But, these are highly skilled lawyers who know how to keep politics out of it and win.