As
last
week
careened
into
Labor
Day
weekend,
Alan
Dershowitz
received
some
bad
news
from
the
Eleventh
Circuit,
who
affirmed
the
lower
court’s
ruling
and
kicked
Dershowitz’s
defamation
claim
against
CNN
to
the
curb.
This
is
the
saddest
Dershowiz
has
been
since
the
Martha’s
Vineyard
pierogi
stand
refused
to
sell
him
a
potato
dumpling.
Did
you
know,
that
since
PierogiGate,
Martha’s
Vineyard
turned
out
to
wait
in
line
for
pierogies
to
support
Dershowitz’s
vendor
nemesis?
USA!
USA!
Back
to
the
topic
at
hand.
Dershowitz
had
sued
CNN
in
the
wake
of
his
role
advocating
for
Donald
Trump’s
right
to
threaten
cutting
off
President
Zelenskyy
if
the
Ukrainian
leader
didn’t
scratch
Trump’s
increasingly
bloated
back
in
building
a
corruption
case
against
Joe
Biden
over
Hunter
Biden’s
job
or
something
something.
The
conspiracy
theory
was
always
stupid
and
the
geopolitical
risk
in
withholding
Ukrainian
aid
was
always
very
real
—
tragically
proven
right
soon
after
—
that
Congress
impeached
Trump
for
trying
to
use
U.S.
foreign
policy
to
fuel
his
fundraising.
Trump
survived
the
trial,
mostly
because
Democrats
did
not
have
67
seats
in
the
chamber,
but
Dershowitz
helped
too.
In
the
course
of
his
effort
to
get
Trump
off
the
hook,
Dershowitz
made
the
claim
that
presidents
can
engage
in
foreign
policy
quid
pro
quo,
even
if
the
president
is
negotiating
for
his
personal
—
and
not
the
country’s
—
gain,
so
long
as
the
president
sees
his
personal
fortunes
as
key
to
the
national
interest.
Would
that
extend
to
an
excuse
as
flimsy
and
self-serving
as
reelection?
Dershowitz
said…
quite
possibly!
[A]
complex
middle
case
is:
I
want
to
be
elected.
I
think
I
am
a
great
President.
I
think
I
am
the
greatest
President
there
ever
was,
and
if
I
am
not
elected,
the
national
interest
will
suffer
greatly.
That
cannot
be
[an
impeachable
offense].
If
the
president
does
it,
it
isn’t
illegal
as
the
saying
goes.
The
mainstream
media
jumped
on
Dershowitz
indulging
in
the
insane
theory
that
the
law
contemplates
presidents
engaging
in
foreign
policy
for
personal
gain.
Little
did
they
know
at
the
time
that
we
would
soon
have
the
Supreme
Court
endorsing
presidents
deploying
SEAL
Team
6
to
murder
political
opponents
based
on
a
president’s
subjective
faith
in
their
own
election.
Everyone
dragged
Dershowitz
for
his
suggestion
that
presidents
can
have
a
little
corruption
as
a
treat.
But
Dershowitz
complained
that
this
straightforward
interpretation
of
his
fairly
explicit
remarks
was
incorrect.
For
their
part,
CNN
brought
Dershowitz
on
to
explain.
So
he
sued
CNN
for
$300
million.
The
Eleventh
Circuit
responded
with
“LOL,
no.”