Retired Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz isn't President Trump's lawyer, but he knows how to pass along advice to Trump: by sharing it on television.
Dershowitz appeared on ABC's This Week Sunday morning, and said he wanted to give Trump some guidance. "Don't fire, don't pardon, don't tweet, and don't testify," he said. If Trump had already listened to this advice, he addded, "he'd be in less trouble than he is today."
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Dershowitz said Trump really doesn't need to be too concerned about the Mueller investigation, which is also looking into potential obstruction of justice and collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, but he should keep his eye on federal prosecutors in New York who last week reportedly granted immunity to Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg and Trump friend and CEO of American Media Inc. David Pecker. Prosecutors in Manhattan are said to be investigating the hush money payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels by Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal lawyer, and how this money was reimbursed to Cohen by the Trump Organization.
"I think he has constitutional defenses to the investigation being conducted by Mueller," Dershowitz said. "But there are no constitutional defenses to what the Southern District [of New York] is investigating. So, I think the Southern District is the greatest threat."
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