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Arresting or Convicting Trump Won't Keep Him Out of 2024 Race

https://www.theepochtimes.com/alan-dershowitz-arresting-or-convicting-trump-wont-keep-him-out-of-2024-race_4668498.html
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/dershowitz-trump-2024/2022/08/16/id/1083312/

Former President Donald Trump will likely not be arrested on charges
stemming from the FBI's raid last week, according to a former Harvard Law
School professor.

"Yes, it's possible [but] I don't think it's going to happen," Alan
Dershowitz told Newsmax on Tuesday about whether Trump would be arrested.
People who believe that prosecution and an indictment would keep Trump
away from the 2024 campaign are "dead wrong," he remarked.

"He can run for president even if he's indicted, convicted, and wearing
striped shirts, prison garb," he added to the channel. "The Constitution
provides only four bases for disqualification for president, and being
convicted of a crime is not one of them. Congress can't change the
criteria that are in the Constitution for the election of the president."

Echoing statements made by Trump and some Republicans, Dershowitz said
the affidavit used to justify the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago should be
released.

"You can redact the names of agents, you can redact sources and methods,
but what we want to know is what the basis of probable cause that they
have," he said.

A U.S. magistrate judge in the case, Bruce Reinhart, ordered the unsealing
of a warrant and property receipt. The warrant shows Trump is under
federal investigation for possibly several U.S. Code violations, while the
receipt shows agents found allegedly classified and top secret material at
Trump's home.

Affidavit

Reinhart scheduled a Thursday hearing on whether the affidavit and other
materials related to the case should be released.

Lawyers for the Department of Justice on Monday argued that releasing the
affidavit would damage the agency's investigation and argued that
unsealing a version with redactions "would not serve any public interest."
Several media outlets, watchdogs, and other entities have filed motions to
release the affidavit.

“Disclosure of the government’s affidavit at this stage would also
likely chill future cooperation by witnesses whose assistance may be
sought as this investigation progresses, as well as in other high-profile
investigations,” the Justice Department wrote. “The fact that this
investigation implicates highly classified materials further underscores
the need to protect the integrity of the investigation and exacerbates the
potential harm if information is disclosed to the public prematurely or
improperly.”

The former president on Monday said that FBI agents took three passports
from him before a spokesperson confirmed that a Department of Justice
official said they were returned. Hours later, he called for the Justice
Department to release the affidavit, which would provide insight into why
the Department of Justice believes it is justified in trying to obtain the
search warrant.

"There is no way to justify the unannounced RAID of Mar-a-Lago, the home
of the 45th President of the United States ... in the interest of
TRANSPARENCY, I call for the immediate release of the completely
Unredacted Affidavit pertaining to this horrible and shocking BREAK-IN.
Also, the Judge on this case should recuse!" Trump wrote on Truth Social.