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The top trending topic on my Twitter right now is Alan Dershowitz which is an unusual candidate for top honors in a world where there’s a pandemic, protests, and 90 Day Fiancé marathons. Whenever someone starts to trend out of nowhere, there’s a moment of weightlessness where anything is possible. What happened?
But eventually all possibilities must collapse on Schrodinger’s Twitter feed so let’s figure out what’s got his unfortunately infamous knickers in a twist.
From mid-afternoon until around 9 yesterday evening, Dershowitz, who isn’t known for being a rapid-fire tweeter like his buddy Donald Trump, tweeted eight times about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, repeating his claims that Virginia Giuffre is falsely accusing him — a claim that has gotten him sued — and dragging Netflix into the fray.
This “wrong… simply wrong” thing is one of Dershowitz’s favorite arguments to raise and one that Giuffre’s lawyer, David Boies, has denied.
The way this is phrased, it suggests that Giuffre accused Gore of improprieties, which she didn’t. Her claim in the memoir was to have met the Gores on Epstein’s island though it seems as if they never went to the island. But no one is denying that Gore met and interacted with Epstein over the years. Of all the things to use as a cudgel against her credibility, “she had the wrong mansion” seems like a weird one.
That sound you heard was the Biebs saying, “Don’t drag me into this, old man.”
He misspelled Giuffre’s name too.
Also, why did he bring his family to this guy’s sex island? Even if he didn’t know it was a sex island, that seems like an odd move for a lawyer. In any event, for some reason the Dersh felt we all needed to know this last night completely out of the blue and apropos of nothing.
Just a tsunami of defensive tweets for no reason when literally no one was talking about this case anymore.
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