Lawyer Alan Dershowitz on Friday complained about Americans who take issue with the fact that the federal magistrate who signed off on a warrant allowing the FBI to raid the home of 45th President Donald Trump, Bruce Reinhart, was a lawyer for several associates of deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Dershowitz, who regularly defends Republicans and their causes despite his own relationship with billionaire pedophile Epstein, said on Newsmax that Americans should “stop picking on the judge” due to his Epstein ties, and condemned what he called “anti-Semetic attacks” made against the magistrate.
“Stop picking on the judge,” said Dershowitz. “The magistrate judge, they always approve search warrants. I’m sure the words were correct. Don’t blame him.”
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“There’s been in, the media, a lot of anti-Semitic attacks on him. McCarthyite attacks on him. Blaming him for being one of the lawyers for Jeffrey Epstein’s secretary,” Dershowitz added.
Dershowitz, who personally represented Epstein himself, then asked Americans to “blame” him instead.
“Want to blame people? Blame me, I was Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer,” he said. “If you trust me to do justice, don’t attack the judge.”
Dershowitz on Newsmax: “Stop picking on the judge! There’s been a lot of anti-semitic attacks on him. McCarthyite attacks on him. Blaming him for being one of the lawyers for Jeffrey Epstein’s secretary. Want to blame people? Blame me, I was Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer.” pic.twitter.com/iWagY3ggsN
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) August 11, 2022
Prior to becoming a federal magistrate in Florida and signing a warrant allowing the FBI to raid the home of the 45th president, Judge Reinhart had represented various “employees” of convicted human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. In 2007, his Epstein-associated clients received immunity in the wide scale sex-trafficking investigation of the high-profile late pedophile.
These included Epstein’s personal pilots, his activity scheduler Sarah Kellen, and his self described “Yugoslavian sex slave” Nadia Marcinkova, according to Reinhart.
Reinhart had worked for South Florida US Attorney’s Office until New Years day 2008, and left his government job to represent Epstein’s associates on the very next day.
Reinhart’s clients, Kellen and Marcinkova, who were considered by law enforcement to be among Epstein’s lieutenants, both received immunity as part of a 2007 deal with federal prosecutors.
Bruce Reinhart and Jeffrey Epstein (Twitter / Composite)
Reinhart was later named in a civil lawsuit in which he was accused being in violation of Justice Department policies “by switching sides in the middle of the Epstein investigation, suggesting he had used inside information about the probe to build favor with the notorious defendant.”
Reinhart denied any wrongdoing and insisted that didn’t he know of any inside information or was involved in Epstein’s federal case in a 2011 affidavit.
His former colleagues would later dispute his denials and claim that he “learned confidential, non-public information about the Epstein matter” in a 2013 court filing.
In response, Reinhart told the media that a “complaint filed against him by a lawyer for Epstein’s victims had been dismissed by the Justice Department.”
