Get Trump

The Threat to Civil Liberties, Due Process, and Our Constitutional Rule of Law

By: Alan Dershowitz

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins

Publisher's summary

In Get Trump: The Threat to Civil Liberties, Due Process, and Our Constitutional Rule of Law, Alan Dershowitz—#1 New York Times bestselling author and one of America’s most respected legal scholars—analyzes the unremitting efforts by political opponents of Donald Trump to “get” him—to stop him from running in 2024—at any cost.

Alan Dershowitz has been called “one of the most prominent and consistent defenders of civil liberties in America” by Politico and “the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual rights” by Newsweek.

Get Trump makes clear that unconstitutional efforts to stop Trump from retaking the presidency challenge the very foundations of our liberty: due process, right to counsel, and free speech. Those who justify these dangerous departures from the rule of law argue that the threat posed by a second Trump presidency is “different” and “immediate,” while the departures from constitutional norms are longer term and more abstract.

Dershowitz explains that defenders of Trump’s constitutional rights—even those like him who strongly oppose Trump politically—are sought to be silenced; their free speech rights attacked, their integrity questioned, and their careers threatened. Much of the media substitutes advocacy against Trump for objective reporting, while many in academia petition and propagandize against rights they previously valued—all in the interest of getting Trump.

The essence of justice is that it must be equally applicable to all, Dershowitz notes. No one is above the law but digging to find crimes in order to influence an election does not constitute the equal application of the law. In order to assure equal application in comparable situations, he proposes two criteria for indicting a likely candidate of the opposing party: the Richard Nixon standard and the Hillary Clinton standard—and most recently, the Joe Biden standard.

Get Trump warns that regardless of whether this anti-democratic effort to stop Trump from running succeeds or fails, it is likely to create dangerous precedents that will lie around like loaded weapons ready to be deployed against other controversial candidates, officials, or citizens about whom it can be argued that the danger they pose “is different.”

©2023 Alan Dershowitz (P)2023 Skyhorse Audio

A must read but Democrats won’t.

A good and concise book that explains the past, present, and future in a legal and thoughtful way.

An important book to read or hear.

An outstanding example of judicial objectivity. This treatment of important national interests and lucid explanations provides foundational principles for fair and equal application of law according to the US CONSTITUTION .

Good Book

Excellent title and couldn’t be more spot on. He’s the lone true classical Liberal still standing.

Must read this one

Not written in a partisan manner but in a Constitutional manner. while I frequently disagree with the Queen policy items he does stand by his principles without fail. a true man of honor.

Excellent book-wonderfully thought provoking

Great book-finally someone stands up for justice and for the Constitution. Dershowitz calls out obvious political bias against Trump, and warns how Republicans can also use political bias to warp the law to go after political opponents.

A good reminder to us all

That the ends don’t justify the means when our constitution and civil liberties are in issue. Sticking it to a politician and partisan politics is not worth devaluing our core principles and the Bill of Rights.

Great legal insights from a true American Patriot

Thanks so much Alan for your words of wisdom; insight; constitutional knowledge; and strength to stand up and continue your mission to preserve our American legal and political system.

learning curve ahead will listen again

Mr. Durshowitz' clarification of our two party's troubling missteps of constitutional rules has explained some of the actions taken recently by various members of Congress and the president.

Same old same old with one new “revaluation”.

Continued Trump bashing but nothing really new. Love Jonathan on ABC but very typical of the Trump story.

Disappointing

Interesting points but became narcissistic. Look how great i am. Then became a screed against Trump to ingratiate himself with his MV friends.