Harvey Silverglate
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that this is a guy who represented such, I call them distasteful figures, as Klaus von Bulow, as Mike Tyson, as O.J.
Simpson, as Sheldon Siegel.
And when he was considered to be a skillful lawyer, made his reputation,
And then he represents Donald Trump, who, to my knowledge, never killed anybody.
And he's suddenly shunned.
I thought the hypocrisy of it, the political preening, it was very distasteful to me.
And it was not only because he was my friend.
If he wasn't my friend, I think I'd have the same view.
The holier-than-thou nonsense, the hypocrisy of it.
They wouldn't talk to him on Martha's Vine, though.
Alan and I are different.
I'm not so sensitive.
Someone doesn't want to talk to me, no problem, no problem at all.
But Alan is, considering how controversial his life has been,
He's somewhat sensitive.
He's somewhat sensitive.
He's absolutely right.
Because these attempted, for example, the prosecution, the one prosecution that has been brought now, Alvin Bragg in Manhattan, I have looked at that and I don't believe that Trump has committed a crime.
And yet, Bragg was pressured to bring that.
People in his office were threatening to quit if he didn't indict.