Alan Dershowitz claims Obama would only come to his 75th birthday on Martha's Vineyard - if he disinvited Geraldo Rivera
Lawyer Alan Dershowitz revealed Monday that President Barack Obama would only attend his 75th birthday if he disinvited Fox News Channel host Geraldo Rivera.
Dershowitz, who represented President Donald Trump during his first impeachment, appeared on The Charlie Kirk Show and talked about how he's been treated by liberal friends for continuing to side with the former president.
He told the conservative Kirk that his defense of Trump 'cost me a great deal,' arguing that 'people have lost all sense of decency when it comes to having different points of view' and characterized those on the left as being especially petty.
Dershowitz said that for his 75th birthday in 2013, 'President Obama was invited and he said he would come, but then when he heard that Geraldo Rivera was invited too, basically his office said, unless you disinvite Geraldo Rivera I'm not coming.'
'And I'm a loyal guy, I said to the president of the United States no, Geraldo Rivera is coming, you can stay away, and the president of the United States stayed away from my 75th birthday because I invited Geraldo Rivera,' Dershowitz recalled.
Appearing on The Charlie Kirk show on Monday, lawyer Alan Dershowitz said that President Barack Obama refused to attend his 75th birthday, 10 years ago, because he had invited Fox News Channel's Geraldo Rivera
The White House had asked Alan Dershowitz to disinvite Fox News' Geraldo Rivera (left) if the lawyer wanted President Barack Obama (right) to attend his 75th birthday in 2013
The former lawyer of O.J. Simpson and Harvey Weinstein added that he 'would do that any day of the week.'
'I believe in loyalty. I believe in friendships. I don't agree with Geraldo on everything, but he's my friend, so of course I invited him to my 75th birthday and I'm inviting him to my 85th birthday,' Dershowitz continued.
The lawyer will turn 85 on September 1.
Like the Obamas, Dershowitz is a regular on Martha's Vineyard, but talked about how he's been shunned as of late.
'My former friends on the radical left, one of them was walking yesterday on the beach and he saw me coming and he took a sharp right turn, went up to the top of the dunes, I thought he'd fall off to avoid even seeing me - and that's the way it is today,' Dershowitz said.
'And the library has cancelled me, my synagogue has cancelled me. The community center has cancelled me. The book show on Martha's Vineyard - I'm probably the best-selling author on Martha's Vineyard and they cancelled me,' he continued.
'It's just that they don't want to hear opposing points of view - that's not liberals - it's called progressive, but it's regressive,' the lawyer added.
At another point in the show, Dershowitz told Kirk he still thinks himself a liberal.
He noted how he supports gay rights, abortion, gun control and environmental protection, within reason.
But he still believed Trump was getting a raw deal.
Dershowitz pushed that all of the legal proceedings against the former president should be paused until after the 2024 presidential election.
'There ought not be a trial that takes place during the election. That really does constitute - whether it's deliberate or not - election interference,' Dershowitz argued.
Source: Daily Mail
