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From the August 15, 2022, edition of One America News

JOHN HINES (HOST): What's going on with this FBI raid of his house and Florida? What do you make of that? Is this is this as extraordinary is a lot of people are saying?

ALAN DERSHOWITZ, FORMER TRUMP IMPEACHMENT LAWYER (GUEST): Well, it's not only extraordinary by my standards, it's extraordinary by the standards that were articulated by Attorney General Garland. He talked about equal treatment of the law. This is not equal with the way Hillary Clinton was treated or the way Sandy Berger was treated. This is not the use of the least restrictive way of searching for things as Garland said generally, the standard the Justice Department demands. There was an outstanding subpoena, they were negotiating about it. If the Justice Department didn't like the way the negotiations we're going, they just enforce the subpoena. They go to court nine in the morning and say by 10AM, please have the boxes over here, subject to a subpoena.

And you can't evade a subpoena. You can challenge parts of it under the fifth amendment grounds, on fourth amendment grounds, you can challenge it on grounds of privilege, but you know, the purpose of government is not to circumvent the constitution and get around the fourth and fifth and sixth amendments by searching. It's to enforce the constitution, and there's no justification - even if there were nuclear secrets, they were secure. They were in the basement, with a key. If the government didn't think they were secure, subpoena them, have them brought immediately to the courthouse where they could be put under lock and key. And the best proof that it's not the fact that there were nuclear secrets, is they didn't search for months. They didn't enforce the subpoena for months. If it was so important, why did they let it linger for such a long time while they were negotiating? The argument is a phony argument. That is, they should have used a subpoena, not a search, And I would make the same argument if it were Hillary Clinton, or some other Democrat.