艾伦·德肖维茨(Alan Dershowitz)周日暗示，唐纳德·特朗普对乌克兰的行动将影响他在2020年选举中的投票方式，尽管这位宪法学者在参议院弹劾审判中为总统辩护。
哈佛大学退休法学教授德绍维茨在接受采访时说福克斯周日新闻主播克里斯·华莱士。记者就律师对总统有争议的辩护向他施压，然后问他是否个人认为总统的行为“有问题”。
“你是否觉得总统会以任何方式联系起来，忘记他的动机，而我并不是说这是犯罪，他对盟友的支持，甚至是对盟友调查其政治对手的军事援助，这很麻烦，很成问题？”华莱士问道。
“在选举日，作为一名公民，我将允许这一点进入我投票给谁的决定中，”德绍维茨回答说。“但这不是可弹劾的罪行，我在那里是为了辩论宪法问题，而不是告诉人们谁应该投票给总统，”他坚持说。
“我是自由民主党人，”法律专家指出。
尽管多次在媒体面前为特朗普辩护，然后在弹劾审判中，德绍维茨坚持认为他在政治上与总统不一致。他还公开表示，他在2016年投票给了前民主党总统候选人希拉里·克林顿。
在参议院的审判中，德绍维茨争辩说，如果总统是克林顿，他会提出同样的论点，而她也因类似的指控面临弹劾。
“如果我投票支持的希拉里·克林顿当选，如果共和党众议院投票以这些违宪的理由弹劾她，我也会提出同样的宪法论点，”德绍维茨上周一告诉参议院。
Dershowitz有争议的争论即使特朗普做了民主党在弹劾调查后指控的所有事情，也不会被弹劾，因为他们没有指控总统犯下具体罪行。许多法律学者和分析师不同意这位律师的断言，以及他在比尔·克林顿总统弹劾审判期间接受采访时提出相反论点的片段，广为流传。
1月29日，在华盛顿特区美国国会大厦参议院弹劾审判期间，唐纳德·特朗普总统法律团队的成员艾伦·德肖维茨律师向新闻界发表讲话
但是德绍维茨后来在推特上谈到了这种差异，他说自从1998年的采访被记录下来以来，他已经对这个问题做了进一步的研究。律师否认了他以前的言论，说他今天的观点符合对宪法的正确理解。
“因此，我现在已经彻底研究了这个问题，并得出结论，尽管可能不需要具备所有要素的技术犯罪，但类似叛国和贿赂的犯罪行为是必须的，”在参议院作证前，他在1月21日发布的一系列推文中总结道。
ALAN DERSHOWITZ ADMITS TRUMP'S ACTIONS TOWARD UKRAINE WILL AFFECT HIS DECISION ON WHO TO VOTE FOR IN 2020: 'I'M A LIBERAL DEMOCRAT'
Alan Dershowitz suggested on Sunday that Donald Trump's actions toward Ukraine would impact how he'll vote in the 2020 election, despite the constitutional scholar's defense of the president during his Senate impeachment trial.
Dershowitz, a retired Harvard law professor, made the remark during an interview with Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace. The journalist pressed the lawyer over his controversial defense of the president, before asking him if he personally believed the president's actions were "problematic."
"Do you find it troubling, problematic that a president would link in any way, forget his motive, and I'm not saying it's criminal, his support for an ally and even military aid for an ally to investigating his political opponent?" Wallace asked.
"And on Election Day, as a citizen I will allow that to enter into my decision who to vote for," Dershowitz responded. "But it's not an impeachable offense and I was there to argue a constitutional issue, not to tell people who to vote for for president," he insisted.
"I'm a liberal Democrat," the legal expert noted.
Despite repeatedly defending Trump to the media and then in his impeachment trial, Dershowitz has maintained that he does not align with the president politically. He has also said publicly that he voted for former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016.
During the Senate trial, Dershowitz argued that he would have made the same argument if the president had been Clinton, and she were facing impeachment over similar charges.
"I would be making the very same constitutional argument had Hillary Clinton, for whom I voted, been elected and had a Republican House voted to impeach her on these unconstitutional grounds," Dershowitz told the Senate last Monday.
Dershowitz controversially argued that even if Trump did all the things that Democrats had alleged following their impeachment inquiry, it would not be impeachable because they did not accuse the president of committing a specific crime. Many legal scholars and analysts disagreed with the lawyer's assertion, and a clip of him making the opposite argument in an interview during President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial was widely circulated.
Attorney Alan Dershowitz, a member of President Donald Trump's legal team, speaks to the press during the Senate impeachment trial at the U.S. Capitol on January 29 in Washington, D.C.
But Dershowitz later addressed the discrepancy on Twitter, saying that he had studied the issue further in the many years since the 1998 interview was recorded. The attorney disavowed his former remarks, saying his view today was in line with a proper understanding of the Constitution.
"So I have now thoroughly researched the issue and concluded that although a technical crime with all the elements may not be required, criminal like behavior akin to treason and bribery is required," he concluded in a series of tweets posted on January 21, ahead of his Senate testimony.
