Former Bill Clinton special prosecutor Ken Starr and part-time celebrity lawyer, full-time lawyer-celebrity Alan Dershowitz are joining forces to defend yet another billionaire sex pest. On Friday, the White House announced that Donald Trump has hired both ex-Jeffrey Epstein lawyers to defend him in his Senate impeachment trial. They’ll be joined by Robert Ray, another Clinton prosecutor; former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi; White House counsel Pat Cipollone and Jay Sekulow; and former lawyer Jane Raskin.

Since the resurrection of Epstein’s name in the news cycle, new scrutiny has been directed at Starr for assisting in his grossly lenient 2008 plea deal, which Starr helped set up after investigators charged the billionaire with multiple counts of unlawful sex with minors and prostitution charges. Dershowitz’s involvement with Epstein goes a step further. While he was once best known for helping to successfully defend alleged wife killer O.J. Simpson and alleged attempted wife killer Claus von Bülow, he has spent the past year in the spotlight not just for helping with the plea deal that allowed Epstein to continue his serial abuse of minors, but for participating in the abuse himself, according to some of Epstein’s alleged victims. (Dershowitz denies these allegations, claiming he has only had a “perfect, perfect sex life,” an extremely normal characterization.)

Dershowitz helped negotiate the part of the plea deal—pushed through by then U.S. attorney for Southern District of Florida Alex Acosta, who stepped down as Trump’s labor secretary in July—that granted total immunity to four named co-conspirators and any unnamed “potential co-conspirators.” One of Epstein’s victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, says the lawyer’s true intent was to cover up the abuse he committed alongside Epstein. Giuffre’s lawyers are attempting to uncover the full extent of Dershowitz’s relationship with Epstein by forcing him to release their private communications. While Dershowitz has maintained his innocence, he has admitted to receiving a “massage” in Epstein’s residence by a woman who was purportedly of age.

The deal ultimately allowed Epstein to plead guilty to a single charge of procuring a minor. His subsequent imprisonment in a luxe private suite in a low-security detention center made Pablo Escobar’s resort-style sentence look like Rikers. Moreover, it allegedly allowed him to continue abusing young girls. (A federal judge has since ruled that prosecutors breached the rights of Epstein’s victims by keeping them in the dark about his sweetheart arrangement.) Starr, too, played a role in negotiating the deal. He has since defended his work for Epstein by insisting that the allegations against the billionaire are “vastly exaggerated,” and “there was no international sex trafficking operation,” despite Epstein’s indictment for pervasive sex trafficking weeks before his death.

All of this, according to Axios, was enough to freak out White House officials. “Several” told the outlet they were hoping that Trump wouldn’t tap Dershowitz: “They said it was an unforced error given the team was already strong and he has close, publicly documented ties to Epstein, which could become a distraction.” But the president apparently wouldn’t hear it, and insisted on hiring the lawyer because he thinks he is “magnificent on TV.” Dershowitz has made dozens of appearances on Fox News laying out the case for Trump’s innocence during both Robert Mueller’s probe and the ongoing Ukraine scandal. Per Media Matters, he, Starr, and Ray logged a combined total of hundreds of Fox hits in just the past year. It’s possible that Trump—who has his own Epstein ties, and has been accused of sexual misconduct by more than 20 women—is unaware of the pall they cast on the somber, speedy trial Mitch McConnell is gunning for. But it’s more likely he’s thrilled by it.

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