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In an interview with Fox News, Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz applauded President Trump’s “bluff” in implying that he may have had tapes of his conversations with James Comey, saying it protected Trump from potential false testimony by the former FBI director.

Trump made the claim during an interview on Fox News “America’s Newsroom” on Friday, saying that he bluffed about the tapes to make sure Comey “stayed honest in those hearings,” according to The New York Times.

“I’ve been reading about it for the last couple of months, about the seriousness of the horribleness of the situation with surveillance all over the place,” Trump said. “So you never know what’s out there. But I didn’t tape, and I don’t have any tape and I didn’t tape.”
He added that the bluff “wasn’t very stupid, I can tell you that,” and that Comey’s “story may have changed” after he bluffed about the tapes.

Dershowitz said that was a good strategy for the president to protect himself.

Comey, he said, was “calculating, designing to try and get a special counsel because he didn’t have the courage to stand in front of the TV cameras and say, ‘I want a special counsel appointed.’
“He did it surreptitiously, through leaks,” Dershowitz added.

As for the bluffing strategy, Dershowitz even admitted to using it himself in his courtroom days.

“I had a policeman on the witness stand lying about what he told my client,” Dershowitz said. “I led him to believe I had a tape recording of it by reading from a transcript that seemed to be of a tape, that was actually a transcript of what my client told me he remembered. He changed his testimony, told the truth, we won the case.”

Dershowitz called it “entrapment to the interest of justice.”
It’s worth pointing out the Harvard Law professor didn’t necessarily think Trump’s strategy worked as planned.

“In the end, a special counsel was appointed, partly because Comey, who didn’t have the courage of his convictions, leaked information through a laundered source, a Columbia Law professor, in order to get a special counsel appointed,” Dershowitz said.