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Comedian Larry David and lawyer Alan Dershowitz clash in Martha’s Vineyard
Page Six reports that Larry David was seen calling Dershowitz “disgusting” for keeping close ties with former Donald Trump secretary of state Mike Pompeo.
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Actor-comedian, Larry David, seen here at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, California, the United States in this file photo. (NBAE /Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images/AFP )
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awyer for former United States president Donald Trump, Alan Dershowitz, was reportedly screamed at by comedian and former close friend Larry David. The two ran into each other at the Chilmark General Store, a grocery store in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts in the US.
Page Six reports that David was seen calling Dershowitz “disgusting” for keeping close ties with Trump’s then-secretary of state Mike Pompeo.
“He’s my former student [at Harvard Law]. I greet all of my former students that way. I can’t greet my former students?” Dershowitz replied to David, who responded with “It’s disgusting. Your whole enclave — it’s disgusting. You’re disgusting!” the Page Six article stated.
After the unfortunate exchange, Dershowitz was seen driving off.
As an attorney, Dershowitz made a name for himself for his choice of scandalous clients, among others disgraced Hollywood tycoon Harvey Weinstein, baseball player OJ Simpson who was accused of murdering his ex-wife, and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Dershowitz said he lost many friends after he decided to defend Trump during his first impeachment when the president was accused of trying to arrange a quid pro quo with the Ukrainian government. He believed that the first impeachment of Trump was unconstitutional.
Page Six contacted Dershowitz, who is quoted as saying that he helped one of David’s daughters into college and had once represented him pro bono in a legal dispute.
Dershowitz argued that being friendly toward Pompeo, who studied at Harvard Law in the early 1990s, did not make him a blind Trump supporter. He said he admired Pompeo’s work on peace in the Middle East, claiming that he had worked with Pompeo on his department’s policy regarding Israel and Palestine. For the collaboration Dershowitz had been invited to the White House by the Trump administration and Israeli government to celebrate it.
“While he [David] was writing bad jokes, I was helping to bring about peace in the Middle East,” Dershowitz said, “What has he done?”
