{"id":2120,"date":"2026-08-18T12:30:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commercialrelocationpros.com\/?p=2120"},"modified":"2026-08-18T12:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:30:39","slug":"alan-dershowitz-wont-forget-what-larry-david-did-to-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commercialrelocationpros.com\/?p=2120","title":{"rendered":"Alan Dershowitz Won\u2019t Forget What Larry David Did to Him"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here it is<\/span>, August on Martha\u2019s Vineyard, and Alan Dershowitz has barely been heard from.<\/p>\n

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Well, that\u2019s not exactly true. He has been heard from on many topics\u2014because Dershowitz is who he is, and pretty much anyone can join Substack, and TV bookers can be hard to resist. Still, he has said little publicly about the maddening injustice he\u2019s faced in recent years: his annual summer shunning at the hands of the island\u2019s liberal social gentry. Has this perennial comedy of ill manners\u2014the Vineyard cancellation of Alan Dershowitz\u2014finally run its course?<\/p>\n

The story has become a familiar seasonal menace; as pernicious as ticks, and as hard to kill. Its particulars are known. Dershowitz, the inexhaustible Harvard Law professor who represented a gallery of notorious clients over several decades, was once a kibitzing dynamo here. But that was before the blacklists and the badgering.<\/p>\n

In his telling (and retelling), Dershowitz became socially radioactive during Donald Trump\u2019s first term, when he began speaking out on the president\u2019s behalf, and then joined his first impeachment defense team. Although he did not personally support Trump\u2014he\u2019d been a lifelong Democrat who\u2019d voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and would support Joe Biden in 2020\u2014his stock explanation was that everyone is entitled to legal representation. It was the same basic principle he had applied when representing the likes of Mike Tyson, O. J. Simpson, Claus von B\u00fclow, and, more recently, Jeffrey Epstein. It was no different, in fact, than the occasion of Dershowitz\u2019s first-ever visit to Martha\u2019s Vineyard, in 1969, when he was enlisted to help in the defense of Ted Kennedy after his late-night accident at Chappaquiddick.<\/p>\n

Yet defending Trump was apparently too noxious for Dershowitz\u2019s reputation. \u201cI never thought I would see McCarthyism come to Martha\u2019s Vineyard,\u201d he lamented in a column in The<\/em> Hill<\/em> in 2018. According to Dershowitz, locals have urged his exclusion from various Vineyard businesses and institutions. Every summer, it seems, has brought a new episode in ostracism, cold shoulders in the hot sun.<\/p>\n

There was the Great Pierogi Incident last year at the West Tisbury farmers\u2019 market, in which a vendor refused to sell half a dozen dumplings to Dershowitz, citing his representation of \u201cseveral sexual predators and abusers, including Jeffrey Epstein.\u201d Dershowitz claimed that he was being discriminated against over his vocal support for Israel and initiated a follow-up spectacle a week later in which the vendor, Krem Miskevich, refused to accept a signed copy of one of Dershowitz\u2019s books (The Ten Big Anti-Israel Lies<\/em>) as a peace offering.<\/p>\n

In 2022, Dershowitz said he\u2019d received a fan email from a reader who alleged that he\u2019d been beaten up at the beach (he did not specify where) just for carrying a copy of a book written by Dershowitz. \u201cWithout warning, I was slugged and punched in the face,\u201d the man wrote to Dershowitz, who reprinted the unverified email on Substack in a post titled \u201cEmail From a Man Who Got Beaten Up for Reading My Book.\u201d<\/p>\n

And then there was the infamous clash at the Chilmark General Store with Dershowitz\u2019s now very-much-ex-friend Larry David. In the annals of Dershowitz\u2019s social spiral on the Vineyard, this conflagration has taken on almost-mythic dimensions, like his own personal Stalingrad. Dershowitz was sitting on the porch of the store with another friend, \u201cwho happened to be a very kind of radical woke lefty from New York, but very tolerant,\u201d he told me. David was not very tolerant, at least of Dershowitz. He walked onto the porch, refused to shake Dershowitz\u2019s hand, called him \u201cdisgusting,\u201d and stormed off. Dershowitz said at the time that David was so irate, Dershowitz worried that the comedian might suffer a stroke.<\/p>\n

That unpleasantness on the porch, memorialized on Page Six<\/em>, took place five summers ago. But Dershowitz talks about it as if it were yesterday.<\/p>\n

On a recent Saturday, I ventured north from Washington for a little hardship duty in Chilmark, the preciously pastoral town on the western side of the island where Dershowitz has owned a home since 1991. I approached him first by email, telling Dershowitz that I was curious about his current social standing on the Vineyard and how things were going for him this summer. The subject matter could be freshly topical, I figured, because his two most prominent clients\u2014Trump and Epstein\u2014are more toxic than ever. To my surprise, Dershowitz agreed to speak with me.<\/p>\n

Actually, I was not surprised.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can meet<\/span> on the porch for a slice,\u201d he proposed.<\/p>\n

Dershowitz, who turns 88 next month, has been presiding from the rocking chairs of the Chilmark General Store for decades, juggling pizza and discourse. When I arrived, I found him wearing a bright-red T-shirt with the words Proud American<\/span> over an Israeli flag and an American one, each in the shape of a heart. He told me that he\u2019d asked his wife, Carolyn Cohen, to join us but she had no interest. \u201cShe said, \u2018I\u2019m so sick and tired of this subject,\u2019\u201d he told me. Dershowitz conceded that he, too, is weary of it. \u201cBut, you know, it\u2019s important that people get the whole context,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The whole context, in 2026, is basically this: Dershowitz says he has started a new life on the Vineyard. But just because his persecution tale has become an island eye-roll does not mean that it has subsided. Especially, according to Dershowitz, in his own, bucolic neighborhood. \u201cHere in Chilmark, it\u2019s 90 percent negative,\u201d Dershowitz reported to me. That reception contrasts with what he gets in Miami Beach, where he spends his winters and where, he said, he is treated \u201cwonderfully.\u201d He is \u201ctreated very well\u201d even in the more heavily trafficked Vineyard towns on the other side of the island. \u201cIn Edgartown and even Oak Bluffs, the African American community, I\u2019m treated very well,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s all Chilmark. And it\u2019s all Jewish, anti-Zionist.\u201d<\/p>\n

I noted that he can at least still hold court at the Chilmark General Store. But he argued with my choice of the term holding court<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI used to\u2014not anymore,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t hold court anymore?\u201d I asked, as he arguably held court. \u201cWhat is this?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re interviewing me,\u201d he said. In the past, it would have been a high-end conclave. \u201cNormally, we would have this whole area,\u201d he said, motioning to a group of rocking chairs on one side of the porch. \u201cI would have Larry David here,\u201d he said. \u201cTed Danson was here sometimes,\u201d he added. \u201cThe guy who did Ghostbusters<\/em>\u2014he died a few years ago\u2014he was here.\u201d (This was Harold Ramis, who died in 2014.)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole crew of Chilmark friends, I would say, 20 or so, no longer talk to me,\u201d Dershowitz said.<\/p>\n

He pointed next door to the Chilmark Tavern, one of his favorite restaurants on the Vineyard, where he claims that some of his vacation nemeses are trying to get him banned. \u201cA bunch of people went to the Chilmark Tavern and said If you continue to serve Dershowitz, we\u2019re not coming here<\/em>,\u201d he insisted.<\/p>\n

I was skeptical of this. \u201cAsk her; you can check with her,\u201d he said. \u201cJenny.\u201d When I contacted Jenna Petersiel, the proprietor of the Chilmark Tavern, she told me that she\u2019d assumed that The Atlantic<\/em> wanted to speak with her about the challenges of running a restaurant, or ticks. \u201cA discussion of Alan Dershowitz had not crossed my mind,\u201d she said, declining to comment otherwise. Dershowitz also told me of an event he had attended on the Chilmark Tavern deck not long ago. A woman got out of her car, he claimed, \u201csaw I was up there, turned around, and went back to her car.\u201d<\/p>\n

He appears to have a limitless supply of such stories, in part because it seems as if Dershowitz initiates a fair number of confrontations himself. The week before our conversation, he had returned to the hallowed cultural battleground of the Pierogi Wars, the West Tisbury farmers\u2019 market. He was wearing his U.S.-Israel shirt (or \u201cmy Zionist T-shirt,\u201d of which he has two\u2014one red, one blue) and saw a guy wearing a Free Palestine<\/span> shirt. \u201cI walked up to him. I said, \u2018Can we take a picture together?\u2019\u201d The man refused. \u201cHe said, \u2018No, no, no Israel,\u2019 and he walked away.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dershowitz believes that many of his old Vineyard friends revile him for calling out the \u201canti-Zionist\u201d and \u201cradical\u201d bent of the progressive left. He showed me his phone and cued up what he calls \u201cmy daily love note.\u201d This one was an unsolicited email he\u2019d just received, with \u201cGENOCIDAL ZIONIST ISRAEL!\u201d in the subject line; he kindly forwarded the note to me. \u201cThey always combine Zionism with pedophilia,\u201d Dershowitz observed of his correspondents.<\/p>\n

A few times during our conversation, I questioned Dershowitz about whether people really reject him because of his Zionist views or whether it might involve something more comprehensive: him being Alan Dershowitz. His position on the Middle East seems farther down the list of reasons that people might not like him than his affiliations with Trump and Epstein and his overall reputation, accrued over decades.<\/p>\n

But Dershowitz claims, for instance, that he\u2019s no longer asked to speak at the Martha\u2019s Vineyard Book Festival because \u201cthey censor anybody they disagree with.\u201d (A spokesperson for the book festival told me in an email that Dershowitz\u2019s claim is \u201ccompletely false\u201d and that \u201cthe festival line up over the past two decades hardly reflects a narrow or excluding agenda.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\u201cI personify what the woke hates,\u201d Dershowitz said. Before I could ask him what, exactly, \u201cthe woke\u201d is, he explained that he is now seen as a \u201ctraitor\u201d to the Democratic Party. The enmity is mutual. In September, he has a new book coming out called Why I Quit the Dems: And So Should You!<\/em> The subtitle is Confessions of a Reluctant Republican<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I asked Dershowitz directly whether he had voted for Trump in 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re allowed to ask it,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd my wife does not allow me to answer it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOkay, so you\u2019re going to hide behind your wife,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to hide behind my wife,\u201d he confirmed.<\/p>\n

For the record, Dershowitz added that he always votes, and said that he had not voted for Kamala Harris. Also, his new book includes a blurb from President Trump (who obviously read every word).<\/p>\n

Despite all of this, Dershowitz has arrived at a nuanced take on his snubbing. \u201cI think it\u2019s selective cancellation,\u201d he told me. \u201cWe decided, basically, to change our life on the Vineyard.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that he keeps busy by writing and doing regular paid appearances on Newsmax, occasional hits on Fox News, Piers Morgan\u2019s show on YouTube, and other outlets. (He used to be on CNN all the time, but no more\u2014\u201cCNN has canceled me.\u201d) He said that he does not lack social options. He has become very active in a Vineyard Chabad that he helped start. He told me at one point about all of the new friends he\u2019s made. \u201cMost of them are more supportive of Israel than the other group was,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I often ask myself, How did I allow myself to become part of that other group?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

When I asked Dershowitz who his new friends are, we wound up talking about someone who is definitely in the \u201cother group\u201d: Larry David.<\/p>\n

They used to speak all the time, Dershowitz told me. They would have dinner, share jokes. \u201cI allowed him to use my gym to work out,\u201d Dershowitz said. \u201cI helped him on a number of occasions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLarry David doesn\u2019t talk to me anymore,\u201d Dershowitz said at another point. \u201cHe screams and yells at me when he sees me.\u201d He told me that he used to be a fan of Curb Your Enthusiasm<\/em> but can no longer bring himself to watch it. When discussing David, Dershowitz often spoke in the present tense, describing their breach as if it were an active feud and a still-fresh wound.<\/p>\n

Predictably, David had minimal enthusiasm for discussing any of this when I reached out to him.<\/p>\n

\u201c\ufeffI don\u2019t know why he\u2019s still thinking and talking about me,\u201d he told me by email.<\/p>\n

As for the five-year-old confrontation at the Chilmark store, David added this: \u201cI have lots of confrontations on my show but rarely in life,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd then only if I think I can take them in a fight. Hence the Dershowitz dust-up.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Dershowitz and I<\/span> spoke on the porch, a woman sitting in a rocking chair next to him kept leaning in, almost certainly eavesdropping. She confirmed this about half an hour into our conversation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sorry to interrupt,\u201d the woman said to Dershowitz. \u201cI was just sitting here. And I just wanted to say, you sound super fascinating. And I hope nobody\u2019s ever mean to you. Ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dershowitz kvelled.<\/p>\n

\u201cDid you plant her there or something?\u201d I joked (sort of).<\/p>\n

\u201cI only paid her 10 dollars,\u201d he joked (I think).<\/p>\n

During our conversation, Dershowitiz told me about a less cordial episode that had taken place last month in front of the Chilmark store, just a few feet from where we were sitting. The incident was not covered in the media, but Dershowitz had filmed a portion of it on his phone and shared the video with me. A guy in a Yankees cap had spotted Dershowitz at the store and promptly launched a barrage of Bronx cheers his way from the parking lot.<\/p>\n

The man showed exemplary message discipline.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you defend pedophiles? Do you defend pedophiles?\u201d he repeated. \u201cYes, he does.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dershowitz demanded that his tormentor identify himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy name is Jeffrey Epstein Jr., great friend to Alan Dershowitz,\u201d the man replied.<\/p>\n

Dershowitz kept demanding that the man state his name.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat are you going to do?\u201d the man asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to sue you if you give your name,\u201d Dershowitz said. (Surprisingly, the man continued to withhold his name.)<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy? What are you going to sue me for?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor defamation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The heckler also mocked Dershowitz for, among other things, claiming to a TV reporter that, although he\u2019d once received a massage from an adult woman at Epstein\u2019s house, he\u2019d kept his underwear on during the experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was on the plane, and he kept his underwear on,\u201d the man taunted, while retreating across the street. There was some more hollering back and forth.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re still a schmuck,\u201d Dershowitz shouted.<\/p>\n

In the pantheon of rogues and sleazeballs that Dershowitz has represented, Epstein stands out. Dershowitz helped orchestrate the late sex offender\u2019s controversial plea deal in 2008; Epstein was allowed to plead guilty to state prostitution crimes in Florida, but he avoided federal trafficking charges and wound up serving just 13 months in jail. (At the time of his death, in 2019, he was awaiting trial on federal charges of child sex trafficking, by which point Dershowitz had fallen out with him and was no longer representing him.) Earlier in their relationship, they were frequent companions. Dershowitz was a visitor to Epstein\u2019s homes in Palm Beach and New York, and went once with his wife and daughter to Epstein\u2019s infamous island. (\u201cNo young women there,\u201d Dershowitz wrote to me by email. \u201cNo one there except staff and ghislaine Maxwell.\u201d)<\/p>\n

I asked Dershowitz whether he\u2019d ever been a passenger on Epstein\u2019s plane.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, 20 times,\u201d he said. As Epstein\u2019s attorney, he explained, when he had to travel to Florida, his client would fly him down. However, the heckler\u2019s claim that Dershowitz had received a massage on the plane was incorrect. That had taken place at Epstein\u2019s home in Palm Beach. \u201cThis was a shoulder-and-neck massage, from an older woman,\u201d Dershowitz told me. He said that this was \u201cthe only massage I\u2019ve ever had in Epstein\u2019s situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never in my life had an erotic massage. Not even from my wife,\u201d he added, excruciatingly.<\/p>\n

Dershowitz has said repeatedly that he never witnessed or participated in any unlawful sexual impropriety related to Epstein. In 2014, the Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre alleged in court documents that the financier had trafficked her to multiple men while she was a minor. This included Dershowitz, who vehemently denied the charges. Giuffre sued Dershowitz for defamation, and Dershowitz countersued, claiming that she had made up the accusations. Giuffre withdrew her suit against Dershowitz in 2022, acknowledging that she might have made a mistake in identifying him. She died by suicide last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wish I never met him,\u201d Dershowitz told me, speaking of Epstein. \u201cBut I don\u2019t regret my representation of him.\u201d This struck me as a classic bit of Dershowitz hairsplitting, and I was not quite sure what to make of it. Regardless, Dershowitz conveyed far more remorse over representing Epstein than I heard him express about any of his other clients. And he told me that he is resigned to Epstein being a lasting stain on his reputation and legacy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been already told I will have a bad obituary in The New York<\/em> Times<\/em>,\u201d he volunteered.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho told you that?\u201d I asked. \u201cDo they work at The New York<\/em> Times<\/em>?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d Dershowitz said. He claimed to have heard it \u201cfrom a guy who does obituaries for another<\/em> newspaper.\u201d (Apparently, all obit writers swap notes.) He added that an obituary writer for the Times<\/em> did call him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith his deep obituary voice,\u201d he noted, affecting a stentorian baritone. \u201cI have to tell you that your obituary will include the allegations against you from Jeffrey Epstein,\u201d the Times <\/em>reporter said, according to the deep-voiced Dershowitz. He said that he\u2019d urged the obit guy to \u201cput it in perspective.\u201d (Danielle Rhoades Ha, a New York<\/em> Times <\/em>spokesperson, declined to comment on any specific obituaries but told me by email, \u201cWe don\u2019t write \u2018negative\u2019 or \u2018positive\u2019 obituaries, but strive for fair, comprehensive and accurate accounts of a person\u2019s full life.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Dershowitz wanted to make clear to me how unfair he believes the Epstein-related allegations against him are. He and his wife have been married for 40 years, he said: \u201cI have never cheated. I have never hugged\u2014I don\u2019t hug people. I don\u2019t like hugging.\u201d He also told me that he is \u201cnot a big massage person.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd by the way, nobody on the Vineyard believed this, even the people who hated me,\u201d Dershowitz added. \u201cBecause they all see me with my wife.\u201d<\/p>\n

He went further. \u201cIn fact, the lawyer for Virginia Giuffre, he came over to me one day\u201d\u2014it was during a deposition\u2014\u201cand said, \u2018Alan, I\u2019ve seen you with your wife. I can\u2019t believe you would ever have done anything.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

I said I was dubious that the opposing lawyer would say something like this.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll give you his name\u2014his name is Chuck Cooper.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reached by phone for comment, Charles Cooper, Giuffre\u2019s lawyer, told me the exchange that Dershowitz had described had never taken place.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis event that he\u2019s reporting and this comment that he\u2019s attributing to me are both categorically untrue,\u201d Cooper said. He added that he remembers seeing Dershowitz with his wife on only one occasion, and that it was enough for him to make only a \u201cfleeting observation.\u201d Either way, \u201cI did not say and I would never have said what he\u2019s attributed to me,\u201d Cooper said. \u201cGive me a break.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the course of<\/span> my discussion with Dershowitz, I learned of another fundamental change to his life, one that filled me with something I did not expect to feel: pathos.<\/p>\n

Last year, Dershowitz\u2019s son Elon died at 64, after suffering a stroke. He had been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor when he was 10 and had been told that he\u2019d be lucky to make it to his bar mitzvah. \u201cWe took extraordinary steps,\u201d Dershowitz said, \u201call over the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elon had been his father\u2019s sidekick. A film producer, he was the prime mover behind Reversal of Fortune<\/em>, the 1990 legal thriller based on Dershowitz\u2019s book about his successful defense of the British socialite Claus von B\u00fclow in his trial for the attempted murder of his wife. The film solidified the status of Dershowitz (played by Ron Silver) as one of the \u201csuper lawyers\u201d of his generation. \u201cWe went to the Oscars together,\u201d Dershowitz said of him and Elon. Jeremy Irons won Best Actor for his portrayal of von B\u00fclow. They went to an after-party. \u201cI sat next to Gregory Peck, and it was a great moment,\u201d Dershowitz said.<\/p>\n

When Dershowitz spoke about Elon, I detected a note of anguish in his voice. On the Vineyard, they\u2019d been pretty much inseparable. Dershowitz\u2019s son used to join him at the Chilmark store, when he still held court. \u201cHe would come to the porch with me every day,\u201d Dershowitz said. If anyone came up and started giving him trouble, Elon would get after them. \u201cHe was my guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Everybody on the Vineyard liked Elon, Dershowitz said: \u201cEven when they turned against me, they generally didn\u2019t turn against Elon.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough Larry David did.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEven when my son died\u2014and Larry knew him very well\u2014he never sent me a card,\u201d Dershowitz said. \u201cNever called me, never did anything to acknowledge it.\u201d<\/p>\n

After I returned from the Vineyard, I spoke with Dershowitz by phone. Since my visit, he\u2019d suffered a fractured rib. When I asked how it had happened, he lamented that the cause was nothing dramatic. \u201cI mean, I\u2019d love to have a great story,\u201d he said. \u201cPassionate lovemaking, you know?\u201d (Although definitely not<\/em> an erotic massage.)<\/p>\n

Alas. \u201cI sneezed too hard,\u201d he said. \u201cMy doctor told me at my age, a sneeze or a hard cough can fracture a rib.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite being in pain, Dershowitz said that he was planning to go that night to a Chabad event at the home of the billionaire hedge-fund manager Paul Singer, a big Republican donor and supporter of Israel. In a few days, Dershowitz was scheduled to be honored at the Chabad to mark the 75th anniversary of his bar mitzvah. We briefly revisited the Pierogi Incident; he sent me a link to a Facebook post from someone marking \u201cthe anniversary of Pierogigate\u201d and vowing to \u201chave a potato pierogi later today in honor of Dershowitz.\u201d<\/p>\n

When I mentioned Larry David\u2019s name again, Dershowitz sounded freshly pained\u2014as if I\u2019d elbowed him in his bad rib. They had been really good friends, he reiterated. I asked whether he\u2019d had any interaction with David since the Chilmark-store episode in 2021. Not really, Dershowitz said, except for one chance meeting at a restaurant, in which David had again blown him off. Later, Dershowitz wanted to know whether I\u2019d spoken with David for this story.<\/p>\n

After our initial email exchange, I finally did speak with David by phone late last week. He was on vacation on Martha\u2019s Vineyard, and I expected him to be cantankerous and annoyed\u2014which he was at first. When I brought up the matter of Elon\u2019s death, however, David\u2019s tone shifted. \u201cHe\u2019s 100 percent right,\u201d David told me, referring to Dershowitz. \u201cI should have reached out, and I certainly regret not doing so. As I said on Curb<\/em> once, \u2018I think of nice things. I just don\u2019t act on them.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

David, who turned 79 last month, said that he has been \u201csoftening\u201d and might be open to some kind of rapprochement with Dershowitz, if only to extinguish their one-way feud once and for all. \u201cI\u2019m starting to feel a little sorry for him, actually,\u201d David told me. \u201cCertainly because of his son.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was a touching moment, and seemed sincere. But something also felt off, as if the network had enlisted focus groups and then ordered up a feel-good ending.<\/p>\n

Then David sent me an email the next morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m loath to say anything mean because he\u2019s been so ostracized,\u201d he wrote of Dershowitz. A reversion to sarcasm! \u201cBut he only has himself to blame. He made a deal with the devil. Literally. And I\u2019d bet the devil hasn\u2019t said a word to him since the impeachment.\u201d<\/p>\n

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