Alan Dershowitz slams FBI raid on Rudy Giuliani’s apartment

Alan Dershowitz has agreed to defend Rudy Giuliani as he’s investigated over his Ukraine dealings — slamming the US as a “banana republic” for sending the FBI to raid his new client’s Manhattan home.

Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor who served on President Trump’s impeachment legal team, said it was “inappropriate” for the federal agents to execute a search warrant at Giuliani’s Upper East Side apartment last week.

“In banana republics, in Castro‘s Cuba, in many parts of the world when a candidate loses for president, they go after the candidate, they go after his lawyers, they go after his friends,” Dershowitz told host John Catsimatidis Sunday on the “Cats Roundtable” podcast.

“That’s happening in America now. They’re going after Rudy Giuliani,” he continued, noting that Giuliani was the former US Attorney for the Southern District of New York in the 1980s.

Dershowitz said that a subpoena would have been more appropriate, given that Giuliani might keep privileged information from his own clients at his home.

“A search warrant on a lawyer or a doctor or a priest? You don’t use search warrants,” he said.

“You don’t use search warrants when people have privileged information on their cell phones and in their computers. You use a subpoena. The difference between a subpoena and a search warrant is like night and day … It’s just not constitutional,” he said.

Federal prosecutors are reportedly looking into whether Giuliani illegally lobbied for Trump on behalf of officials and oligarchs in Ukraine.

Dershowitz said that he believes that Giuliani has a strong case to challenge federal prosecutors if they accessed his iCloud account in early 2019 when he was the president’s lawyer — a claim that Giuliani made last week, without providing further details.

“They gave Rudy Giuliani lots of legal arguments that he can prevail on,” Dershowitz said.

“Apparently, they went after the [iCloud] and other material and information without telling him. That’s just not the way the government is supposed to treat its citizens.”

Dershowitz said Giuliani called him on Saturday to ask if he’d represent him due to constitutional expertise.

“Rudy and I have had our disagreements over the years about everything, but we completely agree about the Constitution,” Dershowitz said.