Liberal Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz appeared Wednesday night on Fox News’ “Special Report” with Bret Baier  — and essentially trashed liberals’ hopes that attorney Michael Cohen’s recent guilty plea may somehow result in the indictment or even the impeachment of President Donald Trump.

“It’s complicated,” said Dershowitz.

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“The law is clear that the president may contribute to his own campaign,” he said. “So if the president had paid $280,000 to these two women, even if he had done so in order to help his campaign, that would be no problem — that’s  legal. And if Cohen himself made the contribution, that would be unlawful because he has a limit of $5,200.”

“The prosecutor’s a little bit [of] a Catch-22,” said Dershowitz.

He explained that if the prosecutor accepts Cohen’s version of events — that the president directed him to do it — then there’s no crime. And if the prosecutor doesn’t believe Cohen’s story, it isn’t the president who would have committed a crime; rather, it would be Cohen himself.

He completely discounted some liberal pundits’ assertion that Cohen’s admission to a crime makes Trump an unindicted “co-conspirator,” noting further that it is matter of “basic criminal law.”

“[They are] just wrong,” said Dershowitz.

“You don’t become an unindicted co-conspirator if your action is lawful even though the action of the other person is unlawful.”

Dershowitz surmised that Cohen’s plea was part of an “add-on.”

He reasoned that they had Cohen “dead to rights” on tax-related charges and the taxicab medallions — but that prosecutors tacked on the allegedly illegal campaign donation nonsense in order to give Cohen the opportunity to cause headaches for the Trump administration.

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“[The prosecutors] are not interested in Cohen,” said Dershowitz. “They’re interested in Trump.”

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Dershowitz went on to say that paying “hush money” — payment exchanged for the silence of someone who may otherwise reveal embarrassing or damaging information — isn’t a crime at all, much less “in the bullseye of high crime or misdemeanor,” as Harry Litman, former deputy assistant attorney general, had laughably characterized it on MSNBC.

“It’s not even a close question,” said Dershowitz.

“It’s just not a crime to contribute to your own campaign,” he added.

“There is no statute that would make that a crime.”

“Show me the statute!” he said, pointing into the camera. “There is no statute that would make that a crime.”

Dershowitz noted that though it might be a misdemeanor for the campaign to fail to report the payment, that would be on the campaign — not on candidate Trump.

The new mantra of the Right, in the face of this most recent round of DOJ antics, might well become “show me the statute.”

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Michele Blood is a Flemington, New Jersey-based freelance writer and a regular contributor to LifeZette.