Alan Dershowitz, a former Harvard law professor, took to ABC This Week to speak on the expected report from the Mueller investigation into Russian tampering of the 2016 election.
“I think the report is going to be devastating to the President and I know that the President’s team is already working on a response to the report,” said Dershowitz, who has long defended the Trump presidency.
Dershowitz added, “at some point when the report’s made public — and that’s a very hard question considering the new attorney general who has the authority to decide when and under what circumstance to make it public — it will be made public probably with a response alongside”
Donald Trump recently replaced former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who was recused from the investigation, with Matthew Whitaker. Whitaker has spoken out against the Mueller investigation, and is likely to curtail any report.
Trump, meanwhile, has insisted that the Mueller investigation is a partisan “witch hunt.”
Even though Dershowitz feels the report will be “devastating.” he nevertheless doesn’t feel that any future criminal charges will come from it.
“When I say devastating, I mean it’s going to paint a picture that’s going to be politically very devastating,” said Dershowitz. “I still don’t think it’s going to make a criminal case, because collusion is not criminal.”
35 people have charged so far in conjunction with the Mueller probe, with additional sealed indictments pending. Nearly 200 charges were included in the above known cases.
In spite of Dershowitz — and the President — a U.S. District Judge did recently in favor of a Mueller indictment of Concord Management, a company who used fake can indeed be a crime.
U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich explained her ruling that it is a crime to “conspire… to commit any offense against the United States,” which is conspiracy in the traditional sense, as well as “to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose.”
Watch the exchange below:
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