Alan Dershowitz says Mueller's report will be "devastating" for Trump



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"I think the report is going to be devastating for the president," said Dershowitz, a former law professor at Harvard, in "ABC This Week". "And I know that the president's team is already working on a response to the report."

"At some point, when the report will be made public – and it's a very difficult question considering the new Attorney General who has the power to decide when and under what circumstances to make it public – it will likely be made public with an answer attached, "he added, referring to Matthew Whitaker, the new Acting Attorney General who replaced Jeff Sessions sacked after the November mid-term elections.

Mueller was appointed to lead the investigation of special advocates on Russian interference in the 2016 election after the dismissal of Trump, then FBI director, James Comey, in May 2017, while he was conducting the initial investigation into the collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Trump repeatedly taunted Mueller's investigation as a "witch hunt" and insisted that there was "no collusion" between his campaign and Russia.

Dershowitz said that despite his expectations of a "very devastating political report", he did not think criminal charges would be laid.

"When I say devastating, I mean it will paint a picture that will be politically very devastating," he said. "I still do not think this is going to make a criminal case, because collusion is not criminal."

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