President Donald Trump and his legal team must be prepared with its own report to counteract what special counsel Robert Mueller releases in his investigation report, because the former FBI director will produce what he believes will be a "devastating attack," Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Tuesday.
"He's not going to be fair," Dershowitz told Fox News' "America's Newsroom."
"They're going to put together every bit of evidence and present a mosaic which points to the White House, the Oval Office, the president."
He also predicted that the Mueller report could be released between now and Christmas.
"I think he is ready to release the report," said Dershowitz. "I think it's a question now of timing. There are no elections pending. The last election is today in Mississippi. Midterms are over. Between now and Christmas is the obvious time to release the report."
Trump's team must be ready for that to happen, and be ready to release its own report so the American public isn't presented with a "one-sided" account from Mueller, said Dershowitz, indicating that the response is already being prepared.
"Here's what has to happen: Mueller's report gets sent to the Justice Department, the Justice Department doesn't release it, it sends it over to the president's team, they then have a week to write a rebuttal," said Dershowitz. "Then once their rebuttal is ready, both reports are released at the same time."
If Mueller's report goes unanswered, that will be "devastating" politically for Trump, Dershowitz argued, as the counsel will not "produce a balanced, fair report."
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