Top Trump lawyer says Russia probe 'terrible waste of time,' predicts Mueller won't issue report
By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times - Tuesday, February 12, 2019
The former head of President Trump’s legal team said Tuesday that he believes special counsel Robert Mueller won’t issue a report, calling the two-year-long investigation of Russian interference “a terrible waste of time.”
“I don’t think there’ll be a report,” veteran defense lawyer John Dowd told ABC News in a podcast called “The Investigation.” “I will be shocked if anything regarding the president is made public, other than ‘We’re done.’”
Mr. Dowd left the legal team in March 2018 after working with Mr. Trump for about a year, encouraging extensive cooperation with the Mueller probe.
“I know exactly what [Mr. Mueller] has,” Mr. Dowd said. “I know exactly what every witness said, what every document said. I know exactly what he asked. And I know what the conclusion or the result is. There’s no basis. There’s no exposure. It’s been a terrible waste of time.”
The president has repeatedly referred to the investigation as a “witch hunt” and a “hoax.” Five former Trump advisers have pleaded guilty, including former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn, who admitted to lying to FBI agents about the extent of his contacts with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. during the presidential transition.
Mr. Mueller’s investigators also have indicted 26 Russian nationals and several others. Mr. Dowd described those charges as “nickel-dime process crimes.”
“I ran big corruption cases,” he said. “I didn’t go around, picking scabs and just making any case I could make. If there was a petty case, I shifted it to someone else. I didn’t do it. And that’s where I disagree with Bob [Mueller].”
Mr. Dowd said the president has cooperated with the special counsel at an unprecedented level, even providing investigators with communications with the White House Counsel’s office.
“There’s no time in history has anybody had this kind of look at communications with the president,” Mr. Dowd said.
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