It's time to stop with the "accusations and counter-accusations" and the investigations on all sides of President Donald Trump's campaign and get back to the "business of governing," now that special counsel Robert Mueller has turned in his report, Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz said Wednesday.
"I think we've had enough of that," Dershowitz told Fox News' "America's Newsroom." "The Mueller report has come out. It is relatively conclusive. The next step is how much of the Mueller report will be released?"
Dershowitz said he does not think the report was made to benefit either side politically, and he does not like what happened when Attorney General William Barr was to handle the decision on obstruction of justice charges on the president.
"The attorney general said, on the one hand, we aren't going to charge him, on the other hand, he hasn't been exonerated," said Dershowitz. "Prosecutors shouldn't be expressing views on people that they decide there was insufficient evidence to indict."
He said the same thing is happening in the case of "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett, whose charges in connection of staging a phony hate crime hoax were dismissed Tuesday.
"Everybody is expressing views about his guilt or innocence even though the decision was made not to go forward," said Dershowitz. "I think once you decide not to go forward and prosecute somebody, we shouldn't be having a mini trial in the court of public opinion."
However, Dershowitz said that the idea of dropping the charges in exchange for forfeiting $10,000 in bond "must be investigated to see if there was improper influence used and made on that decision."
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