Famed attorney Alan Dershowitz has long defended his buddy, former President Donald Trump, but in an interview on Fox News, he sounded a harsher note saying he believes the Department of Justice will indict Trump.

But the DOJ won’t prosecute him, Dershowitz predicted, according to Mediaite.

And as it promised it would do, the DOJ released the heavily redacted affidavit that was used to obtain the search warrant for Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida earlier this month. Agents found a cache of boxes stuffed with government documents that Trump was supposed to give to the National Archives when he left office. As we’ve now heard a gazillion times, a lot of these documents turned out to be classified. Attorneys for the former president had told the DOJ there were no remaining official documents at Trump’s home. It seems as though the DOJ thought this seemed fishy, however, and the agency decided to investigate. And of course, agents found out that information was false.

So federal magistrate judge Bruce Reinhardt, who originally approved the warrant, ordered the DOJ to unseal the document.

Conservatives have since criticized Reinhardt sharply, but Dershowitz, appearing on Hannity told guest host Jason Chaffetz their anger is, well, a misfire.

“Every judge would’ve made the same ruling,” Dershowitz said. “So it’s no harm, no foul. The problem was not with Reinhardt. It was the attorney general who didn’t follow his own guidelines. There should have never been a search warrant requested here.”

But Dershowitz is off the mark here. If that warrant hadn’t been requested, there’s a very good chance we’d never know Trump had these classified documents. And if that had been the case, who knows what could have happened?

Dershowitz, who defended the former president during his first impeachment trial, went on to say he thinks the government already has enough evidence to indict Trump.

“The other important thing is, there is enough evidence here to indict Trump,” he told Chaffetz. ” But Trump will not be indicted in my view because the evidence doesn’t pass what I call the Nixon-Clinton standards.”

“The Nixon standard is, the case has to be so overwhelmingly strong that even Republicans support it. And the Clinton standard is, why is this case more serious than Clinton’s case where there wasn’t a criminal prosecution?”

Surely Dershowitz is kidding, right? The Clinton case didn’t involve classified documents. You know, classified information that could be used to the detriment of the U.S? Dershowitz is Harvard-educated but he seems pretty short-sighted here.

He concluded the interview by noting:

“There was probable cause, they shouldn’t have sought a warrant, there is enough for an indictment, but there will not be an indictment and should not be an indictment based on what we’ve seen up to now.”

I’m hoping Dershowitz is wrong. The fact that Trump was (allegedly) illegally harboring classified documents at his home is a worrisome thing. Who really knows what he was going to do with this information?

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