Alan Dershowitz predicts DOJ will not indict Trump after affidavit's release

Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Friday that he doubted the Justice Department would indict Donald Trump after the agency released the affidavit that accompanied the search warrant authorizing the FBI's search of the former president's Florida estate.

"I'm gonna make a prediction here," Dershowitz said on the "Just the News, Not Noise" television show. "If no more evidence comes out, based on what's in the un-redacted portions of this affidavit, President Trump will not be indicted. I don't think Garland is going to indict him for technical violations of these kinds of statutes that look very similar to what happened with Hillary Clinton."

"I think the same standard has to apply to a Republican candidate as to a Democratic candidate," Dershowitz continued. 

The Justice Department released the affidavit on Friday, but heavily redacted large portions of the document.

Dershowitz went on to criticize the FBI search for going beyond the scope of the warrant's authorization.

"The search was very broad, much broader than I think the warrant permitted," Dershowitz stated. "I didn't see anything in the warrant that would justify searching Mrs. Trump's closet, or even searching the locked safe."

He further asserted his belief that the Trump team would file motions to release more of the affidavit.

"There'll be motions to unseal more of the document," Dershowitz predicted. "In fact, there will probably be a motion soon to have the defense at least have access to certain things that maybe the public shouldn't have access to. So this is very much a work in progress."