Anti- former federal prosecutor predicts '480-page' Mueller report will ...

Former U.S. attorney Preet Bharara is predicting special counsel Robert Mueller will file a lengthy report – potentially hundreds of pages long – and that it may leak to the public.

With all the competing arguments for how Mueller should proceed, Bharara, President Trump fired early in his tenure, believes the special counsel should explain his reasoning even if he decides not to charge Trump with any crimes.    

Mueller could give something 'bare-bones' to the attorney general, 'because he's said what he was going to say in publicly filed documents and indictments,' Bharara told Politico. 

'Or, I think it's slightly more likely — a hunch I have — that he'll write a very lengthy, detailed document that goes into the prosecutions and the declinations at great length, with a lot of supporting exhibits as well.' 

Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is predicting special counsel Robert Mueller will 'write a very lengthy, detailed document that goes into the prosecutions and the declinations at great length'

Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is predicting special counsel Robert Mueller will 'write a very lengthy, detailed document that goes into the prosecutions and the declinations at great length'

In either case, Attorney General William Barr will be charged with deciding how much to share with Congress, where Democrats are demanding access to Mueller's work product. 

'And once it is known that it's a 480-page document, then let the games begin,' Bharara says, making a rough stab at what the report may look like.

Adding to the complexity is Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's guilty plea to a campaign finance violation involving porn star Stormy Daniels that Cohen testified 'Indidual-1' – Trump – directed him to carry out.

The timing is also up in the air. The Special Counsel's office in a court filing Tuesday asked for an 11-day extension, telling the court the counsel working on the matter faced 'the press of other work.' 

Bharara, a Democrat who was put forward to his former 'sheriff of Wall Street' perch by Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, also maintains the possibility that the Mueller report will not be deeply damaging to the president who fired him, and cautioned observers to keep their expectations in check.

'All these people who hope that he's going to take this scourge of a man out of the White House are going to be really disappointed when he doesn't do that,' Bharara told the publication.

Mueller will have to decide whether to explain his decisions not to charge individuals, possibly including the president, in the Russia probe

Mueller will have to decide whether to explain his decisions

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