Dan Abrams Predicts There’s a ‘95%-Plus Chance’ Comey Won’t Be Convicted — And ‘Many in the Trump Administration’ Know it

Dan Abrams predicted that it’s all but a certainty former FBI Director James Comey will not be convicted on either of two felony counts he is facing — and that “many” in President Donald Trump’s administration know it.

Appearing on ABC’s This Week Sunday, Abrams — the founder of Mediaite and chief legal analyst for ABC News — noted that Trump’s own Justice Department already investigated the main issue at play in the new indictment, the allegation that Comey authorized a leak about the Hillary Clinton investigation. A 2018 report by the DOJ Inspector General’s office investigated, and the Trump DOJ opted not to bring a case against Comey at that time.

“That has been investigated already … the Inspector General of the Department of Justice investigated this issue,” Abrams said. He added, “The first Trump administration investigated this, and no one decided to move forward with any charges in connection with this.”

According to Abrams, the fact that Trump’s own Justice Department chose not to charge Comey after such a thorough investigation makes it difficult to fathom that, years later, they will be successful in prosecuting a case connected to the very same issue.

Yet Abrams also believes that many in the West Wing and inside Trump’s Justice Department brought this case with the knowledge that it is unlikely to result in a guilty verdict.

“I’m going to go out on a limb here and say, I don’t even think that many in the Trump administration believe they’re going to get a conviction,” Abrams said. “I think that there’s a 95%-plus chance that there won’t be a conviction. That it’ll either get dismissed by a judge, there’ll be a hung jury, there’ll being an acquittal. But I’m not certain that that’s the end goal here. And that’s what makes this so unusual. Because typically, a prosecutor’s office will not bring a case unless they think they can win it.”

Watch above, via ABC.