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“The only witness you could really bring to trial would be these private attorneys who Trump was in touch with, and potentially the vice president.”

“A prosecutor’s office cannot ethically move forward with a case that, in good faith, it believes it cannot bring to trial,” the statement said.

“The fact is that we don’t prosecute many of the cases. We don’t bring to trial those cases that aren’t likely to produce guilty verdicts,” said Suzuki, who has some 20 years’ experience in the field.

But Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Andriy Kostin, has vowed to investigate all of them and to bring to trial all those in which enough evidence can be gathered.

Mr Trump has slammed the criminal case, which has taken three years to bring to trial - as a "witch hunt".