How embarrassing.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s grand jury won’t hear the Donald Trump hush money case for the rest of the week…or for at least another month. From Politico:
The grand jury, which heard testimony in the Trump case on Monday, isn’t meeting Wednesday and is expected to examine evidence in a separate matter Thursday, the person said. The grand jury, which typically meets Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, is scheduled to consider another case next week on Monday and Wednesday, the person said, and isn’t expected to meet Thursday due to the Passover holiday.The following two weeks are set to be a hiatus that was scheduled when the grand jury was first convened in January, the person said.A spokesperson for the Manhattan district attorney’s office declined to comment.There is no official deadline for bringing an indictment against Trump, although there were indications in recent weeks that the grand jury’s activity was nearing a vote, particularly when prosecutors offered Trump the chance to testify before the panel. That is typically one of the final steps of a criminal investigation. Trump declined the invitation.
Bragg’s office is investigating if Trump paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 to stay quiet about an alleged affair.
The investigation started before Bragg took office in 2022. He suspended the investigation but brought it back when Trump announced his 2024 presidential campaign.
Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen said Trump directed the payment.
Robert Costello, the former legal advisor to Cohen, said Trump had no idea about the payment from Cohen to Daniels. He also described Cohen as a “serial liar.”
Earlier on Wednesday, The Daily Beast became the latest outlet reporting worries within Bragg’s office who think he doesn’t have a case:
His decision to bring back what has been deemed the “zombie” case surprised several insiders who have been briefed on the various iterations of the Stormy Daniels case over the years.“The Stormy case was the easiest, the most straightforward, but had the risk of being nothing more than a misdemeanor. The business fraud case had more heft, but was complex and sprawling, and much more difficult. There was never any discussion of breaking them apart,” one source told The Daily Beast.What initially drew prosecutors to the case was the way the Trump Organization paid back Cohen in separate checks broken up over a year, engaged in a monthly cover-up using this private business while Trump was in the White House.But New York County prosecutors never considered pursuing the hush money case by itself, because, for one thing, investigators on the DA’s Trump team couldn’t even agree whether Trump committed a serious crime.
Another source said, “The hush money case had no exact state charge. It should have been the feds.”
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York chose not to indict Trump.
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