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The Manhattan grand jury investigating Donald Trump’s alleged hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels is reconvening Monday afternoon to hear more evidence as the city remains on knife’s-edge waiting to see if the ex-president will be indicted.
Monday is the first time the panel is meeting in conjunction with the hush money case since last week when they heard testimony from a witness favorable to Trump. The jurors broke the normal cadence by not meeting on Wednesday and convening Thursday to hear matters on a separate case.
The grand jury is now back on Trump, according to a person familiar with the matter. It was not immediately clear whether an additional witness might be called before the panel.
Under tight security following last week’s death threat, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg walks outside the courthouse on Monday, March 27 as the grand jury reconvenes
Reports indicate that a witness could appear this week to counter testimony delivered by lawyer Robert Costello on March 21. Costello’s testimony was a rebuttal of two-days of testimony earlier this month from Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen, who made the $130,000 payment to Daniels that is now in question.
Trump alleged last weekend that he would be arrested as early as Tuesday, launching demonstrations in and against his indictment in New York, Washington, D.C. and near his Florida residence at Mar-a-Lago.
This put police on high-alert, with all 36,000 NYPD officers in uniform and on stand-by for deployment should unrest ensue.
Trump railed against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in a post on social media on Monday morning.
‘Can you imagine? I am leading the opposition within the Republican Party by 30 plus, and Biden by 6 plus, and everyone is waiting to hear from a local George Soros backed D.A., who has watched Violent Crime in Manhattan soar to Record Highs, as to whether or not he is going to ‘criminally indict’ me for NO CRIME,’ Trump added.
The former president raised anticipation that criminal charges were imminent with a March 18 post on his social media platform in which he said he expected to be arrested last Tuesday.
He has since used the absence of an indictment or arrest to claim that the investigation is somehow faltering.
Meanwhile, sources have told DailyMail.com that Bragg is having trouble convincing the grand jury to indict, with one court source saying he has a ‘weak’ case.
Trump has escalated his rhetoric in recent days, warning that ‘potential death & destruction’ would accompany any indictment.
He also posted a photo of himself holding a baseball bat next to a picture of District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat. On Thursday, Trump referred to Bragg, Manhattan´s first black D.A., as an ‘animal.’
A canine unit provides security at the state office building where a grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump meets in New York, Monday, March 27, 2023
People make and hold signs about former President Trump outside of Manhattan Criminal Court, Manhattan, New York
Source: | This article originally belongs to Dailymail.co.uk
