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Report: Alvin Bragg’s Case Against Donald Trump Delayed One Month 

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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s grand jury looking into former President Donald Trump for alleged hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels is purportedly set to take a break, Politico reported based on one source.

The grand jury’s activities have allegedly been delayed due to “a previously scheduled hiatus,” which would reportedly “push any indictment of the former president to late April at the earliest, although it is possible that the grand jury’s schedule could change.”

It appears the grand jury’s schedule has frequently shifted since Trump said on March 18 he would be indicted within days.

Politico reported:

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.

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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.

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The grand jury largely didn’t hear evidence in the Trump case last week. On Monday, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified for a second time before the panel.

On Saturday Trump told reporters on his plane returning from Waco, Texas, that he thought the case was dropped. “I think they’ve already dropped the case,” Trump said. “It’s a fake case. Some fake cases, they have absolutely nothing.” Trump did not cite any evidence to support his suspicion, according to Axios’s Sophia Cai.

Trump’s March 18 announcement has since dominated the news cycle and caused House Republicans to request Bragg sit for an interview and provide documents about the potential indictment. Bragg has refused requests for transparency.

Many legal experts believe the potential indictment against Trump would be shaky and not hold up in court. But it is widely believed an indictment would benefit the former president’s 2024 bid.

Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.

Death Threat, White Powder Mailed to Manhattan D.A.’s Office Amid Trump Probe

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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office received a package containing a death threat and white powder that was found on Friday as prosecutors continue their probe into former President Donald Trump, per reports.

An anonymous law enforcement source told Fox News that the package, sent through the U.S. Postal Service and discovered around noon, read, “Alvin – I’ll kill you.” The powder was determined to be “non-hazardous,” officials told the outlet.

Insider quoted a spokesperson with the office as saying:

The D.A. has informed the office that it was immediately contained and that the NYPD Emergency Service Unit and the NYC Department of Environmental Protection determined there was no dangerous substance.

Also citing “law-enforcement sources,” NBC News reported that the letter was postmarked on Tuesday with indicators that it originated from Orlando, Florida. The offices were not evacuated, and no one was harmed.

“‘I know it hasn’t been easy,” Bragg wrote in an email to employees after the incident, highlighting “press attention and security around our office.”

“We will continue to apply the law evenly and fairly,” he wrote.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the New York City Police Department are heading up the probe into the package, per NBC News.

Last weekend, former President Trump announced that he expected to be arrested this week based on “illegal leaks” from Bragg’s office, which he blasted as “corrupt and highly political.”

The case surrounds alleged hush money payments Trump allegedly made to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016 when he was a presidential candidate. Many have been highly critical of the potential indictment and the case’s legal standing, including fellow Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who said it “would be a national disaster.”

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George Washington University Law Professor Jonathon Turley called the potential case “legally pathetic” in an opinion article for the Hill last week, pointing out that federal prosecutors opted not to pursue the charges, and neither did Manhattan prosecutors under Bragg’s predecessor:

Bragg is struggling to twist state laws to effectively prosecute a federal case long ago rejected by the Justice Department against Trump over his payment of “hush money” to former stripper Stormy Daniels. In 2018 (yes, that is how long this theory has been around), I wrote how difficult such a federal case would be under existing election laws. Now, six years later, the same theory may be shoehorned into a state claim.

 Turley also called on Trump to cool his rhetoric.

On Thursday, the 45th president called Bragg a “Soros Backed Animal” and asserted that Bragg knows he is “100% innocent.”

Donald Trump: ‘Soros Backed Animal’ Alvin Bragg Knows I’m ‘100% Innocent’

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Former President Donald Trump asserted Thursday, as he faces a potential indictment and arrest, that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg knows he is “100% innocent.”

“EVERYBODY KNOWS I’M 100% INNOCENT, INCLUDING BRAGG, BUT HE DOESN’T CARE. HE IS JUST CARRYING OUT THE PLANS OF THE RADICAL LEFT LUNATICS. OUR COUNTRY IS BEING DESTROYED, AS THEY TELL US TO BE PEACEFUL!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

It came shortly after Trump blasted Bragg as a “SOROS BACKED ANIMAL” and asserted in a previous post that “THIS IS NO LEGAL SYSTEM”:

WHY WON’T BRAGG DROP THIS CASE? EVERYBODY SAYS THERE IS NO CRIME HERE. I DID NOTHING WRONG! IT WAS ALL MADE UP BY A CONVICTED NUT JOB WITH ZERO CREDIBILITY, WHO HAS BEEN DISPUTED BY HIGHLY RESPECTED PROFESSIONALS AT EVERY TURN. BRAGG REFUSES TO STOP DESPITE OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY. HE IS A SOROS BACKED ANIMAL WHO JUST DOESN’T CARE ABOUT RIGHT OR WRONG NO MATTER HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE HURT. THIS IS NO LEGAL SYSTEM, THIS IS THE GESTAPO, THIS IS RUSSIA AND CHINA, BUT WORSE. DISGRACEFUL!

In a third post, Trump wrote that “Bragg is allowing Violent Crime to flourish in New York City, like never before, while he spends all of his time making his Office, which is in total chaos, trying to find anything on ‘Trump,” asserting he “is doing the work of Anarchists and the Devil.”

On Saturday, Trump announced that he anticipates being arrested this week based on “illegal leaks” out of Bragg’s office. The case surrounds Trump’s alleged hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, when he was a presidential candidate.

“The ‘Horseface’ agenda is dead, even by the most Radical Left Haters, but he doesn’t care, he wants to go with it anyway,” Trump stated on Thursday.

George Washington University Law Professor Jonathon Turley slammed the case on Saturday as “legally pathetic” in an opinion article for the Hill, writing:

Bragg is struggling to twist state laws to effectively prosecute a federal case long ago rejected by the Justice Department against Trump over his payment of “hush money” to former stripper Stormy Daniels. In 2018 (yes, that is how long this theory has been around), I wrote how difficult such a federal case would be under existing election laws. Now, six years later, the same theory may be shoehorned into a state claim.

He also emphasized that federal prosecutors previously rejected pursuing the case, as did New York County prosecutors under Bragg’s predecessor:

On Monday, House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Oversight Committee chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY), and Administration Committee chairman Rep. Bryan Steil (R-WI) directed a letter to Bragg requesting he partake in a transcribed interview. Additionally, they called for any documentation of communication between his office and the Department of Justice.

Bragg’s office responded to the letter Thursday, announcing he formally refuses to cooperate, as Breitbart news reported.

In a letter of response, New York County general counsel Leslie Dubeck called the requests from House Republicans “an unprecedented inquiry into a pending local prosecution.”

RELATED: Trump 2024 Opponent Vivek Ramaswamy Slams Possible Indictment

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NYPD readies metal barricades near courthouse ahead of possible indictment of former President Trump

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The New York City Police Department unloaded steel barricades near the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse Monday morning ahead of a possible indictment of former President Trump, CNN Newsource correspondent Gloria Pazmino reported.

“At Manhattan Criminal Court, the NYPD is setting up barricades directly across the street from court in anticipation of a possible Trump indictment this week,” Pazmino tweeted, appending a video.

Local, state, and federal law enforcement and security agencies had already begun preparing for the possible indictment, conducting preliminary security assessments, WNBC reported Friday.

The agencies discussed security plans for in and around the Manhattan Criminal Court, the outlet also reported. Those agencies involved include the NYPD, New York State Court Officers, the U.S. Secret Service, the FBI’s Join Terrorism Task Force, and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.

Saturday, former President Trump announced in a social media post that he believed he would be arrested on Tuesday.

Trump, a contender for the 2024 Republican presidential primary, urged citizens to “protest, take our nation back.”

Later that day, a spokesperson for Trump appeared to walk the statement back, saying that “there has been no notification, other than illegal leaks from the Just Dept. and the DA’s office” about the matter, KABC reported. The spokesperson added that Trump would be at a rally in Texas “next weekend.”

Over the weekend and on Monday, numerous politicians, political pundits, and other interested parties offered their opinions on the possible indictment.

Among them was former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Christie, who said Trump was “not a man of his word,” also agreed with Trump’s assessment of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg as “partisan.”

The case stems from a hush money payment allegedly made to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Prosecutors allege Trump falsified business records by wrongly accounting for the payment as legal fees, a misdemeanor under New York law, the Associated Press reports.

The $130,000 payment was allegedly made by Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal attorney. Cohen pleaded guilty to federal campaign finance law violations in connection with the payment.

Monday morning, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-K.Y.) called Cohen “the least credible witness I ever questioned during my time on the House Oversight Committee.”

“He admits that as President Trump’s attorney, he took unsolicited actions and offered ‘legal advice’ without concern for underlying legality,” the tweet also said.

Stormy Daniels, the person to whom the controversial payment was made, met with prosecutors last week and agreed to be a witness for the DA against Trump, the New York Post reported.

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Nolte: Ben Carson Says Charges Against Trump ‘Absurd, Embarrassing’

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Dr. Ben Carson said the idea of arresting and filing charges against former President Donald Trump is “absolutely absurd” and “embarrassing.”

Carson, who served as the secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Trump, was interviewed by Newsmax Sunday and did not hold back on the issue. He specifically pointed to Venezuela and how quickly that once idyllic country collapsed under this kind of political corruption.

“Look how quickly Venezuela changed,” he said. “That is high in my thinking because I’ve been there several times when it was a wonderful place to visit, with beautiful resorts and hotels.” Carson pointed out that the “biggest thing that people argued about is whether they were the most beautiful people in the world.” But once Venezuela’s government became corrupt, Carson said, “they went from … number one economy in South America to the bottom almost overnight. This is what can happen when you allow these kinds of things.”

The “these kinds of things” Carson is referring to is the likelihood of George Soros-funded Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg arresting and charging Trump with a campaign finance violation—a misdemeanor charge that in the past has almost always resulted in a fine.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg participates in a news conference in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023 (Seth Wenig/AP).

Trump is accused of disguising a $130,000 hush money payoff to porn queen Stormy Daniels in 2016 as a campaign expense. However, even if Trump is guilty of this, there’s no clear law against it, and other high-profile politicians, including Hillary Clinton, have only received fines for similar allegations.

Worse still, the Department of Justice looked into the supposed payoff and chose not to pursue it. Similarly, the Federal Election Commission also didn’t pursue it.

The idea of arresting a former president who is also the likely Republican nominee to be our next president has never happened in this country. That doesn’t mean it shouldn’t happen, but if it’s going to happen, it shouldn’t be over something like, and certainly not something the FEC and Justice Department chose not to pursue.

So what we have here is a fascist local district attorney normalizing the act of arresting your political opponents. The precedent, especially based on something this absurd, worries Carson most. He also added this:

When you look at all the problems that we have right now with the economy, with almost 200 Americans dying every day from fentanyl, with human trafficking, with crime, the list just goes on and on. This is what you’re going to be dealing with? It’s absolutely absurd. It’s embarrassing. And, you know, I talked to people from other countries all the time. And they’re saying, “What’s happening to your country?” It’s very hard to watch this, but I’m hoping we’re just going to a crazy thing, and maybe we’re going to come out.

It should also be pointed out that, so far, the only legal action we’ve seen in this mess resulted in Daniels being ordered to pay $293,000 to Trump. Moreover, her attorney at the time, Michael Avenatti, is currently in prison for fraud.

Stormy Daniels and Michael Avenatti (Tara Ziemba / Getty)

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA – MAY 23: Stormy Daniels and attorney Michael Avenatti are seen at The Abbey on May 23, 2018, in West Hollywood, California (Photo by Tara Ziemba/Getty Images).

To sum up, even if Trump is guilty of everything alleged, this is still a Soros-funded district attorney abusing his office to arrest a political opponent.

Under no condition is this moral or legal, and it will only lead us to a darker and darker place.

Meanwhile, the Biden Crime Family, the Clinton Crime Family, and a countless number of violent criminals in New York run around scot-free.

Former US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton shares a laugh with US Vice President Joseph Biden, during a portrait unveiling ceremony for outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), on Capitol Hill December 8, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Former US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton shares a laugh with US Vice President Joseph Biden, during a portrait unveiling ceremony for outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), on Capitol Hill December 8, 2016 in Washington, DC (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images).

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