Former President Donald Trump claimed he would be indicted last week by a Grand Jury and the politically motivated left-wing district attorney in New York City.
Trump’s alleged deadline came and went with no arrest. Now it appears Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has pushed Trump’s supposed frog-march out even further.
The grand jury investigating Trump for supposedly buying the silence of stripper Stormy Daniels during his 2016 campaign is not expected to hear any new evidence in the case for the next month.
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According to reports, the latest instance of the Manhattan district attorney’s office calling off grand jury meetings has fueled speculation that an arrest may not occur.
Bragg “can reconvene the group at any time,” the Washington Free Beacon noted, but “the break would push an indictment of the former president into at least late April.”
“The grand jury’s meetings have been delayed multiple times since Trump’s March 18 announcement that he would be arrested.”
The outlet noted that the break had been previously scheduled.
Still, it comes as doubts swirl about Bragg’s motivation and whether he even has a case, as House Republicans threaten to call Bragg to testify before Congress about whether he “weaponized” the case, and as Trump’s popularity among GOP voters has surged since he claimed the arrest was imminent.
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According to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday, 62% of Americans think Bragg’s case against Trump is “mainly motivated by politics,” while just 32% believe it is rooted in the law.
The poll showed that 70% of independents side with the majority’s assessment.
The survey also indicated that Trump holds a 52-42 lead over Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in a head-to-head matchup in the GOP primary.
As The Free Press has reported, Bragg is probing Trump for an alleged $130,000 “hush money” payment he supposedly made to Daniels in 2016 to keep her about an affair to not hurt his first presidential campaign.
Trump has denied the affair and the allegation of a payment.
His lawyers maintain the former president made the payment to former Trump attorney Michael Cohen as legal fees, upon Cohen’s advice, and that Cohen was the one who actually paid Daniels.
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