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The Manhattan grand jury investigating Trump will take a break from next week

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The Manhattan grand jury considering evidence about former President Donald Trump’s role in a hush money scheme may not take any action until the latter half of April.
That’s due to a pre-planned break beginning next week that coincides with Easter, Passover, and Ramadan, two people familiar with the investigation tell NPR.
Prosecutors earlier this month invited the former president to testify to the grand jury, an offer his lawyers declined. But that prompted observers, including Trump himself, to say that an indictment was imminent. Since Trump posted a statement about what he called, without evidence, an imminent « arrest, » cameras have been stationed outside the courts building in Lower Manhattan. At least two witnesses have testified.
Grand Jury proceedings are secret. Prosecutors are prohibited from speaking about them, and jurors can ask for more evidence, witnesses, or time for deliberations, so uncertainty typically surrounds the end of grand jury investigations.

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