The New York grand jury weighing whether to indict Donald Trump will reconvene Thursday after their Wednesday meeting was canceled by the Manhattan district attorney. (via Deadline: Legal Blog)
. Cohen was prepared to testify in rebuttal to Costello but wasn't recalled, leading observers to believe that Wednesday could have been the day for the grand jury to vote.
So what happened? We don’t know yet. It could be a simple administrative or scheduling issue that’s far from intriguing. But if it’s connected to the substance of the investigation, then one possibility is that Manhattan prosecutors want to call a witness besides Cohen who either wasn’t available or prepared to testify Wednesday.The New York Times
reported in late January that the grand jury had then started recently and sits for six months. So if that’s the case, then Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg isn’t running up against a clock — at least not in that respect. Of course, there’s the bigger ticking clock ahead of the 2024 election hanging over all the Trump probes, which also include investigations in Georgia and by the Department of Justice.
But for now, we’re in a holding pattern yet again. I’d caution against reading too much into the day’s events — or non-events, to be precise — one way or the other. But along with everyone else, I’ll be eagerly awaiting Bragg’s next steps.Jordan Rubin is the Deadline: Legal Blog writer. He was a prosecutor for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and is the author of the forthcoming book “Bizarro” about the secret war on synthetic drugs.
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