Former President Donald Trump’s Role in $130,000 Hush Money Payment to Stormy Daniels Investigated by Manhattan Grand Jury, Scheduled to Take a Break in April

A Manhattan grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump’s role in the $130,000 hush money payment made to Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign is scheduled to take a break in April, according to reports.

The grand jury is currently scheduled to break after April 5 and restart later in the month, according to a source familiar with the matter. During the break, the grand jury will not hear evidence in the case, putting a pause on the wave of anticipation in recent days about a possible Trump indictment.

It is possible the grand jury’s schedule might change but if the hiatus goes as planned, any potential vote to indict the former president would not come until late April. It is not immediately clear whether the grand jury will hear the Trump case again before April 5.

Grand jury proceedings are secret and subject to change. The break is reportedly a previously scheduled hiatus, and it is unclear whether the grand jury will reconvene before the scheduled break.

If the grand jury does not hear the case again for several weeks, it will pause what had been a wave of anticipation that a former president could be indicted for the first time in American history. The outcome of the grand jury proceedings will remain unknown until the jury reconvenes later in the month.