The Manhattan district attorney’s office investigating Donald Trump’s role in hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, recently invited the former president to testify, the strongest signal yet that an indictment is coming soon, according to the New York Times.
Four people with knowledge of the case told the Times that Trump was invited to testify next week, a sign that District Attorney Alvin Bragg may be asking the grand jury to vote on an indictment.
The grand jury has been hearing evidence about the $130,000 payment to Daniels before the 2016 after she threatened to go public about her affair with then-candidate Trump in 2006. The former president is possibly facing felony charges of falsifying documents in connection to the payment.
Earlier this week, two people who worked on Trump’s 2016 campaign— Kellyanne Conway and Hope Hicks— met with the grand jury. Michael Cohen, Trump’s attorney at the time who brokered the hush-money payment also met prosecutors.
“The Manhattan District Attorney’s threat to indict President Trump is simply insane. For the Past five years, the DA’s office has been on a Witch Hunt, investigating every aspect of President Trump’s life, and they’ve come up empty at every turn — and now this,” a Trump spokesperson said in a statement.
“The fact that after their intensive investigation the DA is even considering a new political attack is a clear exoneration of President Trump in all areas. President Trump was the victim of extortion then, just as he is now. It’s an embarrassment to the Democrat prosecutors, and it’s an embarrassment to New York City,” the spokesperson added.
