Manhattan grand jury considering Trump's hush money case will break for a month:

[Joinfortmill]

https://www.rawstory.com/manhattan-grand-jury-considering-trump-s-hush-money-case-will-break-for-a-month/

So much for an indictment anytime soon, I guess.

[claudette]

1. He's gonna beat

this rap too. Sickening

[dem4decades]

2. Looks like Trump made it go away. And the Georgia grand jury?

And all the other criminal cases against Trump?

Nowhere to be seen.

[Irish_Dem]

14. He must have bought off or threatened the witnesses, jury, prosecutors.

Everything is always "imminent" and then totally fizzles out.

[dem4decades]

24. He must have dirt on everyone. Or he knows too many government secrets.

Just come the fuck out and say it, Trump will never be prosecuted, he's too dangerous and let the rest of us go back to being pissed off about something else.

They're making fools of us, Lucy and the football, and we're all Charlie Brown.

[inthewind21]

26. Or maybe

This break has been on the schedule all along. But do continue with the wild speculation.

[dem4decades]

36. Wild speculation? You mean like the Russian collision, the Mueller Report, January 6th, Georgia

Investigation?

Let me know when one comes to fruition.

Cohen went to jail.

The CEO of the Trump org went to jail.

Trump's having rallies and running the House of Representatives, I have no speculation that anything will happen to Trump. Ever

[Irish_Dem]

37. He didn't steal classified docs for fun.

Well some of them he did just because he could and that was fun for him.

He has enough blackmail material to go a very long way.
And he also threatens and bullies people into compliance.

Yes we are all very dim bulbs or suckers.
Maybe both.

[gldstwmn]

45. Trump has been working both sides of the street for a long time now.

The recent news on the FBI investigation into Ivana came as no surprise. Someone should look in her coffin.

[Irish_Dem]

49. Putin takes the long view on cultivating assets.

He is the richest man in the world and can well afford to invest in a long term espionage strategy.
I agree, Ivana's death is something to think about.

[blueinredohio]

3. Meh!

[onenote]

4. Seems like some DUers believed Trump's lie

and now are disappointed that it was a lie.

[inthewind21]

27. Clearly

[deRien]

5. Spring break

for students over the next few weeks is one explanation I heard last night.

[BannonsLiver]

6. Most spring breaks are in March.

[Raftergirl]

10. Not in the northeast and definitely not in NY.

Some schools have the week of Passover off (which starts the evening of April 5th) and some have the week after Easter, which is April 9th.

[BannonsLiver]

34. My bad.

I had forgotten that people in the NE are totally oblivious to what the rest of the country does. Flyover country and all.

On edit: NYU’s spring break is in March. Rutgers was also in March. That’s a quick sampling of 2 large NY/NJ colleges. I stand by my original assessment. Most are in March.

[Raftergirl]

47. No. College have their breaks in March, Public K-12 have theirs in April.

Schools in the northeast have a February winter break and then a break 6 weeks later. The kids here go also go to school until late June, so a March vacation leaves 3 months left in the school year without a break.

I know other areas of the country have their K-12 break in March. They don’t get a week off in February or April, but they get out of school in mid-late May.

The people on the Grand Jury in NYC are New Yorkers who live in NY and likely have children who go to school in NY. And those children have an April vacation.

I am not oblivious to other areas of the country. I e lived in both Colorado and Chicago.

It seems you are oblivious to what NY and the other Northeastern states do.

[Scrivener7]

50. As apparently people from wherever you live are totally oblivious to what the NE

does. And also what the rest of the country does, it seems.

The line of "Poor us in flyover country! We're so neglected no one even knows when our school breaks are!" sentiment is bizarrely pathetic.

[BannonsLiver]

52. Not as bizarre as you being so triggered over it.

What a creepy, weird reaction but thanks for proving my point to a T.

[Scrivener7]

54. LOL! You think that proves your point?

[Norbert]

42. Many spring breaks center around Easter which comes in another 1.5 weeks.

Passover does not in until April 13th.

[deRien]

19. Not where

I live either ~ usually around the first and second week of April. Colleges and universities have quarter breaks in March.

[BannonsLiver]

35. Outliers to 90 percent of the rest of the country

[ProfessorGAC]

48. Not Around Here, BL

Most districts are either this week, the next, or Easter week. (Chicago area)
In the 12 districts I work, only 2 are breaking this week. Two next week, the other 8 the week after that.

[Irish_Dem]

17. If any of us were accused of horrible crimes, would spring break be an excuse?

If we had planned an insurrection against the US government, or stolen hundreds of classified documents?
Or threatened to kill a prosecutor?

Welcome to DU!

[inthewind21]

31. Not for

the accused. But for the jurors, it absolutely would. When I was a juror, the judge broke early on days I had class. So why is this so shocking to everyone? Especially since it's been on their schedule since Jan. Which is out to see, if you want to actually know why.

[Irish_Dem]

38. Even when the accused is threatening to burn down the country and kill the prosecutor?

What a silly system we have.

[inthewind21]

28. Why guess?

The break has been on the schedule since they started in January, It's actually referenced in the article in this very thread.

[Johonny]

7. Legal system rigged for rich people

[getagrip_already]

8. Politico is reporting no indictment yet, so....

The break will delay any possible indictment until at least may unless Bragg calls the grand jury back early.

So for those fantasizing the indictment is issued and under seal, this may be a reality check.

[Effete Snob]

16. Oh goodness, are we still doing "sealed indictments" in the Trump law fantasy league?

[Irish_Dem]

18. It is all a big legal warfare game to Trump. And he is winning.

[Effete Snob]

21. No he isn't

He loses quite a lot. Each time, it's a another piece of wood out of the Jenga tower.

[Irish_Dem]

22. All he has to do is keep up the delay game.

And soon he will be too old and pitiful to arrest.

[inthewind21]

32. Yes

And a lot of wild speculation.

[Effete Snob]

46. Sigh

I will say that their loonies are quite a bit further off the deep end than our loonies. But, golly, don't people learn anything from the Terry and the Pirates serial thriller model?

And, honestly, the state should have taken that "young ward" away from him.

[sarisataka]

9. But but but

Imminent....

DA consulting police...

Police talking to Secret Service...

SOURCES!!!!


maybe we can go a month without predictions of what is happening when...

Probably not.

[moondust]

11. Possibly allowing others to go first?

The "imminent" case in GA or the SC cases that are generally considered more consequential?

[Turbineguy]

12. Do the rest of us still have to obey laws?

Just asking for a friend.

[Irish_Dem]

13. Yes. The rich and powerful use the laws to protect and enrich themselves.

For the rest of us, the laws are meant to control and persecute.

[Freethinker65]

15. Negotiate a settlement and cut a PSA that says only Trump can get away with this stuff. Don't try it

Trump can brag how he fu$ked a porn star and got away with it because Trump is seen as an alpha male leader. He can talk about having his choice of porn stars to fu$k over the years and even how he bought Melania for cheap. Art of the deal, baby. Trump voters will love him for it. He can say his only regret is not getting one last raw dog before he paid Stormy off. Hell he can then campaign off that.

Democrats can try to bring it up and social media will make fun of Democrats for not being tough and smart enough to fu$k porn stars and claim to care about traditional American values and get away with it.

It isn't worth it. Treating women like sex toys and breeders is seen as a positive for most of the current GOP and GOP controlled States.

[JohnSJ]

20. It was the media who said an indictment was imminent, not Bragg

[onenote]

33. Yep. The expectation that some have about an indictment any day

is based on unsubstantiated media speculation and Trump's tweet.

[Kaleva]

39. Pundits and so-called experts are not real news

[BlueCheeseAgain]

41. Wasn't it Trump himself?

As far as I can tell, the only reason anybody thought anything might happen was because Trump said it would. And we know how untruthful he is.

[JohnSJ]

43. While that is true, I believe the illustrious press pushed it

[ForgedCrank]

23. The entire

thing was on thin ice from the very beginning anyway.
And even IF he was ever charged and convicted, the worst case would likely just be some fines. I don't know where all of these fantastical predictions of handcuffs and jail time came from over the past few weeks.

[Irish_Dem]

40. I know it has all been so silly and ridiculous.

The idea Trump will serve jail time is ludicrous.

IF he is charged and convicted, and that is a big IF, we would look at fines.
Absolute most that would happen is house arrest which Trump would ignore.
And no one would do anything about it.

[inthewind21]

25. Not

sure why you were expecting one. This break has been out there since the GJ started in January.

[gldstwmn]

44. It's Fitzmas! Oh wait...

It's Mueller Time! Oh wait...

[Paladin]

51. Yeah, well.

Wouldn't want to rush things, now would we?

[Just A Box Of Rain]

53. This thread isn't aging well.