EXCLUSIVE: The Manhattan District Attorney offered to let Donald Trump speak to a grand jury—but only if he waived the immunity that would come with his testimony. That’s bad news for Trump.
Former President Donald Trump’s decision to forgo testifying before a New York grand jury likely wasn’t a tough call, but the timing indicates an indictment could be just weeks away, maybe even days, according to former prosecutors.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, now led by Alvin Bragg Jr., last week offered Trump the chance to explain himself to the grand jury. But the deal notably came with strings attached, said one of his defense lawyers, Joe Tacopina; Trump could only talk to the grand jury if he first waived immunity for anything he says.
Cohen ultimately took the fall for those actions, and the Manhattan DA’s Office spent years reviving the investigation. By contrast, Manhattan prosecutors are exploring a case accusing Trump of a slow and deliberate effort to deceive the public and the feds. After all, it took Trump more than a year to pay back Cohen—11 installments totalling $420,000, payments that were routed through the Trump Organization to conceal them.
If Trump decided to talk to the grand jury, he would be ushered into the DA’s building in Lower Manhattan, where prosecutors secretly meet with the group on the ninth floor. Although the room itself is run by the local court system, it doesn’t exactly resemble a courtroom. Christian likens it to a well-lit college lecture hall, where roughly 23 grand jurors sit in the audience with a prosecutor while a witness answers questions from a desk facing the crowd.
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