The Manhattan grand jury deciding whether or not to indict former President Donald Trump will break for another month, delaying the sluggish case even further.

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg had referred the case to a grand jury earlier this month in the hope of indicting Trump on campaign finance violations.

They have been tasked with considering whether Trump broke the law when his attorney Michael Cohen gave $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about claims she had slept with Trump in 2016.

It was supposed to remain a secret, allowing the jurors to consider the evidence in privacy.

The grand jury normally meets on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

But they are not meeting today and tomorrow, they will hear details on another case.

They won’t hear evidence on Trump’s case tomorrow, either, then the jury will go on a scheduled ‘hiatus’ that has been planned since January.

The Manhattan DA’s Office did not immediately respond to inquiries on Wednesday afternoon.

Earlier, he delayed the jurors for taking their time, writing on Truth Social: ‘I have gained such respect for this grand jury, and perhaps even the grand jury system as a whole.

‘The evidence is so overwhelming in my favor, and so ridiculously bad for the highly partisan and hateful district attorney, that the grand jury is saying, hold on, we are not a rubber stamp, which most grand juries are branded as being, we are not going to vote against a preponderance of evidence or against large numbers of legal scholars all saying there is no case here.

‘Drop this sick witch hunt, now!’

Republicans have slammed the prosecution, many of which think will only help Trump’s campaign and will never lead to a conviction.

‘The way it comes across is very political. Like this guy is a very political guy. It is just, it appears to be not fair. They don’t put out good information on it.

‘That’s why I always say about law enforcement: tell people what’s going on. Don’t be a black hole. Give people good information, so people don’t think badly,’ Sen. Rick Scott told DailyMail.com on Wednesday, shortly after the delay was announced.

Trump’s Response

Josselyn Berry, press secretary for Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, has resigned after posting an inflammatory tweet suggesting “transphobes” should be gunned down in the wake of a woman who identified as transgender killing six people at a Christian school in Nashville.

Local Arizona media reported that Berry’s resignation came after she faced pressure from those close to her and from other lawmakers.

The GIF, taken from the 1980 film “Gloria,” tweeted by Berry showed actress Gena Rowlands wielding two pistols and was captioned “Us when we see transphobes.” It was posted Monday, even as the nation mourned the murders of three 9-year-old children and three adults, killed at the Presbyterian-run Covenant School in Music City by a 28-year-old woman who was then killed by heroic police.

“Less than 12 hours after the tragic shooting in Nashville by a deranged transgender activist, Katie Hobbs’s Press Secretary calls for shooting people Democrats disagree with,” the Arizona Freedom Caucus said in a statement. “Calling for violence like this is un-American & never acceptable. Josselyn Berry should be fired immediately.”

Less than 12 hours after the tragic shooting in Nashville by a deranged transgender activist @katiehobbs’ Press Secretary calls for shooting people Democrats disagree with.

Calling for violence like this is un-American & never acceptable.@joss_berry should be fired immediately pic.twitter.com/wYHHkmsNNE

— Arizona Freedom Caucus (@AZFreedomCaucus) March 29, 2023

Daily Wire host Michael Knowles was suspended from Twitter after he posted a Bible verse in response to the Monday shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.

Knowles appears to have been impacted by a widespread Twitter crackdown against conservative accounts criticizing or simply alluding to the Trans Radical Activist Network’s recent call for a “Day of Vengeance” on Saturday, April 1, mere days after the attack in Nashville. Trans Radical Activist Network meanwhile retains access to its account on the platform.

Knowles linked on Twitter to a Daily Wire article about the “Day of Vengeance” and included a reference to Romans 12:19, in which the apostle Paul exhorts Christians to refrain from taking personal vengeance: “Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, ‘Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.’”

Twitter’s reprimand against the post, a screenshot of which was shared on Tuesday evening by fellow Daily Wire host Matt Walsh, told Knowles to delete the post and said that the platform does not permit users to “share abusive content, harass someone, or encourage other people to do so.” Knowles was provided with a button through which he could delete the post.

Walsh tagged Elon Musk, the new owner and chief executive of Twitter, and noted that Knowles was “suspended for posting a Bible verse.”

Attn: @elonmusk, Michael Knowles was suspended for posting a Bible verse. I assume this was a mistake. Can we get his account restored asap? pic.twitter.com/xmv1pvwQLy

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) March 29, 2023

Twitter accounts belonging to Daily Wire News, Federalist CEO Sean Davis, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) have all been suspended from the platform in recent days for what appear to be similar mentions of the “Day of Vengeance.” Twitter shared the same reprimand received by Knowles with Daily Wire News.

Police confirmed that a 28-year-old woman who identified as transgender killed three 9-year-old children and three adults on Monday at The Covenant School, which is associated with the conservative evangelical Covenant Presbyterian Church. Authorities revealed that the shooter, who will not be named in accordance with Daily Wire policy, executed a “targeted attack” and left behind a “manifesto.”

The action against Knowles and the other accounts comes shortly after Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak was likewise suspended from Twitter after he posted a link to his original story about the “Day of Vengeance.” Rosiak was also the author of the subsequent article that Knowles shared.

Rosiak, who said he has been on Twitter for 13 years but has “never had a single strike,” received the same warning about the platform not allowing users to “share abusive content, harass someone, or encourage other people to do so.” He was told that he must delete the original post to regain access to his account and appealed the decision.

“The activists, which describe their ‘Day of Vengeance’ alongside references to Molotov cocktails and specifically mentioned Tennessee, advertised this event on Twitter itself, and their accounts have not been banned,” Rosiak told The Daily Wire on Tuesday in reaction to his suspension. “Are trans activists mass-reporting factual tweets to prevent the public from learning about their actions, and does Elon Musk’s system allow organized groups of leftists to game it that way?”

Musk assumed control of Twitter last year in a professed bid to restore free speech to the platform. On the other hand, he has indicated a willingness to censor what he deems to be extreme content posted by those he considers far-Right and far-Left.

Knowles, a popular author, commentator, and podcast host, and Rosiak, who broke the bombshell story about school officials in Loudoun County, Virginia, attempting to conceal a sexual assault in a women’s bathroom perpetrated by a boy allegedly wearing a skirt, are indeed two of several conservatives to be suspended from Twitter under the company’s new management. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) each briefly lost access to their account in recent weeks.

An activist group is due to hold a ‘Trans Day of Vengeance’ demonstration outside the Supreme Court on Saturday, warning against ‘astronomical amounts of hate from the world’ and following the horrifying Nashville shooting which left seven dead on Monday.

The Trans Radical Activist Network (TRAN) will host the event in Washington D.C. from 31 March until 2 April, starting Friday and marching on the Supreme Court at 11am on Saturday. On their website they cite Gender Affirming care ban bills and the political climate as motives for the demonstration.

But commentators are up in arms over the decision to go ahead with the protest as police say they are investigating the role of Nashville shooter Audrey Hale’s gender identity and a sense of ‘resentment’ that may have inspired the attack on the shooter’s Christian former school.

Republican firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene yesterday demanded her Twitter account be restored after features were limited for violating rules.

She said: ‘My Congressional account was suspended for 7 days for exposing Antifa, who are organizing a call for violence called “Trans Day of Vengeance.”

‘The day after the mass murder of children by a trans shooter. Restore my account immediately.’

Ian Miles Cheong wrote that ‘Twitter is now cracking down on those who promote the “Trans Day of Vengeance” poster, which mostly comprises of trans militants who are calling for a day of mass violence.’

Twitter’s Trust and Safety lead, Ella Irwin, responded: ‘Correct. We had to automatically sweep our platform and remove >5000 tweets/retweets of this poster.

‘We do not support tweets that incite violence irrespective of who posts them.

‘”Vengeance” does not imply peaceful protest. Organizing or support for peaceful protests is ok.’

TRAN has stated on their website: ‘This protest is about unity, not inciting violence. TRAN does not encourage violence and it is not welcome at this event.’

It is unclear whether Hale was associated with the movement.

Audrey Elizabeth Hale opened fire at The Covenant School, shooting and killing six people on Monday.

The shooter was armed with two assault-style rifles and a handgun.

They killed three children, the Head of School, 60, a custodian and a substitute teacher, both 61.

Victims Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney were all aged nine.

Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) officers Rex Englebert and Michael Collazo shot and killed Hale on the second floor of the school.

Police are investigating possible motives for the attack.

MNPD Police Chief John Drake said that ‘resentment’ towards having been made to go to the school may have played a role in the shooting, but also that Hale ‘targeted random students in the school… whoever she came in contact with, she fired rounds.’

Drake added that officials believe ‘that [Hale] identifies as trans, but we’re still in the initial investigation into all of that and if it actually played a role into this incident.’

The upcoming protest was initially to be called the Trans Day of Visibility but rebranded as ‘vengeance means fighting back with vehemence,’ the group said.

‘It is our battle cry to declare to the world that we the transgender/non-binary communities will neither be silenced nor eradicated.’

Distancing themselves from Hale, the group published a statement on their website ahead of the event: ‘We Tsukuru [co-founder], Our Rights DC, and TRAN are horrified at the acts of violence committed at the Covenant school on March 27, 2023.

‘We grieve for Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, William Kinney, Cynthia Peak, Katherine Koonce, and Mike Hill, and with their loved ones.

‘We also reject any connection between that horrific event and outs.

‘Vengeance means fighting back with vehemence. We are fighting against false narratives, criminalization, and eradication of our existence.’

TRAN also said that due to ‘hate received’ they had disabled their contact form.

After the first full day of deliberations in the meme trial of Douglass Mackey, the jury sent a note saying that they had completed their deliberations and were unable to reach a unanimous decision as to his guilt.

“After the first full day of deliberations in the Douglass Mackey trial, the jury sent this note: ‘We have completed our deliberations and we have not reached a unanimous decision. Please advise.’ The judge sent them home for the night, told them to keep going in the morning,” the Daily News’ Brooklyn Court reporter John Annese reported.

“Brooklyn Federal Court Judge Ann Donnelly told the Mackey jurors, ‘This is actually not unusual. By our terms you’ve only been deliberating for a little while.’ She told them to take their time,” Annese continued.

Mackey, who was charged with election interference, has been on trial in the Eastern District of New York on federal charges. His alleged crime was making a meme in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election encouraging those who wished to vote for Hillary Clinton to do so via text.

The Department of Justice alleged that this constituted election interference, even though they were unable to provide evidence that anyone on Twitter was fooled by Mackey’s meme.

The defendant said that he wasn’t committing “election intereference” and was merely trying to make a viral meme. This he did. Hillary Clinton supporters posted similar memes suggesting that Trump supporters vote by text. These people were not arrested or charged by the DOJ.

Mackey, who went by Ricky Vaughn on Twitter, was arrested in January 2021 on the charge of “conspiring with others in advance of the 2016 US Presidential Election to use various social media platforms to disseminate misinformation designed to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote,” the DOJ said.

Early on in the trial, an expert witness for the defense withdrew from the trial after a reporter from the SPLC contacted him and asked, among other things, if his employer knew that he was testifying on Mackey’s behalf.

JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon will be deposed under oath in connection with the bank’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the late sex offender and a former client, a lawyer involved in the case said.

Reuters reports the interview is expected to happen in early May, according to Brad Edwards, a lawyer representing women who claim to have been sexually abused by Epstein.

The women are suing the largest U.S. bank for allegedly enabling the financier’s sex trafficking.

Epstein was a client from 2000 to 2013, with the last five years coming after he had pleaded guilty to a Florida prostitution charge.

JPMorgan is defending in Manhattan federal court two lawsuits seeking damages over its dealings with Epstein.

One involves a proposed class action by Epstein’s accusers and the other was brought by the U.S. Virgin Islands, where Epstein owned a home.

JPMorgan has tried to dismiss the lawsuit, noting the Virgin Islands government has already settled with Epstein’s estate for more than $100 million.

Earlier this month, a U.S. District Judge ordered JPMorgan to turn over documents from 2015 to 2019 – a period after which JPMorgan had dropped Epstein as a client.

The bank is also suing Jes Staley, a former private banking chief and later Barclays chief executive who had been friendly with Epstein.

JPMorgan wants Staley to reimburse it for eight years of compensation and damages it might incur in the other lawsuits.

Epstein killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell in August 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking.

The Financial Times earlier reported Dimon’s expected deposition.

Elon Musk and 1,000 other technology leaders including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak are calling for a pause on the ‘dangerous race’ to develop AI, which they fear poses a ‘profound risk to society and humanity’ and could have ‘catastrophic’ effects.

In an open letter on The Future of Life Institute, Musk and the others argued that humankind doesn’t yet know the full scope of the risk involved in advancing the technology.

They are asking all AI labs to stop developing their products for at least six months while more risk assessment is done.

If any labs refuse, they want governments to ‘step in’. Musk’s fear is that the technology will become so advanced, that it will no longer require – or listen to – human interference.

It is a fear that is widely held and even acknowledged by the CEO of AI – the company that created ChatGPT – who said earlier this month that the tech could be developed and harnessed to commit ‘widespread’ cyberattacks.

They say AI labs are currently ‘locked in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one – not even their creators – can understand, predict, or reliably control.’

‘Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable,’ the letter said.

No one from Google or Microsoft – who are considered to be at the forefront of developing the technology – has signed on.

The list of signatories is also missing input from social media bosses or those who run Quora or Reddit, who are widely considered to have knowledge on the topic too.

The letter also detailed potential risks to society and civilization by human-competitive AI systems in the form of economic and political disruptions, and called on developers to work with policymakers on governance and regulatory authorities.

The letter comes as EU police force Europol on Monday joined a chorus of ethical and legal concerns over advanced AI like ChatGPT, warning about the potential misuse of the system in phishing attempts, disinformation and cybercrime.

Since its release last year, Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT has prompted rivals to launch similar products, and companies to integrate it or similar technologies into their apps and products.

Musk has been trying to stop – or at least stunt – the rapid growth of AI technology for years.

In 2017, Musk warned that humanity was ‘summoning the demon’ in its pursuit of the technology.

‘With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon.

‘You know all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water and he’s like, yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon? Doesn’t work out,’ he said in an article for Vanity Fair.

Musk was one of the founders of OpenAI – the company that created ChatGPT – in 2015.

His intention was for it to run as a not-for-profit organization dedicated to researching the dangers AI may pose to society.

It’s reported that he feared the research was falling behind Google, and that Musk wanted to buy the company. He was turned down.

Now, its CEO Sam Altman – who has not signed on to Musk’s letter – says he is ‘openly attacking’ AI.

‘Elon is obviously attacking us some on Twitter right now on a few different vectors.

‘I believe he is, understandably so, really stressed about AGI safety,’ he said.

Altman says he is open to ‘feedback’ about GPT and wants to better understand the risks. In a podcast interview on Monday, he told Lex Friedman: ‘There will be harm caused by this tool.

‘There will be harm, and there’ll be tremendous benefits.

‘Tools do wonderful good and real bad. And we will minimize the bad and maximize the good.’

In an interview earlier this month, he said people had a right to be ‘a little bit scared’, and that he was too.

‘We’ve got to be careful here. I think people should be happy that we are a little bit scared of this.

‘I’m particularly worried that these models could be used for large-scale disinformation. Now that they’re getting better at writing computer code, [they] could be used for offensive cyberattacks,’ he said.

A former Google engineer has made a stark realization that humans will achieve immortality in eight years – and 86 percent of his 147 predictions have been correct.

Ray Kurzweil spoke with the YouTube channel Adagio, discussing the expansion in genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics, which he believes will lead to age-reversing ‘nanobots.’

These tiny robots will repair damaged cells and tissues that deteriorate as the body ages and make us immune to diseases like cancer.

The predictions that such a feat is achievable by 2030 have been met with excitement and skepticism, as curing all deadly diseases seems far out of reach.

Kurzweil was hired by Google in 2012 to ‘work on new projects involving machine learning and language processing,’ but he was making predictions in technological advances long before.

In 1990, he predicted the world’s best chess player would lose to a computer by 2000, and it happened in 1997 when Deep Blue beat Gary Kasparov.

Kurzweil made another startling prediction in 1999: he said that by 2023 a $1,000 laptop would have a human brain’s computing power and storage capacity.

Now the former Google engineer believes technology is set to become so powerful it will help humans live forever, in what is known as the singularity.

Singularity is a theoretical point when artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence and changes the path of our evolution, LifeBoat reports.

Kurzweil, an author who describes himself as a futurist, predicted that technological singularity would happen by 2045, with AI passing a valid Turing test in 2029.

It is a test of a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human

He said that machines are already making us more intelligent and connecting them to our neocortex will help people think more smartly.

Contrary to the fears of some, he believes that implanting computers in our brains will improve us.

‘We’re going to get more neocortex, we’re going to be funnier, we’re going to be better at music. We’re going to be sexier’, he said.

‘We’re really going to exemplify all the things that we value in humans to a greater degree.’

Rather than a vision of the future where machines take over humanity, Kurzweil believes we will create a human-machine synthesis that will make us better.

The concept of nanomachines being inserted into the human body has been in science fiction for decades.

In Star Trek, tiny molecular robots called nanites were used to help repair damaged cells in the body.

More than ten years ago, the US National Science Foundation predicted ‘network-enhanced telepathy’ – sending thoughts over the internet – would be practical by the 2020s.

‘Ultimately, it will affect everything,’ Kurzweil said.

‘We’re going to be able to meet the physical needs of all humans. We’re going to expand our minds and exemplify these artistic qualities that we value.’

The process began centuries ago with simple devices such as eyeglasses and ear trumpets that could dramatically improve human lives.

Then came better machines, such as hearing aids and devices that could save lives, including pacemakers and dialysis machines.

By the second decade of the 21st Century, we have become used to organs grown in laboratories, genetic surgery and designer babies.

O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) has uncovered possible widespread money laundering involving political campaigns across the United States.

According to Federal Election Commission (FEC) data, some senior citizens have been donating thousands of times per year, with certain individuals’ names and addresses linked to over $200,000 in contributions.

OMG founder James O’Keefe traveled to Annapolis, Maryland, to verify the data provided by citizen journalists from Election Watch in Maryland. O’Keefe spoke with several individuals whose names and addresses were associated with numerous donations, often in variations of their names and addresses.

The investigation found that many of these individuals were unaware of the extent of the contributions made in their names. Some admitted to donating small amounts occasionally, but the FEC data showed significantly higher numbers of donations and amounts.

For example, one individual allegedly contributed over 1,000 times to ActBlue in 2022, totaling $18,849.77. However, when confronted, the individual claimed to have only donated about $5 a month.

OMG is encouraging more citizen journalists to join their efforts in investigating this potential money laundering scheme. They provide support and resources for those interested in participating in this critical story.

A lawsuit has been submitted to the U.S District Court of Maryland regarding this issue by the Gibson Group and Maryland 2020 Watch. It remains unclear whether similar schemes are happening in other states.

BREAKING: O’Keefe Media Group Uncovers Potential MASSIVE Money Laundering into Political Campaigns #FollowTheMoneypic.twitter.com/MiNS63G2rI

— O’Keefe Media Group (@OKeefeMedia) March 29, 2023

Former President Donald Trump is building his campaign team in New Hampshire by hiring key operatives, including Trevor Naglieri, a veteran of Jeb Bush’s 2016 campaign.

Naglieri will serve as Trump’s New Hampshire state director, working alongside former state GOP Chair Steve Stepanek, who has been appointed as a senior adviser. These staffing moves indicate Trump’s commitment to a strong campaign presence in the crucial first-in-the-nation primary state as he seeks the presidency once again.

Politico reported:

Donald Trump has tapped an operative to lead his 2024 efforts in New Hampshire. And for the role, he’s turned to a veteran of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential bid.

Trevor Naglieri will serve as Trump’s New Hampshire state director, according to two GOP operatives familiar with the move.

Naglieri was a field coordinator for Bush in 2016 and went on to serve as New Hampshire field director and then national field director for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). He most recently managed Pennsylvania Republican Jeremy Shaffer’s unsuccessful 2022 congressional bid. He also did stints at Republican consulting firm Axiom Strategies.

Naglieri is Trump’s second big hire in New Hampshire. Two months ago, POLITICO first reported that former state GOP Chair Steve Stepanek, a longtime ally, would serve as a senior adviser to the former president in the first-in-the-nation primary state. The two join Alex Latcham, one of Trump’s Iowa hires, who’s overseeing all early state operations.

New Hampshire handed Trump his first primary win in 2016 — in which he defeated both Bush and Cruz. But he went on to lose the state in both the 2016 and 2020 general elections.

The Naglieri hire further illustrates the dual tracks that Trump is currently on: moving aggressively on a third run for the White House while simultaneously battling legal woes on several fronts.

Former Vice President Mike Pence responded to the recent court ruling compelling him to testify about conversations surrounding the Jan. 6 Capitol protest. He insisted he has nothing to hide.

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Pence must speak with a grand jury impaneled to aid in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of former President Donald Trump, CNN reported. Pence indicated that he will make a “decision in the coming days” about whether to challenge that ruling.

“Let me be clear: I have nothing to hide. I have a Constitution to uphold. I upheld the Constitution on Jan. 6. I believe we did our duty that day under the Constitution of the United States. And in this matter, I thought it was important that we stand on their constitutional principle again,” Pence told Newsmax’s The Record with Greta Van Susteren.

Pence had long sought to avoid testifying before the panel and had leaned on an argument that protections in the debate clause, which insulates congressional officials from legal scrutiny over their work, apply to the vice president. He also avoided testifying before the now-dissolved House Jan. 6 committee.

“I’m pleased that the court accepted our argument and recognized that the Constitution’s provision about speech and debate does apply to the vice president. But the way they sorted that out and the requirements of my testimony … are subject to our review,” he said. “We’re evaluating the court’s decision.”

Smith has been spearheading the Justice Department’s investigations of the Jan. 6 Capitol protest as well as the coinciding efforts to thwart the 2020 election and the Mar-a-Lago classified document ordeal concerning Trump. Pence has also been under scrutiny for classified documents after material was unearthed at his Indiana residence earlier this year.

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) and Vice Chairman Marco Rubio (R-FL) have voiced frustration with the intelligence community for not being more forthcoming about the nature of the documents that were found at the residences of Trump, Pence, and President Joe Biden.

“I would have no objection whatsoever to him seeing the documents,” Pence replied when asked. “Members of the Senate Intel Committee deal with classified documents on a regular basis, and the materials that were inadvertently packed and stored at my residence we discovered earlier this year. Out of an abundance of caution, we engaged in a review.”

“I’d be very, very happy to cooperate with any further inquiry from members of the Senate, and I look forward to putting this matter behind us in the near future,” he added.

Pence has been testing the waters for a possible 2024 presidential run, which would put him on a collision course with onetime boss Trump. He laid out “spring or early summer” as a time frame for his decision about whether to run and stressed that he is receiving an “awful lot of encouragement from around the country.”

He is currently running in third place in a hypothetical 2024 GOP primary, per the latest RealClearPolitics polling aggregate. Earlier in the day Tuesday, Pence delivered a keynote at Liberty University School of Law’s Consecration Service. He also has an eighth trip to Iowa scheduled for Wednesday following a recent stint in New Hampshire.

The grand jury hearing evidence in the Manhattan District Attorney’s investigation into former President Donald Trump will not sit on the case again this week, multiple sources told Fox News Tuesday.

A court administration source, and others, told Fox News the grand jury, which was expected to reconvene Wednesday, is done with the case until next week.

The secret grand jury wrapped its proceedings Monday afternoon without voting on Trump’s case, sources told Fox News on Monday. Those proceedings came after they were canceled twice last week by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.

Bragg has been investigating the $130,000 hush-money payment that then-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford. That payment was made in the weeks leading up to the 2016 presidential election in exchange for her silence about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump in 2006.

Cohen has said Trump directed the payments. Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 through his own company and was later reimbursed by Trump’s company, which logged the payments as “legal expenses.”

Trump has repeatedly denied wrongdoing with regard to the payments made to Daniels, and he has repeatedly said the payments were “not a campaign violation” but rather a “simple private transaction.”

The Trump Organization “grossed up” Cohen’s reimbursement for Daniels’ payment for “tax purposes,” according to federal prosecutors who filed the 2018 criminal charges against Cohen for the payments.

Federal prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York opted out of charging Trump related to the Daniels payment in 2019, even as Cohen implicated him as part of his plea deal. The Federal Election Commission also tossed its investigation into the matter in 2021.

Over the weekend, Trump suggested the case had already been dropped against him.

“I think they’ve already dropped the case,” Trump told reporters aboard his plane after appearing at his first 2024 campaign rally in Waco, Texas.

“It’s a fake case,” he said. “Some fake cases, they have absolutely nothing.”

When asked for comment about Trump’s claim the case has been dropped, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung told Fox News Digital: “This has been dropped because everyone knows this was a partisan witch-hunt by a radical, leftist DA that sought to politically weaponize the Justice system to influence an election.”

Meanwhile, Bragg has slammed House Republicans who have called for him to testify on Capitol Hill about the investigation.

“We evaluate cases in our jurisdiction based on the facts, the law, and the evidence. It is not appropriate for Congress to interfere with pending local investigations,” the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said in a statement.

The office told Fox News Digital that Bragg stands by his previous pledge to publicly state the conclusion of the investigation, “whether we conclude our work without bringing charges, or move forward with an indictment.”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) congressional Twitter account has been suspended for a week after she condemned calls for a “Trans Day Of Vengeance” made before the Nashville school attack by a 28-year-old transgender shooter.

Greene was initially suspended after she tweeted that antifa was organizing the event, announced before the shooting yesterday that killed three children and three adults.

After her account was restored, she was suspended again after she retweeted the post that offended Twitter. That was followed by a notice that the lawmaker’s account was suspended for seven days.

“After 3000 RTs of this tweet, my account was suspended AGAIN. Why is Twitter whitewashing the ‘Trans Day of Vengeance,’ @elonmusk? A day after a mass murder of children by a trans shooter? The people need to know about the threat they face from Antifa & trans-terrorism!!!” she wrote before the seven-day suspension hit.

Several conservative news sites wrote about the protest day after trans shooter Audrey Hale went on a killing spree at the private Covenant School yesterday.

“We had to automatically sweep our platform and remove >5000 tweets /retweets of this poster,” Ella G. Irwin, vice president of trust and safety at Twitter, posted Tuesday. “We do not support tweets that incite violence irrespective of who posts them. ‘Vengeance’ does not imply peaceful protest. Organizing or support for peaceful protests is ok.”

https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1640790873226244097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1640790873226244097%7Ctwgr%5E7426f6f6cb52a8fe020ed16905b296cc3eac6805%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fnews%2Fwashington-secrets%2Fmtg-twitter-suspended-over-highlighting-trans-vengeance-day

Greene followed up those reports by uploading the poster promoting the day of protest in Washington. She called on the Justice Department to investigate.

Twitter said, however, that she had violated their rules against violent speech.

This is a lie.

My Congressional account was suspended for 7 days for exposing Antifa, who are organizing a call for violence called “Trans Day of Vengeance.”

The day after the mass murder of children by a trans shooter.

Restore my account immediately. @elonmusk @ellagirwin… https://t.co/p9XZLtuuDF pic.twitter.com/svViCYUyhm

— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) March 28, 2023

On her personal Twitter account, which she uses in tandem with the congressional one, she wrote of violating rules, “This is a lie. My Congressional account was suspended for 7 days for exposing Antifa, who are organizing a call for violence called ‘Trans Day of Vengeance.’ The day after the mass murder of children by a trans shooter. Restore my account immediately.”

Police have released frightening bodycam footage of the moment officers took out mass shooter Audrey Hale — as it was revealed she suffered from an “emotional disorder” and hid her cache of weapons from her parents.

The footage, released by the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, shows officers Rex Englebert and Michael Collazo storming through The Covenant School’s hallways as they methodically hunted down the 28-year-old mass killer on Monday.

Soon after entering the building, the heroic cops could be seen rushing towards an atrium on the second floor of the private Christian academy while repeatedly shouting “shots fired.”

As they rounded the corner and laid eyes on Hale, the bodycam shows officers rapidly firing as the shooter blasted bullets in their direction.

Seconds later, Hale could be seen dropping to the floor.

The footage shows cops cautiously approaching the shooter’s limp body as they screamed “don’t move” and “get your hands away from the gun.”

Hale, who was armed with two rifles and a handgun, was killed in the shootout.

At a press conference on Tuesday, Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake said the 28-year-old had legally purchased seven guns from various local stores — including the three used in the massacre.

The shooter was also being treated for an emotional disorder — and had hidden her cache of weapons from her parents, the police chief said.

“She was under care, doctor’s care, for an emotional disorder,” Drake told reporters, adding that cops “knew nothing about the treatment she was receiving.”

The police chief did not elaborate on what kind of emotional disorder she was suffering.

A source close to the Hale family told the Daily Beast that the shooter was autistic “but high-functioning” — however, cops were unable to immediately confirm that.

Hale also identified as transgender, Drake revealed at an earlier press conference Monday, though it wasn’t clear whether the suspect identified as a man or woman.

Asked whether Hale’s identity could be a factor in the motive, Drake said, “There is some theory to that, we’re investigating all the leads.”

Hale used male pronouns and the name Aiden on some social media accounts.

The mass killer – dressed in a red hat backward, military fatigue pants, and a dark vest — had also earlier been captured on surveillance video casually stalking the hallways for victims as cops were rushing towards the scene.

Police said Hale managed to gain access to the school by pumping bullets through the glass doors on the side of the building.

After unleashing a reign of deadly terror, the shooter then started firing at arriving officers from the second-story window where she was eventually taken out.

Hale gunned down three 9-year-olds and three staffers in the minutes before police fatally shot her.

The victims have been identified as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and Williams Kinney, as well as custodian Mike Hill, 61, substitute teacher Cynthia Peak, 61, and headmaster Katherine Koonce, 60.

Drake hasn’t yet revealed a motive for the massacre but said Hale, who was a former student, had meticulously planned out the carnage.

A search of Hale’s home uncovered a detailed map of the school, including potential entry points.

The shooter also conducted surveillance of the building before carrying out the massacre, Drake added.

“We have a manifesto, we have some writings that we’re going over that pertain to this date, the actual incident,” he told reporters on Monday.

“We have a map drawn out of how this was all going to take place.”

Legacy media outlets are upset that police in Nashville “misidentified” the gender of the biologically female shooter who killed six, including three 9-year-old children, Monday morning at a Christian school.

USA Today wrote in a tweet thread update that “Police on Monday afternoon said that the shooter was a transgender man. Officials had initially misidentified the gender of the shooter.” The New York Times also issued a statement, attempting to clear up “confusion” about the shooter’s gender.

“There was confusion later on Monday about the gender identity of the assailant in the Nashville shooting,” the Times said.

“Officials had used ‘she’ and ‘her’ to refer to the suspect, who, according to a social media post and a LinkedIn profile, appeared to identify as a man in recent months.”

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The 28-year-old shooter Audrey Hale —  shot and killed three children and three adults at the Covenant School before police responded and exchanged gunfire with the shooter, who was struck and killed around 10:27 a.m. — just 14 minutes after the first call was made to police. Nashville Police Chief John Drake said the shooting was a “targeted attack.”

The shooter was a biological woman who identified as a man. Throughout the day in press conferences and updates, the Metro Nashville Police Department and Police Chief John Drake referred to the shooter as a woman and used her biological female pronouns. The female shooter, however, put “he/him” pronouns on social media, causing legacy media outlets to retroactively issue statements addressing gender identity.

On Monday afternoon, local authorities along with the FBI searched the home of the female shooter. During the search, law enforcement said they found “a manifesto” along with maps of the school drawn in detail that included points of entry. The police chief said authorities have a theory on the shooter’s motive, but they are not ready to share it yet.

Police identified the six victims, and they include three 9-year-old children and three adults 60 years old and above.

According to the Metro Nashville Police Department, the victims are “Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, all age 9, Cynthia Peak, age 61, Katherine Koonce, age 60, and Mike Hill, age 61.” Katherine Koonce was the head of the Covenant School.

The Covenant School is a private Presbyterian school in Nashville’s posh Green Hills neighborhood that educates children from preschool through sixth grade. According to the school’s website, it enrolls between 195 and 210 students.

Not a single headline says the word Christian, transgender, or targeted:

The FBI released “secret” documents relating to an inquiry into former President Donald Trump’s ex-wife, Ivana Trump on Tuesday.

The documents, obtained by Bloomberg, indicate that Ivana faced counterintelligence allegations relating to her home country of Czechoslovakia. The FBI used connections in Canada and Europe to track down the specifics of her emigration from the country, which at the time was controlled by communists.

Ivana left Czechoslovakia by marrying an Austrian ski instructor, who she divorced soon after gaining Austrian citizenship in 1972. She then traveled to the U.S. and ended up in New York City, where she met the would-be president.

Ivana and Trump married in April 1977, and the couple would remain together until their highly public divorce in the late 1980s.

The FBI produced some 900 pages of documents relating to its investigations into Ivana, but only 190 were made available this week. More documents from the stash are expected to be available next month, according to Bloomberg.

The FBI’s inquiry focused at least in part on Ivana’s connections to a man in Czechoslovakia who was said to arrange false marriages. The man was believed to have connections to the country’s intelligence community. The FBI redacted names from all the documents it released.

The documents also made note of a visit investigators say Ivana made to her home country in June 1990. The documents say she met with Vaclav Havel, the late president of Czechoslovakia, and he reportedly gave her a signed book.

The documentation of the meeting indicates the FBI was investigating Ivana long after her marriage to Trump ended.

Ivana died in July 2022, and Trump attended her funeral alongside their children, Ivanka, Eric and Don. Jr.

“I am very saddened to inform all of those that loved her, of which there are many, that Ivana Trump has passed away at her home in New York City.. She was a wonderful, beautiful, and amazing woman, who led a great and inspirational life. Her pride and joy were her three children, Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric. She was so proud of them, as we were all so proud of her. Rest In Peace, Ivana!,” Trump said in a statement announcing her death.

A fire at an immigration detention center in northern Mexico, near the U.S. border, has claimed the lives of at least three dozen migrants, Mexican authorities said.

Mexico’s National Institute of Migration (INM) said 39 foreign migrants died in a fire that started shortly before 10 p.m. local time on Monday, at the detention center in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.

Images from the scene showed rows of bodies lying under shimmery silver sheets outside the facility in Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas. Ambulances, firefighters and vans from the morgue could also be seen.

INM said that 68 men from Central and South America were staying at the facility. Of these, 29 more migrants were injured in the fire and were transported in delicate to serious condition to four local hospitals for care.

The agency said a complaint has been filed with the proper authorities to begin investigating the incident. Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) was given a hearing to intervene in legal proceedings and to safeguard foreign migrants.

INM said it will assist in legal investigations “in order to clarify these unfortunate facts.”

“The National Institute of Migration strongly rejects the acts that led to this tragedy,” the agency said, without specifying which “acts” it was referring to.

Ciudad Juarez is a major crossing point for migrants entering the United States. Its shelters are full of migrants waiting for opportunities to cross or who have requested asylum in the United States and are waiting out the process.

A local newspaper, Diario de Juárez, reported that the fire began in the men’s area of the detention facility and that all the victims are male.

The cause of the fire remains unknown and is being investigated by Mexico’s attorney general’s office, according to media reports.

This tragedy near the U.S. border comes as dual border hearings are scheduled on Capitol Hill Tuesday.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will testify in an oversight hearing conducted by the Senate Judiciary Committee at 10 a.m.

At the same time, the House Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability will hold a hearing entitled, “Biden’s Growing Border Crisis: Death, Drugs, and Disorder on the Northern Border.”

House lawmakers will hear from National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd and others who will speak about illegal immigration across the U.S.-Canada border, which is the longest international border between two countries in the world.

The transgender school shooter who killed six people including three innocent children yesterday before being gunned down by police sent a message to a friend moments before the rampage, telling her: ‘I’m planning to die today… you’ll probably hear about me on the news.’

Audrey Hale, 28, shot and killed three students and three teachers at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, shortly before 10.30am yesterday.

Audrey – who was transgender and also went by ‘Aiden’ – was then shot and killed by police.

Before traveling to the school, the killer sent a haunting final message to Averianna Patton on Instagram.

They had played middle school basketball together and remained friends.

At 9.57am, 16 minutes before cops were first notified to the shooting, Audrey wrote: ‘So basically that post I made on here about you, that was basically a suicide note.

‘I’m planning to die today. THIS IS NOT A JOKE!!! You’ll probably hear about me on the news after I die.

‘This is my last goodbye. I love you. ‘See you again in another life.’

‘Audrey (Aiden)’.

Patton immediately called the cops to report the messages but it was already too late.

By the time she called, Audrey had begun shooting children at the small, church school.

Patton told News Channel 5 Nashville that another message read: ‘One day this will make more sense. I’ve left behind more than enough evidence behind.

‘But something bad is about to happen.’

During an appearance on CNN on Tuesday morning, she said Hale had been suicidal in the past.

‘Audrey has shared with others that she had been suicidal in the past and I knew to take this serious.’

She also revealed that she was on hold for seven minutes before someone answered her call to the non-emergency police line.

‘I called Nashville’s non-emergency line at 10:14am and was on hold for nearly seven minutes before speaking with someone who said that they would send an officer to my home.

‘An officer did not come to my home until 3:29 pm,’ she said.

The first 911 call of a shooting came in at 10.13am.

By 10.27am, police were at the school and had killed Hale on the second floor of the building.

Hale shot her way into the school, firing through one of the locked doors.

She then made her way through the first floor, and up to the second.

It remains unclear exactly how many shots she fired in total, and whether anyone else was shot and injured.

The two police officers who fatally shot the suspect of the Covenant School shooting in Nashville on Monday have been identified.

Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake said Officer Rex Englebert and Officer Michael Collazo fired at the 28-year-old Audrey Elizabeth Hale “and fatally wounded her,” bringing an end to a shooting that left six victims, including three children, dead.

Officer Englebert is a four-year MNPD veteran and Officer Collazo is a nine-year MNPD veteran.

“Chief John Drake and the men and women of the MNPD join all of Nashville in mourning today’s deaths of six innocent persons, three nine-year-olds and three adults, at the hands of an active shooter at Covenant Church/School on Burton Hills Drive,” a statement from the Nashville Police read.

According to the police chief, Hale fired at the officers who were arriving at the scene from windows on the second floor before they swept the building and found her in a common room.

“The first call to 911 about shots being fired in the building came in at 10:13 a.m. Officers rushed to the campus, made entry, and began clearing the building. Shots were heard coming from the second level. It was on the second floor, in a common area, that a team of officers encountered Hale shooting (she had been firing through a window at arriving police cars). Two members of an officer team fired on Hale and fatally wounded her,” Chief Drake said.

The responding officers were on the scene and neutralized the shooter within 15 minutes of the initial shots being fired by Hale.

The victims were identified as Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney, and Hallie Scruggs, all age nine, as well as Mike Hill, 61, Cynthia Peak, 61, and Katherine Koonce, 60.

According to the police, Hale, who attended the school years ago, arrived on campus in her Honda Fit and was heavily armed with three guns. They included two AR-style weapons and a pistol.

Surveillance video released by MNPD showed Hale shot her way into the church/school through a set of glass doors at a side entrance of the building.

The MNPD also found writings belonging to Hale in a nearby vehicle that revealed her attack was “calculated and planned.”

Other evidence, including a sawed-off shotgun and a second shotgun, was seized when officers executed a search warrant at Hale’s Brightwood Avenue home, police said.

The shooting remains under investigation and is being led by several MNPD components, with assistance from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the ATF and Tennessee Highway Patrol.

Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie suggested to an audience on Monday that he may enter the 2024 presidential race to torpedo former President Donald Trump.

Christie made the remarks while speaking at St. Anselm’s College in New Hampshire.

Christie campaigned in New Hampshire more than any other GOP candidate in 2016 and was blown out there, leading him to suspend his campaign.

“You better have somebody on that stage who can do to him what I did to Marco because that’s the only thing that’s gonna defeat Donald Trump,” Christie said in reference to him going hard after Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) during the debates. “And that means you gotta have the skill to do it and that means you have to be fearless because he will come back and right at you.”

Christie said that “it’s not gonna end nicely” and Trump’s “end will not be a calm and quiet conclusion.”

“And so, if I run again, I can’t imagine that I would continue to do it the same way,” he added. “But this time if I run, I would just hope that you come to a better conclusion than you did the last time.”

Mediaite reported that Christie’s remarks “elicited laughs from the crowd.”

The former president and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis currently sit at the top of the polls for the 2024 Republican nomination, even though the latter has not announced a campaign yet.

Christie told Fox News that he wanted to go to New Hampshire to talk to people “who I know are the best-informed voters in the country about things that I think are important in the world and in our country right now — and to see how they react to that, and see that what they think about things that I think are important.”

Christie said though that he has not made any plans on whether to join the race but added that he has “had a lot of interesting conversations with donors over the course of the last few weeks.”