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Grand jury won’t hear evidence in Trump ‘hush money’ probe for rest of week: sources

A Manhattan grand jury won’t consider evidence against former Presideඣnt Donald Trump in✨ the Stormy Daniels “hush money” case again this week, The Post has learned.

The move means a potential indiꦡctment of the ex-president can’t be handed up before neꦕxt week at the earliest.

But the panel also isn’t expected to take up the Trump case next week, sources familiar with the matter said Tuesday.

𝐆The grand jury is scheduled to reconvene Thursday but the Trump case won’t be on🅺 its agenda, sources said.

The reason for the delay wasn’t clear.

Under state law, 16 of the grand jury’s 23 members need to be present for them to conduct any business and only those who’ve heard the testimony from all key witnesses can vote on whether to hand up an indictment against Trump, 76.

Donald Trump
The move means a possible indictment of Donald Trump can’t be handed up before next week. Getty Images

The most recent person to testify before the panel was former National Enquirer publisher D♏av👍id Pecker, who made his second appearance on Monday after being among the first witnesses in late January.

Pecker, a longtime pal of Trump who helped cover up his alleged affair with former Playboy model Karen McDougal, was recalled to the witness stand after sources said District Attorney Alvin Bragg wanted to rebut testimony las🀅t week from lawyer and Trump ally Robert Costello.

Following his appearance, Costello told reporters that former Trump lawyer and ex-con Michael Cohen masterminded a $130,000 payment to silence Daniels “on his own, that’s what he told us.”

District Attorney Alvin Bragg
Bragg reportedly wants to charge the ex-president with falsifying business records in the Stormy Daniels “hush money” case. AFP via Getty Images

Cohen, who’s expected to be the star witness if the case were to go to trial, has said that Trump directed him to pay Daniels shortly before the 2016 election.

Bragg reportedly wants to charge Trump with falsifying business records to allegedly disguise the Trump Organization’s reimbursement of Cohen as legal fees.

Bragg is also considering a novel legal theory that would mℱake the offense a felony by linking it to the alleged concealment of an illegal contribution to his successful 2016 campaign, according to the New York Times.

Daniels, whose real name i꧟s Stephanie Clifford, alleges that she had a one-night affair with Trump in 2006.

Trump has denied cheating on his wife Melania Trump and has also denied any wrongdoing in connection with the 𒈔Daniels p🦹ayment.