According to two people familiar with the situation, witnesses who had turned over key documents to investigators have suddenly been getting their evidence back in recent weeks.
Returning evidence is often a sign that an investigation is concluding, and the news comes one day after The New York Times published a leaked copy of a resignation letter from a top prosecutor who quit out of frustration that the new head of the office, District Attorney Alvin Leonard Bragg Jr., seems disinclined to criminally charge Trump…
For weeks, lawyers for Trump, his family, and his hereditary business have been utterly convinced the Manhattan DA would not bring criminal charges against the ex-president. According to two sources with knowledge of the matter, the leak of the resignation letter this week caused some gloating and borderline elation among Trump attorneys, who viewed the leak as further evidence that criminal charges against Trump wouldn’t be dropping.
“There was some high-fiving,” one of the sources bluntly said.
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