Trump on Standby With No Grand Jury Indictment Thursday

Lawyers for Trump met with prosecutors at Jack Smith’s office
Trump has decried the investigation as a “witch hunt”

WATCH: Former President Donald Trump was hit with new charges in the criminal case over his handling of classified documents. Jodi Schneider reports.Source: Bloomberg

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By Zoe Tillman, Erik Larson, and Chris Strohm

July 27, 2023 at 3:49 PM UTC

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July 27, 2023 at 8:00 PM UTC

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As Donald Trump’s lawyers were bracing for the former president to be indicted over attempts to overturn the result of the 2020 election, a court official announced there will be no new indictments on Thursday from a federal grand jury in Washington hearing evidence on the case.

Trump’s lawyers were expecting the former president to be indicted as soon as Thursday, according to a person familiar with the matter. A courtroom deputy for the federal magistrate judge who would accept new indictments from prosecutors told reporters shortly before 3 p.m. that there would be no such activity on Thursday.