• Breaking moments ago, NYT’s William Rashbaum, Ben Protess and Jonah Bromwich reported that Manhattan DA ALVIN BRAGG is presenting evidence today to a grand jury about the STORMY DANIELS hush payments during the 2016 campaign, “laying the groundwork for potential criminal charges against the former president in the coming months.”
• “Mr. Bragg’s decision to impanel a grand jury focused on the hush money — supercharging the longest-running criminal investigation into Mr. Trump — represents a dramatic escalation of an inquiry that once appeared to have reached a dead end,” the Times writes.
• Manhattan isn’t the only investigation ramping up. Fulton County, Ga., DA FANI WILLIS could bring 2020 election-related charges sooner than federal investigators, and her comments in court last week have some observers on notice, AP’s Kate Brumback and Eric Tucker report from Atlanta today.

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