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3 verified reports published on March 28, 2023.
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Trump got a brief scheduling reprieve, not a clean bill of health. The political damage was already baked in, the legal exposure was still there, and the tape recorder from 2016 was still doing more damage to him than any Democratic attack ad could hope to.
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The hush-money grand jury did not meet again on March 28, pushing any vote on Donald Trump’s fate to at least the next week and keeping the first-ever criminal case against a former U.S. president in a state of suspended animation. That delay was a procedural break, not a substantive win, and it left Trump stuck in the exact kind of legal limbo that turns every calendar page into another campaign headache.
On March 28, 2023, reports said the Manhattan grand jury was not expected to take up the Trump hush-money matter again that week. Trump was indicted two days later, on March 30.
Judge Lewis Kaplan’s March 10, 2023 order let the Access Hollywood tape and testimony from Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff be used in E. Jean Carroll’s civil case against Donald Trump. No new ruling came on March 28; that date was just the publication date for this story.