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Police and pizza but no perp walk as New York waits for Trump indictment

A week that began with a bang fizzled out as grand jury unlikely to deliver verdict in hush money payment case until next week

Over the weekend Donald Trump set off an international maelstrom of media attention when he announced he would be “arrested on Tuesday”.

Like so many of Trump’s certain proclamations, it proved to be throughly wrong, and the grand jury weighing whether to charge Trump over payments to an adult film star is now unlikely to deliver its verdict until next week.

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