Former President Donald Trump is being offered the chance to testify before a grand jury led by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office next week, signaling that the probe into a alleged hush money payment scheme may be drawing to a close. Trump's legal team is concerned with the District Attorney's intentions as former key White House aides, Hope Hicks and Kellyanne Conway, have recently made appearances before the grand jury.

The $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels in late October 2016, days before the 2016 presidential election, was allegedly to buy her silence on a alleged affair with Trump a decade earlier. Trump has consistently denied the affair. According to prosecutors, the issue is whether Trump falsified the records of the Trump Organization to reimburse Michael Cohen, Trump’s former fixer, for the money he used to pay Daniels.

While Trump’s spokesman called the District Attorney’s