Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg’s office has reportedly signaled to President Donald Trump’s legal team that he could face criminal charges for his alleged role in hush money payments to pornstar Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential election.

The New York Times reported that Trump has been offered the chance to testify before the grand jury that has been hearing evidence in the case.

“The Manhattan District Attorney’s threat to indict President Trump is simply insane,” a spokesman for Trump said in a statement. “It’s an embarrassment to the Democrat prosecutors, and it’s an embarrassment to New York City.”

The report noted that the offer for Trump to testify “almost always indicates an indictment is close” and that it would be “unusual” for any district attorney to give a potential defendant that notification “without ultimately seeking charges against” them.

The criminal investigation into Trump’s alleged $130,000 hush money payment to Daniels, who says that she had an affair with Trump, has lasted five years. The case involves a payment that former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, who pled guilty to felony charges related to the payment, made to Daniels during the election.

Daniels’ representatives contacted the National Enquirer about her story during the campaign, but the publication was not interested in buying the exclusive rights to it. The publication’s publisher brokered a deal between Cohen and Daniels.

The problem for Trump centers around how his company paid Cohen for the hush payment. The expense was listed as a legal expense and the company cited a retainer agreement with Cohen. The retainer agreement did not exist and the reimbursement was not related to any legal services from Cohen, thus setting up a potential misdemeanor criminal charge of falsifying business records.

The report said that prosecutors can elevate the misdemeanor to a felony if they can prove that Trump’s “‘intent to defraud’ included an intent to commit or conceal a second crime.”

Prosecutors argue that the second crime is that the $130,000 hush payment was an improper donation to the Trump campaign because the money was used to stop a story for the purpose of benefiting his campaign.

If Trump were to be convicted in the case, he would face a maximum of four years behind bars, although prison time is not mandatory.

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Trump later issued a lengthy statement saying that he did “absolutely nothing wrong” and that he never had an affair with Stormy Daniels, who he called “Horseface” in the statement, and that he never wanted to.

Trump claimed that the investigation was a “political Witch-Hunt” and that the only thing that he was guilty of was “beating all Republicans and Democrats badly in the Presidential race.”

“It is appalling that the Democrats would play this card and only means that they are certain that they cannot win at the voter booth, so they have to go to a tool that has never been used in such a way in our country, weaponized law enforcement,” he claimed.

Actor Hugh Grant says he lost his temper on the set of his most recent film and shouted at a woman he believed to be a studio executive — only to find out later that she was a local woman chaperoning a child.

“I did a ‘Christian Bale,'” Grant said, referencing the “Batman Begins” star’s infamous outburst — and subsequent apology — on the set of “Terminator: Salvation” in 2009.

Grant’s own temper tantrum came about on the set of “Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” — and he explained that as soon as he realized who the woman was, he offered an immediate apology for his behavior.

“I lost my temper with a woman in my eyeline on day one. I assumed she was some executive from the studio who should have known better,” Grant explained. “Then it turns out that she’s an extremely nice local woman who was the chaperone of the young girl. Terrible. A lot of grovelling …”

Grant’s temper has gotten him into trouble in the past as well — and it even got him banned from Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” in 2009, when comedian Jon Stewart was still hosting the show.

“He’s giving everyone s*** the whole time, and he’s a big pain in the a**,” Stewart said of Grant, calling him “the worst guest” and adding “and we’ve had dictators on the show.”

“Turns out my inner crab got the better of me with TV producer in 09. Unforgivable. J Stewart correct to give me kicking,” Grant referenced the spat a few years later in a tweet.

Turns out my inner crab got the better of me with TV producer in 09.
Unforgivable. J Stewart correct to give me kicking.

— Hugh Grant (@HackedOffHugh) December 14, 2012

The “Love, Actually” star conceded that point as well, admitting on a 2015 episode of “Watch What Happens Live!” with Andy Cohen that he had, in fact, lost his temper backstage when he visited “The Daily Show.”

“He wasn’t entirely wrong. I did have a tantrum backstage. About once a year, I have a really mega-tantrum, and sadly he witnessed one. So he’s absolutely right,” Grant said.

The issue reportedly arose when Grant was displeased with the clip — from his latest film at the time, “Did You Hear About The Morgans?” — and he complained about it to Stewart.

“What is that clip? It’s a terrible clip,” Grant complained — to which Stewart replied, “Well, then make a better f***ing movie.”