Hello and welcome to Positively Dreadful with me, your host, Brian Boyler.

Donald Trump got arrested and the world didn't end.

This guy didn't fall, the streets didn't run red with blood, if a vast, furious,

maga horde secretly thought this was a call to arms, they also for some reason or

other couldn't be bothered to show up.

And to me that's probably the most important fact surrounding the, I guess we can call

it the post indictment era.

A Manhattan grand jury voted to indict Trump last week.

Both before that vote and since, Trump has tried to whip up public outrage and directed

threats and vitriol at the district attorney, Alvin Bragg and the judge in the case,

Juan Mershon.

And it's not like his supporters aren't listening to him.

Bragg has been inundated with death threats.

Trump's oldest son posted a picture of Mershon's daughter on social media, but nobody seems

to want to flood the streets for him, at least not anymore.

The fear of backlash that has seemingly paralyzed so many of our institutions of accountability,

it sort of seems like all of that was mostly a figment of the imaginations of the people

who run those institutions.

So the charges themselves are pretty straightforward.

34 felony counts, all of which pertain to business records that Trump and others falsified

in order to disguise hush money payments he ranged for former mistresses, to buy their

silence until after the 2016 election.

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