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Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Gaily. I'm coming to you today solo to give some thoughts on the news that we saw last night that a Manhattan

Ranjury has indicted former President Donald Trump. The Office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has been investigating Trump for his role in a 2016 Hush Money Payment Scheme and cover up involving porn star Stormy Daniels.

Yesterday's indictment came as somewhat of a surprise due to the reports that the Grand Jury had been scheduled to take a month long hiatus.

Donald Trump was also shocked by the news of the indictment and learned about it through the media, not from the DA's office.

And so I think that as we get into this, we should think about first and foremost where this puts us as a country.

This is the next phase of what Jeff Charlotte, the author of The Undertoe, which you'll hear here on the podcast soon, called the Trumpicine era.

At some point, Donald Trump was going to be indicted by someone. He will probably be indicted by more people, whether or not it's the Fulton County District Attorney in Georgia or Jack Smith and the Feds for a variety of things.

But now we're in a different place. We're through the looking glass. How this is all going to play out.

No one can tell you in anybody political, legal, otherwise, probably doesn't know either. We know that next Tuesday by media accounts, Trump will present himself in Manhattan to be fingerprinted and officially booked.

What that means from here, as far as a trial is concerned, an arrangement is concerned, you know, the idea of trying to choose a jury in Manhattan of 12 people who don't know enough about Donald Trump or don't have an opinion of him enough will be something in and of itself.

But here's the thing is that it puts Trump back where he wants to be, which is in the middle of the American consciousness.

We will talk about this between now and next November. He will use this as his both defense about why he's running for president and his main reason for taking on the deep state or George Soros or people like them.

IE Alvin Bragg who happens to be African American. And so we don't know where this is going to go. We got a little glimpse of it last weekend in Waco when he gave what was arguably in a lifetime of unhinged speeches about his unhinged speeches he has given in his life or at least in his public life.

And we're going to see more of that. And we're going to hear more of that. And he is going to incite his followers, his most ardent followers to some sort of violence. Do we know that they'll do anything? I hope to God not, but we should not be surprised by it.

There were a lot of people saying Trump's the first former president to be indicted. Okay.

But Trump is a president of firsts. He was the first president to insult a war hero like John McCain. He was the first president to buddy up with the world's dictators.

He was the first president to aid in about the deaths of 800,000 Americans because of his incompetence on COVID. He's the first president to be impeached twice.

He's the first president to actively incite an insurrection to overthrow the results of a free and fair election.

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