from WNYC studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Tuesday, April 4th.

A shout out to the hyperlocal paper, the Queen's Daily Eagle, which had maybe the best headline about the local news story

of the day. It just said, queen's man indicted. And in a way, there should be a very ordinary,

very ho-hound, very queensman indicted little case, right? Another rich businessman, allegedly

covering up his real finances to hide something sleazy or illegal that he did.

Happens all the time. Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg has charged falsifying business records

117 times since he took office last year, according to the New York Times. And it's a small

crime in the scheme of things. It's not say murder. It's not say

obstructing justice to hide classified documents who would do that or trying to foment to take

over the United States government through violence or fraud. Hmm. Those charges, those last

couple and those conversations may be to come, this is expected

to be something more like Queensman indicted. But the Queensman is Donald Trump, so it's another

opportunity for what John Bolton has called performance art, which is how Bolton, Trump's former

national security advisor,

described Trump's approach to public life on MSNBC back in December, just performance art

very different from the idea that the Republican Party has turned into a Donald Trump movement.

I think that this whole idea that there's a Trump movement out there is simply wrong.

Yeah, and Bolton may be simply right, because judging by the size of the crowds that have

stayed away in droves from Trump's calls for massive protests today, the problem for Trump so

far on his current performance art stage is that in addition to becoming a criminal defendant,

the audience seems to be small. April 4th is so far not becoming January 6th. And that, arguably, is the only really important question to be answered today.

Queensman indicted on a relatively small set of charges for doing what a lot of

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