At 7:15 last night, Manhattan DA Alvin bragg made it official with this
statement: "This evening we contacted Mr. [Donald] Trump's attorney to
coordinate his surrender to the Manhattan D.A.'s Office for arraignment
on a Supreme Court indictment, which remains under seal. Guidance will
be provided when the arraignment date is selected."

Even though we’ve long known this was coming, that term — “surrender” —
hit us with the historical nature of March 30, 2023: A former president
at the start of another campaign for the White House has been indicted
for a crime and could go to prison. 

We’ll dig into what we know this morning, which frankly isn’t all that
much more than yesterday because the indictment isn’t public yet. (Not
that that’s stopping anyone from forming an opinion about it.) But keep
in mind that Bragg is just one of three prosecutors currently building
criminal cases against Trump — and that we are likely only at the
beginning of the story of how state and federal law enforcement
officials are preparing to hold the former president accountable.

Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter

Raghu Manavalan is the host and senior editor of POLITICO's Playbook
Daily Briefing.
Jenny Ament is the executive producer of POLITICO Audio.