it's not out of the blue, though. and the timeline here i think is grounding in terms of us keeping this in context, keep thing perspective, making sure we are focusing on what we know and not speculating about stuff we don't know. we -- the way this has come about, the public reporting that has led us to this point, has been pointing in this direction for a while. it was as long ago as the summer of 2018 that the new york times is reporting that trump might face criminal charges from new york state prosecutors. as long ago as last summer, the summer of 2020, "the times" is the first to report that the scope of those prosecutor's investigation of trump appeared to include several different types of tax fraud, bank fraud, insurance fraud. in december, december 2020, it was reported that those prosecutors had hired a big very capable, forensic consulting firm that's very good at going through not only financial evidence, but they're