Since a grand jury issued charges related to hush money to an adult film star, the former president has cycled through a range of emotions and postures.
At one point, Trump showed off his soon-to-be-released book of letters between himself and celebrities and world leaders. At another, he began calling congressional Republicans, promising to fight the indictment and relishing in their declarations of support.
And he has become, eventually, defiant — portraying himself as a hunted victim and leveraging the controversy as a political weapon. Another longtime Trump adviser was blunter, describing the view among Trump advisers that the indictment is “political gold in a primary” and “definitely political gold for fundraising.”
The former president asked about the logistics of being arraigned, and spoke with his lawyers about what the proceedings would look like. “He has never been concerned about any story that paints him as a moral reprobate,” one Trump ally said. “His whole life and career have been full of those stories and they’ve never harmed him, in his mind.”
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