According to former President Donald Trump, he was supposed to be indicted yesterday over his hush money payments to adult film actor Stormy Daniels. Trump said that just before sending out an email blast begging for donations. It appears that it will still happen, but no one knows exactly when.

Trump will get fingerprinted after he's arrested, and he will have his mugshot taken. However, he won't have to be perp-walked in front of cameras in handcuffs or placed in a holding cell.

Except it appears that Trump wants to be handcuffed. At least that's what he's told close advisers. He's going for that martyred look for donations.

The Guardian reports:

The former president has reasoned that since he would need to go to the courthouse and surrender himself to authorities for fingerprinting, and a mug shot anyway, the sources said, he might as well turn everything into a "spectacle."

Trump's increasing insistence that he wants to be handcuffed behind his back for a perp walk appears to come from various motivations, including that he wants to project defiance in the face of what he sees as an unfair prosecution and that it would galvanize his base for his 2024 presidential campaign.

But above all, people close to Trump said he was deeply anxious that any special arrangements – like making his first court appearance by video link or skulking into the courthouse – would make him look weak or like a loser.

He wants to be a martyr, and he thinks if he got shot, he'd win in 2024. He's seemingly unaware that you can die if you're shot:

Trump's legal team in the hush money case has recoiled at the idea of him going in person and recommended that Trump allow them to quietly turn himself in next week and schedule a remote appearance, even citing guidance from his Secret Service detail about potential security concerns.

But Trump has rejected that approach and told various allies over the weekend that he didn't care if someone shot him – he would become "a martyr." He later added that if he got shot, he would probably win the presidency in 2024, the sources said.

That's peak Trump right there. Nothing about the man is genuine. He's a narcissist playing a part for his supporters.

This reminds me of when he left the hospital after contracting a bad case of Covid, and he defiantly ripped off his mask. But you could see he was having difficulty breathing, but he just had to play that part.