got his way after all. For much of March he was claiming he was about to be arrested for allegedly paying hush money to a former adult-film star to keep her quiet in the last stages of his successful 2016 presidential election campaign. Days came and went. Nothing happened.But Trump still used the prospect of arrest to rally support and raise funds for his 2024 presidential election bid, urging his fans to 'protest' and 'take our nation back', in echoes of his inflammatory rhetoric in the lead-up to the , 2021 riots on Hill.Some of his legal team advised him an indictment was unlikely. No matter. Just the possibility propelled Trump back to where he loves to be — in the headlines. Once again he was at the centre of a feeding frenzy across every conceivable news outlet in the American media.
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