I believe DJT wants to spend some/any time in jail to seal the precedent for the prosecution and incarceration of prior administrations.
Reflect on the unprecedented welcome Trump received in China's forbidden city, the Saudi sword dance reception, his relationship with Putin, his meeting with Kim Jong Un at Panmunjon, etc, and those countries leaning toward BRICSIA versus Swift, and the long-planned international effort to crush the globalists in a long campaign to expose their corruption and subversion of national sovereignty. Your word "theater" is more true, I think, than you realize. Reflect also on Nixon, brought down by assaults to shame him thru a media drumbeat and inflated charges to end his highly popular presidency, and the media's amazement now at how ineffective that has been with DJT. The commies are going down, and they know it. It's the end game.