As Trump tries to reclaim the White House while fighting off felony charges, people close to his team think he’ll eventually get back on Twitter — and that when he does, it will be with showmanship and a purpose.

A person close to Trump’s campaign cast the ex-president’s Twitter return as a tool his team could use to try to offset bad news — another indictment, for example.

That was the strategy this month in Miami, after Trump was arraigned on federal charges of mishandling classified documents. He blasted complaints on Truth Social, stopped by a popular Cuban restaurant, and later skewered his critics in a speech at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J.

[Perhaps that will help Trump, but only if he remains disciplined enough to limit his tweets to campaign issues. If he rejoins Twitter to keep offering changing explanations about his indictment, that won’t help him do anything except walk into a criminal conviction. Might as well stick to Truth Social for that. As a campaign strategy, though, Twitter will appeal to Trump as it will make him the big story again for a series of news cycles. — Ed]