The theory that the RATS are trying to keep Trump as a candidate but damaged so he loses soccer moms and bun boys may not hold water. It is possible the RATS really want Trump to face so many indictments that he bows out. Then Biden pardons him and looks magnanimous. Trump fades into the sunset at one of his golf courses.
The GOPe gets to run their slate of candidates which will drive MAGA voters away. Returning power to the GOPe will turn the election in favor of the RATS. Millions voted for Trump who have never voted for a GOPe candidate. Those MAGA voters will not turnout for Pence, Christie or any Bush. On the face of it this appears to be a plausible scenario. Every indictment has made him more popular not less, so they are piling on until the weight of the indictments drives Trump out.
Up until the time he secured the nomination, he successfully ran in the moderate lane and hoodwinked a few serious conservatives, even me.
Once he had the nomination, he suddenly became an Ogre for personally giving a woman cancer, giving some hippie a forcible haircut as a youth and a host of other sins, real and imagined.
The DNC-Media complex will do that to anyone who challenges them. Even a turd-bird like Mitt or McCain or any Bush. Count on it.