Trump Announces Presidential Bid for 2024

[CJD]

I imagine the two main reasons he announced his bid this early are:
1. So that he can start "campaigning" and start asking for more money from his followers. I'm sure he has already been emailing them before now with pleas for money to help keep the "radical Democrats" from putting him in jail or whatever, but now he can ramp up the emails and pleas even more.
2. To give himself some sort of "shield" against all of the investigations and potential lawsuits/criminal charges that may or may not be coming his way. Having announced his presidency bid, if he were arrested now, he can scream to the high heavens about political corruption. Again, he would do that anyway and, really, already is doing that, but this gives him a further layer of that perceived protection.

He probably already would have announced it before now had the GOP threatened him with no longer paying his legal bills if he announced before the midterms for the same reasons as above, but eh.

Trump announcing that he was going to run for 2024 was a lot like the sun announcing that it is about to set. It's like...we know, dude. You didn't have to say it.