Aside from Trump being a narcissistic, megalomaniac, sociopath, why is he conning his base into giving him money for a legal battle to stay in office? His deceived and gullible base has donated over $200 Million to that deception. Unless they read the fine print, the first $5,000 goes to his campaign to be used to pay off his former campaign debt, and for him and his family to take trips around this country and maybe others under a guise of a campaign expense. Much of the donated money from the last campaign was wasted on buying, not leasing, expensive cars, penthouses, and thousand dollar dinners.
As sneaky as that sounds, the real reason is prison sentences for the rest of his life. He might try to throw his kids under the bus, but his signature is on the documents that New York is using to build their case. He can pardon himself (legally questionable), or resign and hope Pence will pardon him like Ford did Nixon. That would create another problem for him. He could only be pardoned from Federal prosecution, not state. When called by the state to testify about broken state laws he would either risk jail by refusing to testify, explain the reason for the pardoning of crimes committed, or face an obstruction of justice sentence (5th amendment can’t be used, as he is pardoned from Federal Crimes committed before the pardon).
The sentences could be years in a white collar prison and tens of hundreds of millions in fines and penalties. His adult sons and daughters along with some of their friends and employees could go to jail also. He is petrified of January 21, 2021 and the probability of a handful of subpoenas.
