If tRump "declared victory" and resigned, he could salvage something for his family's brand. Not a lot but something, and his base would venerate him for ever and claim he was sabotaged by a "soft coup". They would buy his crap and even send money if he claimed he was no longer wealthy.

The longer he stays the more he damages his brand. The more vehement his denials, the more the comeuppance will knock him down when it comes. He is determined to stay to the bitter end, or nearly, because he still thinks he is a winner. If he stays too close to the bitter end even a lot of his base will desert him. There will always be a few hardest core that will stick, but few. The longer he wriggles on the hook, the less this looks like a soft coup and the more it looks like meticulous prosecution of a large dark conspiracy and the more it looks like treason.

Lucky(?) for us he is that "unwise".

There's just no kind way to say this about them, but they weren't part of Trump's base because they're reasonable.

Mostly for himself I believe.

Trump himself will commence rage-tweeting.

On multiple fronts........Oh JOY!!

That is what rethugs do when they can’t answer a question. They gaslight you into believing that the asker has no right to even pose the question to begin with.

She is a liar and a fraud. She was turned down for a job in the Justice Dept for hiring illegals to work for her....blah...blah...blah..

I forget. She had an undocumented housekeeper. But I think lots of people may have undocumented people working for them and not know it.

It may have been Clinton?

Zoe Baird had an undocumented housekeeper and her nomination went down the toilet
Then, second nominee Kimba Wood had the same problem and had also worked (gasp) in a Playboy Club when she was in her 20s and her nomination was quickly tanked.

Then, Janet Reno came along

Mueller's got him by the balls.

and let the courts sort it out ... there sure is something in those tax returns and these Cohen files that Donald J. Trump does not want to be made public

to me, he looked like a cornered animal on november 9, 2016.

didn't buy him the candy car he wanted.

But I think he's too stupid to realize how much trouble he is in.
FOX News will tell him the prosecutors are bad people or blame it on someone else.
He will believe them and carry on.

He might fire someone during his tantrum but I do not think he fully appreciates what is happening to him.

He won't roll as easily as some of these other tertiary people, he is a legitimate, full on scumbag ...

Can Mueller team study the evidence collected, if Cohen team appeals judges ruling?