Carrying from downstairs:

re: #217 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Trump is in deep trouble both financially and legally. He has massive debts coming due, and absolutely no-one is willing to lend him money anymore. No-one is going to pay him for his memoirs, or pay him to give speeches, or stay at his hotels or pay dues at his golf clubs. Even if he isn’t indicted, his prospects are limited to grifting off of his low information base, and that won’t be enough to pay his bills. He has fucked himself, and I’m here for it.

It’s sinking in for him just now, at the very end, which is why he freaked out so badly when the PGA pulled out. He thought everything would be OK, even if it all failed, he could just skate on by with plausible deniability and maybe leverage his way out of Letitia James’s onslaught, but now he’s well and truly boned and he is finally coming to terms with it.