I hear you, but Trump is beyond all things a survivor and a worshiper of money. If he sees himself in danger of not surviving (as in jail time) or if he believes he will either lose money or be exposed as not having much, he'll exit stage left and stick someone with the bill. This last could be the emoluments problem...clearly taxpayer paid trips for his family to make hundreds of millions of dollars is an emolument, and the chinese handing over hundreds of millions of dollars to kushner is an emolument. If he has to stop those deals...he'll walk. Dollars over country for him, every time.
that's what he does. He makes a splash, sometimes it works, but if it doesnt...he declares bankruptcy and leaves the blame with someone else.
that's what he thinks is honorable and right - that's his mental system.
the fame...he can't lose that. If he walks away tomorrow he won't lose the deplorables. He CANT lose the deplorables - the deplorables don't judge him on what he does...they only like that he he talks to them, pays them attention, and tells them in code that white people are better than everyone else.
the rest is immaterial.