Will Trump sell nuclear secrets in the middle of Fifth Avenue and get away with it?

There is a tendency every time we hear that Donald Trump has done something horrible and disgusting and illegal to think that finally, this is the one that will bring him down.  Here is my cautionary tale for this morning:

The Mueller investigation.

The Special Counsel found numerous contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia, some of them like Manafort’s passing of polling data to a Russian national by the name of Konstantin Kilimnik, involving Russian intelligence assets, of which Kilimnik was one.  He found at least eight and possibly ten instances of Trump committing obstruction of justice.  He indicted 25 Russians for conspiring to interfere with the presidential election.  In short, he not only found the “Russia thing” was real when it came to Donald Trump, he found that Trump had committed indictable crimes.

What happened?  He wasn’t indicted.  He wasn’t impeached.  And practically the minute Mueller issued his report, Trump turned around and tried the same thing with Ukraine, attempting to blackmail the country’s president into helping him defeat Joe Biden by withholding badly needed military aid Ukraine needed to fight the Russians who had invaded a region in the country’s east.

This is a crunch day, for want of a better term, for Donald Trump and for us.  He has until 3 p.m. to respond to a motion filed by Merrick Garland in federal court seeking to release the search warrant for Trump’s home in Palm Beach and the inventory of what was seized there.  Late last night, Trump issued a defiant statement about the search warrant: “Not only will I not oppose the release of documents related to the unAmerican, unwarranted, and unnecessary raid and break-in of my home in Palm Beach, Florida, Mar-a-Lago, I am going a step further by ENCOURAGING the immediate release of those documents…”

Why would Trump do this?  Several reasons come to mind.