Trump's Plan

His whole life, Donald Trump has been an empty shell with a name and a sales pitch. He learned this during his youth and he built his Trump Organization on that pattern. He added to it by learning enough business to know he could borrow money from banks, put it into a business, build up the image of the business and bring in some customers (for a while). Then he would sac the business, take its assets (being a raider before Carl Icahn taught America about that technique) and bankrupt the company. Banks eventually got tired of this and he had to go overseas for money, When he ran for president, he asked a foreign government (Russia and Vladimir Putin) for help. But, he has built his presidency on his name, fake reputation, claims the good things were his doing (as president he claims the good things Obama did) and produce no actual good results (Congressional Republicans have done a few things). To the contrary he has tried to pay back Putin with idiotic things like legalizing use of asbestos. What kind of monster would do that and endanger everyone's health? Now that he's been uncovered and Mueller is closing in, he's preparing to "go bankrupt, go home, rest on his fake laurels". His pattern is just repeating.

The timing is partly because the mid-terms are coming and Congressional Republicans can see they're in a fight for their careers. When even dark red Texas is considering a Democratic senator to replace Ted Cruz, they're worried.

Does Trump care about the disasters he leaves behind? Not at all. In fact, he has already insulted AG Sessions and his southern style. It merely magnifies what Trump said years ago, that if he ran for president it would be as a Republicans because the Republican voters are so stupid they're easily conned.

He sees this as victory.