Let's pause here for a second and take inventory. What is Trump's reaction to this disclosure? I haven't googled it so I honestly, sincerely, do not know for sure but I assume it's "FAKE NEWS!", right? Then, in the next tweet, "THE FAKE NEWS REPORTERS AT THE FAILING NEW YORK TIMES SHOULD BE IN JAIL!" Right? 

I'm pretty confident that's what it's going to be but I also think this with equal confidence: Trump is devastated right now. He knows it's true, he knows what he paid in taxes. He knows...yes knows but also feels that he is a fool; that he has been found out...Like the Wizard of Oz screenshot I posted of him so many times in 2016. The curtain is pulled back, etc...Trump feels right now like the Wizard did. But Trump is not going to react as the Wizard ultimately did. "Okay, yes, I'm a fraud." That turned the Wizard into a lovable, sympathetic figure. Trump is going to react, I predict, in the predictable Trumpian manner above, as the Wizard initially did--"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!" That would have kept the Wizard an awful, mean man. Ultimately the Wizard tearfully confessed. That made him a good guy. Trump is not going to confess. Which brings us to the second reason for this pause.

This ain't Hollywood. This isn't heaven. You don't get brownie points for confessing to the police on earth. You get jail. That's where Trump is going. A confession just greases his track. He's not going to do that. He's going to fight and fight with all his might. He's going to take the advice his crooked lawyer friend Roy Cohn once gave him: "When they punch, you punch back twice as hard." Ironic, isn't it? Roy Cohn had a Wizard of Oz moment once upon a time, remember? Ah, let's go back for just a moment to 1954 and take a look at Roy Cohn's moment:

Senator McCarthy: May -- may I say that Mr. Welch talks about this being cruel and reckless. He was just baiting -- He has been baiting Mr. Cohn here for hours, requesting that Mr. Cohn, before sundown, get out of any department of the government anyone who is serving the Communist cause...
...
Mr. Welch: We know he belonged to the Lawyers' Guild.

Senator McCarthy: No, let me finish --

Mr. Welch: And Mr. Cohn nods his head at me. I did you, I think, no personal injury, Mr. Cohn?

Mr. Cohn: No, sir.

Mr. Welch: I meant to do you no personal injury.

Mr. Cohn: No, sir.

Roy Cohn did not punch back there. Roy Cohn did the right thing there and admitted that his mentor's antagonist had not wronged him. 

Anyway, Trump won't do that. Trump can't do that. He knows he's going to jail and a moment of humble humanity will not help him. What will Trump do? What would Cohn do? Cohn would try to cut himself or his client a deal. Can Trump do that? Resign like Nixon did in return for a pardon? No. This is a state action, not a federal. President Pence could not pardon him. Trump's lawyers could go to Cy Vance. No, Vance wouldn't make any deals with Trump.Vance knows that a deal with Trump allows Trump to wriggle free once more and would allow Trump to continue to tell the Disgustings that he, Trump, was the victim, that he, Trump, only made a deal..."I made the Art of the Deal! I got little Cy Vance to back down!"--that he had snookered Vance. Vance will not do that. Donald Trump needs to be taken down; he needs to go to prison. Only that. And Trump wouldn't authorize his lawyers to go to Vance to try. Trump has never admitted to anything, he never will admit to anything, he thinks he learned one lesson in life from Roy Cohn, he doesn't realize it was half a lesson learned too well, and Trump is going to keep fighting.

Suicide? Too much of a coward.

So what does he do about Nov 3? This all makes him more panicked, desperate, dangerous. My sense is no. My sense is Trump feels that this is the end. 

Oh, he is going to bluster and campaign and hold rallies, etc. but any violence, any more Russian influence, any further voter suppression, no, I honestly don't think Trump will. If he stopped all attempts to steal the election again right now, if we had a free and fair vote, in other words, Trump is still going to get the votes of 60M Disgustings. He needs that. If he resigned he wouldn't have that. He'll continue to fight but he won't contest Biden's victory, it's going to be a substantial victory, and he'll leave office and fight Cy Vance in court and lose again and go to prison and get anally raped by the Booty Bandit.