Looking at evidence released is pretty damning for Trump. If a trial happens its going to be really bad for Trump because he seems to be betting on it never taking place. He just makes the most ridiculous lies that when shown to a jury are going to make him the least credible defendant there might ever be. The charges are a complicated thing that I cant speak to the possibility of conviction but from a moral standpoint Trump will would be eviscerated by this trial. The lies that he had nothing to do with people coming to the J6 rally. Just absurd. The lies that people were mad about election fraud and he had no hand in that. Bold faced lies. The claim he wasnt aware of what was going on at the Capitol. Outright lies. The claim he immediately ordered in the National Guard. Also false.
It is not even settled legally whether a President can pardon himself. James Madison wrote in the federalist papers "No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity.".
MAGA's favorite constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley said "Such an act would make the White House look like the Bada Bing Club. After a self-pardon, Trump could wipe out the Islamic State, trigger an economic golden age and solve global warming with a carbon-eating border wall — and no one would notice. He would simply go down in history as the man who not only pardoned his family members but himself."
Michigan State University law professor Brian C. Kalt, writing in his 1997 paper "Pardon Me: The Constitutional Case Against Presidential Self-Pardons," stated that a presidential self-pardon would not hold up in court.
"An attempted self-pardon would likely undermine the public's confidence in the presidency and the Constitution. A potential meltdown of such magnitude would be no time to begin legalistic discussion; the political facts of the moment would distort our considered legal judgment. Looking at the question from a cooler vantage point, the intent of the Framers, the words and themes of the Constitution they created, and the wisdom of the judges that have interpreted it all point to the same conclusion: Presidents cannot pardon themselves."
Democrats need to be clear if he wins that any corrupt pardons issued to himself means everything stops. No budgets pass. No bills pass. No emergency funding. No raises of the debt ceiling. No Judges confirmed. That all depends on their standing in Congress but even without a majority in the Senate they still have the filibuster power which we all know Republicans will nix as soon as Democrats do it to anything Trump wants. As for the Supreme Court ruling on corrupt Presidents pardoning themselves I have to believe that vote will go down party lines which means Justice loses.