Really? Trump can (and I'm sure he will) put on a good show in front of cameras and microphones. But in court, he's a mouse as the 440 times he invoked the 5th Amendment for this case conclusively prove.
AG James has the Trump Organization's records to prove NY's case, and that can't be wished away.
Aside from that, I think that everyone who's watched Trump over the years can tell that he's not the kind of man who would be dissuaded from doing something he wants to do just because of laws against such actions. Clearly, that's why Trump is in such legal peril now all across the country because he's never felt constrained by laws, ethics, or morality. Trump's defiance to returning national security files to the gov't for well over a year simply punctuates his personal belief that he can do whatever he wants to do.
Trump's arrogance is simply astounding, and it's his arrogance that will more than likely lead to his downfall and the dissolution of the Trump Organization.
Clearly, Trump learned nothing from what happened to Trump University or the Trump Foundation. But to be fair, the Trump Organization was gaming the system years earlier. Having said that, Trump thought he could protect himself by not sending e-mails or texts and by surrounding himself by people who could conceivably take the fall for him. But there's a paper trail, and nobody believes for a NY minute that anything happened in the Trump Organization without his knowledge and approval. Trump's only legal hope now is to portray himself as some kind of hapless dupe being manipulated by others. But can he do that after a lifetime of claiming to be a financial and business genius and a modern-day Midas who had the golden touch? I wonder how that would sit with his base.