He has made a lot of changes in judicial and police posts to people he likes or follow his commands. And he is the fucking president, so what is someone realistically going to do to stop him.
He could modify the files, release them and get a massive popularity boost for being honest.
He could destroy the files and continue saying they never existed. This option seems a little too far fetched but still a possibility considering his overconfidence.
Not a chance he’d resign willingly
Tony Schwartz said this pretty much verbatim almost 10 years ago at Oxford university. And a lot more things about Trump that seem positively prophetic in retrospect.
Mary Trump as well.