Uh...this isn't chess. Hell...it isn't even checkers!
President Trump has sandbagged Pelosi and the Democrats.
This is timed to break around the same time of the year when he rode that escalator...going into 2020.
In 2016, he said we were getting ripped off, etc.. and he wanted to stem the flood of Mexico's not-finest.
in 2020, he's going to hold up the indictments and evidence that will see a super-majority Republican Party going forward.
....I can dream, can't I?
Yes, you can dream, because that's exactly what it would be. In order to believe all that, you'd also have to realize others who would have access to the truth (ie Gowdy and Ryan) saw the intel, then decided to leave government, anyway. Trump would have also been aware, but made zero mention of it on the campaign trail, to increase the Senate majority and retain the House.
Instead, he spent time and political capital, making phony campaign promises for a 10% middle class tax cut, allowed many around him to be prosecuted, then jailed, let himself to become mired in a unnecessary and losing battle over the shut down, plus wasted 2018-20 away, for some fantasy grand political strategy for 2020? Come on, man....