I should add that I'm looking at things in a couple of different categories.

For things that Trump doesn't really care about, but is doing to appease the masses (birthright citizenship, immigration emergency, CA water, for example), he is fine with the courts ruling against him. He might even be happy to have the courts to rule against him, as it allows him to keep the masses riled up. ("I tried to do X, Y, and Z for you, but the crooked courts ruled against me.")

On things that really matter - like his personal liberty or finances - he has gotten an awful lot of compliance from the courts. The USSC has already made law when they carved out their immunity decision. By doing so, they threw multiple criminal cases against him back almost to square one. And he again used those rulings to rile up the masses and get them to put him back in office, which freed him from any consequences in the one case that did go to trial and criminal conviction. Immunity also frees him to be more dictator-like while in office, most likely following his well-trod path in business: get others to commit the crimes for you, now without worry of conspiracy charges.

--Peter

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