RNC didn’t tell Trump anything; they listened. If they take the nomination away from him he goes back to his fabulous, rich-beyond-our-wildest-dreams life, and they deal with the smoking ruins of their party. No party-no power, and they want power more than anything.
I really, really hope you’re right. Otherwise, them there wheels are gonna start comin right off the Trump-Wagon, whether we wish it to be so or not.