Trump understands leverage...and leverage can be used to make a person trustworthy.
Leverage does NOT make a person trustworthy. It makes them subject to blackmail.
If person A can blackmail person B, so can person C blackmail person B.
What happens if persons A and C are enemies?
Agreed. I say use the poser till he drops, but as for what he may say in public. Pfft. If his mouth is moving, he’s probably lying.