He has spent about 1 mill to avoid some embarassment.
It’s beyond embarrassment NOW - claiming that obvious forgery (and *I* could forge a better one than that POC) was authentic might rise to the level of perjury, and having the forgery exposed, such that even the MSM could not cover it up, would sink any chance of re-election, and might even (I can hope) make it impossible to finish this term.