Well, if Trump is elected, it will be a total legal fiasco. There's nothing in the law that says a President can't pardon himself. The way the law is written, reasonable lawyers could argue both sides of whether that's legal or not. It's not established law, and it would take a SCOTUS ruling to establish it. Currently in the US, SCOTUS is controlled by a Republican majority, and while Justices are supposed to be apolitical, that's going to make things spicy.
If he's elected and these court cases are not resolved (they wont be by then), then even if he can't pardon himself, he can fire all the federal employees pressing charges against him and hire people that wont do that. Then the charges just get dropped. Presumably to be re-opened after his presidential term ends, but who knows what pressure he could put to change laws during his 2nd term so that can't happen.
The thing he couldn't do is pardon himself for any verdicts following the indictment by the state of Georgia. The POTUS does not have any power to pardon state crimes, only federal crimes.
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