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Suppose he comes back with unsealing one or more of the intervening filings (but not the original) and says "well there has been uncertainty about my birth and birth certificate because my mother had a second husband who adopted me but under these treaty provisions and statutory provisions, I couldn't lose either my natural born or actual birth citizenship in the US because I never swore allegiance or served in a foreign army. I know the stuff is confusing; and I can see the negative political impact; but it really makes no substantive difference to my eligibility to act as President nor to my actual citizenship. (By the way, I haven't had my original birth record unsealed--we all know it was in Hawaii.)"

I think in that case he wins. At least politically. It would muddy up the issue so badly that the electorate would be so confused that they would avoid thinking about it.