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I can't imagine a ruling in his favor that doesn't give Biden the power to also commit whatever crimes he wants, but then again I'm not creative enough in the "moral degeneracy" department to qualify as a Republican supreme court justice.
They'll probably rule something asinine like "using a phone isn't treason" and, blinders firmly in place, blow right by the actual question.
Except it wasn't just a tweet, he gave a speech to march on the Capitol.
I changed it because I was actually confused if this was about Jan 6th or about the Georgia case. Either way, they're going to have to argue that what he did isn't a crime because (whatever nonsense reason). There's no way they can argue a president is immune to prosecution for crimes, and for that reason alone, the kkkonservative justices are absolutely going to skirt the actual question and dismiss the case based on "not a crime".
So technically the only question before the court is if a President has immunity for official acts.
So I have a feeling what's going to happen is SCOTUS is going to wait until June/July and rule Presidents have immunity for only official acts and kick this back to the District Court. The District Court will then most likely rule these weren't official acts so there's no immunity. This is a question of law so Trump will immediately appeal buying more delay. At this point it's absolutely not going to make it to trial before election day.
So it all comes down to A) Biden wins and the cases go on to trial -- most likely Trump is convicted of something at least. B) Trump wins and either pardons himself or otherwise ends the prosecutions and it's never decided one way or the other whether these were unofficial acts.