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I genuinely don't think there's any kompromat, at least if there is I don't think it matters anymore.
In the early days of the trump.... "thing" we all thought that whatever blackmail russia had on him would sink him and that Russia was pulling all his strings as a result, the whole world was fixated on the Meuler investigations and so on. We thought that it would be like Watergate, that if there was ANY evidence of impropriety in our leadership that someone, somewhere would pull the lever and restore order and law.
Since 2016 we've watched the very idea of "disqualifying actions" lose all value. There are plenty of people who care and want to see law and order, but there are far, far more people who don't watch the news anymore. They have tuned out the noise, they don't believe anything anyone says, they just don't care. Combine that with the fact that our entire legislative branch and congressional branch has been bought out, and we're in a world now that more closely resembles pre-industrial monarchy.
If a video surfaced of Trump throwing children into a wood chipper surfaced, there would be a SNL skit about it, a lot of comedian monologues, and people would wear shirts with wood chippers on them representing their feelings one way or another.
(This is also why there seems to have been a shift in the attitude between Trump and Putin recently.)