It's possible that it was not strategically sound.
They have had to jump through endless hoops to try and make something stick to Trump, and it only got harder the further away from holding the White House he got.
Perhaps the idea was to stall, because of course Congress would move remarkably fast in that case.
It was talked about from the beginning that they were going to try and keep Trump out of the media for a while, try to keep him from even announcing his run, etc. and that they were likely continuing to threaten him that if he had run again, they'd go after him.
Perhaps by playing along for a bit, golfing a little and taking a breath for himself was part of taming their abusive legal power over him.
It's possible that it was not strategically sound.
They have had to jump through endless hoops to try and make something stick to Trump, and it only got harder the further away from holding the White House he got.
Perhaps the idea was to stall, because of course Congress would move remarkably fast in that case.
It was talked about from the beginning that they were going to try and keep Trump out of the media for a while, try to keep him from even announcing his run, etc. and that they were likely continuing to threaten him that if he had run again, they'd go after him.
Perhaps by playing along for a bit, golfing a little and taking a breath for himself was part of taming their abusive legal power over him.