I like your thought. My impression is that the Cohen and Omarosa tapes are meant to prepare the public for the release of a whole host of recordings, e.g. RR calls to LL, intercepts of HRC, BL and LL, Cohen talking to "journalists" etc. After the release the Ds will of course call them fake, but they will look ridiculous because they made a big deal out of a bunch of innocuous recordings prior to the counterattack.