He knew that that 'they knew' by this point and wanted some bargaining leverage. You can bet if their ploy was going as planned, he'd have ground POTUS up like hamburger if he thought he'd gotten away with it. He's playing the long game now. Serpents do that apparently.
Guess sicking Ron DeSantis on the dirty elections boss in Broward doesn't count. That's going to get interesting with white hats in charge.
Can somebody meme Biden sniffing this jackass…kek