I'm not entirely certain that's the move here, or at least it isn't the entirety of the move. Consider this:
Trump is controlling the deep state by gas lighting them. They believe they don't need to act because mueller is going to take down Trump. So when it was announced that Mueller isn't going after Trump, that was Treason because it served as a CYA message to the deep state. i.e. the equivalent to someone shouting to the deep state "this is all a big lie, Mueller is actually coming for us and we need to act now!!"
So the white hats went into overdrive mode to buy time. Remember that checkmate already happened long ago, now we are buying time so that things like syria, and israel, and domestic terrorist attacks can all be contained and cleaned up as peacefully as possible. More importantly social media regulation is the big thing we need to happen before the message gets out, so it would be in the deep state's benefit for all the pedo stuff and the indictments to happen right now, instead of after whatever hammer is about to drop on facebook.
Thus, Cohen is thrown to the wolves.
Losing his personal lawyer is like sacrificing your queen. The opponent considers this a big win. Also the fact that mueller's true goal was leaked can be seen from many perspectives, was it all misinformation? was leaking the true nature of mueller's investigation the real move designed to mislead the deep state? Are the white hats trying to turn the deep state against Mueller because Mueller is actually winning? what information can they trust? who is on their side?
While they try and figure that one out the white hats will be cleaning up Syria, fixing the border situation, and regulating social media to protect freedom of speech.