Nothing wrong about setting up a communication channel
Burn the Compost, to the ground!
Let them celebrate their rights in the ashes
If you are being surveilled every moment, and everything you say is being leaked to the press, you will look for another means of communication for anything really important.
In this case, we have a government that is riddled with obamists, Soros plants, Muslim Brotherhood, Saudi agents, all driving us toward war on the side of Al Qaeda and war against Russia. Trump is trying to reverse that formula, which make him the enemy of a good chunk of the bureaucratic state and the intel state. He can’t trust really anyone presently in office, and not many of the people he thinks he can trust, can he in fact trust.
To be sure his intent is clear, and to be sure he is hearing the other side’s intent clearly, he needs another informal means of communicating that side-steps the whole nest of snakes surrounding him. If it turns out the Russians are colluding with the Democrats to bring him down, he’ll figure that out quickly enough, but in the meantime he needs his message to go out unfiltered by his enemies.
The (fake) letter did it’s job - it got the Montana election loss off of the Sunday shows (and even off of the Friday news). It’s no longer needed.
In other words, it’s all a lie.
What a shock.