Circling back on this, there is one aspect in which I'd agree it's 4D chess: 60% of the money Trump is raising right now for these lawsuits is going to pay off campaign debts from the election. It doesn't matter how frivolous the lawsuits turn out to be if it keeps Trump from having to dig into his own pocket to pay for his campaign.

But that's only "4D chess" in the sense that it's a con, run by a conman. A classic con, in the sense that people believe the money donated is for one purpose and it's used for another.