If nothing else, this is soaking up Trumps meagre brainpower.It...

If nothing else, this is soaking up Trumps meagre brainpower.
It is also exposing him for the screaming idiot he is - which of course plays well to the rest of the screaming idiots out there. Screaming is pretty attractive.

So, in somewhat less than 9hrs we will see if Trump is gonna pony up the money or if he is actually just a mouth.

THEN the real fun begins. Freezing bank accounts can really hurt.
Any cash he personally has gets hoovered up pretty quick. Then the more complicated things around personal assets, and big ticket items.

He should have been moving all of the big items to family and companies over the past few weeks. Somethings he can't do though, and they will be targetted. Also, he loses control of some of those items... Could be embarrassing if he says "Hold this for me.." and the person absconds with the gift..