It serves multiple functions, and one of them is what you just said.
My initial reaction was that it was fake, which it obviously is, but it still threw me off. It makes sense at this point seeing the democrat demands to release the files.
As someone put it, Trump didn't absolutely need the democrat voters to be on board to release the files, but now they will be feverishly searching for his name. They won't find anything that we don't already know.