I think it's prep work for the 2020 election. Not only creating international incidents, but also causing a lose/lose situation for Trump on the business end. First, they say he shouldn't have business conflicts, so he decides to unload his foundation, but now he can't unload that because the NY attorney general says he has to face charges coming his way in that business. NY lawyers already said they were planning on having him in court for every single lawsuit pending, or wanted, in that state.
This is the type of games the DNC played on Sanders, but at higher levels.