A distraction is only worth doing if the distraction helps accomplish your goals

I don't understand the strategy here. Sure, by leaking the claim that Rod Rosenstein had resigned, and then when it looked like that might not be true, getting the press to speculate whether Rod was about to be fired, took the conversation away from all the new Brett Kavanaugh allegations for a few hours. But after those few hours, the conversation is right back to all the new allegations about Kavanaugh. I don't think his nomination is any more assured now than it was this morning before the Rosenstein dance.

So what did it accomplish? Is Kavanaugh any more likely to get on the Supreme Court than he was before? And now you have stories like this leaking out, about how Trump used Rosenstein to distract the public about Kavanaugh, which itself is not going to help Kavanaugh get confirmed.