He doesn’t have a plan. He’s never had a plan. It’s all an instinct to cause chaos, because paradoxically chaos has worked for him.
At some level he knows he’s going to fail here, but his instincts tell him to lie as always and throw lawyers at the problem because he’s worn people down doing that. But this isn’t a contractor he’s trying to stiff on a bill, it’s the Presidency of the United States.