This PR may be some kind of desperation marketing.
Government personnel conducting nexus searches turn up every reference to Obama that occurs in the media, and notice this one. Then perhaps the hope is that someone with knowledge of who to send it to gets it put into the President Elect's hands and a letter is sent.
With that maybe the terms of the agreement with Tao can get renegotiated. The deadline for paying up is looming as we know.
No intelligent investors will actually be swayed by these words, so these are the only reasons I can imagine for issuing them.
Unless it is all to become the cover story for depicting an existing covert relationship as something new to this administration. Sorry, I couldn't resist.
IMO it is really just the latest fluff cycle, same as it ever was, if with a little dirty laundry thrown in this time around.