If it was planted, then I'm sure it can be proven that it was tampered with. You can't tell me that the most-sophisticated military operation in the history of mankind was thwarted by someone manipulating the files when Trump was either secretly president via COG or had someone else in control while Biden played house.

This is either a way to keep pissing off the left and keep them from claiming it was rigged/manipulated against them when it does come out, or it's damage control. I'm going to say it's the former and not the latter.