It makes a fascinating conspiracy theory to pretend he's right about all the "bad actors" tampering with his files. All nonsense of course, but makes a good yarn.
At the end of the trial his excuses along those lines became so convoluted he claimed on the stand that his enemies must have had audio bugs in his home so that they could send a backdated email (to attempt to plant it in the email history of his former lawyers) shortly before a copy of the same message privately to his wife.
