I have a few thoughts on ways this all makes sense.

Option 1: Trump is in the pedo files and he's covering his ass. I don't buy this, because he was 100% gung ho for getting them out there and was all but personally resposible for the efforts at doing so. He wouldn't have hyped it if it implicated himself.

Option 2: They have "the files" but they've been edited, altered, and replaced. The original files are nowhere to be found, and the only files they could present are doctored into a Christmas list of right-wingers that the deep state (who had custody of the files for years now) would want crucified. Trump's trying to bury the forgery because he knows it would still cause a riot if it ever got out.

Option 3: The files implicated Israel out the ass (we all know they do) and Netenyahu went to Trump and said "these are all fake you can't release them MUH HOLOCAUST HABBENED and Mossad says its all lies" and Trump's jew-sucking boomer ass believed him and decided to do them a solid by burying the lede.

Option 4: The files implicate Israel, Trump realized this, and decided to play coverass for them. Which would make him, in light of the Gaza slaughter and unprovoked Pearl Harbor on Iran, one of the most evil men to ever sit in the oval office instead of just a kikewashed 90s Democrat.

Option 5: The files are so awful, and so damning, that the literal end of the world is threatened over their release. Like you have the leaders of 3-4 nuclear armed nations all telling Trump via the backdoor "you release these and we fire everything at the USA, damn the consequences. You can shoot back but you can't un-nuke your country, and we'd be dead if the files got out so we literally don't fucking care. Bring it. #yolo." Or something like a weaponized COVID strain with a 100% mortality rate that they're threatening to release in the US.

Option 6: Trump, Patel, and a few key others have been replaced with body doubles. This isn't quite as sci-fi as it sounds, because we know that clear back in the 2000s Hillary had the State Department collecting DNA of important members of both our government and as many foreign governments as she could. With no explanation ever given as to why. So a body double could pass a DNA test?

I honestly think its likely option 3. He ignored our own intel on Iran and did his big bombing run because he trusted Israel more than our own people. And bragged about it.

Edit: I guess I should add the Hopium Option too. That Trump has the files and decided a better use of them would be blackmail against the deep state. So he needs to keep them quiet to get some major X Y and Z done behind the scenes. And for whatever reason he never expected to be doing this, so he's really regretting hyping the files so much beforehand.