Comment by BoiledCabbage

What? This is the most convoluted theory I think anyone could imagine. And it seems like it was only posted to distract from the most obvious:

Someone in the President's circle is secretely communicating with (or compromised by) a foreign adversary's intelligence service. They don't want that story getting out as it would make them politically look terrible and so they went to suppress it.

I mean Occam's razor here.