Maybe they weren’t empty, but they’ve stolen the contents and then claimed nothing was there. By the way, we also found a bunch of empty money bags, and empty jewelry cases. But they were all empty.
The safe was empty too. Sounds like they are looking for something, but probably aren’t looking for what they told the judge they were looking for, because they are looking for something they want to shred so it never sees the night of day. They thought they had a box of files but realized they contained nothing like what they wanted, and threw the empty folders down in disgust. And, maybe the empty folders were retained deliberately, a flipping bird to send a message back to their masters that what they are looking for is out of their reach.
Maybe they then took the weird pics of the folders and gave them to the press to let whoever sent thair ring leaders know what the message was, without personally risking being recorded or leaving a paper trail, or by holding a meeting to discuss their plot.
Sounds as good as the theories the press is selling.
Maybe they are still looking for Pelosi’s laptop or the Democrat House servers that went missing on Xavier Beccera’s watch to hide what the Pakistani ISI was doing running the Democrat House server.