That’s the theory, but I am not quite so sure. I do believe there are criminal acts in his past he is concealing — or that others are concealing for him — and I fully believe that he is worried that losing power, and thus the ability to threaten people into silence would be disastrous to him.
He’s irritated a huge number of people worldwide. What happens after he leaves the White House, if he ever leaves, is not something he is looking forward to.
That is why Sandy Berger went into the national archives and stole/smuggled out national security documents and destroyed them, because under a Bush Administration they could well have come out creating a major problem for former President Clinton and most likely himself. I would not, as the next President, allow ANY former Obama official nor agent anywhere near Executive Office files and computers or national archives or other documents and databases and the like.