Suspicion is to be expected.
The best two ideas I can come up with are:
He had panic attack or nervous breakdown.
‘Someone’ convinced him that going on those shows was a very bad idea. Whether that was a personal attorney or govt officials I have no idea. Those would be the two most likely sources to have intervened.
Here’s another possibility I haven’t heard anyone explore:
There is a multi-faceted terror plot in progress and work is going on behind the scenes to stop it, requiring fluid actions and secrecy.
He could have survivors guilt. A friend of mine’s son and daughter in law were there. She said they have survivors guilt, wish they would have done more to help.
Yours is about the only reasonable conclusion. The only problem is that we know numerous domestic enemies of the Constitution have been placed in upper middle management of LE over the past decade, and continue to initiate actions today. Look at William Holder in California.
We know conspiracies exist, we just mistakenly assume when they occur, they are always more explicable by the actions or inactions of others.
So discernment is required to screen the veritable.
Early on, one of the scenarios I thought possible was a crew of several people. Paddock had the hardware needed for a platoon, but the rest of his crew never showed up for whatever reason. But based and what became known, or what they’re reporting, that didn’t fit.