There's a version of option 3 that I heard being discussed and squares with the recent reports that Wikileaks is scrubbing their remaining confidential US data.

The idea is that Trump had previously attempted to get information from Wikileaks that would have been very damaging to the regime, but Wikileaks wouldn't give it. Now that it looks like Trump will become president again, they wanted to head of the possibility of him being able to get that information this time.