Setting aside the political machinations and such, the Epstein thing mostly strikes me as a dog that caught the car situation. It’s a great thing to make a ruckus about as long as you don’t have many of the levers of power.
And then you get them, and either there’s nothing there or there’s some things you can’t release, and you either have to take the PR hit or find a way to wriggle out.
And the efforts to do either of those smoothly have been … poor.