It's a complete shyt show for them and the funniest part is they did it to themselves because they kept bringing the shyt up and in some deluded belief didn't think Trump would have something to do with it.
There was also an arrogance that they could do whatever the fukk they want and just tell people to fukk off, but no matter what they do, people kept propping it up. The FBI photo op made this significantly worst because the public demanded it harder after that. Government just opened after weeks, and it went right back to Epstein. No fanfare for Trump or anything, his most conspiracy-minded supporters has been talking about this shyt for literally ten years.
Then, Elon played petty and made it public again (tried backtracking because he's always been a spineless twerp) and threw even more gas to the flame.
Whole situation is hilarious because if Republicans just shut the fukk up, they'd have some fringe asking for it-- but Trump could just do his usual "y-yeah two weeks" If they didn't spend 2022-2024 constantly bringing this shyt up, (and it wasn't even really Trump, it was all the dumbasses around him), it wouldn't even be as big of a deal.
Retards won the House, Courts for who knows how long, Senate, Presidency, AND still managed to fukk everything up for their corrupt dumbasses. What a group of clowns.