Misdirection only works for so long. I've known about this business with the photos of trump with two young girls bare to the waist ever since Pam Bondi had to appear before congress and testify under oath. She knew the question about the photos would come up while she was under oath. What did she do? She wrote down attack questions/claims to dodge having to answer the question. She was asked a second time about it, after she'd run out of attack material. She refused to answer so she wouldn't have to deal with perjury charges later. She refused to say if the FBI had found those photos after they had to go back to get them and if she'd personally seen them. That's as near an admission as you get while under oath.

All these other things happening are attempts to remove the importance of the Epstein files by supplanting them with misdirection to grab the attention of the public and it's not working. As soon as things start to calm down, Epstein comes back to the surface. Mike Johnson has held the house from working solely to prevent having to swear in the Arizona representative. He has claimed all sorts of reasons why he can't do it, despite he'd already done so in similar conditions for Repub representatives. Normally the speaker determines what comes up for vote and what does not. However the house membership can over ride him to have something of importance be voted on, by having enough votes to force it to come to the floor. Adelita Grijalva represents that last vote needed to do that force. Mike knows on the day he opens the house, that surfaces.

It opens trump, their source of direction and power, to be exposed as what he is and that in turn brings up the question should he continue in the office of POTUS. For the Repubs, trump isn't replaceable. They have no one else that can inspire the voters as he can and this is why Mike is not wanting Grijalva seated. It's about holding on to power. Some of the Repubs will vote with the Dems to release the files, giving them the necessary votes.