Putting William Barr, a Republican and someone with multiple indirect connections to Epstein*, in charge of the investigation ranks among the stupidest decisions Biden made during his presidency. He killed any chance at seeing justice done and opened the doors for a second Trump term out of his outdated belief that reaching a hand across the aisle is still effective in a post-civility politics era.

This whole clusterfuck could have been avoided if literally anything had been done to prevent it, but Biden's desire to appear impartial had him put someone in charge who had multiple reasons to slow-walk and kill the case. A case where, again, any ethical lawyer in Barr's position would have recused themselves given his historical connections to Epstein.

* Through the law firm he used to work for as well as his father. AFAIK there no direct link between the two, but it was still enough to make him an unacceptable choice.