Why? Because those first things were the same political fanfare as always - explicitly done to drive public attention away from the real shit, like the Epstein Files.

The rich have very little shame, and will do almost anything to make their ends meet - but none of them want to be publically labelled as paedophiles, as that's essentially the end of their career. Even if their cronies would be fine with it behind closed doors, nobody wants that on their hands publically.

So comes the political issue of the day, like smoke and mirrors.