It is meant as a message for future nominees, because you can bet they will do the exact same thing to them. Do they want to drag their families through that?
Yes, indeed!
Bears repeating....
They would prefer to be able to threaten the use of such honey-pot material--included male-on-male, of course--to get nominees to withdraw.
The Dems intend that no nominee should have to think--let alone utter--the immortal words, "You wouldn't dare!"