My own impression is that there is now so much doubt about how many, if any, of these messages were genuine or part of some prank/entrapment scheme, everyone in the Dem Party and the MSM are backing away from wild charges for fear of being caught out and being accused of being part of the scheme (if that what it turns out to be).
If so, this kills the whole "scandal" potential and the matter is now, as Ed Grimly would say, "as dead as dead can be."
I predict by next week this will be long forgotten.
That may be what RATS want it to be. I don't want this forgotten at all, because it smacks of RAT criminal activity.