It’s classic. Stonewall for two years. Your compliant Quisling media cooperates.
Then it’s old news and a late-night joke.
Fast and Furious
Weaponized IRS
Benghazi
etc
For some reason this seems pertinent
http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2012/06/why-watergate-didn%E2%80%99t-affect-the-1972-election/