The GOP has developed a remarkable super-power: the ability to deny documented reality and supplant it with an implausible and impossible to prove alternate reality. See also “The Deep State.”
There will be endless dismissals of this on Fox News as “not really a crime” and “everybody does it” and “what about Hillary’s emails.” Ultimately the GOP base buys into it, doesn’t vote their congressmen out of office, and keeps complaining about “the swamp.”