In the days before the Republican Party's first-ever midterm convention, a counterfeit website quietly rose to the top of Google's search results, promising convention details while delivering something far more charged — a federal archive of documents tied to Jeffrey Epstein. The episode, brief in duration but resonant in implication, revealed how easily digital infrastructure can be turned into a stage for political theater, and how the unresolved questions surrounding the Epstein Files continue to haunt American public life. That a simple redirect could reopen a national wound speaks less t