>>941323245 (OP)
the same reason democrats didn't, even if it would have beaten trump in the election. The same reason no president since the first time epstein was convicted of sex trafficking minors in like 2006 did. It protects american international power and interests by holding blackmail on prominent global figures.
You can count on the american government to do one thing and one thing only, protect its own power. Democrats, republicans, whatever, it's a big club and we ain't in it.