I think they simply laughed at it, considered it a giant nothingburger and determined they could just go right on ahead with the strategy of beating their conspiracy drum for Faux News, Breitbart, Limbaugh, Hannity, Carlson, et al., soundbites and for polluting Facebook, Twitter and the rest of the internet with a concerted, firehose deluge of spin-propaganda to, as always, successfully control the narrative while the Dems sit around intellectualizing and believing their comforting fairy tale that right actions, truth and trying not to be partisan will eventually win the day.
Again, support for all of this is WANING…right in the middle of the “damning” “explosive” hearings that everyone demanded because they would, all by themselves, magically win over the public.