Its possible to think about multiple things at the same time. Plus Epstein was just a puppet himself. There are bigger fish out there, like Les Wexner and the MEGA group.
I even saw a tiktok of some normie girl painting "its a distraction from the epstein files" on her fingernail, literally wrote all that on one elongated finger nail. So its total normie speak at this point.
We can debate all day about if the attack on Iran was meant to be a distraction or not, but the media certainly changed direction quickly....as one would expect them to.