"This week there was yet another development in the endlessly developing saga of Jeffrey Epstein. On Wednesday, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee published a handful of new-to-the-public email exchanges by Epstein, and later that same day House Republicans countered by releasing more than 20,000 pages of documents from the so-called "Epstein files," arguing that the Democrats had unfairly "cherry-picked" emails that painted Trump in the worst possible light."
"They do not paint him well, it must be said. Trump, according to Epstein, is "borderline insane," knew about "the girls," and is the kind of person who "talks to many people" and "tells each one something differnt [sic]." The content is both explosive and frustratingly partial. Passages about Trump being "that dog that hasn't barked" and the revelation Epstein believed that he was "the one able to take him down" certainly sound damning, but what do they actually mean?"
"That's the most important question. But then there was the other thing: their form. It's both the least noticeable and the most noticeable thing about these emails: the way they are written. And they are written very, very weirdly. The sic of it all is worth a little attention. Take this message, sent by Epstein to Ghislaine Maxwell in April of 2011, which is representative of the strange flavor, grammatically and syntactically, that Epstein's emails have in general:"
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a subset of Jeffrey Epstein's email exchanges while House Republicans published more than 20,000 pages from the so-called Epstein files, accusing Democrats of cherry-picking. Epstein's emails include statements portraying Donald Trump as "borderline insane," asserting Trump knew about "the girls," and suggesting Epstein believed he could be the one to take Trump down. The emails are fragmentary and ambiguous in meaning, and their form is striking: grammatical oddities, typographic quirks, and unusual syntax draw attention alongside the substantive claims.
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