"This morning, House Democrats released emails from the notorious sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that claim, among other things, that Donald Trump spent hours at Epstein's home with one of his victims. Later in the day, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt if this was true-that Trump had spent hours at Epstein's place with a sex-trafficking victim. "These emails," she replied, "prove absolutely nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong.""
"Of all of Trump's scandals, his relationship with Epstein-if you ignore the stomach-churning human toll involved-may be the richest source of black comedy. Some of Trump's most devoted worshippers chose the very issue of Epstein's misdeeds and supposed cabal of elite backers as the fantasy onto which they projected a valiant role for their hero. Trump was meant to courageously release all of the available evidence for public scrutiny. Instead, this scandal has turned out to implicate him personally."
"Trump's defense in the matter has been that the Epstein files are a hoax, concocted to smear him by "Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration." But he has also decided to let the matter drop because this conspiracy involving the CIA, the FBI, and two presidents to falsely connect him to a criminal millionaire who died suspiciously is simply too boring for anybody to care about."
House Democrats released emails attributed to Jeffrey Epstein alleging that Donald Trump spent hours at Epstein's home with one of Epstein's victims. A White House press secretary responded that the emails "prove absolutely nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong," stopping short of a direct denial. Commentary notes that Trump's association with Epstein has entangled him politically and morally, undermining claims that he would expose wrongdoing while simultaneously fueling conspiracy-based defenses that label the files a hoax concocted by political opponents.
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