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The dog didn’t bark. Until it did.

New emails released Wednesday by House Democrats from Jeffrey Epstein's estate include the convicted sexual predator alleging that former friend Donald Trump “spent hours at my house” with one of the victims, and that Trump “knew about the girls.”

The bombshell correspondence provides new fodder for those skeptical of Trump's years of denial that he knew nothing about Epstein's sex trafficking ring. The emails, released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, come at a moment of tremendous peril for Republicans on the verge of reopening the government and, in turn, triggering a procedural trap that might force

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