Editor’s note, November 14, 2025: On November 12, the House Oversight Committee released 20,000 pages of documents it received from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate. The documents provide further evidence about how well Donald Trump and Epstein knew one another and have led to a new round of questions about the nature of their relationship. The following story was originally published in July 2025.

Reports of Donald Trump’s name repeatedly appearing in the Jeffrey Epstein files, coupled with the unearthing of a suggestive birthday card that the president sent the convicted sex offender, have renewed scrutiny of their relationship.

But if the government really had damning information about Trump’s entanglements with Epstein in its possession for years, then why didn’t his Democratic predecessor a

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