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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 someth

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