The Epstein scandal is blowing up in the Democrats’ face
Opinion by Paul du Quenoy • 16h
“I am deeply ashamed of my actions and recognise the pain they have caused,” confessed the former US Treasury secretary Lawrence Summers this week. Documents released by the House Oversight committee had revealed that Summers, a Democrat who served in Bill Clinton’s cabinet before a controversial five-year tenure as president of Harvard University and a stint as director of Barack Obama’s national economic council, had a closer relationship with the deceased paedophile Jeffrey Epstein than was originally thought.
For months, commentators have speculated over the damage the Epstein scandal might cause Donald Trump. They have pored over the documents that have already been published, searching in vain for a smoking gun. They have pointed to the president’s grudging support for a congressional vote on the release of files held by the department of justice as evidence that he has been defeated politically, and is running scared of his base.
Trump has called this speculation a “scam” and a “Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics”, and denies there is anything incriminating. He has now demanded that the justice department investigate alleged ties between Epstein and prominent Democrats, including Summers and Bill Clinton. US Attorney General Pam Bondi speedily assigned the matter to Manhattan’s US attorney Jay Clayton, whose office pursued the charges against Epstein and secured the conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell, currently serving a 20-year prison sentence.
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