Despite attempts to get people to move on, Donald Trump’s relationship with convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein remains firmly in the news, with new developments this week. In a series of emails from Epstein’s estate released by the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, as CNN reports, the president is named multiple times in emails reportedly written by the late billionaire. In one reported instance, Epstein alleges the president “knew about the girls,” and in another reportedly sent to his accomplice Ghislaine Maxell, Epstein alleges of Trump that “[victim] spent hours at my house with him.”
On Wednesday night, Seth Meyers used his “A Closer Look” segment to examine Trump’s White House redesign but also the Epstein emails, which multiple media outlets have reported that Democrats say “raise new questions” about Trump’s ties to Epstein.
“They raise new questions? To me it sounds like they answer old questions. I’m no detective but if one of the questions was ‘Did Trump know about the girls?’ and you find an email from Jeffrey Epstein that says Trump ‘knew about the girls’ that sounds pretty damning,” said Meyers.
“That’s like if you’re investigating a murder suspect and you search their house and in the closet they have a shoebox labelled ‘murder weapon inside’ on the top and on the side it says ‘yes, that murder.’
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