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On the scandal that won't go away...

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Jeffrey Epstein is back in the news, years after he died of suicide in 2019 in a federal jail, imprisoned while waiting trial for charges that he sex trafficked minors and conspired to sex traffic minors. He was, for years, a long-time friend of Trump's until they had a falling out over a real estate deal (I guess the sex trafficking of minors and the "Lolita Express" stuff were not deal breakers.)  Epstein has been in the news for a while, at least since Trump brought him up on the campaign trail back in 2024 , promising to release information about Epstein and his clients. From ABC News: "'Would you declassify the Epstein files?' Fox News' Rachel Campos-Duffy asked. Trump responded, 'Yeah, yeah, I would.'" In January 2024, a year prior to the election, Pam Bondi, future USAG, went on Fox News  with Sean Hannity to ensure that the focus remained on the Epstein files after some files were released by the Biden DOJ, claiming: "... Ghisl...