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It was a famous question Howard Baker asked as the Watergate scandal engulfed Richard Nixon.
“What did the president know until when?” the Tennessee senator announced.
A lot, as it turned out, and Nixon resigned rather than face impeachment and certain convictions.
Now, more than half a century later, the same question is being asked by another president.
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President Donald Trump appears to know more about the Jeffrey Epstein case than he is letting on. (Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo)
It is important to say up front that the long-awaited Jeffrey Epstein files have not revealed the slightest evidence that Donald Trump engaged in sexual misconduct.
But he knew a helluva lot more than he let on.
Thanks to the relentless reporting of the Miami Herald’s Julie Brown, who has covered the story since Epstein’s sentencing in 2008, Trump knew exactly what was going on between the suspicious girls and young girls.
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The scoop is based in part on a 2019 FBI interview with former Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter.
In the summer of 2006, Reiter said, Trump called him and said that everyone in Palm Beach and New York knew about Epstein’s sex with children.
He also said Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s assistant and ex-girlfriend, who is now serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking, was “evil” and obsessed with him.
“Thank you for stopping this, everybody knows he’s been doing this,” Reiter said, referring to the Epstein investigation the chief launched three years ago.
In addition, the chief says Trump told him that he “was around Epstein once when the teenagers were there and he ‘got the hell out of there.’
Trump reportedly flagged Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell nearly two decades ago. (Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
Around this time, a woman called authorities and said her 14-year-old stepdaughter had been molested by Epstein, as were other girls at the high school who were allegedly molested by Epstein or abused or raped, according to the account.
Reiter brought the case to the federal attorney, who declined to prosecute, and turned it over to the FBI.
In a 2019 email before his suicide in prison, Epstein wrote: “Of course he knew about the girls, as he begged Ghislaine to stop.”
That same year, asked by reporters if he knew about Epstein’s alleged pedophilia, the president said: “No, I didn’t know. I didn’t know.”
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An absurd deal: prosecutors granted Epstein federal immunity to plead guilty to two counts of solicitation, one of which involved a child. He worked all 13 months.
Meanwhile, Representative of the Democratic Alliance, Ro Khanna, who works with Rep. Thomas Massie, a Republican, yesterday called six people whose files were mysteriously redacted. That protected them from public disclosure.
“There were six rich, powerful men that the DOJ covered for no reason,” Khanna said.
Khanna and Massie were allowed to review unedited files for two hours.
Reps. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and Thomas Massie, R-Ky., were allowed to view the files unclassified for two hours. (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)
Khanna named them on the floor of the House, where he has immunity:
“Salvatore Nuara, Zurab Mikeladze, Leonic Leonov, Nicola Caputo, Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, CEO of Dubai Ports World, and billionaire businessman Leslie Wexner, listed as an accomplice by the FBI.
“Now my question is, why did Thomas Massie and I have to go to the Department of Justice to find these six men so that they can be seen by the public? And if we find the six men they were hiding in two hours, imagine how many men they are hiding in those 3 million files.”
That’s really the question. Why were they protected from public exposure? How many others?
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Maxwell, who was subpoenaed by Republican James Comer’s Oversight Committee, exercised his Fifth Amendment right to self-incriminate himself, and indicated that he would continue to do so unless Trump showed him mercy.
Trump had dropped the advice when he and Epstein were still friends. In a 2002 interview with New York Magazine, Trump called him “a terrible man … to the extent that he likes beautiful women like me, and many of them are on the younger side.”
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The Epstein files have been politically toxic for Trump since the start of his second term. And now the plot thickens.
