Trump didn’t invent misogyny, but he’s leaning into it.
The images, released without context by Democrats on the Oversight Committee, reveal little new about the deceased sex offender’s ties to prominent men in politics, entertainment and finance.
He had overseen high-profile cases as a private lawyer and a U.S. attorney in New York when he was named to examine the role of Bill and Hillary Clinton in a failed development venture.
This power elite was already used to ignoring the powerless. Redeeming a disgraced sex offender was a logical next step.
“You need this renewal. You need new figures who are untouched, who were never part of these awful power games,” the columnist Lydia Polgreen argues.
What unrevealed details have made Trump so intent on preventing further disclosure?
The move appeared to be retaliation after Democrats released emails suggesting the president knew about Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation.
Five years after founding The Times’s flagship newsletter, Mr. Leonhardt recently began a new role on Opinion, overseeing the editing and writing of the paper’s editorials.
While the findings are dated, they come as many current and former Justice Department officials fear that the incoming Trump administration will run the department with an eye toward score-settling.
John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon were the last presidential candidates to debate with no live audience during a general election.