Donald Trump has at last got the Clintons where he wanted – in the dock, giving testimony about Jeffrey Epstein to Congress. Trump first mooted the idea on Fox News, as long ago as 2015, that former US president Bill Clinton was nefariously involved with the late paedophile financier.

“Nice guy,” Trump said about Bill Clinton on Fox News. “Got a lot of problems coming up in my opinion with the famous island with Jeffrey Epstein – a lot of problems.” Trump was running for president then, and Epstein was very much alive and at large.

As Bill Clinton insisted to the House Oversight Committee, he never set foot on Epstein’s Caribbean hideaway. That he enjoyed other links to Epstein is not in doubt. But back then, Trump was playing to the Republicans’ obsession with an alleged link between the Clintons and underage sex.

The Grand Old Party (GOP) is still in thrall to conspiracy theories about this. Giving evidence to the House Oversight Committee on Thursday, Hillary Clinton was quizzed about “Pizzagate” – the preposterous smear from 2016 about a paedophile sex ring run by Democrats in the basement of a Washington restaurant.

Now, I think we can safely say the US President wishes he had never brought up the subject of Epstein. The flame of scandal is licking at his own heels, while Congress drags in the........

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