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Given all of the conspiratorial noise about the Jeffrey Epstein story, we understand why some Americans are tempted to look away at this point. Still, it deserves attention because it has become a case study in the ways that President Trump and his aides manipulate the public and abuse power. Even if the Epstein files that the Justice Department must........

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