I voted for President Donald Trump, and I support a lot of his policies and politics: Lowering taxes, brokering peace deals and ordering strikes on Iran's nuclear sites.

I've never supported Trump because he had stellar character, integrity or a squeaky-clean past. I don't think he does, nor do I even know Republicans who believe he's a model of ethics.

Democrats, intent on exposing this, started releasing − piecemeal at first − emails between convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and other parties. After a few emails were released, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released approximately 20,000 documents on Nov. 12.

Epstein died by suicide in federal prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. Democrats posit that the emails show Trump knew of Epstein's alleged

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