Just when it seemed he’d pulled off a victory with a Democratic capitulation over the government shutdown, President Donald Trump finds himself back in the clutches of Jeffrey Epstein .

The scandal involving his longtime friend seemed all but forgotten since the summer, when pressure built on the administration to release its files on Epstein, culminating in the revelation Trump had once given Epstein a lewd birthday note . On Wednesday morning, though, it resurfaced in dramatic fashion with a bombshell report that the late sex offender had alleged Trump “spent hours” at his house with a victim and “knew about the girls.” The report comes just as a new push on Capitol Hill accelerates to release the Epstein files and as Epstein’s longtime accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell prepares to as

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