He had an impressive career as U.S. senator, Senate majority leader, White House chief of staff and ambassador to Japan, but, above all, Tennessee’s Howard Baker is remembered for one question he asked in 1973 as Republican vice-chair of the Senate Select Committee investigating the Watergate break-in: “What did the president know, and when did he know it?”

Back then, that was the big question for Richard Nixon about Watergate. Today, that’s the big question for Donald Trump about Jeffrey Epstein. According to emails released this week, we now know the answer: Trump knew a lot more about Epstein than he’s willing to admit.

For starters, let’s remember: The Epstein scandal’s not something Democrats laid on Trump. This is a problem he created for himself. In 2024, J.D. Vance, Pam Bondi, Ka

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