As a president and politician, Donald Trump has always proved more skilled at the art of the distraction than the art of the deal. Switch the play. Flood the zone. Look over there. Distraction, though, relies on offering up content more captivating than the present subject of fascination.

And therein lies his problem with Jeffrey Epstein , the deceased convicted sex offender who it sometimes feels is haunting the corridors of the White House like some mocking ghost.

Not even a US attack on Venezuela , or some other Wag-the-Dog-style military adventure, could compete with an episodic saga with the possibility of more explosive instalments in store. Documents already released by Congress are akin to trailers and teasers. “I know how dirty Donald is,” Epstein wrote in a 2018 email t

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