WASHINGTON DC – 5:30pm on a Friday afternoon in Washington is normally the favoured moment when politicians choose to release news that they hope will get buried from public view as weekend festivities get under way. The Democrats on Friday decided to put 19 new images from the estate of sex-trafficking financier Jeffrey Epstein into the public domain at around 10:30 in the morning, guaranteeing the release would dominate the day’s news cycle and be discussed all weekend long.

The fact that one of the images shows Bill Clinton alongside Epstein and his jailed girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, suggests that – if necessary – Democrats on Capitol Hill are now willing to sacrifice the honour and reputation of their former president in order to advance the investigative cause. But Clinton’s

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