Jeffrey Epstein’s emails reveal a disdain for morality among the elite | Moira Donegan

Epstein paints Trump as someone he knew intimately. But the documents also reveal how many powerful men confided in him

Before he died, Jeffrey Epstein made it clear that Donald Trump knew about the girls".

Trump has denied any knowledge of or involvement in Epstein's longstanding child sex-trafficking operation. But in newly released emails that members of Congress disclosed to the media amid the end of this fall's government shutdown, the dead child sex trafficker and financier can be seen corresponding on many occasions about Donald Trump, his former close friend and associate, throughout the last few years of his life, as Trump's rise to prominence in national politics beginning in 2015 drew renewed attention to his relationship with Epstein.

Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist