Trump’s Epstein scandal reveals 'something truly, deeply awful' about U.S. politics

Susan Glasser, it comes against the backdrop of the thing that has consumed Washington for weeks now. The very focus of your piece here in the New Yorker, which is on the continued fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein case files. It's titled, "Trump redefineses the Washington scandal." And in you write in part, quote, "The scandal is not the revelation that Trump was friends with a sexual monster who exploited underage women since that's not a revelation. Nor is it that the president lied to the American public ...