Trump-Epstein Ties Back in Spotlight as Fight in Congress Looms

Democrats returned to pressing Donald Trump on his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, highlighting a selection of emails in which the late financier and convicted sex trafficker suggested the president knew of his activities.

A congressional committee on Wednesday released some 20,000 pages of documents, pivoting attention away from the ongoing government shutdown and forcing the White House to respond to an issue that has frustrated the president and drawn scrutiny from parts of his base.

The trove of documents included emails in which Epstein — who died in 2019 while facing sex-trafficking charges — ...