Once upon a time, a real estate developer named Donald Trump understood the folly of the war on drugs. “We’re losing badly the war on drugs,” he said at a luncheon held by the Miami Herald in April 1990. “You have to legalize drugs to win that war.

An ex-girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein has accused the late financier of escorting her to Donald Trump in the early 1990s so the president could “grope” her, a claim that has newly resurfaced amid the release of thousands of Epstein’s private emails.

Emails released by House Democrats are reviving questions about Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein and their decades-long connection