Trump has only himself to blame for Epstein mess

By Carl P. Leubsdorf / The Dallas Morning News

When presidents get into political hot water, it’s almost always their own fault. That’s as true today for President Donald Trump in the Jeffrey Epstein case as it was for his predecessors.

And the subsequent political storm doesn’t necessarily require any legal wrongdoing.

Former President Bill Clinton’s reckless inability to control his personal desires led to sex with Monica Lewinsky; and his impeachment. Richard Nixon’s approval of the illegal Watergate break-in and subsequent cover-up led to his resignation.

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And the years-long embrace by Trump and his supporters of conspiracy theories about the government’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case has left the president under political siege from members of both parties over his ties to the pedophile financier.

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