President Trump accused Democrats of using what he calls the "Epstein hoax" to defect blame for the government shutdown.

Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) appeared on CNN to talk about the new Epstein emails, which she deemed “extraordinarily explosive” and said that “they implicate the president.” “There’s discussion in the email that you just cited between Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein about the fact that he ‘had been the dog that didn’t bark,