Jeffrey Epstein is dead. But the disgraced financier and sex offender continues to shadow Trump. The storyline’s reemergence yesterday—with the release of thousands of Epstein’s emails, some of which highlight his relationship with Trump—delivered another blow to a president already at the weakest moment of his second term.

Jeffrey Epstein, the infamous child sex trafficker and former friend of President Donald Trump, privately warned after Trump’s 2016 election victory that there was “not one decent cell in [Trump’s] body.