Shutdown? What shutdown? We' got 20,000 emails to read.

By Jon Bauer / Herald Opinion Editor

It was only Tuesday when President Trump bristled over suggestions that Americans were concerned over issues of affordability, as polls have cited, calling it a “con” perpetuated by Democrats. “I don’t know that they are saying that,” Trump said during a Fox News interview. “I think polls are fake. We have the greatest economy we’ve ever had.”

A day later — with release of release of some 20,000 emails by House Republicans and other documents related to Jeffrey Epstein’s dealings and relationship to Trump and a pending vote on release of Department of Justice files on the convicted sex offender — Epstein, not the president — Trump may be more than happy to take your questions on affordability.

In other distractions from the end of the federal government shutdown — Remember the federal government shutdown? — consider:

Ripe for the pickin’: With House members back in session and its newest member, Rep. Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., sworn in after a seven-weeks wait for Speaker Mike Johnson to end their recess, Grijalva signed a petition that would require the Justice Department to release the files it has regarding child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Grijalva’s signature was the last of 218 needed to force a floor vote in the House, but the vote can’t be called for until a seven-business-day “ripening period” has elapsed.

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