Pakistan, Aug. 4 -- The sordid saga of the long dead and convicted predator Jeffrey Epstein not only poses a threat to Donald Trump's presidency. It also conceivably threatens the credibility of the US political system. Yet an even more sinister and potentially dangerous threat lurks for the United States and its friends The two threats are linked, ironically, by Epstein's ghost.

Trump's MAGA base is furious that the promised Epstein files have not been released. Worse, that Attorney General Pam Bondi apparently informed Trump his name was in the file is high test fuel for that blaze. And, now, possibly to deflect attention, Trump and his Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard have accused President Barack Obama of treason by in...