For nearly a year, New York Governor Kathy Hochul has been calling on the Donald Trump administration to release the Jeffrey Epstein files. Well, they’ve been released — and it turns out some of Hochul’s wealthiest donors from recent campaigns are in them.

The release of the files, and the fact that some of the richest people who have contributed to her in the past are littered throughout them, puts her in an awkward position. As New York state budget negotiations come to a head, Hochul is steadfastly resisting calls to hike taxes on New York’s ultrarich to fund the universal childcare she has made a core part of her reelection platform.

But her refusal to tax the wealthy also undermines her strict condemnation of the very Epstein-linked billionaires she has demanded be exposed — a number of whom have given generously to her.