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FEW DONALD TRUMP ADVISERS have remained so close for so long with so much controversy as Boris Epshteyn, a hulking, brash, Bentley-driving, three-piece-suit wearing lawyer who loves to brag about how rich, smart and influential he is.

But Epshteyn’s staying power in Trump’s orbit is being put to the ultimate test after the president-elect signed off an i…