tl;dr
1. The government’s national-security bunker became an Epstein war room.
2. The president wanted the whole thing buried.
3. Vice President JD Vance wanted to release all the files — even the unsubstantiated material about Trump.
4. Expletive-laden blowups fractured the top of the Justice Department.
5. Advisers found themselves having a surreal debate over an unverified allegation about Mr. Trump.
6. More than a year later, the files are still damaging the president.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/magazine/epstein-files-trump-white-house-takeaways.html
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