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The White House Panic Over the Epstein Files: Six Takeaways From the New York Times Investigation

Senior officials clashed in a series of meetings as they struggled to manage a crisis over the president’s refusal to release the documents.

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Protesters at the White House last July.
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How the Drive to Find a Conspiracy Against Trump Rocked the Justice Dept.

The push to investigate what the president’s allies saw as a “deep state” cabal intent on taking him down set off cascading crises, ended careers and undercut the department’s credibility with judges.

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The F.B.I. director Kash Patel’s “grand conspiracy case” sought to tie together actions by a group of people that President Trump blamed for various investigations into him.
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