How Epstein files frustrated Trump’s White House

February 21, 2026

Wall Street Journal: “No one is suggesting this is how we wanted to start the year in terms of our focus. But, this is the task at hand,” wrote Tysen Duva, head of the Justice Department’s criminal division, in a Jan. 9 email, telling lawyers to review 1,000 pages of Epstein files a day. “The sooner we do, the sooner this is over,” he wrote…