There’s this mantra out there that oh, the Department of Justice is supposed to protect Donald J. Trump, and that’s what we were — that’s not true. We did not protect President Trump. We didn’t protect or not protect anybody. There’s not some tranche of super secret documents about Jeffrey Epstein that we’re withholding. I think that there’s a hunger or a thirst for information that I do not think will be satisfied by the review of these documents.

Source: New York Times January 30, 2026 20:25 UTC