The White House responded after the Wall Street Journal reported that Pam Bondi told President Trump his name was in the Epstein files.

Trump has fitted the White House interior with gold adornments, installed towering flag poles on the lawn and paved over the historic Rose Garden.

He—the president, their leader, the martyr who had endured scandals and prosecution and an assassin’s bullet on their behalf—had repeatedly told them it was time to move on, and that alone should suffice. Why, he groused, would the White House add fuel to the fire, would it play into the media’s narrative?