White House Rocked as Secret Epstein Talks Come to Light

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White House staffers are under fire after the extraordinary lengths they went to in order to protect Donald Trump from the “Epstein files” were revealed.

A bombshell https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/magazine/trump-epstein-files-white-house-vance-doj.html" rel="" target="_self" title="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/magazine/trump-epstein-files-white-house-vance-doj.html">New York Times report on Wednesday revealed that the president’s inner circle convened a secret meeting just 10 days after the Justice Department and FBI released a memo last July declaring there was no Jeffrey Epstein client list.

There, the group hatched a plan to make an empty gesture of transparency that would calm Trump’s base and convince supporters that the president was sympathetic to their concerns—even though he clearly wasn’t.

The secret meeting was held in a secure bunker in the West Wing typically used to respond to national security emergencies and was presided over by Vice President JD Vance, according to the report.

Also in attendance were White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Communications Director Steven Cheung, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, as well as FBI Director Kash Patel and then-Attorney General Pam Bondi, who joined by phone.

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