White House’s New Epstein Scapegoat Is Revealed

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JD Vance has been “thrown in front of the bus” in bombshell leaks about the White House’s emergency meetings over its Epstein docs crisis, Donald Trump’s longtime biographer alleges.

A bombshell report in 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">The New York Times revealed the extraordinary lengths White House figures went to in order to protect Trump from the Epstein files fallout, including convening meetings in the Situation Room to quell outrage that had spilled into the ranks of MAGA.

Vance, who presided over those meetings last summer, emerged as a central figure in the exposé, which portrayed him as being panicked and wanting to rip the Band-Aid off by releasing the DOJ’s millions of files even if it damaged Trump, a former friend of the pedophile.

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