JD Vance saw an emergency.
Vance knew his job was to protect and defend President Trump.
And now JD Vance proposed one bold move that sent the swamp into panic mode.
JD Vance Calls for Full Epstein Files Transparency
New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s new book “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump” describes how the top echelon of the Trump administration sought to clean up the mess created by former Attorney General Pam Bondi who claimed the Epstein client list was “sitting on my desk” and then released a memo claiming the list never existed and that Epstein killed himself.
Trump surrogates during the campaign, like Kash Patel, assured Americans that the administration would release all the Epstein files and expose his connections to powerful Democrats and foreign intelligence services.
The Justice Department’s memo last summer that there would be no more Epstein files release ignited a furor on social media and in large quarters of the Trump base.
Bondi’s refusal to release all the Epstein files created an opening for Democrats to conjure up a new hoax that the administration wasn’t releasing all the documents because they implicated President Trump.
Vice President Vance understood that Bondi created a political nightmare for Trump, and Swan and Haberman reported that Vance told all of Trump’s top advisors the administration needed to act.
“This is a huge problem,” Haberman and Swam reported Vance stating. “Arrayed around him were the White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles; the White House counsel, David Warrington; the press secretary, Karoline Leavitt; the deputy chief of staff, Taylor Budowich; the communications director, Steven Cheung; the deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche; the associate attorney general, Stanley Woodward Jr.; and the deputy chief of staff, James Blair. Attorney General Pam Bondi and the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, joined on speakerphone.”
Vance Tries to Help Clear Trump’s Name
“The vice president appeared panicked to others in the room about the way the subject of Epstein was already dividing the MAGA coalition. Some senior officials had the impression that Vance had bought into the darkest theories about Epstein and a cabal of predators hidden within the country’s ruling class,” Haberman and Swan added.
Vance then reportedly proposed that the administration could clear Trump’s name by arranging for Tucker Carlson to interview Epstein’s Madam Ghislain Maxwell so she could state on the record that Trump had no involvement with Epstein’s crimes.
“Vance had also floated to colleagues an extraordinary P.R. gambit — that the White House enlist Tucker Carlson to interview Epstein’s longtime girlfriend and co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, in prison,” the excerpt of Haberman and Swan’s book went on to say adding that Vance believed if “might help the president if Maxwell was willing to state that Trump had not been part of any wrongdoing with Epstein.”
Vance argued the administration should take proactive steps since Congress was just going to pass legislation to release the Epstein files anyway.
“Vance told the group he believed all the files should be released as soon as possible,” Haerman and Swam reported the Vice President predicting that “Congress was going to force the release of the files eventually.”
Establishment-aligned chief of staff Susie Wiles dismissed Vance as a “conspiracy theorist.”
But Vance was correct.
Congress eventually passed legislation mandating the release of all the files, and Wiles, by rejecting Vance’s advice, provided more runway for the Democrat hoax about the Epstein files to run wild.
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