Meeting was attended by the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, and the FBI director, Kash Patel, among others
Top Trump officials reportedly met at the White House on Wednesday night to discuss strategy moving forward as the Trump administration continues to face criticism, including from Republicans, for its handling of the official files related to Jeffrey Epstein and the US president’s responses to calls for the release of all documents related to the criminal investigation into the late sex offender.
The meeting was reportedly hosted by JD Vance, with the gathering moved from the vice-president’s official residence to the White House, according to reporting by CNN. The meeting had been billed to include top Trump officials, including the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, and the FBI director, Kash Patel. Vance and his staff had denied that a meeting to discuss the handling of the rumbling Epstein scandal was taking place.
The Trump administration is now weighing whether to release recorded audio from the recent Department of Justice interview with Epstein’s convicted accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell.
The meeting’s main focus was expected to be the administration’s handling of the Epstein case and the need for a unified response, CNN reported, also saying that Trump officials were weighing whether the deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, should hold a press conference about his two in-person interviews with Maxwell in Florida earlier this month, before she was moved to a lower-security prison camp in Texas.
