Shortly after the Department of Justice and FBI released a memo last summer claiming that Jeffrey Epstein did not have a 'client list,' top Trump officials reportedly met in the Situation Room.
The President's inner circle, including Vice President JD Vance, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, then-Department of Justice boss Pam Bondi and her then-deputy Todd Blanche and others convened in the classified space to discuss Epstein, The New York Times reported.
Trump was not present at the meeting, but the contents of the conversation allegedly revolved around how to distance the President from the growing scandal that had fired up the MAGA base.
'This is a huge problem,' Vance reportedly told the assembly.
According to the Times, the VP was concerned that even Trump's most ardent supporters were miffed with the administration's memo claiming Epstein didn't have any clients and that there was no 'credible evidence' the late pedophile blackmailed anyone.
