Something Pretty Explosive came out Today About the Epstein Files.

Something pretty explosive came out today about the Epstein files.

Rachel Hurley*

June 11 26

Does anyone else remember that rumor about the whole Trump team getting together to figure out how to deal with the fact that Trump was in them so many times?

 

Well, guess what - the NYT reported the whole story today. It's in a new book by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan called "Regime Change," and here's what they say happened.

 

So - as we all recall - last July the DOJ and FBI go "yeah there's no client list, the guy killed himself, nothing to see here."

 

Then MAGA absolutely loses it. Charlie Kirk's Turning Point event turns into what the authors call an Epstein grievance fest, speaker after speaker trashing AG Pam Bondi. Trump reportedly called Kirk and chewed him out, then went online and told his own fans to quit wasting "Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein." 

 

It did not work.

 

Ten days later, JD Vance hauls everyone into the Situation Room - Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Susie Wiles, Karoline Leavitt, and the deputy AG, Todd Blanche.

 

Trump's not even there. Vance walks in and goes, basically, this is a huge problem.

 

And the idea Vance throws out is get Tucker Carlson to go interview Ghislaine Maxwell in prison, on the theory that maybe she'll sit there on camera and say Trump never did anything.

 

Vance was actually the one arguing to just release everything. Everybody else wanted to sit on it. And the reason they wanted to sit on it is in the files. There's a document - emails from an Epstein accuser named Sarah Ransome - making a graphic claim about Trump. The book says officials sat in the most secure room in the country having a "surreal" conversation about the "nipple material," some of them hearing the claim for the first time. 

 

When the Ransome allegation came up, Vance argued for putting it and other accusations on the DOJ site as "maximum transparency," saying Trump's been accused of worse and wouldn't care. Wiles shut him down cold - told him the president would absolutely not be fine with that. 

 

Vance also tried to set up a Rogan interview timed to the DOJ launching its Epstein files website. The plan was to put Blanche on Rogan - but Rogan told Vance, on the phone, he didn't want Blanche. Vance then floated himself, pitching that only part of it would be about Epstein and the rest could be about the new legislation and "working families." Never happened.

 

Later at the DOJ, everyone was at each other's throats. Dan Bongino, then deputy FBI director, walked into a DOJ meeting and screamed at Bondi - "you f*cked this thing up from the start" - over the client list she'd promised was "on my desk" and then never produced. He and Kash Patel both reportedly told the White House she needed to go. Bongino called the whole mess Trump's Iran-contra.

 

Okay but the one who actually matters here is Todd Blanche.

 

Blanche runs the whole Justice Department right now - he's acting attorney general. And before any of this he was Trump's personal defense lawyer, the literal guy standing next to him in court. Then he got the number two job at DOJ, and now he's been nominated by Trump to run the place officially - because of course, right?

 

Pam Bondi already testified that Blanche had been in charge all along of how the files got released - and apparently, in that situation room meeting - he was workshopping how to make it seem like he was doing his job.

 

The book says Blanche brought two ideas. One, he'd personally go interview Maxwell. Two, ask a court to unseal the grand jury testimony. He pushed the court thing knowing it'd get tossed, because grand jury material is about the most locked-down stuff there is. He just wanted it on record that he asked, so somebody could point to it later.

 

Then he went and interviewed Maxwell. Two days, in the courthouse in Tallahassee where she's doing twenty years. Former prosecutors said that's insane - a senior DOJ official does not personally run an interview like that, line prosecutors do, with FBI in the room. He went himself, to talk to the one living person who knows the truth about his boss.

 

And then, about a week later, she mysteriously got moved to a nicer prison - a minimum-security camp in Texas, the kind of place sex offenders basically never get sent.

 

So, yeah - that's the incredibly, non-surprising story of the Trump administration trying to run cover for the star of the Epstein Files.

 

What a country.

 

Rachel Hurley is running for Congress in Tennessee’s 5^th District

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