{"id":328051,"date":"2025-08-08T14:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/328051\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T14:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:10:10","slug":"jd-vance-reportedly-hosted-white-house-meeting-to-discuss-strategy-around-epstein-files-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/328051\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance reportedly hosted White House meeting to discuss strategy around Epstein files | Trump administration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Top Trump<\/a> officials reportedly met<\/a> at the White House on Wednesday night to discuss strategy moving forward as the Trump administration<\/a> continues to face criticism, including from Republicans<\/a>, for its handling of the official files related to Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> and the US president\u2019s responses<\/a> to calls for the release of all documents related to the criminal investigation into the late sex offender.<\/p>\n

The meeting was reportedly hosted <\/a>by JD Vance, with the gathering moved from the vice-president\u2019s official residence to the White House, according to reporting by CNN<\/a>. 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<\/a> that a meeting to discuss the handling of the rumbling Epstein scandal was taking place.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration is now weighing<\/a> whether to release recorded audio from the recent Department of Justice interview with Epstein\u2019s convicted accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The meeting\u2019s main focus was expected to be the administration\u2019s 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<\/a> interviews with Maxwell in Florida earlier this month, before she was moved<\/a> to a lower-security prison camp in Texas.<\/p>\n

Maxwell has recently opposed <\/a>the release of grand jury testimony from her case, which prosecutors have sought after the justice department faced criticism after stating it had no further Epstein files even as attorney general Pam Bondi<\/a> had promoted<\/a> the documents the department had. Maxwell is serving 20 years for sex-trafficking offenses after years as Epstein\u2019s sidekick and has appealed to the US supreme court to overturn her case. She was convicted in New York after going to trial, while Epstein died in custody in New York while awaiting trial.<\/p>\n

The Department of Justice was given until noon on Friday to address privacy concerns from victims and Maxwell about the release of the testimony.<\/p>\n

The House oversight committee subpoenaed <\/a>the Department of Justice on Tuesday for files in the case after Republicans in the House blocked <\/a>efforts by Democrats to force the Department of Justice to release the Epstein files.<\/p>\n

Victims of Epstein and Maxwell have written letters<\/a> to federal judges criticizing the Department of Justice\u2019s approach<\/a> to the case and it meetings with Maxwell. They largely have supported releasing<\/a> the grand jury testimony as long as they were allowed to review the information and have sensitive information redacted.<\/p>\n

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