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15. Times Exclusive- Inside the White House Freakout Over the Epstein Files (New York Times Gift Article)
Thu Jun 11, 2026, 09:23 AM
6 hrs ago

Here is a gift link to a very long and detailed article on the coverup. There were a ton of meetings in the situation room described. The concept that these discussions took place in the situation room and other secured facilities surprised me. It is clear that trump has been blocking the full release of the files.

Some of the material surprised me including this section about the allegations about trump and some victims. I urge people to read the long discussion on this issue. I started to post this long discussion but decided against it. For me this was distasteful.

Reading this article it is clear to me that Blanche was a major participant. Bondi's claims about Blanche's control together with this article will be a major discussion in any confirmation hearing on Blanche become Attorney General.



https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/magazine/trump-epstein-files-white-house-vance-doj.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pFA.M5pN.OYVfhsDwo1L9&smid=url-share

As the president’s former defense attorney, Blanche had a unique vantage point in the discussion. He was better equipped than anyone else in the room to weigh the ideas being discussed against Trump’s personal and political interests. Blanche laid out what he saw as their best options.

Option 1 was to petition Federal District Courts in Florida and New York to unseal the grand jury testimonies — the secret transcripts of prosecutors’ presentations of witnesses and evidence in their efforts to obtain indictments in past Epstein-related cases. As those were almost certain to contain no significant new information, everyone agreed that this option was a good idea, and not only because a release was unlikely to damage the president....

Option 2 was to have Justice Department lawyers question Maxwell and publicly release the transcript — a twist on the idea proposed earlier by Vance. Blanche offered to interview Maxwell himself.

“What if we got her to talk to Congress?” Vance suggested.

Blanche raised the possibility that Maxwell’s lawyer might expect something in return for her candor.....

In late July, as the Trump team had discussed in their crisis meetings, it was Blanche who interviewed Maxwell. Over two days, she told him she had witnessed no troubling behavior by Trump and didn’t recall him sending the birthday card drawn in the shape of a nude woman. Soon after, she was quietly moved to a minimum-security federal prison camp in Texas — a transfer left unexplained at first, which only deepened the public outrage. Blanche said nearly five months later that Maxwell had faced “numerous threats against her life.”

The last part of this great article sort of summarizes where we are today.

Trump had declared Epstein a dead issue during the summer, but as he began the second year of his presidency, his own team could see that voter concerns about Epstein were still breaking through to an alarming extent.

In an internal memo circulated to roughly a dozen Trump advisers in late March 2026, the president’s pollster, Fabrizio, summarized findings from two nights of focus groups conducted that month. Fabrizio’s memo listed the “Epstein files” as the sixth most important issue raised in the focus groups, behind inflation, the economy, foreign policy, immigration and health care — but ahead of data centers, military issues, crime and safety, and being “pro-working class.” In the section on “key takeaways” of the focus groups, Fabrizio’s memo stated: “There is also a consistent mention of the Epstein files, which came up in every group and is a real negative with some of these voters.”

The Epstein crisis had exposed something that some of Trump’s closest advisers spent months refusing to see. The president could break institutions, redirect the federal government against his enemies and bring the world’s richest men into the Oval Office bearing tribute. But he could not, it turned out, make Jeffrey Epstein disappear.

There is a long discussion on some allegations about trump and some victims. I urge readers to keep reading until they get to these discussions. I was really upset after reading these allegations.

After reading this entire article, I personally do not see how Blanche will be confirmed as Attorney General. Blanche was a very active participant in the Epstein coverup operation. There is so much in this article to question Blanche about that I will be surprised to see if there are confirmation hearings in that trump will not want these allegations re-aired.

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