Explosive NYT report of Trump team’s Epstein panic

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The White House Situation Room is multi-functional place these days: 

The New York Times’s Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan published exclusive reporting of what happened in the White House Situation Room as President Trump’s top advisers tried to contain the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.  

The parts getting the most attention: 

📂 So much talk about nipples: There were unverified claims reportedly in the searchable Epstein files about Trump knowing a woman in Epstein’s “sex-trafficking ring.” The Times reports a file mentioning that Trump has a “predilection for nipples.”  

There were internal discussions about whether those documents should be released. Vice President Vance argued Trump would be OK with releasing those nipple-released documents because he’s been accused of worse. “One official would later describe it as a ‘surreal’ experience to be discussing nipples in the White House Situation Room.” 

📂 Vance wanted it all released: Vance reportedly wanted the administration to release all the files, including ones that included unsubstantiated claims about Trump.  

📂 Bongino snapped at Bondi: “You f—ed this thing up from the start,” former FBI deputy director Dan Bongino yelled at former Attorney General Pam Bondi. “The way you’ve been talking about this — that dumb fucking charade with the Epstein files, the ‘They’re on my desk’ nonsense, all the promises to the folks out there.” 

📂 An idea that was floated: Vance reportedly floated an idea of having conservative commentator Tucker Carlson interview Epstein’s longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell in prison.  

📂 What Wiles told some about Vance: “Some senior officials had the impression that Vance had bought into the darkest theories about Epstein and a cabal of predators hidden within the country’s ruling class. Wiles would tell others that the vice president had proved himself to be........

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