Overview

• Vice President JD Vance convened a meeting at the White House to align the administration’s response to the Jeffrey Epstein files
• Attendees included White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche
• The session followed public denials by President Trump and Vice President Vance, who had branded reports of the gathering “fake news”
• Officials weighed whether to publish audio recordings and transcripts of Blanche’s July interviews with Ghislaine Maxwell
• Maxwell’s recent move from a Florida penitentiary to a minimum-security prison camp and a congressional subpoena for Epstein case files have intensified scrutiny