New Facts: Trump Team's Epstein Leak Fears Revealed
On June 10, Axios and The New York Times highlighted an excerpt from Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s forthcoming book “Regime Change” stating that President Trump’s top aides feared leaks about their handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and held multiple damage-control meetings.
The New York Times reported that last summer, as pressure mounted on the Trump administration to release material it held on Epstein, the president’s top advisers gathered inside the White House to manage the fallout.
CBS News, summarizing the Times’ account, said the release of the Epstein files triggered a “freakout” among Trump’s senior advisers in the White House.
Poynter noted the excerpt offers an unusually detailed look at the Epstein fallout inside Trump’s White House and says aides were intensely focused on identifying who had spoken to the authors.
NBC News reported that only one of the four House Republicans behind the Epstein files release law will return to Congress next year, saying the push has upended several political careers.
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