A new book claims Vice President JD Vance pushed to enlist Tucker Carlson in an effort to clear President Donald Trump of any ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
The New York Times published a report from Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan that was detailed in a new book titled “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump,” due out this month. The excerpts revealed details of a July 2025 meeting of top administration officials gathered in the Situation Room to discuss a strategy to deal with the fallout of the release of the Epstein files and Vance’s suggestion that Carlson interview Epstein co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell.
“This is a huge problem,” Vance reportedly said, according to The Times. “Arrayed around him were the White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles; the White House counsel, David Warrington; the press secretary, Karoline Leavitt; the deputy chief of staff, Taylor Budowich; the communications director, Steven Cheung; the deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche; the associate attorney general, Stanley Woodward Jr.; and the deputy chief of staff, James Blair. Attorney General Pam Bondi and the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, joined on speakerphone.”
EXCERPT from Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, by @jonathanvswan and me, in NYT Magazine today. How the Epstein files crisis paralyzed the Trump White House for the better part of a year https://t.co/QF4Lp3oC65
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 10, 2026
The report went on to note that the vice president “appeared panicked to others in the room about the way the subject of Epstein was already dividing the MAGA coalition. 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 a major conspiracy theorist. Another top official said later that Vance had been pounding on the Epstein issue since the release of the memo. He was privately pressing for the administration to release all the Epstein files, everything in the Justice Department’s possession, even encouraging a congressional investigation,” the reporting continued.
According to Haberman and Swan, Vance proposed an “extraordinary P.R. gambit” to have Carlson interview Maxwell in prison, where she is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking minor girls for Epstein.
“It might help the president if Maxwell was willing to state that Trump had not been part of any wrongdoing with Epstein,” the report noted. “Vance told the group he believed all the files should be released as soon as possible. He argued that Congress was going to force the release of the files eventually.”
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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