{"id":52882,"date":"2025-08-07T20:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T20:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/52882\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T20:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T20:48:07","slug":"top-trump-officials-discussed-epstein-at-white-house-meeting-wednesday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/52882\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Trump officials discussed Epstein at White House meeting Wednesday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                Facebook<\/p>\n<p>                Tweet<\/p>\n<p>        <a class=\"social-share_labelled-list__share\" href=\"mailto:?subject=CNN%20content%20share&amp;body=Check%20out%20this%20article%3A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F08%2F07%2Fpolitics%2Fepstein-meeting-vance-bondi-patel\" data-type=\"email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"share with email\" title=\"Share with email\"><\/p>\n<p>                Email<br \/>\n        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                Link<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cme1t9w1b006827pa8v4jdi4n@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            A much-anticipated meeting between Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, Vice President JD Vance and others was moved from Vance\u2019s residence to the White House Wednesday night after intense media coverage, a source familiar with the logistics told CNN.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cme1tacwr00053b6n80jr6fp4@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            They discussed a number of topics, including the Jeffrey Epstein case and potential next steps, the source said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cme1t9x2w00003b6nhqwmimgc@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The meeting was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/08\/05\/politics\/trump-blanche-epstein-maxwell-vance-bondi-patel-meeting\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">originally planned to take place at Vance\u2019s DC home<\/a> and was also supposed to include White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, CNN previously reported. The administration\u2019s handling of the Epstein case, as well as the need to craft a unified response, was expected to be a main focus of the dinner.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cme1tjxuh000p3b6nnnzegqjt@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump administration officials are weighing whether to publish an audio recording and transcript of Blanche\u2019s recent conversation with Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, CNN previously reported.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cme1tj5ul000n3b6nga9f2hrv@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The meeting was also seen as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/08\/06\/politics\/jd-vance-dinner-epstein-scandal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">potential chance for Bondi and Patel<\/a> \u2014 who have clashed over the Epstein case strategy, including in a contentious meeting with Wiles and Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino \u2014 to clear the air. Vance had tried to play peacemaker between Bondi, Patel and Bongino previously.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cme1tfzkj000h3b6n68oclkkl@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Vance and his office denied on Wednesday that a meeting on Epstein was taking place.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cme1t9w1b006927paf6n2bw73@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            This story has been updated with additional background.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook Tweet Email Link A much-anticipated meeting between Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, Vice President&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-52882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}