Trump White House hunting for insider who leaked details about Epstein freakout: report

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Raw Story

June 10, 2026 10:21PM ET


The Trump administration is launching a "massive leak hunt" to find out who spilled details on a panicked conversation inside the White House.

A new book by journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan has the Trump White House scrambling to find out who leaked details about the Trump administration's "freakout" over the release of the Epstein files, according to reporting by CNN.

The New York Times published an excerpt of the book, "Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump," on Wednesday.

The book's excerpt describes a meeting that Trump didn't attend or know about in the Situation Room. Included in the meeting were his senior aides, Vice President JD Vance and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, last year to plan how to contain the fallout.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-epstein-files-2677025646/

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[eppur_se_muova]

1. Yeah, let's investigate the leak, not the report that was leaked.

Because betrayal of The Don is waaaaaay more important than multiple counts of statutory rape and human trafficking. Priorities, people !

[Miguelito Loveless]

2. Again, to me the real story

is that Maggie Haberman waited until she could make money off this story to tell us what was happening in the White House, rather than, I don't know, REPORT IT AS A NEWS STORY IN HER NEWSPAPER AT THE TIME IT HAPPENED!

[Ursus Rex]

8. Her family has an epiphytic relationship with the Trump family

Connection to Public Relations (Gemini AI)

Family PR Ties: Her mother, Nancy Haberman, was an executive at Rubenstein Associates, a major Manhattan PR firm that represented Fred and Donald Trump for decades. This helped Haberman build deep, foundational sources in New York real estate and politics early in her career.

Trump's Media Fixation: Trump has maintained a decades-long, adversarial-yet-obsessive relationship with the New York Times, frequently singling out Haberman in his orbit.

[SpankMe]

17. I had to look up epiphytic

Still don't know what it means!

[Kali]

21. they hang on for support but aren't actual parasites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphyte

[ificandream]

18. She may not have had it at the time it happened.

Such is the life of a news reporter. And she's a great one. She's had more details about Trump than anyone else. I'm looking forward to the book.

[Miguelito Loveless]

29. I have been following Haberman for over a decade

She saves important stuff for books that would have been more useful when it happened. She had more than enough time to have written this up months ago when. She is an "access journalist" (something Bob Woodward turned into). She has access to the high and mighty with the understanding that anything unflattering or politically radioactive is held until it does way less damage.

[Walleye]

3. Getting outraged about the "leak" only proves that the story is true

[vapor2]

26. Hope they never find the leaker

[wyn borkins]

4. Noting That He Sleeps So Often

My money says he's the leaker

Probably stashed the relevant

Details within a McDo bag of fries

[Ocelot II]

5. My money is on Vance. Apparently he disagrees with Trump on a number of issues,

and it seems that Trump doesn't have much use for him, either. So if he can use the Epstein files and chaos in the WH to cause an impeachment, a #25, or a resignation...

[Buddyzbuddy]

9. My thought as well.

[Ocelot II]

10. Vance is the only one Trump can't fire.

And he was the one who wanted all of the files released, which would include Trump and his nipple fetish.

[Kid Berwyn]

12. The Godfather explains...

"Listen, whoever comes to you with this Barzini meeting, he's the traitor. Don't forget that."

The Couchhumper called a meeting…

[GusBob]

19. I said that yesterday

reading between the lines, he squealed to maggie

[Marie Marie]

32. Definitely JD. Trying to appear to be the reasonable hero of the truth.

Laughable.

[Goonch]

6. Times Exclusive Inside the White House Freakout Over the Epstein Files

Jonathan Swan

By Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, White House reporters for The Times, are the authors of the forthcoming “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump.” This article is drawn from reporting done for that book.

June 10, 2026

On July 17, 2025, at around 6 o’clock in the evening, President Trump’s top officials filed into the White House Situation Room — the secure bunker where classified and high-stakes national security matters are discussed and decided. This was where President Barack Obama, along with Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the president’s national security team, watched the raid that ended with the death of Osama bin Laden in 2011.

Now, however, Trump’s most senior advisers had gathered — without him — to figure out how to gain some measure of control over a very different kind of crisis threatening to engulf the presidency: the Epstein files.

Ten days earlier, the Justice Department and the F.B.I. had jointly released a memo that bluntly stated that their review had found no “client list” of powerful men for whom the notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein had allegedly procured underage girls and young women. Intended to put to rest years of speculation and end the pressure campaign to release the voluminous material in the department’s possession, the memo instead had the opposite effect, setting off a backlash that was notably loud among the MAGA base.

And it was about to get worse: ......................
(INCLUDES AUDIO)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/magazine/trump-epstein-files-white-house-vance-doj.html

[reACTIONary]

25. Paywall free link.....

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/magazine/trump-epstein-files-white-house-vance-doj.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pFA.seZZ.p73g5C5w9prb&smid=url-share

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

7. Drip, drip, drip...

[twodogsbarking]

11. It was little Johnson.

[thebigidea]

13. Same folks who always talk to Maggie: Vance and Susie Wiles.

All the anecdotes are from their POV anyway.

I mean, who is more likely gonna talk about an anecdote between Vance and Joe Rogan to the Times? Vance or Rogan?

Susie Wiles is off saying this week that she's "not going anywhere." So I'm guessing she'll be out this summer.

Usually all of Maggie's "leaks" show how wise and cautious Jared and Ivanka are, so they were obviously coming from Jared and Ivanka. This time around it's more Vance and Susie Wiles being the supposed sensible ones who make sure to carefully frame their side to the press.

[SSJVegeta]

14. Next up: WH hunting for details about insider who leaked details about hunting for details of Trump insider

[LuvLoogie]

15. Someone close to Rubio or Vance

Could even be Bondi or Gabbard.

[JT45242]

16. Why is the situation room being used for criming? Seriously...

They were engaging in obstruction of justice and contempt of Congress.

Seems like that room should be used for national security reasons not personal criminal activity. I understand they might use it to order war crimes...just not personal criminal activities to protect the felon in chief.

[Ocelot II]

20. There has been speculation that they went to the situation room in order to hide from Trump

while they discussed the Epstein "situation."

[underpants]

30. You mean, to avoid it being leaked out?

[amcgrath]

22. Thus confirming that it happened

This administration has a remarkable track record of simultaneously denying something ever happened, while searching of the person who blew the whistle.
These searches always focus on those who were there. If they were inventions, isolating the suspects to those inside the White House makes no sense, as damaging falsehoods do not require anyone who had witnessed them.

[Deminpenn]

23. Reportedly the book has 1000s of sources

That's a lot of people willing to talk.

I wouldn't be surprised if Bongino was a significant source.

[SunSeeker]

24. Bongino is already gone. Good luck firing Vance.

[Ocelot II]

33. Vance is the only one of them that he can't fire. Vance is safe, and lying in wait...

[mdbl]

27. Good idea. Hunt for leaker, not the pedophiles.

typical.

[Lovie777]

28. Whoa..............

my imagination is running wild when it comes to dumb and dumber trying to find out who leak and it ain't pretty.

[Ponietz]

31. An enterprising person might implicate his shit spawn or Epstein hooker bride

Edit: I see the couch humper’s Chief of Staff is departing; likely candidate for the source.