{"id":2615754,"date":"2026-06-18T16:38:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T20:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-says-hes-worried-about-potential-taping-of-situation-room-talks\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T16:40:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T20:40:58","slug":"vance-says-hes-worried-about-potential-taping-of-situation-room-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-says-hes-worried-about-potential-taping-of-situation-room-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance says he\u2019s worried about potential taping of Situation Room talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvance-says-hes-worried-about-potential-taping-of-situation-room-talks%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2615754&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Vice President JD Vance expressed concerns about the alleged tapping of highly sensitive conversations in the White House\u2019s Situation Room, following a New York Times report discussing a meeting related to Jeffrey Epstein. the report revealed that top officials, including Vance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-obstructing-dozens-of-congressional-investigations-into-iran-nuclear-talks-sanctions-relief\/\" title=\"Biden Admin Obstructing Dozens of Congressional Investigations Into Iran Nuclear Talks, Sanctions Relief\">held meetings<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/robert-e-lee-statue-at-center-of-unite-the-right-rally-removed-nearly-4-years-later\/\" title=\"Robert E. Lee Statue At Center Of \u2018Unite The Right\u2019 Rally Removed Nearly 4 Years Later\">secure location<\/a> to strategize on how to handle the Epstein case, which has been a topic of controversy due to Epstein&#8217;s connections with powerful figures and his death in 2019. Vance highlighted the possibility that recordings of these meetings might have been obtained illegally, which he warned could be a felony. He also criticized a recent story about Epstein as partly false and bizarre,noting his worries about tape recordings despite strict restrictions on such devices. The Epstein case continues to attract scrutiny,with questions about its links to Trump and other prominent individuals. The book excerpt indicates that officials considered public relations tactics, including possibly having epstein\u2019s partner Ghislaine Maxwell make statements to clear Trump of wrongdoing, and discussed objectives like transparency and strategic interviews, notably involving Tucker Carlson.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vice President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jd-vance\/\">JD Vance<\/a> said he is worried people are taping highly sensitive conversations in the White House\u2019s Situation Room, after a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/10\/magazine\/trump-epstein-files-white-house-vance-doj.html\"><em>New York Times<\/em> report<\/a> on a meeting held in the location discussing convicted sex offender <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jeffrey-epstein\/\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, two <em>New York Times<\/em> reporters released an excerpt of their new book detailing meetings held in the highly secure Situation Room, which centered on conversations top officials, including Vance, had about how to approach the Epstein case.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4613444\/judge-halts-trump-prison-policy-ended-transgender-inmate-hormone-treatments\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Judge halts Trump prison policy that ended transgender inmate hormone treatments<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4613284\/trump-administration-details-materials-court-ordered-restore\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/european-regulator-to-lift-boeing-737-max-grounding-in-january\/\" title=\"European regulator to lift Boeing 737 MAX grounding in January\">details<\/a> \u2018inappropriate\u2019 materials a court ordered it restore to historic sites<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4614349\/illegal-immigrants-charged-massachusetts-benefits-fraud\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Illegal immigrants among 15 charged in $1.4 million Massachusetts benefits fraud crackdown<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After its publication, Vance weighed in on the \u201cvery weird story,\u201d warning that any leaking of taped audio from the Situation Room to the media would be considered a felony offense. His comments came after <em>Axios<\/em> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/06\/14\/trump-situation-room-tapes-haberman-swan-regime-change\">reported<\/a> that top White House officials believed <em>New York Times <\/em>reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan somehow obtained audio recordings of Situation Room meetings, despite independent recording devices in that location being forbidden.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere was this story about Epstein that came out in the<em> New York Times<\/em>, and like half of it or so was BS, and about half of it \u2026 there\u2019s always an element of truth, there\u2019s always an element of non-truth,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: &#039;Pipeline&#039; to Obama Admin Seen as &#039;Currency&#039;\">vice president<\/a> said during <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zkDC8fKjAxc\">an appearance<\/a> Tuesday on <em>The Megyn Kelly Show<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut there were certain things in there that legitimately made me worried that people were, like, taping, which, by the way, is like a felony,\u201d he said. \u201cSo that was weird. That story was very bizarre. It was sort of a nothing-burger of a story, in the sense that everybody sort of knew all those details anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Epstein case has plagued the White House for months, since the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/justice-department\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"167\">Justice Department\u2019s<\/a> rollout of millions of files related to the deceased New York financier stoked controversy and accusations that it was hiding information. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Questions over Epstein\u2019s connections to Trump and a slew of other famous and powerful figures have persisted ever since his death in a jail cell in 2019. Epstein\u2019s death was ruled a suicide at the time,\u00a0but questions have lingered over the circumstances of the night he died and the life he led. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the excerpt of their book, <em>Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump<\/em>, Haberman and Swan wrote that Vance and other <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >administration leaders held meetings<\/a> in the Situation Room last summer to strategize public relations for the Epstein case. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4595785\/5-takeaways-bondi-tova-noel-transcripts-epstein-final-days\/\"><strong>FIVE TAKEAWAYS FROM BONDI AND TOVA NOEL TRANSCRIPTS: NEW CLUES ON CO-CONSPIRATORS AND EPSTEIN\u2019S FINAL DAYS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vance pushed for supposed \u201cmaximum transparency\u201d in releasing information and \u201calso floated to colleagues an extraordinary P.R. gambit \u2014 that the White House enlist Tucker Carlson to interview Epstein\u2019s longtime girlfriend and co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, in prison,\u201d according to the book.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt might help the president if Maxwell was willing to state that Trump had not been part of any wrongdoing with Epstein,\u201d\u00a0the authors wrote, describing an encounter between top officials during a Situation Room meeting on July 17, 2025. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vance fears White House Situation Room recordings after Epstein meeting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":2615756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/vancey-e1781812552918.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[39907,22738,15469,5622],"class_list":["post-2615754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-situation-room","tag-taping","tag-vance","tag-worried"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/vancey-e1781812552918.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2615754"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2615758,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615754\/revisions\/2615758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2615756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2615754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2615754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2615754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}