{"id":84639,"date":"2026-06-10T10:08:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T10:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/how-trumps-team-navigated-the-epstein-files-without-him\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T10:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T10:08:28","slug":"how-trumps-team-navigated-the-epstein-files-without-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/how-trumps-team-navigated-the-epstein-files-without-him\/","title":{"rendered":"How Trump\u2019s Team Navigated the Epstein Files Without Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><span class=\"css-hple31\">President Trump\u2019s advisers gathered in secret in the Situation Room without him as they struggled to handle the Epstein files scandal, our reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan learned while researching their book, \u201cRegime Change.\u201d Here\u2019s the inside story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, Jon Miller, Nikolay Nikolov, Rafaela Balster, James Surdam, Paul Abowd and Gilad Thaler<\/p>\n<p>June 10, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/us\/politics\/100000010947363\/how-trump-administration-handled-epstein-files.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump\u2019s advisers gathered in secret in the Situation Room without him as they struggled to handle the Epstein files<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7813,157,8872,3283,9068,9067,3546],"class_list":["post-84639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us","tag-dan-bongino","tag-donald-trump","tag-j-d-vance","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-kashyap-patel","tag-pamela-j-bondi","tag-us-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - 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