A crisis meeting in the White House Situation Room last August turned to a discredited sexual allegation about Donald Trump after it surfaced near the top of search results in a prototype Justice Department database tied to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
JD Vance argued the material should still be released, saying Trump would accept it because doing so could show the administration was going further than necessary; Wiles ended the discussion, saying the president would not be fine with it.
Sarah Ransome’s allegation—drawn from a settled civil case and never independently verified—said a trafficked girl told her she had sex with Trump and described a nipple fixation; officials in the room largely viewed it as long discredited.
Trump communications director Steven Cheung had previously called Ransome’s claims baseless and fully retracted, while one official told the meeting the accusation was already public and likely to trigger a major reaction despite being untrue.