MUST READ: White House "emergency" Epstein meetings held in secret facility

Why is the President's team using the most secure room on Earth to talk about a pedophile?

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Something truly bizarre happened yesterday inside the White House, and it’s gone largely unnoticed amid the noise around the newly released Epstein-related emails.

The Trump administration held emergency meetings about Epstein and the spiraling controversy but not in any ordinary place. The meetings were held in the White House Situation Room — the same hardened facility used for moments of national peril, like the Cuban Missile Crisis, 9/11 response planning, and the raid to retrieve al Qaeda terrorist Osama bin Laden.

According to CNN, top Trump officials brought Rep. Lauren Boebert — who has been pushing to force the release of the files — over to the White House to discuss the snow-balling controversy and to convince her to remove her name from the discharge petition in the U.S. House, which is set to force the administration to release the files. (Boebert appears not to have been persuaded. The House is set to vote to approve the petition next week.)

When asked about it, the White House press secretary said this:

“I’m not going to detail conversations that took place in the Situation Room.”

Hold on, one second. That line above made me sit up straight. Here’s what most people who’ve never worked in the White House don’t realize. The Situation Room is not a normal meeting space. Far from it. In fact, it’s highly unusual for any “unclassified” meeting like this to be held there.

This morning, I explained “why” this is so unusual on our latest DEFIANCE Radio broadcast (below).

Here’s the gist of it. When the White House wants to hold unclassified but highly sensitive conversations, it has dozens of options. There’s the Cabinet Room, the Roosevelt Room, senior staff offices all around the West Wing, and an entire building next door (the EEOB) filled with conference rooms big and small. They are built for delicate discussions of all sorts.

But the White House Situation Room — the WHSR, pronounced “wizzer” by insiders — is a secure room of the highest order. It’s what’s known as a Secure Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF. You cannot take electronics inside. No phones. No watches. No recorders. Nothing. No stray staffers wandering in. Everything is controlled. Everything is monitored.

It’s a room that Americans know is designed for war planning, covert operations, and crisis management when lives are at stake — not for political damage control about which embarrassing emails might surface about a sex trafficker who apparently was buddies with the president.

So why use it?

There is only one logical explanation: There’s something to hide. You don’t hold meetings in the Situation Room unless you need absolute control. You hold meetings there only when you’re worried that — if the contents leaked — disclosure could do exceptionally grave damage to national security. You use it as a space where no one can capture what is being said.

If there were truly “nothing to hide,” as the Trump administration insists, this meeting would have been held anywhere else in the White House. Trust me, as someone who worked there, there is no shortage of rooms. Using the Situation Room sends one message and one message only. The White House is deeply worried about what could come out, and they’re taking extraordinary steps to contain it.

The Epstein scandal has become more than a drip-drip-drip of uncomfortable revelations for Donald Trump. It has now triggered a level of panic inside the West Wing reserved for the most serious national emergencies. And that should tell you everything you need to know.

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