Vance allegedly proposed having Tucker Carlson interview Ghislaine Maxwell behind bars and immediately releasing all Epstein files to blunt months of slow revelations. Maxwell, now serving a 20-year sentence at Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas, had told Blanche she never saw Trump act "inappropriate with anybody," the report notes.
The plan was framed as a way to "rip the bandage off" and deprive conspiracies of oxygen; critics blasted Bondi and the team for their handling, a move that the report says cost Bondi her job months later. Vance has continued to defend Trump, saying the president called Epstein a "scumbag" and that some emails show mutual animosity.