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By midday Wednesday, Trump officials had met in the White House Situation Room with Boebert who has demanded Trump open up the Epstein files.

The meeting inside the underground Situation Room was to talk to Boebert about her concerns around the Epstein files, said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. “Doesn’t that show the level of transparency when we are willing to sit down with members of Congress and address their concerns?” Leavitt said Wednesday. Leavitt refused to give more details about what officials told Boebert, or why the meeting was held in the Situation Room, which is typically used for secret national security planning. “I’m not going to detail conversations that took place in the Situation Room,” Leavitt said.

Trump, who was previously a friend of Epstein’s, told reporters on Air Force One in July that Epstein “stole” female workers away from Mar-a-Lago and “we threw him out.” Leavitt said that the emails made public on Wednesday back up Trump’s claims. “These emails prove absolutely nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong,” she said.

Riccio is a dedicated Trump supporter and real estate developer who married Leavitt in January of this year. Their son was born in July of 2024.

Leavitt is the youngest White House press secretary in history. She told podcast host Megyn Kelly that she met her husband in 2022 through a mutual friend while she was running for a New Hampshire congressional seat.

“A mutual friend of ours hosted an event at a restaurant that he owns up in New Hampshire and invited my husband,” said Leavitt. “I was speaking. We met and we were acquainted as friends. And then we fell in love.”

In the email exchange, one of hundreds released Wednesday by congressional investigators, Epstein indicated he had previously talked about Trump with Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s forceful ambassador to the United Nations, before Churkin died in 2017.

“Churkin was great,” Epstein, the late convicted sex offender, wrote. “He understood trump after our conversations. it is not complex. he must be seen to get something its that simple.”

The exchange was among dozens that showcase Epstein’s extraordinary network of international associates, whom he often corresponded with about Trump’s first-term policy decisions.