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Reports from multiple outlets confirm that Vice President J.D. Vance suggested that Tucker Carlson conduct an interview with Ghislaine Maxwell 15. This proposal was reportedly made during a Situation Room meeting in the summer of 2025 as a strategy to address the fallout from the release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein 237. According to an excerpt from the book Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, published in The New York Times Magazine, the intent of the interview was to shield and defend Donald Trump from the controversy 689. The suggestion has been described by critics as an extraordinary P.R. gambit and one of the dumbest ideas to alleviate political heat 34.