“Regime Change” is the new book by New York Times “regime” reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. The biggest difference between this book “Regime Change” and their articles is that the book will have a lot more room for their particular vitriol. Lucky us. As a matter of fact, one of the taglines is “Regime Change” is it promises to go “Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump.” Really? Imperial Presidency? By what metric? The Barack H. Obama Imperial Presidency Metric?

Sorry. I am just salty about anyone carry tales or recordings out of the Situation Room, no matter who the President is. That room should be sacrosanct. Actually, anyone advising the President should have the automatic privacy of the Confessional. And no loose lips or else. What made me so agitated? This from the great Michael Goodwin in the NY Post:

“Leaked and classified Situation Room talks demand a criminal probe from ‘furious’ Trump”

What took them so long?

Reports are surfacing that White House aides are suddenly alarmed over the likelihood that top secret conversations on national security were taped and leaked to the New York Times.

Axios quotes an administration source as saying, “We’re afraid some of our most sensitive conversations were being recorded, and we have no idea which ones.”

The outlet also writes, “We hear President Trump is furious about the blow-by-blow accounts.”

The president has every right to be furious, but he shouldn’t stop there.

Furious? He should declare that the guilty should be hung until not quite dead, their innards swirled around, drawn, quartered, beheaded and the head mounted on a pike in front of the Capitol Building. Hmmm. Mayhap I have been watching too much 17th century British drama. More:

Situation Room meetings are classified, and the mere possibility that details of conversations, including those about the goals and strategy of the Iran war, were leaked demands a criminal probe.

The minimal and belated White House anger appears to be driven by the fact that their book is slated for publication next week.

And, we are just hearing about this now?

This from Brian Stelter, no less.

VP JD Vance says he is "legitimately" worried that someone may have recorded White House Situation Room meetings and leaked the tapes.⁰⁰Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan's recounting of Situation Room meetings in the forthcoming book "Regime Change" is so detailed — and…

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 17, 2026

Felony, bah? Reread what I wrote above. More from the Goodwin/Post article:

The Situation Room focus of the Times authors, according to articles published in the paper, involves three key meetings there.

The first is said to have taken place around 6 p.m. July 17, 2025, when Trump’s inner circle met there.

The paper did not publish anything on that meeting until last week, when it said, “Trump’s most senior advisers had gathered — without him — to figure out how to gain some measure of control over a very different kind of crisis threatening to engulf the presidency: the Epstein files.”

To add credibility to their report, Haberman and Swan spotlight details, writing, “Vice President JD Vance took a seat at the head of the table in the John F. Kennedy Conference Room of the Situation Room complex.

“ ‘This is a huge problem,’ he told the group.”

Then came the roster of others on hand: White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, White House counsel David Warrington, press secretary Karoline Leavitt, deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich, communications director Steven Cheung, then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, with Bondi and Patel on speakerphone.

I don’t trust Pam Bondi, but I don’t think she would record anything. More:

When the Times published details in April of two February meetings about the run-up to the Iran attack, that was the moment when alarm bells should have been ringing and was the time to find the leaker.

But once the book is published, it will be too late to put the genie back in the bottle.

If the White House tries to take action then, sales will skyrocket as a thumb in the eye to Trump.

Besides, as Axios noted, “None of the reporting has been disputed” by anyone in the White Ho.use.

The dereliction is stunning.

Remember how bad it was in the first Trump Administration? Looks like St. Marco of Rubio has some more snakes to drive out. From the Meidas Touch Network:

That guy is hysterical. He needs to calm down.

There may well have been a recording device in the Situation Room. Epstein and Trump? Hale NO. I don’t think Trump had shite to do with Epstein. Even more, I don’t think Epstein had anything much on anybody that hasn’t been caught already. I think Epstein played a lot of people. He left them wondering what he had on them. He had nothing much. All these years later and nothing has come out. Forgive me if I am skeptical.

Speaking of skeptical.

Look, there are three possible explanations:

(1) The tapes were illicitly obtained (in other words, they were stolen);

(2) The tapes were made by someone who snuck a recording device into the Situation Room or someone used equipment tied to the room or got access to an audio… https://t.co/plmpKK0CTv

— Jeff Clark (@JeffClarkUS) June 14, 2026

If there are people working against Trump at this point, I want their heads on Pikes.

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