"Tapes" has become an inclusive term for audio recordings, but nobody uses tape any more. They met in the situation room, but since it was an impromptu meeting it's doubtful they followed the usual protocol of no cellphones. So all someone had to do is activate their phone's record feature. My money is on Vance, since he's the only one of them whom Trump can't fire, and he stands to gain the most by Trump's downfall.

but himself

Daddy giveth, Daddy taketh away.

he took a position that transparency and putting everything out was the best plan. Note that he is smart enough to know that Trump was in full coverup mode and even approved Maxwell's improved prison.

I suspect Vance wants the RW - like MTG and others less famous still demanding the Epstein tapes as they resonate with their conspiracy that the elites are demonic, while inheriting the Trump cult.

If so, Trump's response might be to recognize that he can't expose him without harming himself. However, he can (see Cornyn) wait and then endorse someone else as President.

They can't BOTH open an investigation even to the point of asking Haberman and Swan without implicitly admitting the accuracy.

Even if was reconstructed conversations, it means someone, close enough to the President, was leaking what were clearly intended as secret conversations. Whether by recording or just leaking, Trump has a problem in his inner circle.

Yet if it were not true wouldn't there be more outrage? Trump has sued media for far less- including editing Harris's pre election interview to fit the time slot.

How the CIA allows them within a mile of the Situation Room, is beyond me (unless they, too, have somehow been co-opted).

Soviets hid a mic in a "Gift" replica of America's Great Seal in the ambassador's residence in Moscow in 1952 listening in on Harriman and others.

Wonder how many of the goldenly '"showered" trinkets trump had installed EVERYWHERE where Vlad and friends (and maybe corporate CEOs and/or trump's spawn) could listen in?
All that gold in the White House...I'm sure has been checked for bugs, right? And ANY "gifts" from Putin to America's "porkumada" there, Mar-Lardo and Air Farce One are all totally fine, right?

Good job, SS...uh, OUR Secret Service, not Adolph's, because our "competent" guys would NEVER co conspire, right?

wide open. A Cub Scout could get top secret info, because their scout leader is at the head of the pack

The report by Haberman and Swan is so detailed that it may be that they have copies of the recordings of these meetings

Trump aides descend into panic over reporters' 'shocking breach' of Situation Room: report #RawStory

— #TuckFrump (@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social) 2026-06-14T13:36:05.000Z

SCOOP: Top White House officials believe NYT reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan obtained audio recordings of Situation Room meetings for their new book.

Such a taped leak would be a shocking breach of one of the most secure settings on Earth.

Scoop: Trump aides fear Haberman and Swan obtained Situation Room tapes for "Regime Change" #Axios

— #TuckFrump (@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social) 2026-06-14T13:12:08.000Z