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JD Vance Says Democrats Ignored Epstein While In Power

August 11, 2025 at 9:19 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Vice President JD Vance pushed back against criticism of the Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, accusing Democrats of political opportunism and failing to act when they held power, CNN reports.

Said Vance: “President Trump has demanded full transparency from this. And yet somehow the Democrats are attacking him and not the Biden administration, which did nothing for four years.”

He added: “I laugh at the Democrats who are now all of a sudden, so interested in the Epstein files. For four years Joe Biden, the Democrats did absolutely nothing about this story.”

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