“And now 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.”
Trump and his followers played the Epstein files for all they were worth.
Vance’s comments only succeeded in reviving calls for full disclosure on Epstein after a clip of the interview was circulated on social media.
“Fine. Release all the files,” wrote Defending Democracy’s director Bill Kristol. “With victims and survivors’ names and PII redacted. But no redactions of clients, enablers, and see-no-evil associates.”
“The thing about people on that list that bothers me is not their political leanings or their bank account,” said newspaper columnist Brigitte Pellerin.
“Donald Trump’s name is in the Epstein files and JD Vance has been plotting with the AG and FBI Director to cover it up,” alleged Pod Save America host Jon Favreau. “Release the names! Democrats, Republicans, billionaires, or not. What are you afraid of, JD Vance?”
Trump is known to have become increasingly frustrated at the story’s continued dominance of the news agenda over the past five weeks and has even lashed out at members of his conservative coalition for obsessing over Epstein.
“Look, the whole thing is a hoax,” he declared impatiently in the Oval Office last week.
Easiest way to put this sordid affair to rest is to release the info, with victims names redacted and let the internet sleuths pore over them. And they will, oh yes, they will
Undoubtedly this is a problem for both parties. The Trump administration opened the Pandora’s Box on this one-