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JD Vance Addresses Trump’s Past Association With Epstein and Criticizes U.S. Elites

Vice President JD Vance condemned elite ties revealed in DOJ's 3.5 million-page Epstein files but excluded President Trump, who denies wrongdoing and is not facing charges.

  • On Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance defended President Donald Trump and said Trump never really was friendly with Jeffrey Epstein in a Daily Mail interview.
  • Last week, the Department of Justice released over 3.5 million pages, 2,000 videos and 180,000 images naming many prominent figures, with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche warning inclusion does not imply wrongdoing.
  • Vance said, `I think that it just shows there's an incestuous nature to America's elites, and it's pretty gross`, and reflected poorly on Gates, Clinton, and others, without citing specific details.
  • Vance's response diverged from President Trump, who told reporters aboard Air Force One on Jan. 31 that the release absolves him, and he denies wrongdoing.
  • Vance left the decision on testimony to GOP lawmakers, and the Clintons have agreed to testify later this month, Vance said, citing calls from British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
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Instead of Trump, Keir Starmer is the first to shake his chair over the Epstein files. Although the British Prime Minister was not the friend of the playboy convicted of paedophilia who died under suspicious circumstances in a police cell, he was not the one who raved about their shared passion for younger women, and he was not the one who wrote an erotic birthday greeting, signing his drawing of a female nude at the groin, but Donald Trump. How…

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The President of the United States is mentioned hundreds of times in recent files published in the case of Jeffrey Epstein. JD Vance says, however, in an interview agreed on Daily Mail, that Trump is “out of the social circle” committed by...

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Ilta-Sanomat broke the news in Finland on Tuesday, February 3, 2026.
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