Vice President JD Vance claims that former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush were willfully keeping a major scandal hidden from the American people during their times in the Oval Office.
Now, nearly 20 years later, Vance is pulling back the curtain on what the Obama and Bush teams refused to meet head-on.
Yesterday, Vance ripped into the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations for their handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case, while remaining adamant that President Donald Trump “has nothing to hide” with respect to the ongoing Epstein saga.
“The president has been very clear. We’re not shielding anything,” Vance told reporters at an event in Canton, Ohio meant to promote the newly-enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
“The president has directed the attorney general to release all credible information and, frankly, to go and find additional credible information related to the Jeffrey Epstein case,” added Vance. “He’s been incredibly transparent about that stuff. But some of that stuff takes time.”
Vance has previously suggested the government was not being transparent about the disgraced pedophile or his purported network of associates, and spoke specifically to how this dates back to both the Bush and Obama administrations.
“For 20 years, you had Obama and George W. Bush’s Department of Justice go easy on this guy. They didn’t fully investigate the case,” the 40-year-old charged Monday. “They didn’t show any curiosity about the case, and now Donald J. Trump is asking his Department of Justice to show full transparency.”
“If you want to criticize the people who aren’t showing full transparency, you ought to go after the administrations that went easy on Jeffrey Epstein, the administrations that concealed this case for 20 years, and the administrations that failed to show full transparency.”
Take a listen to Vance’s full comments:
“Donald J. Trump, I’m telling you, he’s got nothing to hide,” Vance insisted.
“His administration has got nothing to hide, and that’s why he’s been an advocate for full transparency in this case.”
In 2007, then-Miami US Attorney Alex Acosta cut a deal with Epstein allowing him to plead guilty to lesser Florida state charges of solicitation of prostitution and procuring a minor for prostitution, according to The New York Post
Under the plea agreement, Epstein was only confined for 13 months, spending much of that period on work release.
Last week, a Florida federal judge rejected a DOJ request to release transcripts of grand jury testimony from the investigation into Epstein that preceded the 2007 plea deal.
Meanwhile, Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell sat for two days of interviews with Justice Department officials, led by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in the latest development surrounding the Epstein case.
This is an ongoing story. Check back for further updates.