‘The President Must Be Mad!’ The View Roasts JD Vance’s Trump-Epstein Comments on Rogan

The View’s Alyssa Farah Griffin was stunned at how Vice President J.D. Vance “undermined” Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche on the Epstein files, at the same time Blanche was defending himself before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Blanche sat for his second day of confirmation testimony Thursday in his bid to become attorney general, when Griffin brought up Vance’s comments made to podcaster Joe Rogan on Wednesday.

“What I thought was interesting was this,” Griffin began. “Todd Blanche was grilled more about the administration’s handling. He more or less said there was no evidence that there was a grand conspiracy with more actors beyond Epstein. But while he said this, and while he’s selling to the American public that he should be attorney general, J.D. Vance was on Joe Rogan. And I want to play what he said.”

Griffin then rolled tape:

VANCE: People want to say we mishandled the Epstein release? Guilty. We did mishandle it, especially the communications of it.

ROGAN: What do you think should have been done?

VANCE: We should have just dropped everything at the very beginning, and, obviously, like it takes a little time to review the stuff, to find the stuff, to redact things where you have victims, and so forth. But we should have just done it as quickly as possible.

“Oh, Trump’s gonna be mad!” taunted Joe Behar, causing laughter in the audience.

“J.D. Vance was absolutely right there, but I’ve never seen a vice president so undermine the attorney general pick while he’s literally testifying on Capitol Hill that he handled this the right way!” Griffin said. “It was unbelev — I mean, the president must be mad!”

Ana Navarro added, “In that answer, he said that they mishandled it, that they mishandled the comms. I think they mishandled a lot more than the comms. I think they mishandled the substance.”

Navarro continued:

Let us remember that the only reason that we have gotten only half of the Epstein files released is because Republican women — people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, like Nancy Mace, like Lauren Boebert — refused to bend the knee to Trump. Despite the fact that Trump brought them into the Situation Room, brought Lauren Boebert into the Situation Room and tried to bully her into changing her vote. So, it was because these Republican women, because there was a bipartisan vote to force the release of these files, because Trump’s DOJ has been slow-walking this and hiding these files since the moment he got there.

On Thursday, Epstein survivor Dani Bensky testified at Blanche’s hearing, accusing him of spending hours with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell while failing to meet with the victims.

Watch the clip above via ABC’s The View.

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