‘Trump Has Nothing to Hide!’ JD Vance Points the Finger At Bush And Obama On Jeffrey Epstein

Vice President JD Vance took questions from the press on Monday after addressing a crowd in Canton, Ohio. While Vance’s speech focused largely on the economy, the vice president was asked about the ongoing fallout around the Jeffrey Epstein case, which led to him pointing the finger at former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, who did not have personal ties to Epstein.

President Donald Trump’s long, personal relationship with Epstein has been under renewed scrutiny following his DOJ and FBI effectively closing the case and new reporting that Trump was told he was named in the so-called “Epstein Files.”

“They just attack, attack, attack, attack. All they care about is impeaching Donald J. Trump. They don’t care about whether your groceries go down. They don’t care about whether you get a raise. They don’t care about whether you have a job next year. Their obsession in government is letting illegal aliens into this country and attacking Donald J. Trump. I don’t think the American people should reward that broken style of politics. And I don’t think they’re going to come November of 2026,” said a defiant Vance at one point of the ongoing criticism surrounding his administration.

“Hi, Mr. Vice President, Julie Carr Smyth from the Associated Press. I guess I’m going to be that person. There are some protesters outside accusing the GOP of protecting pedophiles, and we’re wondering what you think are the reasons the U.S. Government should shield the client list of Epstein from the public and what you have to say about any relevance to that here today,” asked a reporter from the audience.

“Well, let me say just a couple of things. First of all, the president has been very clear. We’re not shielding anything. 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. He’s been incredibly transparent about that stuff. But some of that stuff takes time. You’ve got to assemble that stuff, you’ve got to compile that stuff, you’ve got to redact some victims’ names so that you protect the victims,” Vance replied, adding:

But the president has been very clear—he’s asked that from the attorney general and I know because I talk to her all the time, the attorney general is hard at work on that issue right now. But I think I’ve got to make an observation that there’s an interesting thing about this case that the American media seems to totally ignore. For four years under Joe Biden’s Department of Justice, the media didn’t give a damn about the Epstein files or about the Epstein case.

For literally 20 years, the story about this scumbag—and he is a scumbag pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein—he’s dead now. But 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.

They didn’t show any curiosity about the case, and now Donald J. Trump is asking his Department of Justice to show full transparency, and somehow that’s a criticism of Donald J. Trump and not Barack Obama and Bush. 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.

Donald J. Trump, I’m telling you, he’s got nothing to hide. His administration has got nothing to hide, and that’s why he’s been an advocate for full transparency in this case. He’s going to keep on being an advocate of full transparency, but while we’re focused on that case, Donald J. Trump is also worried about making sure these great workers get more take-home pay and better jobs, and that’s the focus of the administration.

Notably, the U.S. attorney who cut Epstein a now highly controversial plea deal at the end of the Bush administration, Alex Acosta, served in Trump’s cabinet during his first term.

Watch the clip above via C-SPAN.