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Vice President JD Vance appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast Wednesday, telling the host, who has become increasingly critical of Trump’s presidency, the administration “did mishandle” the release of the Epstein files and should have released documents much more quickly.
Vice President JD Vance acknowledged the Trump administration mishandled the Epstein file release on Joe Rogan’s podcast. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
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Vance said if “people want to say we mishandled the Epstein release, guilty. We did mishandle this, especially the communications of it.”
In response to Rogan’s question about what the administration should have done, Vance said they should have released the documents “as quickly as possible,” though he said it still would have taken time to redact details that could identify victims.
Rogan questioned why some of the names that were redacted appeared to not be victims, to which Vance claimed “some of the people who were alleged victims were also alleged co-conspirators,” saying it is sometimes “hard to draw a distinction.”
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