In an interview with Fox News broadcast on Sunday, the vice-president tried to deflect criticism of the administration’s refusal to release the Epstein files by blaming Democrats.
He accused Joe Biden of doing “absolutely nothing” about the scandal when he was in the White House.
And yet somehow the Democrats are attacking him and not the Biden administration, which did nothing for four years,” he said.
Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, was convicted of conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse multiple minor girls and sentenced to 20 years in federal prison during the Biden administration.
(Vance denied to Fox that they had discussed Epstein at all, though he did acknowledge the meeting took place.).
Within minutes of the Fox News interview being broadcast, social media began to hum with renewed cries of “release the files!”.
“We know that Jeffrey Epstein had a lot of connections with leftwing politicians and leftwing billionaires … Democrat billionaires and Democrat political leaders went to Epstein island all the time. »