Vance: 'We know' Epstein had 'connections with left-wing' politicians, billionaires

Vice President Vance on Sunday accused the Biden administration of refusing to release files on Jeffrey Epstein because of the financier's connections to Democrats.

"We know that Jeffrey Epstein had a lot of connections with left-wing politicians and left-wing billionaires. ... Democrat billionaires and Democrat political leaders went to Epstein island all the time. Who knows what they did,” said Vance on Fox News's “Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo.

“I laugh at the Democrats who are now, all of a sudden, so interested in the Epstein files. For four years, Joe Biden and the Democrats did absolutely nothing about this story,” he continued. 

The Epstein saga continues to be a political mess for the Trump administration, as the White House faces pressure to release files the president promised to unveil during his campaign. Trump and his allies continue to claim that they are being fully transparent in this process. 

Attorney General Pam Bondi has pushed for the release of the grand jury testimonies of Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. 

However, the Department of Justice (DOJ) reportedly told President Trump in May that his name appeared multiple times in the documents. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, also claimed that Bondi pressured FBI agents to go through the files and flag the name of the president. 

“Now President Trump has demanded full transparency from this, and yet, somehow, the Democrats are attacking him and not the Biden administration,” said Vance on Sunday. 

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) issued subpoenas to the DOJ and a number of high-profile former government officials, including former President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to get to the bottom of this investigation. 

This came after a House Oversight subcommittee voted in a bipartisan manner to subpoena the DOJ to turn over all materials they had on Epstein. 

Moreover, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with Maxwell twice, but neither the audio nor a written transcript has been released to the public. 

Vance continues to defend Trump. “The president has been very clear. We’re not shielding anything,” said Vance in July.