BREAKING: "They were incredibly close friends!" Republican Ana Navarro obliterates J.D. Vance for lying about Trump and Epstein during a disastrous appearance on The View.
He should never have stepped into the lionesses' den...
"I disagree with is the idea that the White House wasn't committed to full transparency. We have to remember, like, I was inside the room when some of these decisions were made," Vance said on the show.
It's worth noting that we only know that Vance spearheaded Trump's PR crisis response team through the Epstein scandal because The New York Times revealed that he and other top officials met inside the Situation Room to discuss the problem. Vance is now pretending like he was the one who told us that. The truth is that he never wanted that information disseminated and now he's trying to own it.
"The Epstein Files Transparency Act, the one that the President signed, the one that led to all these files that we're seeing, the emails..." Vance continued. "By the way, again, sorry Joy, I do have to defend my boss. I know you guys don't always appreciate this, but, you know, one of the things you see in the Epstein emails is that Jeffrey Epstein hated Donald Trump, and that Donald Trump literally reported Jeffrey Epstein to the police. That's one of the things that came out of these files."
"They were best friends for about a decade!" said Navarro. "And remember, he signed that Transparency Act under duress when some Republican women, Congresswomen like Lauren Boebert, like Marjorie Taylor Greene, did not give in to his pressure of not signing."
"He brought Lauren Boebert into the Situation Room to pressure her into caving on not voting for that bill!" she added.
"That's all true," chimed in Sunny Hostin.
And it is all true. Trump never wanted to release the Epstein files but pressure built within his party because of the public outcry until he was ultimately forced to sign it. He knew that vetoing the bill would have been tantamount to an outright confession of pedophilia.
Furthermore, Vance's assertion that the emails prove that Epstein hated Trump is a gross mischaracterization of what the files show. Yes, it appears that the two men eventually had a falling out. But the primary takeaway is that they were very close friends who appear to have sexually preyed on little girls together for years and years. Just because their vile relationship disintegrated in the end does not wash away Trump's culpability.
"Let me respond to that. So, number one is, yes, Donald Trump, he said this," said Vance. "He knew Jeffrey Epstein back in the 1980s. He also threw Jeffrey Epstein out of his club when he found out it was a creep, and reported him to the police. That's something that the media often misses when it reports this story. They tell the fact that they knew each other in the 80s, which the President himself admits. They ignore the fact that he narced on him to the police and led ultimately to Jeffrey Epstein's downfall."
The reason that the media "misses" that story is because it's not true. According to Trump himself, he barred Epstein from Mar-a-Lago due to a disagreement over Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein's victims. It's not that Trump was repulsed by his pedophile pal's behavior, it's that he was territorial.
"I don't know that it led to his downfall," interjected Hostin.
"Well, it's one of the things that led to law enforcement investigation, but on the point that you made—" Vance tried to continue.
"And it was allegedly over a real estate deal that they got into a fight over," said Navarro, referencing another credible explanation that has been proposed.
"But the email says, the email says actually—" tried Vance.
"And they didn't just know each other," said Navarro, giving Vance a withering look. "Let's just be truthful and transparent here. They didn't just know each other."
"He's in a lot of pictures," said Joy Behar.
"They were incredibly close friends," said Navarro.
"He reported him to the police. That's what I'm saying. That is objective— That is objectively true. But Ana made— But Ana— Ana—" stuttered Vance. "Ana made another point that I think— I— I— Would be, if I may, because Anna made a very important point."
"This question about did Donald Trump release these files only under duress from Republicans," said Vance. "And Ana, you know the Republican Party probably better than I do. The idea that Donald Trump runs around afraid of Republican congressmen as opposed to the other way around is kind of crazy."
"It was bipartisan though. It was Republicans and Democrats," said Hostin.
"This— Well— Well— But— But— But because the Republicans control the House and the Senate, particularly the Senate, you need the Republican sign-off. What the President did is... Look, I will— I will say this," said Vance. "Again, I was in there in the meetings. He was very frustrated that the Democrats were making this about him when he's like, look, I threw the guy out of my club. I am the guy who reported him to the police or one of the people who reported to the police."
"The President was frustrated about that. Absolutely. But he eventually came to say, you know what? Let's just get everything out there," claimed Vance. "Let's have this out in the public. And he actually called the senators. I was there. He called the senators and said, you know what? Pass this bill. I'll sign it. And that was it."
In reality, Trump did everything in his power to block the passage of the bill. He signed it in the end because he calculated that a veto would do more damage to him than releasing an improperly redacted, piecemeal version of the files.
Vance's eagerness to defend his sex predator boss is morally repugnant and utterly disqualifying. This man is so desperate to become President one day that he's willing to stand arm-in-arm with a man who has been accused of sexually abusing children. There is no washing away a stench like this.
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