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‘Fascinating’: JD Vance tells Joe Rogan the Trump administration ‘screwed up the comms’ with the Epstein files 83%
By BlazeTV Staff92%
7/17/2026, 5:30:00 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Framing Effect, and Biased Writer Voice, with Unattributed Quote as the most egregious example at 29.6% saturation with 132 hits. Analysis detected 795 faulty-reasoning hits from 446 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 75.7% and a BS Rank of 83% (3,020 of 17,596 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 82.80% of the article peer group.
For years, the Epstein files have fueled endless speculation, conspiracy theories, and demands for transparency — which have resulted in widespread disappointment among Americans demanding to know the truth.
Now, on the biggest podcast in the world, Vice President JD Vance is offering one of the administration’s most direct explanations yet for why the highly anticipated document release left so many Americans frustrated.
“The Epstein files were supposed to be released,” Joe Rogan said to Vance on “The Joe Rogan Experience.”
“And there was a tremendous amount of resistance to those files being released.
That concerned a lot of people because if you’re talking about very wealthy, powerful people that were engaged in crimes.”
“So you’re basically saying the fear is that whatever’s in the Epstein files was used to blackmail the administration into doing the Iran thing,” Vance replied.
“Or, at the very least, the people that were involved in the Epstein files that didn’t want them coming out had undue influence,” Rogan said.
“I say this with all candor, we absolutely screwed up the comms of the Epstein files.
Like we just did.
But do I think the reason we screwed up the comms is because we were trying to hide something?
No,” Vance explained.
Instead, Vance believes the reason the administration “screwed up the comms” was that former Attorney General Pam Bondi claimed the client list was on her desk.
“So, what was the purpose of that performative display of the Epstein files, and she was saying there’s tens of thousands of hours of film?”
Rogan asked.
“I don’t know what the purpose of it was, but I know that the effect of it was to make people mistrust the entire effort,” Vance answered, noting that he believes Bondi was “trying to respond to the political moment.”
Vance called himself one of the “OG Epstein conspiracy theorists” and admitted to going “down every single rabbit hole.”
“The original sin of the Epstein investigation, and obviously I’m biased here, but it was not what Donald Trump and the administration did in 2025.
It was, you have to go back to 2007, 2008, the original Alex Acosta investigation of Jeffrey Epstein where he basically dropped the federal charges,” he explained.
“You go to the original warrant back in 2008, what was he looking for?
What was he allowed to look for?
What were they collecting?
It was not looking at a broader conspiracy,” he added.
“That’s fascinating,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray comments.
“I don’t know if we’ll ever find out the truth,” he adds, “but that was fascinating.”
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