Is The GOP Protecting The Elite By ‘Shielding’ The Epstein List?

James Kaufman, World News Report Today, July 28, 2025. God bless you and yours, no matter where you are in the world. Please subscribe, give us a thumbs up, ring that bell for critical future updates. Is the GOP protecting the elite by shielding the Epstein list? Vice President J.D. Vance went off on an AP reporter during remarks on tax cuts in Canton, Ohio, at a steel factory this morning. Quote, I guess I'm going to be that person. There's some protesters outside accusing the GOP of protecting pedophiles. And we're wondering what you think are the reasons the U.S. government should shield the client list of Epstein. From the public, the Associated Press reporter asked Vance. Vance unleashed on the reporter. Hi, Mr. Vice President, Julie Carr-Smyth from the Associated Press. I guess I'm going to be that person. There are some protesters outside accusing the GOP of protecting pedophiles, and we're wondering what you think are the reasons the U.S. government should shield the client list of Epstein from the public and what you have to say about any relevance to that here today. Well, let me say just a couple of things. First of all, the president has been very clear. We're not shielding anything. The president has directed the attorney general to release all credible information and frankly, to go and find additional credible information related to the Jeffrey Epstein case. He's been incredibly transparent about that stuff. But some of that stuff takes time. You've got to assemble that stuff. You've got to compile that stuff. You've got to redact some victims' names so that you protect the victims. But the president has been very clear. He wants full transparency. He's asked that from the attorney general. And I know, because I talk to her all the time, the attorney general is hard at work on that issue right now. But I think I've got to make an observation that there's an interesting thing about this case that the American media seems to totally ignore. For four years, under Joe Biden's Department of Justice, the media didn't give a damn about the Epstein files or about the Epstein case. For literally 20 years, the story about this scumbag, and he is a scumbag pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein, he's dead now, but for 20 years, you had Obama and George W. Bush's Department of Justice go easy on this guy, they didn't fully investigate the case, they didn't show any curiosity about the case, and now Donald J. Trump. Is asking his Department of Justice to show full transparency and somehow that's a criticism of Donald J. Trump and not Barack Obama and George W. Bush. If you want to criticize the people who aren't showing full transparency, you ought to go after the administrations that went easy on Jeffrey Epstein, the administrations that concealed this case for 20 years, and the administrations that failed to show full transparency. Donald J. Trump, I'm telling you, he's got nothing to hide. His administration has got nothing to hide. And that's why he's been an advocate for full transparency in this case. He's going to keep on being an advocate for full transparency. But while we're focused on that case, Donald J. Trump is also... I was also worried about making sure these great workers get more take-home pay and better jobs, and that's the focus of the administration. Thank you. All of a sudden, it sounds like they're going to release the list of Epstein's clients, quote-unquote, although I'll have to see it to believe it. My personal understanding was that there was no list of clients to release, and that that game was over. Now, all of a sudden, we hear from J.D. Vance that they're working day and night trying to prepare the list for the American people. God bless you and yours. Please share and subscribe, and always remember, anything's possible in the Bizarro World.