JD Vance tells ‘The View’ that he’s an Epstein conspiracy theorist

Vice President JD Vance said he is a Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theorist and denied that President Donald Trump did not want “full transparency” from the Justice Department’s files on the convicted sex offender.

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“I am frankly kind of a conspiracy theory [sic] on the Epstein stuff,” Vance said Tuesday morning on ABC’s “The View.” “I think that it’s crazy that you had this guy who is clearly a sex predator who is hanging out with a lot of very wealthy and powerful people.”

Vance said Trump was “very frustrated that the Democrats were making this about him,” but that the president “eventually came to say, you know what, let’s just get everything out there, let’s have this out in the public.”

Vance’s appearance on “The View” was his first promotional appearance for his new memoir, “Communion,” which chronicles his journey to the Catholic faith. But the vice president largely spent his time defending Trump, including on the economy and the administration’s crackdown on immigrants.

Vance said the administration is “not holding anything back” when it came to the Epstein files and that he believed the millions of documents that have reportedly not been made public “are duplicates of things that have already been released.”

At one point, as he was grilled on the Epstein files, Vance said, “Let’s talk about the book. I’m here to sell books.”

Vance went on the defensive when asked about Trump calling the affordability crisis a “hoax” and his comments last week that “I love the inflation.” The vice president suggested Trump’s comments were misrepresented.

“Are you his interpreter or are you his vice president?” co-host Joy Behar asked.