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Vice President JD Vance clarified his criticism of a recent Wall Street Journal article on a “bawdy” letter President Donald Trump reportedly wrote to Jeffrey Epstein for his birthday – a report Vance originally called “bullshit.”
MSNBC host Chris Hayes pushed Vance to comment after the New York Times reported Thursday that Trump’s name is indeed on a list of contributors for Epstein’s birthday book. “The contention is that the book is entirely fake? Or Trump being a contributor is fake, or all that is real but someone created a totally fake Trump letter and stuck it in the real book?” Hayes asked Vance online.
“The contention–which is pretty clear if you just read what I said–is that it’s bogus for the WSJ to publish a hit piece without showing us the letter,” Vance replied, adding:
I have no idea if the book exists–WSJ won’t show it to us. I have no idea if the letter exists–WSJ won’t show it to us. What I find absurd is the idea that Donald Trump