2026年7月15日 美国东部时间19:24 / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：亚历杭德拉·哈拉米约
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发布于 2026年7月15日，美国东部时间晚上7:24
爱泼斯坦文件 J.D.万斯 唐纳德·特朗普
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副总统J.D.万斯周三出席美国国会众议院共和党人会议时抵达会场。
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副总统J.D.万斯表示，特朗普政府“绝对在爱泼斯坦文件的沟通工作上搞砸了”，本应立即公开所有文件，同时坚称政府并未试图隐瞒信息。
“我坦诚地说，我们在爱泼斯坦文件的沟通上确实搞砸了，就像我们现在做的这样，”当被问及在阻止文件公开的过程中是否存在“不当干预”时，万斯在《乔·罗根体验》节目中说道。
“但我认为我们搞砸沟通的原因是我们试图隐藏什么吗？不是，”万斯在周三发布的播客节目中说道。
万斯发表此番言论之际，本届政府因处理爱泼斯坦文件一事遭到总统自身支持者的强烈反弹。
至于哪里出了问题，这位副总统指出，时任司法部长帕姆·邦迪的公开言论暗示所谓的客户名单就放在她的办公桌上，同时他提到，2025年2月分发给右翼社交媒体影响者的一捆文件“大多是已经公开过的文件”。
“我不知道这么做的目的是什么，但我知道其效果是让人们完全不信任整个行动，”万斯说道，他补充道，他不认为邦迪是在“做任何恶意的事情”。
“我认为帕姆是想回应当时的政治局势。我认为她夸大了我们拥有和没有的东西，我认为她因此遭到了很多人，包括我在内的公开批评。”
这位副总统重申，他是“爱泼斯坦阴谋论的早期支持者之一”，称“我可能深挖过每一个相关的阴谋论”。他认为爱泼斯坦调查的“原罪”可以追溯到2007年和2008年，称当时的调查“范围过于狭窄”，并指责前美国检察官亚历克斯·阿科斯塔——就是与爱泼斯坦达成有争议认罪协议的那个人。
“如果存在更大的阴谋——你知道我的看法，很可能确实存在——2007年掌握的证据就是揭露真相的机会，”万斯说道。
当被问及爱泼斯坦可能是以色列摩萨德间谍机构成员的阴谋论时，万斯说：“没错，摩萨德或者中央情报局，或是其他深层政府势力。”
“他显然与美国情报部门的高层，最高层有联系。他显然与以色列情报部门的最高层有联系，”他补充道。
万斯还为唐纳德·特朗普总统公开爱泼斯坦文件的行为辩护，驳斥了总统是被迫这么做的说法。万斯辩称，如果特朗普愿意，他本可以“扼杀”国会迫使司法部公开文件的行动。（特朗普和共和党领导人曾疯狂试图阻止迫使公开文件的行动，直到最后一刻才改变立场。）
尽管如此，万斯承认政府发布文件的时间比本应花费的时间更长。
“如果有人说我们在爱泼斯坦文件的发布上处理不当，那我认罪。我们确实处理不当，尤其是在沟通方面，”他说。
“我认为我们从一开始就应该完全公开，”他说。“我们应该尽可能快地完成这件事。”
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Vance says Trump administration ‘screwed up’ communications around Epstein files
2026-07-15 19:24 PM ET / CNN
By Alejandra Jaramillo
21 min ago
PUBLISHED Jul 15, 2026, 7:24 PM ET
Epstein files JD Vance Donald Trump
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Vice President JD Vance arrives for a meeting with House Republicans at the US Capitol on Wednesday.
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Vice President JD Vance said the Trump administration “absolutely screwed up the comms” around the Jeffrey Epstein files and should have released everything immediately, while insisting the administration was not trying to conceal information.
“I say this with all candor, like we absolutely screwed up the comms of the Epstein files, like we just did,” Vance said on “The Joe Rogan Experience” when asked whether there had been “undue influence” in trying to keep the files under wraps.
“But do I think the reason we screwed up the comms is because we were trying to hide something? No,” Vance said in the podcast episode released Wednesday.
Vance’s comments come as the administration has been dogged by blowback from the president’s own base over its handling of the Epstein files.
As for what went wrong, the vice president pointed to then-Attorney General Pam Bondi’s public comments suggesting a purported client list was on her desk, while he noted that the binders of information handed out to right-wing social media influencers in February 2025 were “largely documents that were already released.”
“I don’t know what the purpose of it was, but I know the effect of it was to make people mistrust the entire effort,” Vance said, adding that he didn’t think Bondi was doing “anything malicious.”
“I think Pam was trying to respond to the political moment. I think she overstated what we had and what we didn’t have, and I think she got roasted for it publicly by a lot of people, including me.”
The vice president reiterated that he’s “one of the OG Epstein conspiracy theorists,” saying, “I’ve probably gone down every single rabbit hole.” He argued the “original sin” of the Epstein investigation dated back to 2007 and 2008, arguing it was “way too narrow” and faulting former US Attorney Alex Acosta, who negotiated a controversial plea deal with Epstein.
“If there was a broader conspiracy — and you know my view is that there probably was — the evidence that existed in 2007, that was the opportunity to get it out,” Vance said.
Asked about theories that Epstein may have been part of Israel’s Mossad spy agency, Vance said, “Yeah, Mossad or CIA or some other deep state.”
“He clearly had connections to the upper, the highest levels of American intelligence. He clearly had connections to the highest levels of Israeli intelligence,” he added.
Vance also defended President Donald Trump’s role in releasing the Epstein files, rejecting claims that the president was pressured into doing so. Trump “could have killed” the congressional effort to compel the Justice Department to release the files if he had wanted to, Vance argued. (Trump and GOP leaders had worked furiously to try to quash the effort to force the release of the files, before Trump reversed course at the last minute.)
Still, Vance conceded that that it took longer than it should have for the administration to release the files.
“If people want to say we mishandled the Epstein release, guilty. We did mishandle it, especially the communications of it,” he said.
“I think that we should have just dropped everything at the very beginning,” he said. “We should have just done it as quickly as possible.”
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