[BREAKING] Vance tells ‘The View’ he’s an Epstein ‘conspiracy theorist,’ takes on Whoopi and Sunny on race

Vice President JD Vance called himself an Epstein “conspiracy theorist” and rejected accusations that the Trump administration is hostile to Americans of color in his Tuesday appearance on “The View.” Vance's first time venturing into hostile territory was a cordial if subdued affair, as he took on the show's left-handed hosts on a variety of topics, emerging slightly bruised but far from defeated.

The studio audience reacted with surprisingly enthusiastic cheers and applause as Vance emerged from backstage to take a seat in the center of the table, appearing poised and prepared.

The co-hosts peppered him with questions about President Trump's relationship with disgraced financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, specifically in reference to a recent New York Times report that the White House held a special strategy session last year to address Epstein's files.

"Frankly, I'm kind of a conspiracy theorist on the Epstein thing, and that story says it," said the 41-year-old vice president, who was on the show promoting his new memoir "Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith." “That's one of the things that's true: Some people called me a conspiracy theorist on the Epstein thing,” he said, naming White House chief of staff Susie Wiles among them.

"I love Susie, but she absolutely thinks I'm a conspiracy theorist about the Epstein thing because I think it's crazy that you have this guy who is clearly a sexual predator who dates a lot of very rich and powerful people, that really bothered me," Vance said.

"What I don't agree with is the idea that the White House was not committed to full transparency.

We need to remember that I was in the room when some of these decisions were made." He noted that the administration has released about 6 million pages of the files after the bipartisan passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act last November, which the president signed into law.

The vice president also clarified President Trump's widely misinterpreted comment last week, “I love inflation.” "What he said is that he loves the fact that inflation is going to go down when the war is over.

That's what he said." That fleeting reference was the only mention of the Iran war talks, in which the president declared victory just before heading to Évian-les-Bains, France, for the annual G7 summit.

“Are you his interpreter or his vice president?” Behar joked, drawing laughter from the audience.

At the end of the segment, Goldberg attempted to portray the Trump administration as hostile toward Americans of color, spewing a patchwork of disjointed, racially-themed complaints.

"What did black people do to this administration that has allowed it to really stigmatize people of color? And you know how hard that is.

You have people of color in your family.

So when you see, you know things, the Emmett Till thing coming down, or they're suppressing all kinds of information about black heroes, what do you think?" she asked.

Unable to decipher her vague ballad of discontent, Vance asked, "What exactly are you talking about?" while the public groaned in disapproval.

"In a lot of the museums, there are so many, you know, where they're taking note of the real history that happened in this country.

Slavery happened, all kinds of things happened, and it seems like it's been very easy for the administration to eliminate that, and also denigrate black people who have worked their asses off."

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