US vice president JD Vance said that the Trump administration "absolutely screwed up the communications" surrounding the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, saying the issue was mishandled. He also suggested that Epstein had links to intelligence agencies "Mossad or CIA or some other deep state".

Vice President JD Vance told podcast host Joe Rogan, an outspoken critic of the administration’s handling of the Epstein files, they should have released documents more quickly.

Vance said: "We absolutely screwed up the comms of the Epstein files like we just did."