A private meeting between Murdoch and Vance, days before the President served the media mogul with a $10bn lawsuit over the Wall Street Journal’s reporting of Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein, has prompted feverish speculation over the 94 year-old’s latest power-play.

JD Vance is one of Trump’s best public-facing allies. But even his flip-flop can’t push Jeffrey Epstein out of the headlines, writes John Bowden

After the newest Journal report came to light, MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes called on Vance for a response. “So this is probably fake too, right @JDVance? The whole thing made up? Or maybe just the Trump part? I’m losing the thread a little, I gotta say,” Hayes wrote on X.

Vice President J.D. Vance tore into the corporate media on Monday for “not giving a damn” about the case surrounding

A source familiar with the trip told The Independent that the vice president spoke to both Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, as well as a group of executives from the right-wing network

JD Vance is weaving a tangled web as he attempts to defend Donald Trump over the relentless Jeffrey Epstein saga. The vice president waded in again on Thursday after The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times published damning reports about a birthday book for Epstein that Trump was said to have contributed to.

JD Vance referred to the WSJ publication of an article claiming that Trump sent a “bawdy” birthday card to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as “bogus,”