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

Vice President JD Vance is being called out on social media, as he previously urged his followers repeatedly to demand answers surrounding the death of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, only for his own administration on Sunday to conclude the matter closed.

As Vance visited Ohio to tout the Trump administration’s economic agend a on Monday at a steel mill, a small group of protesters assembled across the street from those gathered, holding a sign that read: “JD protects pedophiles,” in a nod to the president’s association with accused sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.