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Vance Tells Gutfeld What Really Happened On ‘The View’

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Vice President JD Vance walked into “The View” expecting a political buzz saw and walked out joking that the famously liberal panel had only been “a little bit vicious.”

The vice president used a Tuesday night “Gutfeld!” appearance to describe how his book-tour stop at the ABC daytime table actually went.

“I expected them to be absolutely vicious, and they were only a little bit vicious. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be,” Vance told “Gutfeld!”

Joy Behar even managed to surprise him off-camera, according to Vance.

“Joy Behar even said during the break, not joking, she said, ‘You know what? You’re, like, pretty good for a Republican.’ And I was like, ‘Whoa.’ That is a way better compliment than I expected from Joy Behar,” he added.

Then Vance took one more swipe at the panel’s seating arrangement and his own expectations.

“I thought that Sunny, the woman to my left, was going to call me a racist. In reality, it was Whoopi, the woman to my right, who called me a racist. So expectations were defied,” Vance quipped.

On the ABC set, the friendly laughs quickly gave way to a policy gauntlet that touched Trump’s record, Epstein, immigration and race.

Vance opened with a joke of his own when he sat down. “So this is a show of MAGA Republicans, right?” he cracked, drawing laughs before the hosts moved into policy.

Joy Behar’s first attack centered on prices, Trump’s White House spending plans and the spectacle surrounding his presidency.

Vance pushed back, arguing that Trump had not called affordability itself a hoax, but rather the idea that Republicans caused the crisis.

“I have to defend the president on the hoax point,” Vance said. “The idea that Republicans caused the affordability problem is a hoax. If you go back to the Biden administration, it was up to 9% inflation. It’s at 3.5%. Too high. We’re doing everything we can to bring it back down to 2.5%, where most people would like to see it.”

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He framed the economy as a problem Trump inherited rather than created.

“We inherited an affordability problem,” he went on. “It’s going to take a little bit of time. There’s a lot more work to do. The president knows a lot of Americans are struggling. He ran on that. He talked about it. We have done things and made good progress on that point.”

Pressed again on Trump’s inflation language, Vance said the hosts were stripping the remark from its context.

“What he said is, he loves [that] inflation is going to come down when this war is over. That’s what he said.”

Sunny Hostin later moved the conversation to Epstein, citing reporting about Vance’s private push for more disclosure and the idea of Tucker Carlson interviewing Ghislaine Maxwell “to clear the president’s name.”

Vance did not accept the premise. “Don’t believe everything that you read in any newspaper, whether it’s a Right-leaning paper or Left-leaning,” he countered. “There are things true, false, and missing context.”

He also acknowledged his own suspicion around the Epstein case.

“Number one, I am frankly a conspiracy theorist on the Epstein stuff,” he told the panel. “That is one thing that’s true. Some people called me a conspiracy theorist. Because I think that it’s crazy that you have this guy who is clearly a sex predator who is hanging out with a lot of wealthy and powerful people. That bothered me.”

Vance argued that the White House wanted transparency and claimed Trump had eventually pushed lawmakers to release the material.

Behar interrupted with the opposing narrative: Trump knew Epstein and only backed the transparency bill after pressure mounted.

Vance countered that Trump knew Epstein, but later ejected him from his club and reported him.

“That’s something the media misses when it reports the story,” Vance said. “They tell the fact that they knew each other, which the president admitted. They ignore the fact that he narced on them.”

The panel also pressed Vance on his political conversion from Trump critic to loyal defender.

“What happened?” Behar asked. “A little humility,” Vance responded.

Vance said his old assumptions about Trump’s economic agenda had not survived the first term.

As the panel tried to interrupt, Vance argued that admitting a bad call was part of politics.

“Let me finish. There’s a certain point where you say, I made predictions about this,” he went on. “I ended up being wrong. In politics and anything, I think it’s important to say, you know what? I got things wrong. I was wrong about him. He was a very successful president.”

The immigration portion grew just as heated. Vance said immigration enforcement inevitably looks rough when arrests involve resistance or violent suspects.

“Law enforcement is always inherently not a pretty process,” Vance stated.

Hostin pushed back by saying most ICE targets were not criminals and by accusing the administration of endangering children. Vance answered by turning the conversation back to border trafficking.

“You talk about the children,” Vance contended. “Here is what I would say. Do we know that during the last administration we had tens of thousands of children who were sex trafficked by the cartels, brought into our country in profoundly dangerous and predatory conditions — “

Hostin cut in. “Talk about this administration,” she shot back.

“Unless you enforce the border, you invite that conduct,” Vance responded. “You think that our immigration policies are inhumane based on the reporting of one person with a political bias. What I’m telling you is that it’s inhumane to allow cartels to sex traffic people across the border.”

Whoopi Goldberg shifted the exchange to race, invoking Vance’s own family as she challenged the administration’s treatment of black Americans.

Goldberg’s broader complaint was that black history, black voters and black leadership were being pushed aside.

Vance rejected that framing and pointed to crime reduction in Washington, D.C.

“Look at Washington, D.C., one of the most democratic and one of the blackest by share of population blackest cities in the United States of America, has seen a radical decrease in violent crime and sexual assault and in murders,” he said.

“We have tried to take the crime issue seriously in part because we believe everybody, whether you are black or white or rich or poor, deserves to live in a safe neighborhood.”

Afterward, former “View” co-host Meghan McCain blasted the panel while praising Vance’s performance.

McCain, the late Sen. John McCain’s daughter and a former conservative voice on the show, said the interview showed the panel’s old problems had not gone away.

“My biggest takeaway from Vance on The View is honestly how s***ty and undisciplined the hosts STILL ARE. After all these years they still get basics facts wrong, flub easy questions and can’t get through a segment without yelling at each other. Vance handled it all very well,” McCain posted Tuesday.

Vance’s full interview on “The View” can be watched here:

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