Rupert Murdoch could shift his support to a JD Vance presidential bid after Donald Trump sued the media mogul

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

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.

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.

On Thursday’s (July 17) edition of MSNBC’s The Last Word, O’Donnell touched on a recent Wall Street Journal report that alleged that, in 2003, Trump sent Epstein a letter for his 50th birthday that included the line, “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret,” in addition to an imagined conversation between the pair.

Vice President JD Vance has strongly criticized The Wall Street Journal's report linking President Trump to a sexually suggestive message in Jeffrey E