For 20 months, vice presidential Republican nominee and U.S. Senator JD Vance reportedly exchanged encrypted messages on Jeffrey Epstein, UFOs, Ukraine, and more with Charles Johnson, a fringe political actor who has denied basic facts about the Holocaust.
Vance asked Johnson if Epstein – a convicted sex offender whom Johnson described as "a good personal friend" on X Wednesday – actually killed himself. New York City's chief medical examiner ruled his death in a jail cell while awaiting federal sex trafficking charges was a suicide.
Vance also asked for Johnson's "read" on UFOs and said he "won't even take calls from Ukraine." Vance has opposed giving Ukraine aid as it defends its territory against a Russian invasion.
