Noel King

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The Justice Department posting hundreds of thousands of items online related to the DOJ's criminal investigations of the late sex offender.

Thousands of photographs, some graphic and heavily redacted.

When we hear concerns, whether it's photographs of women that we do not believe are victims or we didn't have information to show that they were victims, but we learned that there are concerns, of course we're taking that photograph down and we're going to address it.

If we need to redact faces or other information, we will.

And the fact that everybody's trying to act like that's the case is a reflection of their true motivation.

But the reality is...

They've not shown any deference or respect for the victims at all, for the survivors of this nightmare.

And it's all about covering up things that, for whatever reason, Donald Trump doesn't want to go public.

Who are we talking about?

You know, I haven't heard the name in so long.

I can say this, that I'd have to take a look at it.

Ian Ward, who writes for Politico, became interested in J.D.

Vance a few years ago when he realized who else was interested in J.D.

Vance.

Ian went on to spend time with Vance, who arguably is like no other vice president in history.