Vice President JD Vance said he was unaware of the current scandal facing U.S. Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle when a reporter asked about it on Thursday.

Still, he admitted he didn’t like the “hypothetical.”

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr.’s former fiancee, attempted to pressure Eric Deters, a Trump donor and former congressional candidate, to pay off her $100,000 credit card bill ahead of her Senate confirmation hearings in exchange for political favors.

“Honey please, I need you to get this done for me today,” she wrote to Deters on the Signal messaging app, explaining that he could send the money directly to American Express, the Journal reported.

But the vice president claimed to be unaware of the scandal when CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs asked him, “Do you have any reaction to a U.S. government official, in this case, a U.S. ambassador, asking someone to pay off debt in exchange for access to other government officials?”

Jacobs didn’t mention Guilfoyle directly, so Vance practiced his ostrich impression while attempting to sound statesmanlike.

“Well, so ― with that hypothetical, obviously I don’t love that, but I, you know, I don’t know exactly who you’re talking about,” he said. “I don’t know the full details.”

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Vance continued that he would “never want to comment in a purely abstract way because a lot of times, the details really matter, and the details and the context inform the reality of the situation.”

The vice president did acknowledge that he doesn’t like anybody “selling access to another government official, certainly a high-level government official.”

But he added, “I assume you’re talking about a specific case, and I can’t say with confidence that the case you’re talking about is actually reflective of the way you’re describing it.”

“A good lesson for a politician is: Never speak about something you don’t have the full facts on,” Vance said.

The vice president isn’t the only top White House official trying to avoid commenting on the Guilfoyle scandal.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio was asked about it while in Greece on Thursday to deliver a speech encouraging European leaders to defend Western values ― while Guilfoyle was standing next to him.

His only comment was that he was aware of the Journal’s report but wouldn’t address it because he had no idea if it was true.

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