Vice President JD Vance said he would personally look into a bombshell report alleging senior Pentagon officials summoned Pope Leo XIV's Vatican ambassador to a closed-door meeting. Vance made the remarks on April 8 while standing in front of Air Force Two in Budapest, Hungary, where he had traveled to speak at an electoral rally for Hungarian President Viktor Orbán. A reporter confronted him about a rapidly spreading article from The Free Press. Asked whether the report was accurate, Vance said he had not seen it.