House Speaker Mike Johnson claimed President Donald Trump acted as an “FBI informant” on Jeffrey Epstein.
Johnson was questioned Thursday by CNN reporter Manu Raju about how the president has been using the term “hoax” frequently in regard to Epstein. This, Johnson argued, was not about downplaying Epstein’s abuse of underage girls.
“What Trump is referring to is the hoax that the Democrats are using to try to attack him,” Johnson said.
“He has never said or suggested or implied—I’ve talked to him about this many times, many times. He is horrified. It’s been misrepresented,“ Johnson continued. ”He’s not saying that what Epstein did is a hoax. It’s a terrible, unspeakable evil. He believes that himself. When he first heard the rumor, he kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago. He was an FBI inform