(NewsNation) — Speaker Mike Johnson has claimed that President Donald Trump was an FBI informant in the Jeffrey Epstein case.

Johnson made the shocking remark Friday when a reporter asked him about the president dubbing the Epstein scandal “the Democrat Epstein Hoax.”

“What Trump is referring to is the hoax that the Democrats are using to try to attack him,” Johnson said.

“It’s been misrepresented. 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 went on to say, “He was an FBI informant to try to take this stuff down. The president knows ― and has great sympathy for the women who suffered these unspeakable harms. It’s detestable to him.”

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