White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that President Trump was not an FBI informant in the Jeffrey Epstein case, after Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) last week suggested he may have been.

“I can affirm that is not true," Leavitt said in response to a question about Johnson's comments. "I think the Speaker was referring to the fact that President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago property for reasons the president has already discussed."

Trump has faced sustained pressure from Democrats and some Republicans to release more information about Epstein, the disgraced financier and sex offender. Some Democrats have suggested Trump may have something to hide because of his past affiliations with Epstein.

Johnson told CNN’s Manu Raju last Friday that Trump “wa

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