White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has flatly rejected House Speaker Mike Johnson’s claim that President Donald Trump served as an FBI informant on child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Johnson told CNN reporter Manu Raju last week that Trump “was an FBI informant to try to take” Epstein down, although he was backtracking by Monday, saying, “I don’t know if I used the right terminology.”

The speaker’s claim reportedly perplexed the White House, which is desperate to distance Trump from Epstein, his one-time friend. “What the hell is he doing?” one senior Trump administration appointee told the Rolling Stone when asked about Johnson’s comment.

On Tuesday, Leavitt shot down the issue during her press briefing, declaring, “I can affirm that is not true.”

She continued, “I think

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