Mike Johnson Clarifies Claim That Trump Was 'FBI Informant' Against Epstein
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"I don't know if I used the right terminology," the House speaker confessed.
WASHINGTON ― House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Monday essentially recanted his claim that President Donald Trump served as an FBI informant against his former friend Jeffrey Epstein.
“He was willing to help law enforcement go after this guy who was a disgusting child abuser, sex trafficker,” Johnson told reporters at the Capitol on Monday. “I don’t know if I use the right terminology, but that’s common knowledge.”
Indeed, Johnson was probably not using the right terminology.
Johnson had said Friday that Trump served as “an FBI informant” on Epstein in the course of struggling to explain away Trump’s claim that the Epstein story is a “Democrat hoax,” a phrase Trump repeated last week even as victims of Epstein’s crimes told their stories on Capitol Hill.
“He’s not saying that what Epstein did is a hoax. It’s a terrible, unspeakable evil. He believes that himself,” Johnson said Friday. “When he first heard the rumor, he kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago. He was an FBI informant to try to take this stuff down. The president knows and has great sympathy for the women who have suffered these unspeakable harms.”
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