President Donald Trump has been dubbed an ‘FBI informant’ on the late Jeffrey Epstein’s illegal doings by an ally.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson made the claim while being questioned by CNN on the ongoing Epstein files scandal. Network anchor Manu Raju asked the congressional leader to explain Trump calling the case a ‘hoax’.
‘What Trump is referring to is the hoax that the Democrats are using to try to attack him,’ replied Johnson on Friday.
The House speaker insisted that the Epstein hoax has been ‘misrepresented’ and that Trump is ‘horrified’.
‘He’s not saying that what Epstein did is a hoax. It’s a terrible, unspeakable evil. He believes that himself,’ said Johnson, going on to paint a righteous picture of the commander-in-chief.
‘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.’
Trump has repeatedly labeled the controversy around the still-to-be-fully-released Epstein files a hoax.
In a lengthy post on his Truth Social platform on Friday morning, Trump called it ‘merely another Democrat HOAX, just like Russia, Russia, Russia, and all of the others, in order to deflect and distract from the great success of a Republican President, and the record setting failure of the previous Administration, and the Democrat Party’.
The president claimed that the Democratic Party ‘did nothing about Jeffrey Epstein while he was alive except befriend him, socialize with him, travel to his Island, and take his money!’
‘They knew everything there was to know about Epstein, but now, years after his death, they, out of nowhere, are seeming to show such love and heartfelt concern for his victims,’ Trump said.
‘The Dems don’t care about the victims, as proven by the fact that they never did before.’
Trump concluded that the Epstein scandal was ‘only brought back to life by the Radical Left Democrats because they are doing so poorly, with the lowest poll numbers in the history of the Party’.
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