Speaker Johnson Suddenly Claims Trump Acted as an ‘FBI Informant’ on Epstein

RAJU: “But Trump called it a hoax yesterday.”

Johnson: “What Trump is referring to is the hoax that the Democrats are using to try to attack him. He has never said or suggested or implied— I’ve talked to him about this many times, many times. He is horrified.”

RAJU: “It comes across as if he’s calling the whole thing a hoax.”

Johnson: “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 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. It’s detestable to him. He and I have spoken about this, as recently as 24 hours ago. What he’s talking about is the Democrats who are doing this with impure motives. If they cared so much about this, why didn’t they do something during the four years of the Biden Administration when the Biden DoJ had all the records? They didn’t say a word about it. Now they’re doing it for political purposes — not everybody, but a lot of them. And that’s what the president’s frustrated about. And we all are, that they’re creating a hoax just like they did with the Russian dossier because they think it’s going to somehow be mud thrown on him. It’s not. He has no culpability in this thing at all. The president has clean hands. He wants all the records out. He has told me that himself.”

RAJU: “Should he meet with the victims?”

Johnson: “I suspect he probably will, yeah. He has great compassion for them. The president has a very compassionate heart. He hates the fact that these women suffered those harms. He hates what Epstein is accused of and who he was. And when he recognized that, he realized Epstein wasn’t just some sort of, you know, socialite, he was an evil person and alleged to have been involved in evil schemes, and the president distanced himself, before he was president, from that, because that’s not who he is. And I think he’s being — he’s being falsely accused and maligned, and that’s a frustration of all of ours. That’s what he’s talking about when he says the hoax.”

UNKNOWN: “Thank you.”