House Speaker Mike Johnson has made the explosive claim that Donald Trump once acted as an FBI informant in relation to the Jeffrey Epstein case.
The comments, delivered in the halls of Congress on Friday, came as Johnson attempted to clarify Trump’s repeated insistence that the Epstein controversy was a “hoax” driven by Democrats.
Pressed by CNN’s Manu Raju about Trump’s dismissive language, Johnson said: “What Trump is referring to is the hoax that the Democrats are using to try to attack him. I’ve talked to him about this many times, many times. He is horrified. 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.”
Then came the remark that lit up headlines: “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.”