The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, revealed that President Donald Trump was an "FBI informant" to catch Jeffrey Epstein during a conversation with Manu Raju, a CNN journalist, who questioned him about the president's recent statements regarding the scandal.
"But Trump called it a hoax yesterday," Raju stated, referring to Epstein's victims and the seriousness of the sex trafficking crimes linked to the case. However, Johnson clarified: "What Trump is referring to is the lie that Democrats are using to try to attack him. He has never said it, suggested it, or implied it; I have spoken with him about this many times. He is horrified. It has been misrepresented."
"He is not saying that what Epstein did is a lie. It is a terrible and indescribable evil. He himself believes it. When he first heard the rumor, he kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago. He was an FBI informant," he added.
"The president knows and feels great compassion for the women who have suffered these atrocious harms. It is detestable to him," Mike Johnson stated firmly, before adding: "He and I talked about this just 24 hours ago. He is referring to Democrats who act with impure motives. If they cared so much, why did they do nothing during the four years of the Biden administration, when Biden's Department of Justice had all the records?"
"They did not say a word about it. Now they do it for political purposes, not all, but many. That is what frustrates the president. We all agree: they are creating a lie, just as they did with the Russia dossier, because they believe that, somehow, they are going to smear him," Johnson criticized.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives insisted that Trump has no responsibility in the case. "He has no guilt in this matter. The president has clean hands. He wants all the records to be published. He himself has told me so," he concluded.
