The Jeffrey Epstein situation continues to remain interesting with new twists and turns by the week, it seems. That was especially the case this week after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) raised new questions about President Donald Trump's involvement with Epstein.
According to the Daily Mail, while speaking to reporters about the situation, Speaker Johnson seemed to suggest that Trump once worked as an FBI informant regarding his relationship with the convicted child sex-trafficker.
Johnson made the comments in the halls of Congress this week after a CNN reporter pressed him on why the president continues to call the Epstein situation a Democrat-led "hoax."
Johnson's comments regarding Trump's possible role as an "FBI informant" sparked immediate questions.
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The Republican House speaker attempted to explain the president's take on the Epstein situation, which has proven to be a challenge for his administration.
"What Trump is referring to is the hoax that the Democrats are using to try to attack him," Johnson said.
He added, "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."
That's when he dropped the potential bombshell regarding the president's alleged former role as an FBI informant.
"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," Johnson said.
Ever since the president's Department of Justice concluded that there was no conspiracies behind Epstein's death or some kind of secret "file" filled with the names of celebrities and power players, the president has essentially downplayed the entire situation.
On more than one occasion, Trump has written it off as a "hoax."
"From what I understand, I could check, but from what I understand, thousands of pages of documents have been given. But it's really a Democrat hoax because they're trying to get people to talk about something that's totally irrelevant to the success that we've had as a nation since I've been president," Trump said recently.
The MAGA base hasn't been thrilled with the administration's seeming lack of interest in the matter.
Only time will tell if Johnson accidentally let something slip as far as Trump's possible former role as an FBI informant.
