Speaker Mike Johnson: President Trump was working to take down Jeffrey Epstein

Johnson: Trump Was Misrepresented in Epstein matter

Mike Johnson, the party’s leader in the House of Representatives, made the allegation on CNN after being questioned about Trump’s repeated insistence that the Epstein controversy dogging his second term was a “Democrat-invented hoax”.

The row erupted when Attorney General Pam Bondi said in February that an Epstein “client list” was sitting on her desk. However in July, the department of justice said it found no evidence of a list of clients connected to the paedophile.

In July, the Wall Street Journal reported that Pam Bondi had told Trump his name appeared several times in the files on the convicted sex offender, who was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correction Centre in August 2019.

The Democrats twisted this statement to mean that he was a pedo and that was the hoax.

The controversy has shown little sign of abating.

“What Trump is referring to is the hoax that the Democrats are using to try to attack him,” Johnson said. “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.”

Johnson added: “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.” On Sunday, his office released a statement modifying that claim.

“The Speaker is reiterating what the victims’ attorney said, which is that Donald Trump — who kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago — was the only one more than a decade ago willing to help prosecutors expose Epstein for being a disgusting child predator,” the statement from Johnson’s office read.

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