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Speaker Johnson Suddenly Claims Trump Acted as an FBI Informant On Epstein
Alex Griffing
Sep 5th, 2025, 4:16 pm
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/speaker-johnson-suddenly-claims-trump-acted-as-an-fbi-informant-on-epstein/
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) referred to President Donald Trump as an FBI informant this week when pressed by CNNs Manu Raju on Trump calling the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein scandal a hoax.
But Trump called it a hoax yesterday, Raju pressed Johnson, while discussing Epsteins victims and the seriousness of Epsteins sex trafficking crimes.
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 impliedIve talked to him about this many times, many times. He is horrified. Its been misrepresented. Hes not saying that what Epstein did is a hoax. Its 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, Johnson said, adding a new element to the discussion around Trump and Epstein.
Trumps long relationship with Epstein has become a major topic of conversation in recent months as reports have linked the two, and Trumps name is reportedly included in the so-called Epstein Files.

Irish_Dem
(73,877 posts)He is such a noble, honest, brave man.
Being a ruthless dangerous mob boss is just his cover story.
Sure Jan.
SuzyandPuffpuff
(271 posts)Cry me a fucking river. Their base is stupid enough to fall for it. Those of us with double digit and beyond IQ's know a crock of shit when they see it. Festering anal fissure can't string a sentence together. Doubt he's an "operative!" ROFLMAO
Johonny
(24,488 posts)God bless him
C_U_L8R
(48,002 posts)He seems more of a child fucking co-conspirator... and still acts like one.
doc03
(38,331 posts)an FBI agent to confirm their bullshit.
bamagal62
(4,143 posts)Seriously? WOW. This is rich
.I am honestly in a Twilight Zone episode.
MAGA will take this one hook, line, and sinker.
malaise
(288,586 posts)so they are trying a new tactic
allegorical oracle
(5,662 posts)RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(974 posts)Cosmocat
(15,258 posts)Generally informants are dirtbags at best.
Came on to say this. There are numerous cases where mobsters become informants in order to get their enemies in trouble with the FBI and also get a pass on their own crimes. It's a win/win for them. Whitey is the perfect example of this. It's totally possible Trump was an informant but that isn't the flex Johnson thinks it is. It would have just been another vehicle for Trump to get retribution and to cover his butt.
Liberal In Texas
(15,559 posts)was part of his undercover disguise. And having his picture taken with a topless14 year old sitting on his lap was just an act to get information to the FBI.
Sure. If anybody believes any of that I've got some mountain land in Nebraska to sell them.
republianmushroom
(21,247 posts)Volaris
(11,017 posts)'It's a terrible, unspeakable evil. HE BELIEVES THAT HIMSELF.' OK, good. That means when he's caught with his dick in a minor there will will be no backing out of how truly truly fucked he is.
'He was an fbi informant to try to take this stuff down.' Bullshit. If that's true, then that's in the files, too, and will completely clear him WHEN THE FILES ARE RELEASED.
MR SPEAKER--you lied for trump. Did you KNOW you were lying, or were you just making up some bullshit?
PuraVidaDreamin
(4,340 posts)tRump had to sexually rape little girls because he was undercover...
SunSeeker
(56,552 posts)Per Heather Cox Richardson:
Yesterday, talking to reporters about the Epstein files, House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said that Trump was an FBI informant to try to take this stuff down. The idea that Trump was secretly working to bring Epstein down is common fare among conspiracy theorists, but as Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo suggests, Johnsons embrace of it might well be an attempt to spin material in the files before it becomes public.
Marshall notes that journalist Michael Wolff, who interviewed Epstein at length during Trumps first presidency, says that Epstein suspected it was Trump who told the authorities about his systemic sexual assault of girls. But if so, Marshall explains, this is damning rather than exonerating.
Its pretty well known that Trump and Epstein had a falling out in 2004 after Trump went behind Epsteins back to buy an estate in South Florida that Epstein wanted. But at the time, Trump was headed toward bankruptcy, and it was not clear where he was getting the money to buy the estate.
Marshall calls attention to a recent interview in which Wolff said that Epstein suspected Trump was laundering money for a Russian oligarchand indeed, Trump did flip the property to a Russian oligarch for a profit of more than $50 million a few years after buying itand threatened to sue Trump, bringing the money laundering to light. At that point, the Epstein investigation began.
According to Wolff, Epstein believed Trump had notified the police about what was going on at Epsteins house, which he knew because he was a frequent visitor. Marshall speculates that Johnson mentioned that Trump was an informant because that information could well be in the files the Department of Justice has, and theyre trying to spin it ahead of time to make it sound like Trump was a hero.
But both Wolff and Marshall note that if indeed Trump turned the FBI onto Epstein, it shows he knew what was taking place at Epsteins properties.
Johnsons claim that Trump was an FBI informant suggests Trumps team is worried that as more and more people get access to the files, it will be increasingly difficult to hide whats in them. Trump's demand for Republicans loyalty suggests that at least some of them are starting to recalculate it. And that, in turn, might have something to do with why he is putting troops in the streets.
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