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applegrove

(127,959 posts)
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:29 PM Friday

Speaker Johnson Suddenly Claims Trump Acted as an 'FBI Informant' On Epstein

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 CNN’s Manu Raju on Trump calling the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein scandal a “hoax.”

“But Trump called it a hoax yesterday,” Raju pressed Johnson, while discussing Epstein’s victims and the seriousness of Epstein’s 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 implied—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. 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.

Trump’s long relationship with Epstein has become a major topic of conversation in recent months as reports have linked the two, and Trump’s name is reportedly included in the so-called “Epstein Files.”
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Speaker Johnson Suddenly Claims Trump Acted as an 'FBI Informant' On Epstein (Original Post) applegrove Friday OP
Trump was a secret double agent keeping the world safe from dangerous pedophiles. Irish_Dem Friday #1
Paleeeeeez SuzyandPuffpuff Friday #2
He fucked children for America! Johonny Friday #3
Well, he's not very forthcoming with the evidence C_U_L8R Friday #4
I would not be surprised if they find them doc03 Friday #5
I almost spit out my wine. bamagal62 Friday #6
Truth will out malaise Friday #7
What's next? Loomer's a CIA agent? allegorical oracle Friday #8
Johnson is being a dick. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Friday #9
Whitey Bulger was an FBI informant Cosmocat Friday #10
Yup... Bibbers Yesterday #14
So, Trump leering at teenage girls in a dressing room during a pageant Liberal In Texas Friday #11
Showing that there are not many straw let to grab. republianmushroom Friday #12
Well, thats a quote thats gonna get somebody in a lot of trouble.. Volaris Friday #13
Seven weeks vakay and that's the best he could come up with. PuraVidaDreamin 22 hrs ago #15
He was more a snitch than an informant. He snitched when Epstein threatened to sue him over a land deal. SunSeeker 1 hr ago #16

Irish_Dem

(73,877 posts)
1. Trump was a secret double agent keeping the world safe from dangerous pedophiles.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:33 PM
Friday

He is such a noble, honest, brave man.

Being a ruthless dangerous mob boss is just his cover story.

Sure Jan.

SuzyandPuffpuff

(271 posts)
2. Paleeeeeez
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:34 PM
Friday

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

C_U_L8R

(48,002 posts)
4. Well, he's not very forthcoming with the evidence
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:40 PM
Friday

He seems more of a child fucking co-conspirator... and still acts like one.

bamagal62

(4,143 posts)
6. I almost spit out my wine.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:45 PM
Friday

Seriously? WOW. This is rich….I am honestly in a Twilight Zone episode.
MAGA will take this one hook, line, and sinker.

Bibbers

(11 posts)
14. Yup...
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 03:34 AM
Yesterday

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)
11. So, Trump leering at teenage girls in a dressing room during a pageant
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 10:02 PM
Friday

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.

Volaris

(11,017 posts)
13. Well, thats a quote thats gonna get somebody in a lot of trouble..
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 10:36 PM
Friday

'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)
15. Seven weeks vakay and that's the best he could come up with.
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 05:33 AM
22 hrs ago

tRump had to sexually rape little girls because he was undercover...

SunSeeker

(56,552 posts)
16. He was more a snitch than an informant. He snitched when Epstein threatened to sue him over a land deal.
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 02:02 AM
1 hr ago

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, Johnson’s 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 Trump’s 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.

It’s pretty well known that Trump and Epstein had a falling out in 2004 after Trump went behind Epstein’s 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 oligarch—and indeed, Trump did flip the property to a Russian oligarch for a profit of more than $50 million a few years after buying it—and 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 Epstein’s 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 they’re 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 Epstein’s properties.

Johnson’s claim that Trump was an FBI informant suggests Trump’s team is worried that as more and more people get access to the files, it will be increasingly difficult to hide what’s 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.

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/september-6-2025?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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