&imwidth=800&imheight=600&format=webp&quality=medium "Trump, Epstein and the FBI: Speaker Mike Johnson claims POTUS secretly helped take the paedophile down")
House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday (Sep 5) made a shocking remark about US President Donald Trump and convicted sex trafficker and paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. While defending Trump over the mounting criticism over the delayed release of the notorious Epstein files, Johnson claimed that the POTUS was once an FBI informant in the Epstein case. His statement comes as Trump recently labelled the bipartisan push for the release of the files a "Democrat Hoax".
Trump: Business tycoon, US president and an FBI informant?
Speaking to reporters, Johnson claimed that Trump had been an FBI informant for decades. Defending Trump's 'hoax' remarks, the House Speaker said that the Republican was not saying that "Epstein did is a hoax." Clarifying Trump's ramblings, Johnson said that the POTUS believed that what Epstein did was "a terrible, unspeakable evil".
Reiterating a previous claim Trump made, he added, "When he first heard the rumour, he kicked him out of Mar-A-Lago," before adding, "He was an FBI informant trying to take this down."
"The president knows and has great sympathy for the women who have suffered these unspeakable harms. It's detestable to him; he and I have spoken about this, as recently as 24 hours ago," Johnson told reporters.
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Trump's 'Democrat hoax' statement
Donald Trump, while talking to reporters, had dismissed calls for greater transparency in the Epstein case, saying, "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 have had as a nation since I have been president."
Also read | Epstein in the White House? Sex offender's former butler claims Trump made him a job offer after 2016 win
Johnson's claim that Trump was an FBI informant in the Epstein sex trafficking case follows conflicting claims by the disgraced financier's former butler. In a no-holds-barred interview with The Telegraph, Valdson Vieira Cotrin, who was sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's butler for 18 years and was in charge of managing his Paris estate, recalled how the disgraced financier was offered a job in Trump's first government.
