Mike Johnson walks back claim that Donald Trump was ‘an FBI informant’ in Epstein case

House Speaker Mike Johnson is now backpedaling on his shocking claim from last week.

Johnson was discussing the Jeffrey Epstein matter with reporter Manu Raju when he said that not only was President Donald Trump not involved in any of the illicit dealings Epstein had going on, but that the president had actually acted as an “FBI informant to try to take this stuff down.”

This came as a surprise to many, but now Johnson is walking it back. A statement from his office, obtained by The Washington Post, sought to clarify the previous comment.

JUST IN: House Speaker Mike Johnson walks back claim that Donald Trump was “an FBI informant” in the Jeffrey Epstein case, according to the WaPo.

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“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,” it reads.

His previous comments attempted to shut down the mainstream media narrative surrounding the president’s reference to the Epstein hoax:

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. 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. What he’s talking about is the Democrats who are doing this with impure motives. If they cared so much about this, why didn’t they do something during the four years of the Biden administration when the Biden DOJ had all the records? They didn’t say a word about it. Now they’re doing it for political purposes—not everybody, but a lot of them. And that’s what the president’s frustrated about. And we all are that they’re creating a hoax just like they did with the Russian dossier because they think it’s going to somehow be mud thrown on him. It’s not.

He has no culpability in this thing at all. The president has clean hands. He wants all the records out; he has told me that himself.

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