Home Speaker Mike Johnson defended President Donald Trump’s comments calling the efforts to launch the Jeffrey Epstein information a “hoax,” arguing that the president is being “misrepresented.”
“What Trump is referring to is the hoax that the Democrats are utilizing to attempt to assault him,” he stated.
“It’s been misrepresented. He’s not saying that what Epstein did is a hoax. It’s a horrible, unspeakable evil. He believes that himself,” he added.
Democrats, Johnson stated, are “doing it for political functions. Not all people, however a whole lot of them, and that’s what the president’s annoyed about.”
Echoing the president, Johnson stated that the Democrats are “making a hoax” and that Trump “has clear palms. He desires all of the information out.”
Requested whether or not Trump ought to meet with Epstein abuse victims, Johnson stated, “I believe he in all probability will.”
Johnson additionally stated he doesn’t count on that GOP Rep. Thomas Massie will achieve acquiring sufficient signatures for his discharge petition, the mechanism Massie is utilizing to drive a Home vote on his invoice to launch all of the Epstein information. That push, he stated, “has been mooted.”
“He’s actively working in opposition to his crew nearly each day now and, and appears to take pleasure in that position. So he’s, you already know, deciding his personal destiny,” Johnson stated when requested if he’d help Massie’s reelection bid.
