House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) walked back comments in which he claimed that President Donald Trump was an FBI informant against disgraced sex offender Jeffrey Epstein .

Johnson suggested Monday that he misspoke in his original remark.

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“I don’t know if I used the right word,” Johnson told reporters at the Capitol. “I said, ‘FBI informant,’ but I’m not sure. I wasn’t there. This isn’t my lane.”

“I’m just repeating what is common knowledge and has been out in the public for a long time: President Trump was

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