House Speaker Mike Johnson is scrambling to dial back his bombshell claim that President Donald Trump served as an FBI informant on child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

In an attempt to defend the president’s repeated dismissal of the investigation into Epstein’s crimes as a “hoax,” Johnson said on Thursday, ”He’s not saying that what Epstein did is a hoax. It’s a terrible, unspeakable evil. He believes that himself.”

Johnson went on to repeat Trump’s oft-repeated account of booting Epstein from Mar-a-Lago before adding, “He was an FBI informant to try to take this stuff down.”

Johnson’s claim that Trump was an informant for the FBI, offered without evidence or context, raised more questions than it answered, prompting Raju to intercept Johnson on Monday to press him on what he had meant

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