President Donald Trump’s latest viral post has critics calling it one of his most desperate moves yet. What was meant as a show of strength instead read like panic, with Trump lashing out and dismissing renewed pressure on him to release the files on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as nothing more than a political hoax.

The timing only fueled suspicions that the heat is closing in—and Johnson’s intervention didn’t help. In an effort to defend Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson went so far as to suggest the former president “was an FBI informant to try to take this stuff down.” A claim that stunned reporters on Capitol Hill and poured gasoline on the fire.

Within days, Johnson was backtracking, insisting he was merely echoing an old talking point about Trump’s role years ago. But the reversal

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