House Speaker Mike Johnson did an about-face on Monday, expressing his uncertainty about the “terminology” he used last week when he claimed that sex scandal-plagued President Donald Trump was "an FBI informant” working to take down Jeffrey Epstein.
"What I was referring to, in that long conversation, was what the victims’ attorney said,” Johnson told CNN’s Manu Raju.
Johnson then insisted that Epstein and Trump’s falling out stemmed from Epstein’s alleged abuse and sex trafficking of minors, at which point Trump supposedly played a role in the FBI’s takedown of Epstein.
“The president was helpful in that. I don't know if I used the right terminology, but that's common knowledge, and everybody knows that. So this is much ado about nothing,” he added.
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