President Trump fears the release of the Epstein files after promising to make them public. Now, maybe Ghislaine Maxwell can take the sting out of any looming revelations by declaring him innocent.

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson plans to finally get back to work on Nov. 12 after shutting down his chamber in mid-September to avoid negotiating with Democrats on a solution to end the government shutdown.

But Johnson's recalcitrance about actually governing has been linked to a secondary motivation – protecting President Donald Trump from the Epstein files, a seedy, secret dossier about his old bon vivant buddy , the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died by suicide in federal prison in 2019.

Johnson has stalled for seven weeks swearing in Adelita Grijalva, an Arizona Democrat

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