Washington: In a nationally-televised interview on Sunday, Mike Johnson, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, declared that the forthcoming disclosure of Department of Justice files tied to convicted sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein is an opportunity to clear the air. “There’s nothing to hide,” Johnson said, as he pressed for the documents’ release to neutralize what he described as partisan attacks aimed at Donald Trump.

Johnson accused congressional Democrats of leveraging the Epstein material solely to target Trump. “They’re doing this to go after President Trump on this theory that he has something to do with it. He does not,” he said, adding: “Let’s just get this done and move on.”

Although a photograph from decades ago captures Trump and Epstein in the same frame, Trump has

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