House Speaker Mike Johnson Takes Back Comment Saying President Trump Was An FBI Informant

It appears House Speaker got his words mixed up.

As WLT Report previously reported, Speaker Mike Johnson told a reporter last Friday that President Trump was an FBI informant in relation to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s illegal activities.

Johnson shared that when Trump heard about Epstein’s crimes, he told the FBI everything he knew about Epstein.

Watch him here:

🚨 BREAKING: Speaker Mike Johnson says President Trump was an FBI informant tasked with bringing down Jeffrey Epstein pic.twitter.com/JBs75fTU0C

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On Monday, Johnson retracted his statement, saying that the term “FBI informant” to describe Trump’s actions was probably not the best terminology to use.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) backed off his claim that President Trump was an FBI informant in the case of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. https://t.co/xqRozV17D2

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CNN reported more details on Johnson’s walk back:

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday attempted to clean up earlier remarks he made claiming that President Donald Trump had been an “FBI informant” in the Jeffrey Epstein case.

“What I was referring to in that long conversation was what the (Epstein) victims’ attorney said,” Johnson told reporters. “More than a decade ago, President Trump kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago, and he was one of the only people, one of the only prominent people, as everyone has reported … that he was willing to help law enforcement go after this guy who was a disgusting child abuser, sex trafficker, all the allegations. That’s what they heard. So the president was helpful in that.”

The speaker added: “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.”

Some had seized on Johnson’s comments on social media, seeking to paint Trump as a hero in relation to the case that has seen heightened national political furor in recent weeks.

Pressed by CNN Monday on whether Trump had specifically told him about any involvement with law enforcement’s investigation of the late convicted sex offender, Johnson said he was “recounting what others have said” but that he and the president have spoken about “the Epstein evils many times.”

Johnson, when asked, said he had no information about whether Trump had ever been asked to wear a wire.

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“I was repeating what has been common knowledge for a long time. The president was helpful in trying to get Epstein for the law enforcement to go after Epstein. That’s always been my understanding. That’s common knowledge. It’s the public’s understanding. I didn’t — I was not breaking news there, OK? What I’m trying to emphasize is that the president is as disgusted about this as everyone is.”

Trump actually kicked Epstein out of Mar-A-Lago and was the only person who cooperated with the lawyer for Epstein's victims. pic.twitter.com/sPLMFrFGaJ

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On Monday, Fox LA reported the House Oversight Committee released Epstein’s alleged Birthday book:

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on Monday released a sexually suggestive letter to Jeffrey Epstein, which they say was allegedly signed by President Donald Trump.

The House Oversight Committee received a copy of a 2003 birthday album for alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein as part of a batch of documents from his estate.

Included in the album was a letter bearing Trump’s name and signature. The letter also contains text framed by a hand-drawn outline of a naked woman.

The letter’s text reads: “a pal is a wonderful thing. Happy birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.”

The letter released by the committee looks exactly as described in an earlier report from The Wall Street Journal.

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Trump has denied writing the letter or creating the drawing.

After the letter was released, White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich posted pictures on X of Trump’s signature and tagged The Wall Street Journal’s parent corporation, News Corp., writing: “Time for @newscorp to open that checkbook, it’s not his signature. DEFAMATION!”

Trump has denied writing the letter and creating the drawing, calling a report on it “false, malicious, and defamatory.”