While defending Donald Trump’s recent comments about the Jeffrey Epstein case, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Friday that the president always took accusations against the convicted sex offender seriously and was actually an “FBI informant.”
Johnson made the shocking remarks to reporters who pressed him about Trump calling demands for additional Epstein files “the Democrat Epstein Hoax” ― even though Republicans and much of Trump’s base are also demanding their release.
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calmocean@feddit.uk · 140 pts · 363d
thehowlingnorth@lemmy.ca · 72 pts · 363d
If this were true Trump would have never shut up about it.
halfapage@lemmy.world · 71 pts · 363d
redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 27 pts · 363d
Those 13 year olds were sanctioned. He had to do them. For the greater good. /s 💩
AmidFuror@fedia.io · 16 pts · 363d
The Greater Good.
evidences@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 362d
Those 13 year old were actually FBI agents too! /s
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 56 pts · 362d
The newest spin. Trump: "I had to have sex with those underage girls in order to save all of the other underage girls! I am the greatest american hero ever!".
tootoughtoremember@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 362d
"White hat" pedophile
Laser@feddit.org · 4 pts · 362d
A twitch chatter used the same term in Atrioc's stream where this was presented, saw it on YouTube and had to laugh
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 32 pts · 362d
I suspect Trump was an FBI informant, but back in the 80s when he ratted out the Mafia, which helped build the career of Giuliani, and which opened the door to the Russian mob getting into power. And that's why criminal investigations of Trump would grind to a halt for no apparent reason.
jballs@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 362d
Informants are criminals working off a debt to law enforcement to lower their sentence or avoid prosecution for their own crimes.
Are they sure this is the angle they want to take?
ieatpwns@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 363d
I wonder what excuse they’ll use next week
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 362d
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 362d
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 362d
Not this week
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 363d
More like Trump got angry that Epstein poached some of his staff, and decided to drop dime on him as retribution.
RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 362d
infinitevalence@discuss.online · 17 pts · 363d
Cool and since that's obviously documents just release the files.
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 363d
Prove it.
sad_detective_man@leminal.space · 10 pts · 363d
well you see, the evidence Trump collected led to the arrest of uhhh ummm uhhh trust me okay
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 4 pts · 362d
Sorry but that information is classified.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 362d
BWAHAHAHAHAHA.
But I thought it was a "Democratic Hoax"? Now Taco was Johnny Law's man on the inside? Of the "Democratic Hoax", right? 🤣
just_another_person@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 362d
Bullshit. He knew he was going to be implicated and stayed far as fuck away from that 100%. He was an actual informant, he would have been out there at the begins teaming that to his base and providing documentation to back that up. Not what happened at all, so we knew the truth.
Heikki2@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 362d
JHRD1880@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 362d
It took them this long to come up with this nonsense ?
Also, informants are criminals, so is he saying Trump committed crimes but worked with the FBI to get a deal ?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 362d
Hahahahahahaha
KeavesSharpi@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 362d
You just can't make this shut up. Nobody, I mean nobody would believe it if you wrote it.
Vupware@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 362d
Your claim can be debunked by looking at r/conservative or MSN comments :(
drhodl@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 362d
So...was it a hoax, or was he an "informant", gay Mike? Choose one. I guess, like his sex life, he's trying to have it both ways.
DrFistington@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 362d
So he's a rat?
Professorozone@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 362d
So the Democratic hoax was really a sting operation that netted no Epstein files, that were totally not on Bondi's desk, so we don't need to see them? Got it.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 362d
🙄
desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 362d
prove it
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 362d
You'd think an informant, presumably at the center of the operation, would have a better word to describe it than "hoax".
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 360d
The thing that's probably true behind Johnson's bullshit is that Trump has been a rat for the FBI on and off for decades.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 362d
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 362d
Stupid is as stupid does.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 363d
Why wouldn’t he say this?
Americans don’t mind. If they had serious objections and not just performative outrage, surely they would do something about it.