Let me connect a few dots for you that may be a key part of the Trump-Epstein drama and may even be what Trump has been trying to keep hidden in those files. I’m not sure quite what we’re dealing with here. But I think this is significant.
Yesterday Speaker Mike Johnson was on the Hill talking to reporters running standard Trump defense on the Epstein files. It sounds like pretty standard stuff and then he says this. “When he first heard the rumor he kicked [Epstein] out of Mar-a-Lago. He was an FBI informant who tried to take this stuff down.” Johnson says it in this kind of offhanded way like one in a litany of talking points. But he clearly suggests that Trump played some role bringing about Epstein’s downfall, that he was an FBI informant who presumably told the authorities about Epstein’s sex crimes. This clip got a lot of attention on social media, unsurprisingly. One of Trump’s top surrogates is suggesting that far from being implicated in Epstein’s crimes Trump is some secret good guy in the shadows, the guy who out of the limelight helped the authorities bring Epstein to justice.
Total fantasy, right?
