Trump administration officials are perplexed, as many people are, by House Speaker Mike Johnson’s claims that Donald Trump was an FBI informant in the case against Jeffrey Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges he sexually abused and trafficked scores of underage girls. The president and Epstein had a well-documented friendship.
Johnson knows, because he’s covering for the crimes of MANY MAGAs, including himself. He knows Trump is guilty of all of it, including stuff we don’t even know about, but he knows that the MAGA Morons need an excuse, any excuse, no matter how outlandish, so he’s giving them one. It doesn’t even have to be plausible, it just has to come from someone trustworthy (in their minds) that they can quote.