Interesting.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) appeared to say that President Donald
Trump once doubled as a confidential informant for the FBI before he ran for office.
Johnson made the comment while speaking to reporters at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday about Rep. Thomas Massie's (R-Ky.)
effort to force a vote on releasing the Department of Justice's remaining evidence on convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. When CNN congressional correspondent Manu Raju
asked Johnson about Trump calling the ongoing controversy over Epstein a "hoax," the speaker insisted that Trump's statement was being misconstrued by the media.
"I've talked with him about this many times," Johnson said. "It's been misrepresented. He's not saying that what Epstein did is a hoax. It's a terrible, unspeakable evil. He believes that himself. When he first heard the rumor he kicked [Epstein] out of Mar-a-Lago. He was an FBI informant to try to take this stuff down."
Trump's status as an FBI informant remains unconfirmed. However, he has a history of being willing to cooperate with the FBI in the past. BuzzFeed News reported in 2017 on a 1981 FBI memo in which he
said he would to "fully cooperate" with the bureau. Trump reportedly agreed to accommodate undercover FBI agents at his Atlantic City, New Jersey casino who were investigating organized crime.