House Speaker Mike Johnson has claimed that President Donald Trump was once an ‘FBI informant’ in relation to Jeffrey Epstein’s illegal activities.

On Friday, Johnson made surprising remarks in the halls of Congress when questioned by CNN’s Manu Raju about Trump’s frequent claims that the Epstein files controversy is a ‘hoax’ created by Democrats.

‘Trump is referring to the supposed hoax orchestrated by Democrats to target him,’ Johnson explained. ‘I’ve discussed this with him numerous times. Trump is genuinely appalled. The situation has been misunderstood. He never suggested that Epstein’s actions are a hoax. Epstein committed terrible, unimaginable acts. Trump is acutely aware of that.’

Johnson further stated, ‘When Trump first heard the allegation, he banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago. He even worked with the FBI as an informant to help address the situation,’ which now prompts further inquiries about Trump’s association with Epstein.

As recently as Wednesday, Trump called Epstein scandal a ‘hoax’ after the Department of Justice insisted in July that there was no client list.

‘This is a Democrat hoax that never ends,’ Trump told reporters at the White House.

‘From what I understand, I could check, but from what I understand, thousands of pages of documents have been given. But it’s really a Democrat hoax because they’re trying to get people to talk about something that’s totally irrelevant to the success that we’ve had as a nation since I’ve been president,’ he continued.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said President Donald Trump was an FBI information in relation to the Jeffrey Epstein case but offered no other details beyond that

Trump’s relationship with the financier-turned-child predator has been well-documented, with Trump himself admitting that he was friendly with Epstein throughout the late 1980s and 1990s

Johnson offered no other details about Trump’s supposed role as an informant to the FBI on the Epstein case. He did not reveal when Trump talked to the FBI or what they might have talked about.

Trump’s relationship with the financier-turned-child predator has been well-documented, with Trump himself admitting that he was friendly with Epstein throughout the late 1980s and 1990s.

Trump and then-girlfriend Melania were also pictured with Epstein and his sex trafficking accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell at a Mar-a-Lago party in February 2000.

Ever since Trump retook the White House this January, his political base has demanded answers and has wanted the criminal investigation files into Epstein to be released.

That desire has been around since Epstein mysteriously died awaiting trial at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan on August 10, 2019.

On the campaign trail, Trump did promise to release the Epstein files. 

However, his supporters were disappointed when the DOJ in July came to the conclusion that Epstein had in fact killed himself and that there was ‘no credible evidence’ that he blackmailed ‘prominent individuals’.

The agency also said there was no client list, even though Attorney General Pam Bondi previously stated the documents were ‘sitting on my desk’.

Trump’s DOJ came to the conclusion that Epstein had in fact killed himself and that there was ‘no credible evidence’ that he blackmailed ‘prominent individuals’. This angered many in Trump’s base

Trump and then-girlfriend Melania are pictured with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at a Mar-a-Lago party on February 12, 2000

For the last two months, certain segments of MAGA have blasted Trump for breaking his promise, which has become one of the first cracks in the president’s coalition.

Days after the DOJ seemingly did not follow through, Trump addressed the situation on Truth Social.

‘We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happening. We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and “selfish people” are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein,’ Trump wrote.

He added that America should ‘not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody nobody cares about’.

Many MAGA devotees openly disagreed with Trump, and now there’s an effort in the House to compel the DOJ to release the Epstein files.

The bill was originally sponsored by Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna. It’s also supported by Republican Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie.

Both Greene and Massie have promised to read the names on the so-called Epstein list on the House floor, given that their official speech as lawmakers is constitutionally-insulated from defamation lawsuits.

Massie has been pushing for a discharge petition that would force a vote on the Khanna bill that would release the Epstein files within 30 days.

He has said 214 House members, including four Republicans have signed the petition thus far. That’s four votes away from the 218-threshold needed to pass the measure.