TPM: Intriguing theory about Mike Johnson's "informant" remark
Talking Points Memo - By Josh Marshall
|September 6, 2025
Yesterday Speaker Mike Johnson was on the Hill talking to reporters running 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.”
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Well, this reminded me of something I saw in one of those recent interviews with journalist Michael Wolff, who has been out in the media letting everyone know that he has some large quantity of taped interviews with Epstein from during Trump’s first presidency but before his rearrest and eventual suicide.
Wolff said that Epstein suspected that Trump was the guy who ratted him out to the authorities. So maybe some version of Johnson’s claim isn’t that far-fetched. But of course this isn’t actually exonerating at all. In fact, it implicates Trump about as badly as anything we’ve heard to date.
Epstein was trying to buy a South Florida estate. He brought Trump along to see it one time. A short time later Epstein found out that Trump had gone behind his back and placed a higher and ultimately successful bid on the property. He’d snatched it out from under him with a much higher bid. The problem was that Trump’s entire empire in 2004 was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. It made no sense that Trump was coming up with $41 million to buy this property. Epstein suspected that Trump was acting as a front for a Russian oligarch as a money-laundering scheme. And in fact Trump did purchase and flip the estate two years later to a Russian oligarch named Dmitry Rybolovlev for $95 million, or a profit of over $50 million dollars.
To sum up: Epstein may have planned to turn djt in for money laundering... djt turned Epstein in on pedo charges first.
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This is something drumpf is trying to plant, floating another bullshit story to see if it gains traction.
It's typical of him to try to paint himself as some kind of hero to distract from his culpability and involvement. And he lacks any self-awareness of how obvious and pathetic that looks to everyone else who isn't kissing his ass and is on to his shtick.
He is a legend in his own mind. 
that is used by FBI agents to record their contacts with unofficial criminal informants
or whatever other FBI documents that recorded this.
And the time stamped backup media of scans of this evidence to substantiate it was not just created.
There is nothing classified with those facts as the Speaker of the House has already revealed it. They can redact classified info in the report/form if there is any. Trump was not an elected official at the time so he shouldn't have any classified info.
Since Trump allegedly did this, those reports or references to them (that an informant claimed " xxx ..."
should have been turned over to Epstein's defense team and probably Ghislaine Maxwell's as the prosecution is supposed to reveal what evidence they had against the criminals. Epstein is dead. Trump has disclosed he was an informant against Epstein so there are no excuses to not disclose what Trump told the FBI. If Maxwell's team didn't not get them, she can appeal her conviction.
Among other adjectives, we can now add "rat" to describe the most decrepit pig to ever work in the Oval office.
drumpf has "rat" written all over him.
