US House speaker says 'nothing to hide' in Epstein files

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Reuters

November 16, 2025 1:54 PM EST Updated 21 mins ago


WASHINGTON, Nov 16 (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson said on Sunday he believed the approaching vote on releasing Justice Department files related to Jeffrey Epstein should help put to rest allegations that President Donald Trump had any connection to the late sex offender's abuse and trafficking of underage girls.

"They're doing this to go after President Trump on this theory that he has something to do with it. He does not," Johnson, the Republican leader in the House, said on "Fox News Sunday."

"Epstein is their entire game plan, so we're going to take that weapon out of their hands," Johnson said of Democrats. "Let's just get this done and move it on. There's nothing to hide."

Although Trump and Epstein were photographed together decades ago, the president has said the two men fell out prior to Epstein's convictions. Trump has since instructed the Department of Justice to investigate prominent Democrats' ties to Epstein.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-speaker-says-nothing-hide-epstein-files-2025-11-16/

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So then why did you essentially dissolve the House to keep it from doing any legislative business for 7 weeks and refused to swear in a duly-elected and certified member of Congress, who had promised to be the "218th vote" for release?

And as to this -

"Epstein is their entire game plan..."

Really? Did you forget -

Illegal Tariffs

Rising inflation

Rising unemployment

A build-up to a war with another country (where the U.S.S. Eisenhower just arrived to that "theater" today as part of more Waste. Fraud. Abuse. of our military without Congressional authorization)

A veritable laundry list of other issues

[Zorro]

1. Maybe the DOJ has finished scrubbing the files

[KS Toronado]

3. If they did we'll uncover their tracks

They can run but can't hide forever.

[OldBaldy1701E]

35. Yep, that is the ticket.

They have managed to remove enough key parts of the chain of evidence that they can claim that he has almost nothing to do with the guy. They will deny anything that says otherwise, and deny anyone who comes forward. No matter what evidence we present, they will lie and their base will back them up.

[Botany]

2. "US House speaker says 'nothing to hide' in Epstein files."

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Fine release them. Mike “Grindr” Johnson sure seems like a pedophile protector to me.
First thing tomorrow morning would be a good time to release them. Make sure to release
the flight logs for Trump’s plane, the flight logs for Epstein’s Lolita Express plane, the banking
records, the records of wire transfers into Epstein’s accounts, the names of all the girls that
went from Trump’s modeling try outs/beauty pageants and went onto being in Epstein’s stable of
girls, and the testimony of all the women who were victims of the Trump/Putin/Epstein international
child sex trafficking ring.

I wonder how many girls that were caught up in the international child sex trafficking network just
ended up missing?

[Iwasthere]

12. You left out ALL the pics and videos

The most important part imo

[Botany]

23. Thanx

There is just too much information for any one person to comprehend. The man should
have been in prison years ago for his multiple crimes.

Liberal Media?

[Chasstev365]

4. Porn addicted, fake Christian Wessel says what?

[DrFunkenstein]

5. Trump Picked Matt Gaetz To Preside Over The Epstein Files As AG

And Mike Johnson called on the House Ethics Committee not to release its report on Gaetz. But I trust him at his word.

And despite paying $130K in hush money to a porn star, being found guilty of sexually assaulting a women in a 5th Ave department store, and actively campaigning for child molester Roy Moore, I suppose Trump deserves the benefit of the doubt.

[ananda]

6. Adding sarcastic smiley for you.

[EarlG]

7. Lol

"Epstein is their entire game plan, so we're going to take that weapon out of their hands," Johnson said of Democrats. "Let's just get this done and move it on. There's nothing to hide."

I guess that’s a strategy… “Let’s just reveal that the President of the United States is at the center of an international child sex ring and move on. There’s nothing to hide.”

[Autumn]

8. Did Tiny Mike and the Blond Bimbo get's trumps name whited out on all the documents?

I bet they went through a ton of White-Out on them.

[electric_blue68]

30. Ohhh boy, and who got sick, or high on the fumes!

I hated that stuff!

[Callie1979]

34. I bet that's exactly what's been done. "His" people have scrubbed those files. nt

[bluestarone]

9. Well, i think he mispelled one word is all

"Nothing to hide" I think should be spelled "Everything to hide" There that's better now. (the truth)

[tavernier]

10. Well, darn it!

Here we all thought he was somehow connected, but as it turns out, he had nothing to do with it. Thanks Mike for straightening us out. And because you’re such a big and important guy and would never tell a lie, we have no choice but to believe you.

[FakeNoose]

11. I guess he's saying the whitewashing is complete

The cleaned-up files are ready for release. The only names we're going to see are Clinton, Biden, Harris, Pelosi, and maybe a few others.

[William Seger]

17. Sure sounds like it -- I won't trust anything coming out of this DoJ

I'm hoping the DoJ is at least a little worried about what the estate might still have before they go disappearing stuff.

[Fil1957]

13. Then why did he and Trump try so hard to hide them?

[red dog 1]

14. Meanwhile, in the Senate...

Barrasso won't commit to holding a Senate vote on an Epstein files measure and says, "this is not about truth, this is about an attempt by the Democrats to make President Trump a lame duck president and I'm not gonna aid and abet them in their effort to do that."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-11-16T16:08:07.072Z

[UT_democrat]

25. Barasso is a pedo protector

That’s the simple truth

[Seinan Sensei]

32. "this is not about truth, this is not about justice"

Here is where Sen Barrasso (quite inadvertently) spoke the truth about (not) releasing the Epstein files

[twodogsbarking]

15. It is someone else with the same name, Donald Trump?

Stay tuned. We will be right back after a word from our sponsor, Trump Beer Pong, ages 12 and up. "She said she was 15."

[wolfie001]

16. Grindr Mike won't even admit he's into men

Who TF can trust him concerning the p3do-in-chief?

[progressoid]

18. Because Trump's name has been edited out?

[Javaman]

19. Yeah, cool story bro🙄

The orange asshole launches his attack on Venezuela and tiny Johnson adjourns congress because of illegal undeclared war

Thus stopping the vote

[Paladin]

20. In your brain-dead, gutless, trump whore DREAMS, Johnson.

trump is crotch-deep in Epstein's filthy operation. Johnson wouldn't have been frantically and ineffectively trying to hide things this long, if that weren't the case. Here's hoping that Johnson's political career is destroyed by his pimping for trump, like so many others.

[MaineNative]

21. They're a stupid lot.

[PatrickforB]

22. That Johnson sure is a piece of work. Calls himself a Christian, but I ain't seeing it. n/t

[Clouds Passing]

24. 🙈🙉🙊

[RandySF]

26. Then he should vote 'yes'.

[johnnyfins]

27. You know, Mike is really not going to do well

in prison.

[DallasNE]

28. If There Is Nothing To Hide

Then why haven’t the files already been released, killing the story in its entirety? No reason to adjourn the House for 7 weeks either.

[C_U_L8R]

29. Nothing to hide, they say.

While expending every possible resource to do anything they can… to hide… everything.

[Scarlet Begalas]

31. LMJ

Hey, if you can't trust Lying Mike Johnson, who can you trust?

[Buddyzbuddy]

33. That's good enough for me. I don't know about the rest of you, but I believe him.

[SaydiTom]

36. Nothing to hide? Then why is the mechanism here a DISCHARGE PETITION to FORCE a vote??

[Grins]

37. "There's nothing to hide." So...you read them? About 50,000 pages? Since August? Saw the photos?

An innocent man, charged with such heinous crimes, would have demanded those files be released to clear his good name.

[Martin68]

38. The Speaker is so full of shit. The release of the Epstein files became a thing because Trump tried to blame Democrats

for a cover up, implying that Democrats were complicit in Epstein's crimes. Johnson is saying Democrats tried to use the release of the files for political purposes. He's a liar and a fool.

[AllaN01Bear]

39. then release them ded burn things.

[JohnnyRingo]

40. Babyface Johnson will probably spill his coffee on them at the last minute.

"oops!" And his dog ate the rest.

[iemanja]

41. This means Bondi has scrubbed the files.

[The Wizard]

42. Treat every redaction as

a confession.

[DSandra]

43. Will this be another Fitzmas or Iran-Contra?

Or Watergate for that matter. Republican presidents have a way of slipping past justice.