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.

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    please please god, let someone kill them both. I’ll never ask for anything again except for more high profile assasinations of fascist evils.

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    I think we should give Trump all of the due process he’s giving deportees, to decide his guilt or innocence in this Epstein matter.

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      I believe that all these articles and other fantastical stuff they spew is just obfuscation to keep eyes off of all the atrocities they are committing and plan to commit.

      Edit: Some are true I should have said some other articles tossed in to obfuscate the real ones.

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    It is Johnson’s attempt to make sense of Trumps involvement with Epstein. Johnson is so narrowminded (like most MAGA-heads) that the fact that Trump is actually a criminal on several layers (con-man, tax cheater, pedophile, …) simply does not register with him. There has to be another explanation (in his mind) for Trumps involvement with crime, and all that is left for his little brain is to think that Trump must have been an Informant. This also levels up Trump as a kind-of hero, justifying Johnsons worship.

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      So Trump is shy that if he releases the Epstein everyone will see how much of a hero he is and Trump is too modest for that. All makes sense now thanks

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        At least to them, yes. The MAGA brains would swallow such a lie hook, line, and sinker. And fishing rod, angler, and boat.

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      He’s so desperate for a narrative he has trump performing an actual job in his scenario.

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    So I saw a pretty believable breakdown that would absolutely explain this. It’s basically because they had a messy falling out over Trump being a spoiled brat. The timeline is as follows.

    The inciting incident was Epstein putting in what he thought was a winning bid on a new mansion. Confident in his bid he then showed the property off to his good buddy Trump and asked some advice on some renovations he was planning. Trump then went to his Russian buddies, got a “loan” and put in a higher bid on the property ultimately winning it. This pissed Epstein off who was further confused because he knew Trump had been having financial problems and didn’t have enough money to cover the bid he put in. Six months later Trump sold the property to the same Russian who had given him the money in the first place for twice what Trump paid for it laundering millions of dollars in the process. Epstein correctly realized that Trump just used his property that he swiped from him to launder Russian money which pissed him off even more. Enraged he called Trump and threatened to expose the money laundering. In retaliation Trump then informed the FBI about what Epstein had been up to on his island which is what ultimately led to his arrest. Whether Trump and/or the Russians then silenced Epstein and whether that was about Trumps participation in Epstein’s crimes or about the money laundering who knows, but it definitely makes some pieces fit.

    Edit: Dug up the video the claim was made in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTz6X5Bh_lw

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      If that was remotely true, Trump would have been claiming responsibility for Epstein’s arrest from day 1. It’s simply not true in the slightest. It’s a complete, wholecloth fabrication. A 100% lie.