Overview

• After saying Friday that President Trump was an FBI informant against Jeffrey Epstein, the House speaker on Sunday issued a clarification through his office.
• The statement cited attorney Brad Edwards’ past remark that Trump provided helpful information more than a decade ago, with no public records showing he served as an FBI informant.
• Multiple outlets report no documentary evidence supporting the informant claim, and Johnson’s comment prompted confusion among Trump administration officials and ridicule on social media.
• Calls for transparency continue as the House Oversight Committee released more than 30,000 pages of Epstein-related documents, most of which were already public.
• A bipartisan push for the Epstein Files Transparency Act is ongoing through a discharge petition Johnson has not advanced, while DOJ has said Epstein died by suicide and that no client list exists.