Overview

• Press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters, “I can affirm that is not true,” when asked if the president served as an FBI informant regarding Jeffrey Epstein.
• Speaker Mike Johnson had said Trump “was an FBI informant to try to take this stuff down,” then later told reporters he may have used the wrong term.
• Leavitt said Johnson was likely referring to Trump’s account of expelling Epstein from Mar-a-Lago after a dispute over poaching spa staff.
• Trump continues to face calls from Democrats and some Republicans to release more information about his past ties to Epstein.
• The House Oversight Committee received an Epstein “birthday book” that reportedly includes a drawing attributed to Trump, which the president and the White House deny.