Mike Johnson accused Democrats of “cherry pick[ing] three emails out of 20,000 documents” to “try and imply that the president was guilty.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has claimed that the Democrats rushing toward a vote next week to release files linked to the sex trafficking investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is a part of the party’s “entire game plan.”

“President Trump has clean hands. He’s not worried about it. I talk to him all the time. He has nothing to do with this. He’s frustrated that they’re turning it into a political issue,” the Louisiana politician told host Shannon Bream on “Fox News Sunday.”

Johnson called the move “not surprising because the Democrats have nothing else to talk about.”

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        No, those will stay on, it’s just certain people will be justified.

        They really trying to have the same model Russia has. Theoretically they have legislature, courts, rule of law, but not really. One person has final word on everything.

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    Does he know something we don’t know? Like they’ve already destroyed evidence or some other tactic to hide his obvious guilt. Trump sycophants are leading the CIA, FBI, DOJ. I have zero trust or faith in our system. No rule of law for the elites, no checks and balances.

    Trump is guilty and belongs in prison along with everyone covering for him.

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    How DARE the Democrats try to get to the Bottom of a GLOBAL CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING RING! How DARE they!

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    I do find it funny that all of this coulda been avoided had Trump’s campaign not made Epstein an issue.

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    Trump raped kids.

    Nothing about the way he has handled the Epstien investigation makes sense UNLESS he raped children.

    There is no word in my vocabulary that captures how disgusted I am with Mike Johnson and the rest. They know he’s a child fucker. They’re not stupid enough to believe otherwise.

    Soulless, inhuman, evil pieces of shit. Every bad thing that happens to him for the rest of his life will be less than he deserves.

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    He’s not entirely wrong. Democrats didn’t care about the Epstein files before Trump’s reelection and they don’t have anything else to talk about because most of the party hates the DSA’s ideas. They don’t care about the victims and they’d have been happy to bury this, they’re doing this because there’s no other choice. It’s their best political move.

    Don’t get me wrong, Trump is obviously in the files and this is a great political move!

    But, Democrats are fair-weather allies.

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    This is what makes Schumers actions last week make even less sense.

    He had Trump on the ropes. He could have had Republicans dismantle the fillibuster.

    Then a Epstein vote coasts through.,

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    As we’ve learned, trump’s hands may be ‘clean’, but that mouth sure isn’t.

    It’s the current game plan because it’s got high visibility, the people want less pedos, not less pesos.

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    But how exactly will they bring him down? He made a deal with the devil so he can never face consequences for anything.