Mike Johnson Is Engaged In A Trump And Jeffrey Epstein Cover-Up

Republicans and Democrats in the House want to hold a vote to force the release of the Epstein files, but Speaker Mike Johnson is working on a cover-up for Trump.

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Donald Trump doesn’t want to talk about Jeffrey Epstein, and he doesn’t want the American people talking about Jeffrey Epstein. Trump ran away from reporters on Friday as soon as they asked about Epstein, and the administration is making moves to distract the president’s supporters by doing things like trying to get the grand jury testimony unsealed.

These are all important events, but the effort to do damage control and make Trump’s connection to Epstein vanish stretches beyond the White House.

In the House of Representatives, there is bipartisan legislation from Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie, that would force the Department of Justice to release the Epstein files.

The legislation has sent Speaker Mike Johnson into full cover-up mode.

Via Axios:

The real question is whether Johnson will once again employ the procedural maneuver he used in April to kill a discharge petition over proxy voting for new parents.

Massie said he is not worried, because "that affected 435 people ... and the Epstein sex trafficking ring is a lot bigger than that."

Similarly, Khanna told us: "Being allowed to vote in the House is important. But the release of the Epstein files — to the MAGA base — matters 100 times more to them. So I think it's a totally different situation."

What's next: GOP leadership is considering canceling votes next week, in part to delay Massie's efforts.

Republicans and Democrats are confident that they have enough support to force a vote on the House floor on the measure to compel the release of the Epstein files.

Johnson could try to insert language into a procedural measure that would kill the discharge petition.

The question is why would Mike Johnson, who claims to be an evangelical Christian who cares about preventing the sort of crimes that Jeffrey Epstein committed, block the legislation that would compel the release of the files?