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GOP split over Trump calling Epstein case ‘hoax’ while tied to FBI informant claim

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with the media on the day of the signing of an executive order to rename the Department of Defense the "Department of War", with the bust of Abraham Lincoln in the foreground, in the Oval Office, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 5, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Cassie Mallea
September 09, 2025

Rep. Thomas Massie on Sunday questioned why Donald Trump dismissed the Jeffrey Epstein scandal as a "hoax" even though Speaker Mike Johnson appeared to suggest the former president had served as an FBI “informant” in the case. Massie, pressed by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, said the remarks didn’t add up and called on Johnson to clarify his claim, noting that if Trump had truly cooperated with Epstein victims’ lawyers, it made little sense for him to now wave off the scandal as fake.

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