Home Speaker Mike Johnson appears moderately anxious in defending his choice to dam any votes associated to the Epstein information scandal earlier than the chamber departs for its summer season break.
On Wednesday, Johnson rapidly minimize off NOTUS reporter Reese Gorman, who prompt that he abruptly ended the Home session on Tuesday for “fear of Epstein votes.”
”—No, we have no worry. No, no. Maintain on. No Reese. No. There is no worry right here. No, there isn’t any worry. There is no worry,” Johnson mentioned, earlier than accusing Democrats of “political gamesmanship,” and dismissing the long-promised launch of the information as a “political cudgel.”
The scandal continues to plague the Trump administration, and GOP lawmakers like Johnson have struggled mightily of their makes an attempt to downplay the general public’s rising concern.
In the meantime, Democrats on the Home Homeland Safety Committee have been much more direct of their response to Johnson’s spin.
“Mike Johnson: Getting justice for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein = political gamesmanship. Trumpworld is ALL OVER those files,” the committee Democrats wrote on their official X account.
The speaker doth protest an excessive amount of, methinks.
