Chamber president Mike Johnson told CBS News that he wanted “total transparency” Case of Jeffrey EpsteinWhile the Trump administration faces pressure – including some Republicans – to disclose more information on the deceased child’s sex offender.
“We want full transparency. We want all those involved in any way with Epstein ailments – call this what it was – to be brought to justice as quickly as possible. We want the total weight of the law on their heads,” said Johnson on Wednesday, the chief correspondent of CBS News, Major Garrett in an interview.
“It is not a hoax. Of course not,” said the chamber president, a Louisiana republican when he was asked if he considered that it is a hoax – a word that has been used By President Trump to describe some of the interests of his supporters for the Epstein case.
Johnson said he had “never seen Epstein evidence, it was not in my way”.
TRUMPTION TRAINING THE TRUMP OF THE EPSTEIN AFFECT has attracted weeks of public exams, from the Ministry of Justice and the FBI published a review Federal surveys on the financier. The exam did not find any evidence that Epstein had an incriminating “list of customers” or had tried to blackmail powerful people. He also concluded that Epstein died by suicide in 2019 when he was in police custody awaiting trial on accusations of children’s sex in New York.
These conclusions did not meet some of the supporters of Mr. Trump, who called on the Ministry of Justice to disclose all information on the Epstein case. A handful of republicans in the room joined the Democrats on Wednesday vote on assignment The Ministry of Justice for some of its files on Epstein.
Johnson and other GOP leaders of the house have withstanded a push To hold a vote on the ground to force the release of documents on Epstein. Earlier this week, Johnson accused Democrats of playing “political games” by trying to force a vote. Johnson returned home to house for her summer vacation early in the controversy roaring the room below the release of Epstein files. The house was initially to be in session until Thursday, but ended on Wednesday instead.
Asked about the Epstein case – and the FBI and the Ministry of Justice’s conclusions – Johnson declared on Wednesday at CBS News: “I have the same concern and the same question as many people.”
In the direction of Mr. Trump, the Ministry of Justice asked the federal courts last week to unlift the great testimony of the jury linked to the federal criminal probes on Epstein and his partner Ghislane Maxwell. A judge in Florida refused a request To release the great jury of the jury resulting from Epstein investigations in the 2000s, which ended without federal accusations. Distinct requests for the release of the most recent cases of Epstein and Maxwell in New York are still pending, and could take some time.
Meanwhile, Trump urged his supporters to stop focusing on the issue, arguing that Democrats are trying to capitalize on it.
“Their new scam is what we will forever call Jeffrey Epstein’s hoax, and my old supporters have joined this bullshit ”, hook, line and lead,” he wrote on Social truth Last week.
See more from the interview with the president of the room Mike Johnson on “The Takeout with Major Garrett”, broadcast at 5 pm HE on Thursday July 24 CBS News 24/7.
