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Mike Johnson: “Democrats are using the Epstein tragedy as a political…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Speaker Johnson Gives Floor Remarks Ahead of Vote to Release the Epstein Files

Published | Video Starts at 03:23

Democrats are using the Epstein tragedy, the unspeakable evils that this guy committed with his trafficking ring and all of the abuses that they. That they made these young women go through, they're Democrats are using the Epstein tragedy as a political weapon to try to distract from their failures as a party. and to try their best to try to tie President Trump somehow into this wretched scandal. The president had nothing to do with it. He's been very clear, and he has nothing to hide. (03:23–03:33)

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Asserts that Democrats are politicizing the Epstein case to distract from their failures.

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