Johnson flips on the Epstein files, saying Trump needs 'space.'

[ificandream]

Source: The New York Times

Speaker Mike Johnson said on Monday that he would not hold a House vote this summer on whether the Justice Department should release files related to the accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, retreating from his demand last week that the material must come out.

Reacting to intense pressure from the angry MAGA base, Mr. Johnson had on Tuesday showed a rare glimpse of daylight between himself and Mr. Trump, who was imploring his supporters to move on from the matter.

“We should put everything out there and let the people decide,” Mr. Johnson had said on “The Benny Show” when asked about the Justice Department’s investigation into Mr. Epstein. “I agree with the sentiment that we need to — we need to put it out there.”

The Rules Committee, a powerful panel controlled by the speaker, had even approved a measure that would bring to the floor a resolution calling for the disclosures, though Republicans gave no timetable for voting on it.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/us/politics/mike-johnson-epstein-files-trump.html?smid=url-share

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Mikey bent over again. Unreal.

[sop]

1. Space for what?

[Ray Bruns]

4. Trump's enormous ass

[PatSeg]

19. Oh snap!!!

[global1]

6. For Him To Put The Squeeze On G. Maxwell.....

and cut a deal so she won't implicate him any of this Epstein file's issue.

He needs to resolve this first - before they bare their soul to the public. He needs to be sure that - like everything else = he can worm out of this one. He needs to control the situation.

[azureblue]

12. to concoct

a distraction / deflection. Mike's part of the cover up..

[muriel_volestrangler]

17. Huge redacted areas in the files where anything incriminating for Trump appears

It's probably quite a lot of space - it took 1,000 FBI agents to start mapping it.

[ck4829]

2. If Trump needs space, then he is free to resign.

[TheRickles]

3. The R's are in panic mode, and it's fun to watch.

[underpants]

8. The calls are coming from inside the house

Mikey thinks he can stall this away, the WH is punting to Kash, and it’s not going away. Their own people are raging about this including former QAnon influencer Empty Greene.

[Karasu]

22. She owes her entire fucking political career to that mythology of conspiracy theories.

[Ray Bruns]

5. JACO or MACO?

[callous taoboy]

7. Is 6 x 8 feet enough space, Mr. Speaker?

[BurnDoubt]

20. Thank You!!!

I'd have said it if you didn't.

[Dave Bowman]

9. Then put him on a spacecraft and while in orbit open the airlock. He'll have plenty of space.

[virgdem]

16. My thoughts exactly. Shoot that orange idiot into space.

Works for me.

[John1956PA]

10. Just like Bryan Kohberger needed to put space between himself and the scene of the quadruple murder.

[republianmushroom]

11. mikey, mikey what a lier you are.

[Paladin]

14. Aw, be nice to Mikey. He has an important job.

trump's balls aren't going to lick themselves, you know...

[C Moon]

13. Spineless

[mdbl]

15. maybe the redacting pen ran out of ink

and Amazon delivery is giving longer than usual wait times.

[groundloop]

18. It won't need to be redacted after everything is recreated minus tRump's name.

By the time our (oops, tRump's) DOJ gets done with those files tRump will look like a Boy Scout.

[Miguelito Loveless]

21. Just when

I think I can't hate them any more...

[Buddyzbuddy]

23. I think bent over is Mikey's default position.

Standing up is an issue for the little guy.

I'm sure the young girls also known as victims wanted some space too, from all of the sweaty old pervs.