After telling reporters last week that Trump helped the FBI as a confidential source, Johnson clarified that the president was “the only one” willing to help victims over a decade ago.

Johnson had said Friday that Trump served as “an FBI informant” on Epstein in the course of struggling to explain away Trump’s claim that the Epstein story is a “Democrat hoax,” a phrase Trump repeated last week even as victims of Epstein’s crimes told their stories on Capitol Hill.

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday attempted to clean up earlier remarks he made claiming that President Donald Trump had been an “FBI informant” in the Jeffrey Epstein case.