hoax

Never mind that the commission doesn’t need the policy to confront legitimate offenses; it has a rule banning broadcast hoaxes.

“I heard it’s a hoax. And then all of a sudden, he’s going to release the files. I thought there were no files. He wants an investigation now. Like, what is going on?”

House Speaker Mike Johnson had repeatedly called the push to release the Epstein files a "Democrat hoax".

It comes after months of refusing to address the Epstein files as anything other than “a hoax.”

He calls it the Epstein “hoax,” a word, it pays to remember, with a specific resonance in Trumpspeak.