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“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?”

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

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

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

Judging from his near-desperate social media posting about the whole thing being a “hoax,” it’s hard to imagine him putting his scrawl on that law.

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