Trump was an FBI informant on Epstein, apparently. Really?

Donald Trump had a long and well-documented history with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. As such, it was always strange that Trump’s supporters thought he would be the one to expose all the wealthy men who hung out on Epstein’s island. As we reported, this came to a head this year when Trump backtracked and began referring to the scandal as a ‘Democrat hoax’. While the pressure eased off over the Summer break, things are once again heating up, with politicians from both sides of the House pushing for the release of more files. Not satisfied with how badly the ‘Democrat hoax’ line went down, a senior Republicans has – and we swear this is real – made the claim that Trump wasn’t hanging out with Epstein because the two men shared in an interest in under age girls, but because he was – and we swear again we’re not making this up – an FBI informant.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) says POTUS was an FBI Informant:

"Donald Trump was an FBI informant to take down Epstein."pic.twitter.com/h8DICYigaP

— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) September 5, 2025

Undercover Donald: was Trump an FBI informant on Epstein?

Mike Johnson is the Republican House Speaker. When questioned about Trump’s claim that the Epstein scandal is a ‘Democrat hoax’, Johnson responded:

What Trump is referring to is the hoax that the Democrats are using to try to attack him

He also said:

It’s been misrepresented. He’s not saying that what Epstein did is a hoax. It’s a terrible, unspeakable evil; he believes that himself. When he first heard the rumour, he kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago

Remember “when he first heard the rumour”, because we’ll circle back to that. For now, the important part is that Johnson claimed:

He was an FBI informant to try to take this stuff down. The president knows ― and has great sympathy for the women who suffered these unspeakable harms. It’s detestable to him.

Trump claimed to have been friends with Epstein for 15 years in 2002, with the pair cutting ties in 2004. If Trump cut ties with Epstein ‘when he first heard the rumour’, how could he have been an informant before that? Are we supposed to believe the FBI asked him to snitch on Epstein with no idea as to what he should be snitching on?

Untangling this further, the idea that Trump was an uninformed informant falls down immediately, because Johnson said Trump was trying “to take this stuff down”. Take what stuff down? The stuff you just told us he had no idea about?

Make it make sense!

As you’d expect, many have expressed disbelief in the latest claims:

We know Trump wasn’t an FBI informant because he would have told the world he was the very best informant ever by now.

— Amber Speaks Up (@AmberWoods100) September 6, 2025

>Epstein files on desk
>files don't exist
>influencer binder photo-op
>thousands of videos
>actually its a Democrat hoax
>if you believe it, you're not MAGA
>actually, the files were released
>no actually Donald Trump is an FBI informant

What the hell is this sh*t show??

— Evan Kilgore 🇺🇸 (@EvanAKilgore) September 5, 2025

Those who are confused include members of the Trump administration:

Trump administration officials are perplexed by House Speaker Mike Johnson’s claims that Donald Trump was an FBI informant in the case against Jeffrey Epstein. More:https://t.co/z13c1DtIkj https://t.co/z13c1DtIkj

— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) September 6, 2025

As people have pointed out, if Trump was indeed gathering evidence on Epstein, the presumption would be that he did so in the same way that mafia informants make themselves useful – by participating in the crimes:

1992 – Noted Pedophile Hunter and FBI Informant Donald Trump preparing to rape underage girls to gather evidence against Jeffrey Epstein pic.twitter.com/MCYyLzGugp

— TheRealThelmaJohnson (@TheRealThelmaJ1) September 6, 2025

Reminder the FBI doesn’t just randomly pick people to be informants. They take people who are involved in the illegal activities and flip them.

So if it is true Trump was “an FBI informant tasked with taking down Epstein”, that means Trump was involved with Epstein fucking kids

— Big Red Celt (@BigRedCeltTT) September 5, 2025

Some have also noted that this latest claim only strengthens the call to release the files:

BREAKING: Mike Johnson just claimed that Trump “was an FBI informant” to help take down Jeffrey Epstein.

If this is the case then Trump would be a hero after it’s all released in the Epstein Files.

Release the files! pic.twitter.com/rftV7WYUhX

— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) September 5, 2025

Spy games

If it’s revealed that Trump was actually an FBI informant, he wasn’t just any FBI informant; he was the worst FBI informant of all time. The case which led to the conviction of Epstein began in 2005, and while the FBI were involved, they were involved at the request of local police. If Trump was an informant for 14 years and that didn’t produce enough evidence to generate a case, you’d have to assume one of two things:

Trump didn’t witness any crimes, in which case he was really just hanging around with a guy the FBI told him was a creep for no good reason.
Trump did witness crimes but failed to report them, somehow managing to string the FBI on for several years despite not giving them anything useful.

Oh look — Trump as an FBI informant taking down Epstein. pic.twitter.com/DV7cAKS7dZ

— Outspoken™️ (@Out5p0ken) September 5, 2025

While there are any number of scenarios which could be the case, the only one which rings true is that ‘Trump was never an FBI informant’. If future releases prove otherwise, we’ll be sure to update you on this increasingly muddled situation.

Featured image via Dafydd Jones – CNN