A whole term and 4 years of campaigning later - Republicans essentially fall back to "Trump is new to this" [View all]

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has backtracked on his surprise break with President Donald Trump over the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files and now says the administration needs “space” to vet them.

“We need the administration to have the space to do what it is doing,” Speaker Johnson told reporters at the Capitol on Monday when pushed on whether he would be holding a vote in the House of Representatives on releasing all documents pertaining to the late billionaire pedophile held by the Justice Department.

“If further congressional action is necessary or appropriate, then we’ll look at that,” Johnson said, adding that there would be no such vote before the House breaks for its six-week summer vacation on Thursday.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mike-johnson-jeffrey-epstein-files-trump-b2793615.html