"There are days in which I am convinced that Speaker Moses's feet have not touched the bottom of the pool since he got the gig. And, continuing with the natatorial metaphors, there also are days when I think he goes off the diving board without checking to see if someone has filled the pool. Recently, he managed to illustrate both phenomena vividly."
"In an attempt to shield the president from whatever, Johnson floated the notion that the president had been working as an FBI informant working undercover to expose Jeffrey Epstein's criminal empire. There were several problems with this theory. First, the president had already deemed the whole matter a "Democrat hoax." Why would the FBI need an informant to investigate a hoax? Another problem was a bit more provincial."
"Famously, the local office of the FBI determined to "run" mob boss Whitey Bulger as an informant to bring down the local Italian mob. In exchange, the FBI let Bulger continue to ply his regular trades of extortion and being a serial killer. This corrupt exchange led to FBI agents covering for a truckload of major crimes as well as the jailing of several innocent men in connection with those crimes."
Johnson publicly suggested the president had acted as an undercover FBI informant to expose Jeffrey Epstein's criminal empire. The president had earlier called the matter a "Democrat hoax," which made the informant claim logically inconsistent. Boston officials recalled the FBI's decision to run mob boss Whitey Bulger as an informant, allowing Bulger to continue extortion and murder while the bureau protected him. That corrupt arrangement produced cover-ups, wrongful imprisonments, and Bulger's long escape. The Bulger precedent generated cynicism about permitting an informant embedded in a sex-trafficking network to commit crimes to preserve cover. Johnson later retreated from the claim.
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