Mike Johnson Calls Out Trump Admin, Defends Democrat Over Epstein Files Search

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Thursday defended one of his Democratic colleagues and issued a rare rebuke of the Trump administration — after the Department of Justice (DOJ) tracked a lawmakers’ search history of…

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