I don’t usually venture into politics on this blog, but every now and then an item pops up that has a ridiculously close relationship to what I’ve been working on, so here goes.

I ran across the following item while sipping my morning coffee today. Yesterday, the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, claimed that the president acted as an FBI informant in the Epstein matter “to try to take this stuff down.” A...