At a heated committee session on bills exerting more federal control of Washington, the 88-year-old delegate sat quietly, reading with difficulty from a script.
The Republican response to the release of a suggestive note to Jeffrey Epstein apparently signed by President Trump followed a familiar pattern of deflection.
Speaker Mike Johnson, who did not emerge from his office on Monday in the hours after the drawing was released, eventually said he had not seen President Trump’s note.
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