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Orgo-Life the new way to the future Advertising by AdpathwayHouse Speaker Mike Johnson’s sudden decision to support a House vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files didn’t go unnoticed by at least one of his colleagues.
And, yes, things got brutal.
On Tuesday, the Louisiana Republican announced he would vote to release Department of Justice files related to the late sex offender.
Considering the decision came two days after he accused the Democrats of only using the scandal to bring down President Donald Trump, some people wondered the reason behind Johnson’s change of heart. The speaker previously shut down the House early and held off on swearing in a new member during the government shutdown as part of his effort to delay a vote.
Rep. Eric Swalwell had a theory that he offered on social media that was pretty vicious.
“Daddy gave you permission??” Swalwell asked.
Swalwell’s post referred to Johnson’s tendency to cheerlead the president, who himself drastically switched positions on the files earlier this week. Trump had been working behind the scenes to stop a vote from happening. But on Sunday, he relented, as it appeared likely that a large number of Republicans would defect and vote in favor of the files’ release.
“House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party,” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social.
Not surprisingly, Swalwell wasn’t the only one to mock Johnson’s switcheroo.
Daddy said it was okay as long as all references to Daddy were taken out.
— Janice Hough (@leftcoastbabe) November 18, 2025DemandTheTruth
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Mike Johnson refused to swear in Adelita Grijalva for months because she was the 218th signature to force a vote on the Epstein files, but sure, Republicans always wanted to release them as they now claim today for the first time.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) November 18, 2025“It’s not a reversal,” Mike Johnson told reporters on Tuesday at a news conference where he stood alongside a poster board listing five “dangers of the discharge petition” — including victim privacy worries. via @mychaelschnell https://t.co/rsivKzQMJJ
— Rachel Van Dongen (@RachelVanD) November 18, 2025House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Tuesday said he will vote to advance a Democrat-led discharge petition compelling release of the remaining Jeffrey Epstein files —
even as he sharply criticized the measure as dangerously flawed and warned that carelessness could…
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