Benny Johnson responds to Wall Street Journal reporting about Trump and Epstein: “The scandal is in who wrote the story. Oh, yeah, baby.”
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From the July 18, 2025, edition of The Benny Show, streamed on YouTube
BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): Well, Rupert Murdoch should have consulted with his financial professionals because apparently, according to President Trump, he's going to get his ass sued off today. This is the monster news of the day.
All yesterday, some of the people that I used to follow and I, you know — I say this begrudgingly because I lived fifteen years in Washington, DC. I was a Capitol Hill reporter. I was a White House reporter. I had my hard passes, able to go in and out of the White House, able to go in and out of the Capitol, and so on. It gives me a little bit of street smarts and know-how because I've actually gone and done it. Hit the bricks as they say. I'm not just down here spouting off in my studio. I've done my time. Right? I know a lot of these people.
And a lot of these bitchy little gossip girls, these reporters, they're so effeminate and they're so unbelievably lacking in testosterone and catty and feline in nature, and they're all little gossips. And all throughout my social feeds, I could see these old journalists that I followed, you know, that just kinda stay in the same job forever and die in that job or until the the company they work for collapses.
But, anyway, the point is that they were all chatting about this thing. You know, they love a good piece of gossip like a bunch of golden girls sitting at the salon getting their hair permed, and they're all, like, squealing about the Wall Street Journal. And now the Wall Street Journal has this big bombshell on Trump. And, oh, it's gonna destroy the presidency forever. Yay. Journalists win. And here it is. This is it. This is the story.
And, by the way, there is a scandal here. The scandal is in who wrote the story. Oh, yeah, baby.
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The reason why is that the person who broke this story — and I'm getting ahead of myself — just so happened to work at the Department of Justice. Isn't that interesting?