FBI Director Kash Patel became enraged at Democratic California Rep. Eric Swalwell on Wednesday while facing questions on deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and alleged weaponization of government.
Epstein victims told NBC News’ Hallie Jackson on Sept. 3 that they had no awareness of President Donald Trump “doing anything inappropriate” in relation to the deceased pedophile. However, Swalwell repeatedly asked Patel at a House Judiciary Committee hearing whether he informed Attorney General Pam Bondi that Trump was in the Epstein files, prompting the FBI director to snap back.
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“Did you tell the attorney general that Donald Trump’s name is in the Epstein files? Yes or no?” Swalwell asked slowly.
“Why don’t you try spelling it out if you’re going to mock me? Use the alphabet,” Patel responded. “No? A, B, C? D, E, F? Don’t want to do it?”
Swalwell asserted it seemed as though Patel did not want to answer and repeated his question.
“Why don’t you try serving your constituency by focusing on reducing violent crime in this country and the number of pedophiles that are legally harbored in your sanctuary cities in California?” Patel asked. “I’ll work with you on that. Do you want to work with us on that?”
Swalwell repeated his question once more.
“The question has been asked and answered,” Patel said.
“You have not answered it. And we will take your evasiveness as a consciousness of guilt,” Swalwell said.
Swalwell later asked Patel if he would recuse himself from investigations involving the people named in his book “Government Gangsters,” including himself.
“I’m going to borrow your terminology and call bullshit on your entire career in Congress,” Patel said, referencing Swalwell using the curse word earlier. “It has been a disgrace to the American people.”
Patel eventually answered that he would not recuse himself from investigations involving those named in “Government Gangsters.”
Patel also told Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy during a Tuesday Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that there was “no credible information” that Epstein trafficked women to other individuals.
“If there were, I would bring the case yesterday that he trafficked to other individuals and the information we have, again, is limited,” Patel said.
Moreover, Epstein’s former partner Ghislaine Maxwell told Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in July that she never witnessed Trump “in any inappropriate setting” and that he had been a “gentleman in all respects.”
The Oversight Committee released over 33,000 pages of documents related to Epstein on Sept. 2 that they obtained from the DOJ.
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