FBI Director Kash Patel is facing massive controversy about the bureau’s handling of the Epstein files.
The story is breaking through.
And Kash Patel is facing one Epstein emergency that led to this unthinkable question.
FBI Director Kash Patel made a number of statements about Jeffrey Epstein that raised eyebrows.
Patel said Epstein killed himself.
That doesn’t square with the evidence.
The FBI never recovered the noose that Epstein supposedly used to hang himself.
And a CBS News analysis of surveillance footage showed what an unidentified inmate was doing entering Epstein’s cell block during the time frame in which Epstein died.
“In an in-depth analysis of surveillance video from the jail, CBS News previously reported on the figure on the stairs and consulted independent video analysts who said the movement was more consistent with an inmate — or someone wearing an orange prison uniform — than a corrections officer,” the CBS report read.
Patel also supported a Justice Department conclusion that there is no such thing as the Epstein client list, Epstein never sex trafficked underage girls to anyone other than himself, and that Epstein never blackmailed anyone.
Even podcaster Joe Rogan, who endorsed Trump, is fed up with Patel and the FBI’s “gaslighting” on the Epstein files.
“That’s the gaslightiest gaslighting I’ve ever heard,” Rogan declared. “What do they think was going on? Just guys having cocktails, talking about science?”
Rogan took exception to the FBI claiming that Epstein never blackmailed anyone and that he understood what was going on because he rejected an invitation to meet Epstein.
“It seems like it was this bizarre blackmail-influence thing that was going on for a long time, through different administrations. That’s what’s so unbelievable about it—how long it was going on,” Rogan added. “I’m in the files because I didn’t go. Jeffrey Epstein was trying to meet with me.”
Documents in the Epstein files showed the FBI possessed evidence showing Epstein participated in sexual blackmail schemes.
Epstein emailed a Russian associate in 2015 asking for “help” because a girl he was connected to wanted to ” blackmail a group of powerful businessmen in New York.”
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“I would’ve never gone anyway. It’s not even a possibility that I would have gone. Especially after I Googled him,” Rogan added.
Rogan expressed his belief that sexual blackmail, like the kind Rogan believed Epstein practiced, goes on to this day.
“What’s more bizarre is that there’s probably a bunch of those going on right now that we don’t know about,” Rogan concluded. “What if he hired adult sex workers to come to these parties? Would you have heard anything about this?”
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