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While Kash Patel has proven to be an incredible upgrade over America’s previous FBI directors, there is still one issue where he needs to come through: the release of the Epstein files. However, his answers today did not provide a timetable, which may dismay MAGA supporters, in addition to his response regarding what happened to Jeffrey Epstein.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Rep. James Comer (R-KY) revealed what may be the most damning development yet in the fight to uncover the truth behind Jeffrey Epstein’s sinister global sex-trafficking and blackmail network during an interview with Benny Johnson: the Epstein files may have already been destroyed—and the federal government might be complicit.
Comer, who has spearheaded numerous high-profile investigations into Biden family corruption and the weaponization of federal agencies, made it clear that he believes the Department of Justice no longer has the files, if it ever did. He also thinks the files have already been destroyed to cover up the deep state.
“I don’t think the Department of Justice has (the Epstein files)—or at least the Attorney General does not have them—or she would have turned them over,” Comer told Johnson. “The President ordered them released.”
“The Attorney General ordered them released. We all know they have not been released,” he added. “One of my biggest fears, which I expressed with Kash Patel and a lot of people, including Stephen Miller, going into the new administration, was this: I hope they’re not shredding documents right now. This was a few weeks before the transition.”
During today’s hearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee this morning regarding the White House budget, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) addressed the elephant in the room and asked a few key questions on the Epstein matter. The first concerned whether Epstein really ‘killed himself,’ which is the official government narrative.
“Did Jeffrey Epstein hang himself or did somebody kill him?” Kennedy asked.
Patel said that he believed it was the former.
“Senator, I believe he hung himself in a cell in the Metropolitan Detention Center,” Patel replied.
Seemingly unconvinced, Kennedy then asked Patel when he would release information backing up this story.
“Are you going to release all of the information about that?” Kennedy inquired.
“Senator, we are working through that with the Department of Justice,” Patel said.
“When do you think you’ll have it done?” Kennedy asked.
Patel responded by speculating.
“I think in the near future, sir,” he said.
WATCH:
FBI Director Kash Patel claims Jeffrey Epstein did, in fact, hang himself in prison—while also revealing he’s working on a plan to release the full Epstein file.
He says the release is coming in the “near future” and that the plan has been carefully built to protect the victims… pic.twitter.com/sLDQ8D9eq9
— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) May 8, 2025
A still-skeptical Kennedy then followed up with another blunt inquiry.
“Like, before I die?” he quipped.
Patel’s response was not exactly reassuring.
“Senator, we have been working on that,” he answered. “And we’re doing it in a way that protects victims and also doesn’t put out in the ether information that is, um, irrelevant for the public.”
Kennedy thanked Patel and moved on.
Patel’s response to the Epstein files is similar to Attorney General Pam Bondi’s on Wednesday. Like Patel, she continuously cited concern for the victims of Epstein while providing no timetable for the release of the files.
The FBI, they’re reviewing, tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn, and there are hundreds of victims,” she said while scoffing.
“And no one victim will ever get released,” she added. “It’s just the volume, and that’s what they’re going through right now. The FBI is diligently going through that.”
Bondi added that she would be in touch with Comer.
“I haven’t seen that statement, but I’ll call him later and find out,” she said.
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