FBI Director Kash Patel this week became the first prominent Justice Department official to testify under oath since the Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files blew up in its face.
While Epstein was an occasional subplot during Patel’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, it was a huge focus of his appearance in front of the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
The hearing got very heated at times as Democrats decided to go with a scorched-earth approach and Patel responded in kind, leading to several shouting matches.
After one Democrat said that the courts had called “bullsh*t” on the administration’s strategy to try and get grand jury testimony unsealed, Patel ultimately responded, “I’m going to borrow your terminology and call bullsh*t on your entire career in Congress because you’ve been a disgrace to the American people.”
At another point, Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington pressed Patel repeatedly on whether he had ever met with Epstein’s victims. The director again didn’t answer directly, eventually saying, “Any insinuation by you or any people on your side that I am not manhunting child predators and sex traffickers, just look at the stats.”
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