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(NewsNation) — In a Senate committee hearing, FBI Director Kash Patel said billionaire and convicted enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein did not postulation women to anyone different than himself.
Patel said helium had not reviewed each the Epstein files but had work a bully information of them.
The files person been the taxable of sizeable debate aft President Donald Trump backtracked connected his run promises to merchandise the files, which helium has recently called a Democrat hoax.
The merchandise of the files has present been near to the Justice Department, which has fixed immoderate files to a House committee.
When asked whether Epstein had trafficked victims to anyone else, Patel said helium had not.
"No one, for the accusation that we person successful the files," Patel said.
He was besides questioned connected the mode the files are being released.
"We volition merchandise everything we are legally permitted to bash so," Patel said.
He went connected to enactment that neither the Obama medication nor the Biden medication had released the Epstein files and noted that determination is constricted accusation successful the files owed to constricted hunt warrants and non-prosecution agreements.
"I americium not saying that others were not trafficked and others were not involved," Patel said. "What I americium telling you is based connected the accusation we have."
Patel pointed to aboriginal investigations wherever Epstein wasn ot afloat investigated arsenic a crushed accusation is not afloat known.
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., told NewsNation that each the files that tin beryllium released should beryllium and the FBI should entreaty to the courts to let the merchandise of different files.
"Why? Why is that important? Because the American radical privation to know. And this is the cardinal issue. Who, if anyone, did Epstein postulation these young women to, too himself, and if determination were different people, wherefore weren't they prosecuted?" Kennedy said. "That's a precise just question. The American radical are entitled to a to a definitive reply to that."
