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USS_Dauntless

(266 posts)
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 03:03 PM Sep 2025

Kash Patel Says No 'Credible' Info Epstein Trafficked Young Women to Others

https://www.newsweek.com/kash-patel-jeffrey-epstein-files-update-release-vote-2130678

FBI Director Kash Patel told U.S. senators on Tuesday morning that there is "no credible information" in case files that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked young women to anyone other than himself.

The remarks came during a heated hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee, in which Republican Louisiana Senator John Kennedy asked Patel about his knowledge of the Epstein files.

https://www.newsweek.com/kash-patel-jeffrey-epstein-files-update-release-vote-2130678
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Kash Patel Says No 'Credible' Info Epstein Trafficked Young Women to Others (Original Post) USS_Dauntless Sep 2025 OP
Is he kidding? The checks must have cleared. RubyRose Sep 2025 #1
Apart from the fact that he had been indicted and was about to stand trial for sex trafficking. Ocelot II Sep 2025 #2
I feel the truth will eventually prevail vapor2 Sep 2025 #8
Wasn't he convicted, and EndlessWire Sep 2025 #28
He pled guilty in FL to 2 counts of engaging in prostitution with a minor. Ocelot II Sep 2025 #30
TY. EndlessWire Sep 2025 #32
Patel. Is. A. Liar. Bring. Him. Up. On. Charges. Trueblue1968 Sep 2025 #59
"Put his eyes out"????? returnee Sep 2025 #60
Someone should tell Patel about someone named Maxwell... RockRaven Sep 2025 #3
Yeah I mean, other than the convictions... underpants Sep 2025 #15
Spoke like a true G.O.P. Pedo Protector BoRaGard Sep 2025 #4
Isn't he a little young? fujiyamasan Sep 2025 #33
he is a Trump humper Skittles Sep 2025 #41
He wasn't important enough or rich enough to be on their list. rubbersole Sep 2025 #43
The kid with cookie crumbs on his mouth points to the family dog. Torchlight Sep 2025 #5
Hey, hey, hey ...there are standards here. rubbersole Sep 2025 #44
Says the goon who said he would not have an enemies list at his nomination vapor2 Sep 2025 #6
Shameless liar iemanja Sep 2025 #7
I'd Love to Hear His Definition of "Credible"! The Roux Comes First Sep 2025 #9
It means it's credible because they destroyed all the credible evidence. Clouds Passing Sep 2025 #35
You already know the jackass is lying. How about prince Andrew, and why won't they lostincalifornia Sep 2025 #10
You know what that means, don't you? Trump was really, really, really, really involved. Vinca Sep 2025 #11
Yes, indeed. Ocelot II Sep 2025 #13
In other words... regnaD kciN Sep 2025 #12
More likely popsdenver Sep 2025 #46
Isn't he busy investigating "Radical Leftist" organizations like the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and the PTA? Ping Tung Sep 2025 #14
+ PBS, NPR, NOAA, Sierra Club, ASCPA, Food Network... rubbersole Sep 2025 #48
Just saying what has to be said to keep his job. no_hypocrisy Sep 2025 #16
Why were so many people going to his island? Was it that much of a vacation resort, seriously? everyonematters Sep 2025 #17
Follow the cash, Kash Jarqui Sep 2025 #18
Maybe this most extreme lie of all time will blow up the cover up. usonian Sep 2025 #19
I loved Burl Ives in that film,"Cat on a hot tin roof.". BattleRow Sep 2025 #40
Also Kash: the Utah killer had a manifesto, it was destroyed but we know there was one and what it said underpants Sep 2025 #20
The dog ate my manifesto. Midnight Writer Sep 2025 #22
(A bunch of kids) Really? Oh yeah, I TOTALLY saw it!! underpants Sep 2025 #37
This message was self-deleted by its author Midnight Writer Sep 2025 #21
If Epstein was not trafficking, why were there billions of dollars moving through his bank accounts? Midnight Writer Sep 2025 #23
Absolutely ridiculous lie. still-prayin4rain Sep 2025 #24
So he's completely ignoring the victim's testimony or Quiet Em Sep 2025 #25
Did he speak to the fucking victims Johonny Sep 2025 #26
Poisonous (r) BoRaGard Sep 2025 #27
Desperately try to change TACO's mind about shit canning him. This actually brings more attention on TACO. marble falls Sep 2025 #29
Well, if there was any doubt EndlessWire Sep 2025 #31
The federal indictment focuses on Epstein's abuse of his victims, but Ocelot II Sep 2025 #34
If that's true, that tells me, they distroyed a lot of evidence to protect Hair Leader. ... aggiesal Sep 2025 #36
Ask Bill Barr. rubbersole Sep 2025 #49
Credible is a weasel word Ponietz Sep 2025 #38
Aren't there a number of women who have come forward? What does "credible" mean in his head. twodogsbarking Sep 2025 #39
I suspect "credible" in his head means "said by a man" (nt) muriel_volestrangler Sep 2025 #53
Hey, Ca$h, why don't you release the files..... lastlib Sep 2025 #42
Kash has never seen any evidence that Epstein trafficked young women. tanyev Sep 2025 #45
I guess the testimony of the victims Mblaze Sep 2025 #47
LIAR xuplate Sep 2025 #50
Chris Wray and Kash Patel can't both be Sargent Shultz RANDYWILDMAN Sep 2025 #51
Attn Survivors: It's Time to Publish Your List! MrWowWow Sep 2025 #52
Then releasing everything shouldn't be an issue. nt Quixote1818 Sep 2025 #54
How can a coked up cross-eyed crony be trusted? Blue Owl Sep 2025 #55
So why did Trump's DOJ in 2019 indict him for Sex Trafficking? Wiz Imp Sep 2025 #56
THE FIX IS IN. spanone Sep 2025 #57
Since Epstein was his only customer for under age girls KS Toronado Sep 2025 #58

Ocelot II

(130,505 posts)
2. Apart from the fact that he had been indicted and was about to stand trial for sex trafficking.
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 03:06 PM
Sep 2025

Looks like Trump's pet garden gnome is trying very, very hard to whitewash the Epstein files to be sure Dear Leader can't be associated with sex trafficking. If BFF Epstein didn't do it, then of course Trump can't have done it either.

What a lot of bullpucky.

EndlessWire

(8,103 posts)
28. Wasn't he convicted, and
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 04:07 PM
Sep 2025

got some sweetheart sentencing deal? I really thought he was convicted.

Ocelot II

(130,505 posts)
30. He pled guilty in FL to 2 counts of engaging in prostitution with a minor.
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 04:10 PM
Sep 2025

The federal charges that were pending when he died in prison involved sex trafficking.

Trueblue1968

(19,247 posts)
59. Patel. Is. A. Liar. Bring. Him. Up. On. Charges.
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 08:00 PM
Sep 2025

Patel needs to be locked up. Put his eyes out .

returnee

(925 posts)
60. "Put his eyes out"?????
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 06:53 AM
Sep 2025

You might want to think about dialing that down a bit. Sounds like encouraging violence.

underpants

(196,468 posts)
15. Yeah I mean, other than the convictions...
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 03:30 PM
Sep 2025

In 2021, she was found guilty of child sex trafficking and other offences in connection with the deceased financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.[

fujiyamasan

(1,693 posts)
33. Isn't he a little young?
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 04:22 PM
Sep 2025

More importantly, I don’t think he was all that rich (well now I’m sure that’s changing, he’s in with the grifters).

From what I can tell, much of Epstein’s crowd was pretty wealthy (and white).

Patel is just deflecting, because he’s basically Trump’s loyal chihuahua.

Torchlight

(6,803 posts)
5. The kid with cookie crumbs on his mouth points to the family dog.
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 03:10 PM
Sep 2025

Except in this case, mummy and daddy's faces are both pretty frosted too.

rubbersole

(11,221 posts)
44. Hey, hey, hey ...there are standards here.
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 05:50 PM
Sep 2025

Don't bring family dogs into this sordid affair. 🤪

The Roux Comes First

(2,278 posts)
9. I'd Love to Hear His Definition of "Credible"!
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 03:18 PM
Sep 2025

I suspect the correct "translation" would involve some combination of "I don't/can't read anything about that" and "those are my instructions."

lostincalifornia

(5,348 posts)
10. You already know the jackass is lying. How about prince Andrew, and why won't they
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 03:18 PM
Sep 2025

release the full reports.

I really hope the victims expose all.

Ocelot II

(130,505 posts)
13. Yes, indeed.
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 03:25 PM
Sep 2025

He's trying to claim Trump's BFF for 15 years didn't do sex trafficking (despite the indictment and pending trial), so there's no stank to rub off on Trump.

That's pretty lame, Kash.

regnaD kciN

(27,635 posts)
12. In other words...
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 03:24 PM
Sep 2025

…they found no credible way to redact the files so as to hide all Republican names while leaving in all Democratic ones.

popsdenver

(2,289 posts)
46. More likely
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 05:51 PM
Sep 2025

is that the reason there are no files, is that all of them were confiscated by Trump, in order to do his biggest grift of all,
BLACKMAILING EVERY LAST PERSON ON THE LIST..........

No way he would miss an opportunity like that............

Ping Tung

(4,370 posts)
14. Isn't he busy investigating "Radical Leftist" organizations like the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and the PTA?
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 03:26 PM
Sep 2025

Jarqui

(10,906 posts)
18. Follow the cash, Kash
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 03:34 PM
Sep 2025

Where did Epstein get all his money and how/why?

It will probably lead you to a number of Trump's financial supporters ... which is why he won't pursue it.

BattleRow

(2,445 posts)
40. I loved Burl Ives in that film,"Cat on a hot tin roof.".
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 05:43 PM
Sep 2025

Mendacity..sounds like a singing group .
.Maybe we could rename the Supremes at the High Court,"Mendacity."

underpants

(196,468 posts)
20. Also Kash: the Utah killer had a manifesto, it was destroyed but we know there was one and what it said
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 03:40 PM
Sep 2025

Kash Patel: “Tyler Robinson was definitely a leftist. He had a manifesto that said so. It was destroyed so I can’t show it to you but I totally saw it!”
—-

Today’s New Narrative: Kash Patel now says Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson left behind manifesto that was destroyed but FBI can forensically prove its existence.

What?


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Response to USS_Dauntless (Original post)

Midnight Writer

(25,403 posts)
23. If Epstein was not trafficking, why were there billions of dollars moving through his bank accounts?
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 03:53 PM
Sep 2025

Quiet Em

(2,935 posts)
25. So he's completely ignoring the victim's testimony or
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 03:54 PM
Sep 2025

he believes the victims are not credible.

What a jackass

marble falls

(71,910 posts)
29. Desperately try to change TACO's mind about shit canning him. This actually brings more attention on TACO.
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 04:09 PM
Sep 2025

EndlessWire

(8,103 posts)
31. Well, if there was any doubt
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 04:14 PM
Sep 2025

Kash opened his mouth and let the lies pour forth. Protecting his Fuerer while throwing away his own integrity.

Ocelot II

(130,505 posts)
34. The federal indictment focuses on Epstein's abuse of his victims, but
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 04:31 PM
Sep 2025

it also alleges that Epstein "and others known and unknown, willfully and knowingly did combine, conspire, confederate, and agree together and with each other, to commit an offense against the United States, to wit, sex trafficking of minors..." https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1180481/dl So where did that come from, Kash, you lying sack of shit? Others were involved. Who were they?

aggiesal

(10,790 posts)
36. If that's true, that tells me, they distroyed a lot of evidence to protect Hair Leader. ...
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 05:27 PM
Sep 2025

Apparently, way back in the day when FBI raided his home in NYC, they pulled all kinds of documents & video from his safe.
Yet they never had any credible info about Epstein trafficked underage girls?
What happened to the manifest for his personal airplane to his private island?

lastlib

(28,250 posts)
42. Hey, Ca$h, why don't you release the files.....
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 05:46 PM
Sep 2025

and let us decide for ourselves?

Just a thought......

So, how much Ca$h do you collect for making these sweeping judgments for your boss?

RANDYWILDMAN

(3,162 posts)
51. Chris Wray and Kash Patel can't both be Sargent Shultz
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 06:02 PM
Sep 2025

[URL=/gif/i-know-nothing-sgt-schultz-JLB7Et][IMG][/IMG][/URL]

Dude, you think i'd be hard to run the FBI, No these guys make it look easy

MrWowWow

(1,461 posts)
52. Attn Survivors: It's Time to Publish Your List!
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 06:04 PM
Sep 2025

Shut this mofo know nothing stooge down. Publish your list!

Wiz Imp

(9,984 posts)
56. So why did Trump's DOJ in 2019 indict him for Sex Trafficking?
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 07:15 PM
Sep 2025
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1180481/dl

COUNT ONE
(Sex Trafficking Conspiracy)

COUNT TWO
(Sex Trafficking)

From at least in or about 2002, up to and including in or about 2005, in the Southern District of New York, JEFFREY EPSTEIN, the defendant, willfully and knowingly, in and affecting interstate and foreign commerce, did recruit, entice, harbor, transport, provide, and obtain by any means a person, knowing that the person had not attained the age of 18 years and would be caused to engage in a commercial sex act, and did aid and abet the same, to wit, EPSTEIN recruited, enticed, harbored, transported, provided, and obtained numerous individuals who were less than 18 years old, including but not limited to Minor Victim-1, as described above, and who were then caused to engage in at least one commercial sex act in
Manhattan, New York.

(Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1591(a)

https://www.newsweek.com/kash-patel-jeffrey-epstein-files-update-release-vote-2130678
Kennedy, alongside other senators, questioned Patel over the Epstein files on Tuesday morning. "You've seen most of the files. Who if anyone did Epstein traffic these young women to, besides himself?" Kennedy asked Patel. Patel responded, "Himself. There is no credible information, none. If there were I would bring the case yesterday that he trafficked to other individuals. And the information we have, again, is limited."


Blatant lie #1 (see info from indictment above)

FBI Director Kash Patel, on Tuesday: "I know there's a lot of talk about Epstein, and I'm here to testify that the original sin in the Epstein case was the way it was initially brought by Mr. Acosta back in 2006. The original case involved a very limited search warrant, or set of search warrants, and didn't take as much investigatory material as it should have seized. If I were FBI director back then, it wouldn't have happened."


Blatant lie #2

In July 2006, the FBI began its own investigation of Epstein, nicknamed "Operation Leap Year". It resulted in 53 page indictment in June 2007.

The Bush DOJ/Alex Acosta ultimately decided against pursuing the indictment and instead gave him the sweetheart deal. But I suspect it would be rather difficult to develop a 53-page indictment with "a very limited search warrant, or set of search warrants" and not "as much investigatory material as it should have seized". Considering the 2019 indictment was only 14 pages and referred only to the period 2002-2005, and thus was likely based at least in part on evidence collected during the 2006 investigation.



KS Toronado

(23,727 posts)
58. Since Epstein was his only customer for under age girls
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 07:52 PM
Sep 2025

Why not release the files? He's dead he can't hurt you!

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