At today’s House Judiciary Committee hearing, Democratic Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin tore into FBI Director Kash Patel over the massive cover-up of the Epstein Files by the Trump administration. Raskin did not come to play with Patel today, as he spoke of the FBI director’s betrayal of the 1,000 victims of Epstein’s abuse.
“Before you got in this job, you called for full release of Epstein files, telling podcaster Benny Johnson that the only reason the list was not released by DOJ and FBI was, quote, because of who’s on that list,” Raskin said. “Upon your confirmation, you promised that, quote, there will be no cover-ups, no missing documents, no stone left unturned. And anyone from the prior or current bureau who undermines this will be swiftly pursued.”
“This spring, you ordered hundreds of agents to pore over all the Epstein files, but not to look for more clues about the Money Network or the network of human traffickers,” he continued. “You pulled these agents from their regular counterterrorism or drug trafficking duties to work around the clock, some of them sleeping at their desks, to conduct a frantic search to make sure Donald Trump’s name and image were flagged and redacted wherever they appeared, whether an email, a text, a letter, an interview, a photograph, or a video.”
