FBI Director Kash Patel refused to answer questions relating to newly released documents in the Epstein files that claimed President Donald Trump “knew about the girls” in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operations.
As Resist the Mainstream previously reported, newly released emails written by Epstein show the infamous financier calling Trump a “bad” person who spent hours with one of his victims, Virginia Giuffre, who has denied rumors that Trump was ever present with Epstein and has stated that she never witnessed the president commit any wrongdoing.
Instead of answering reporters’ questions, Patel revealed a secret flight he had taken to China, sparking controversy online.
The FBI director said he flew to China to meet with his counterpart and discuss the country’s move to ban the manufacture of precursor chemicals used to produce fentanyl, as The Independent reported.
“While we at … the Department of Justice have been fighting hard to seize and stop drug traffickers, we must attack fentanyl precursors, the ingredients necessary to make this lethal drug. That was the sole purpose of my trip to China to eliminate these precursors,” Patel told reporters at the White House press briefing room.
“This was the first time an FBI director has been to China in over a decade and received the audience with his counterpart to address this matter directly, and again, thanks to President Trump’s direct engage with President Xi, the government of China committed fully to my engagement there on the ground in Beijing at a level never seen before,” he added.
“These substances are now banned, and they will no longer be utilized by the Mexican drug trafficking organizations … to make this drug,” he continued.
Patel’s comments come weeks after the FBI director was subjected to heavy criticism online for using a taxpayer-funded jet to attend his girlfriend’s concert at Penn State University.
The FBI director has faced backlash, including from the MAGA community, for delaying the release of the Epstein files.
The House is expected to vote on fully releasing the files next week.
Democrats were quick to release the latest Epstein emails on social media, but opposed a vote by Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) to release the Epstein records.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) said that the Democrats are using the Epstein scandal to try to “smear” the president.
“Tim Burchett made a motion for unanimous consent to release it. The Democrats voted to block it. If you don’t think by now that Democrats haven’t used this as a political hot potato to smear the president and distract from their shutdown failure, you’re not paying attention,” Luna said.
The federal government has had the Epstein files for years. Despite Democrats having control of Congress during the Biden administration, they refused to release the documents or discuss them.
Such a topic was reintroduced when Trump took office in January.
