At a House committee hearing, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) asked FBI Director Kash Patel whether he had read all of the Epstein files. Patel answered "Personally, no," and pivoted to crime statistics. Swalwell called it "the largest sex trafficking case the FBI has ever been a part of" and said Patel had testified he doesn't know how many times Donald Trump's name appears in the files.
The receipt
- Who
- Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA)
- Where
- hearing - House committee hearing with FBI Director Kash Patel
- Original footage
- C-SPAN · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 54 seconds, unedited within the cut
Read the transcript
Director, the first time you saw Donald Trump's name was in the Epstein files. Did you close the files or keep reading? I have reviewed not the entirety of the files. So I have... Do you have reviewed all of the Epstein files? Personally, no. You're the director of the FBI. This is the largest sex trafficking case the FBI has ever been a part of. Buck stops at the top. And your testimony today is you have not reviewed all the files. What I've been doing is busy providing the safest country this country has seen in modern U .S. history in historic speed because the men and women of the FBR are given the resources to reduce the homicide rate, to reduce the drug trafficking rate, to reduce the amount of children that are being trafficked. Well, it sounds like those children being trafficked appreciate the director reviewing the files. You said you don't know the number of times Trump's name appears in the files, so it could at least be a thousand times.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.