FBI Director Kash Patel had an interview with Joe Rogan where he was asked about his previous vow to release the files around Jeffrey Epstein. Now that the administration is changing its story on the files, people are starting to ask questions — including the co-hosts of "The View."
"We're going to give you everything we can," Patel told Rogan in June.
Rogan brought up the break-up between President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk, during which Musk posted on X that Trump was in Epstein's files regarding sex trafficking and pedophilia.
“Time to drop the really big bomb,” Musk wrote. “@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!"
“How does he know that Donald Trump’s in the Epstein files?” asked Rogan.
Patel claimed, "That’s way outside my lane."
This week, Patel and the Justice Department announced there is no Epstein client list and that the man died of suicide. The revelation sent MAGA into a furious tailspin.
And it didn't sit well with Sunny Hostin, a former federal prosecutor and legal commentator, who said she agreed "something just seems amiss."
"But to your initial question, Whoopi, with this -- will this erode the trust, society's trust in the U.S. government? I think that trust is gone already," said Hostin. "I think that ship has sailed, and you have people like Pam Bondi, the attorney general of the United States. I worked under Janet Reno, the attorney general, who, you know, you could trust. Someone that had the highest ethics and moral code. And all of a sudden, you have this woman saying, the list. She said the list was on my desk. She didn't say the file. She said the list"
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt changed what Bondi told Fox in an interview, claiming that she "meant" all of the Epstein files were on her desk. But, as Hostin said, Bondi said, "the list."
"If I can't take the attorney general at her word — I can't take the president at his word because he's lied over 30-something-thousand times. Kash Patel was on Joe Rogan being interviewed, and when Joe Rogan asked about the list, he said, 'Oh, that's not my lane.' Dude, you are the head of the FBI! It's perfectly within your lane. You're driving the car!" Hostin exclaimed.
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