An answer given by FBI Director Kash Patel to a Republican senator about who Jeffrey Epstein was trafficking teens and young women to, was resurrected and dismantled on MS NOW on Saturday morning.
As part of a “The Weekend” segment on Donald Trump’s Department of Justice, fill-in host Molly Jong-Fast asked the the producers to run a clip from September where Patel was grilled by Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) when the FBI director said there was no evidence of Epstein trafficking to others, which has since been disproved.
Specifically, Patel told the GOP lawmaker, “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.”
Turning to her guest, former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade, the baffled Jong-Fast blurted, “Barbara, hunh?”
“Explain to me,” she asked. “I mean, I haven't seen everything, I haven't seen the redacted stuff, but I certainly have seen a lot of stuff that that definitely does not say what Kash Patel said under oath.”
“Yes,” the legal analyst agreed. “You know, the word trafficked there seems to be doing a lot of work. It's hard to know what he means by that. But one of the things that, as you I'm sure know, Molly, that lawyers are trained to listen for is what are the words people are using and what are the words they're not using. It is often the case that members of Congress are not particularly adept at following up on testimony by asking, ‘What does he mean by that?'"
“Instead, what we saw there is they left alone the word ‘trafficked’ and sort of took it at face value,” she suggested. “Does that mean that other men were not involved, that other men did not abuse young girls? No. It's a legal term of trafficking which, who knows what he meant by using that term. And so I think that answer is really meaningless because of the failure to probe exactly what he meant by using that verb.”
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