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Kash PatelThe election of President Donald Trump to direct the FBI, pledged on Thursday to work with a superior republican senator to expose who worked with Jeffrey Epstein in trafficking and the exploitation of children.
Senator Marsha Blackburn, R-Ten., He touched Patel on how to handle Epstein’s case. The sexual treatment financial died in 2019 while waiting for the trial. Almost 200 names that had previously been written from judicial documents in a lawsuit against their accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell became public last year.
However, Blackburn said there is still no more to know, including the names of those who flew on their plane and accomplices.
Senator Marsha Blackburn, R-Ten., Ask Kash Patel, the election of President Donald Trump to be director of the FBI, during Patel’s confirmation hearing before the Judicial Committee of the Senate, in the Capitol in Washington, on Thursday 30 January 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
“I want to talk to you about Epstein’s case. I have worked on this for years trying to obtain those records of who flew Epstein plane And who helped him build this international ring of sex traffic traffic, “he said.
She used her comments to attack former judicial president Dick Durbin.
“Now, before, I instituted the then President Durbin to quote those records, and ended up being blocked by Senator Durbin and Christopher Wray. They put themselves in stone on this,” he said. “And I know that breaking these traffic rings is important for President Trump. So, will he work with me on this issue? So we know who worked with Jeffrey Epstein in the construction of these sex trafficking rings?” She asked.
Jeffrey Epstein Mugshot of 2019 after federal authorities presented traffic charges against him. (Kypros/Getty images)
“Absolutely, Senator,” Patel replied. “Child sex trafficking does not take place in the United States of America. And I will do everything, if confirmed as director of the FBI, to ensure that the American public knows the total weight of what happened in the past and how we go to the Failure of courses children and children exploited in the future, “he said.
After the exchange between Blackburn and Patel, Durbin requested to respond to Blackburn’s blow and accused Senator of Tennessee of “” falsely accusing him “of avoiding releasing the names of Jeffrey Epstein’s network.”
“My office later contacted his to try to identify which records I was really looking for. We did not receive an answer,” he added.
Blackburn replied and said he had “raised the problem with President Durbin. He had raised him on the floor that we wanted to obtain these records … he tried not to recognize me.”
Patel nomination has caused early criticisms of some Democrats before their confirmation hearing, who have cited their previous votes to process journalists and career officials in the Department of Justice and the FBI that he sees as part of the “deep state” .
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Democrats had pointed out Patel registration and a book, “Government Gangsters”, published in 2023 who said that the employees of the “Deep State” have politicized and armed to the law of application of the law, and explicitly called the renewal of the FBI in a chapter called “Review of the FBI “.
Emma Colton and Michael Ruiz de Fox News contributed to this report.
