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FBI Director Kash Patel preferred to stay out of the “Trump-Elon” thing after the tech billionaire made bold claims on Thursday that US President Donald Trump was “in the Jeffrey Epstein files”.
According to a New York Post report, Patel was in the middle of a two-hour interview on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast when Musk made these claims.
“I'm not participating in any of that conversation between Elon and Trump,” a surprised Patel said after learning of the shocking statement made by the world's richest man.
As soon as Rogan learned of Musk's statement, he asked Patel, “Jesus Christ! That's a crazy thing to say. How does he know? Does he know that Donald Trump is in the Epstein files? Or does he have access to the Epstein files?”
Responding to Rogan, according to the report, Patel said that he didn't “know he would” know anything about the contents of the Epstein files, but declined to speak further about the feud.
“I'm just staying out of the Trump-Elon thing; that's way outside my lane,” he said. “I know my lane, and that ain't it.”
Trump-Musk ongoing feud
The dramatic rupture between the US President and the world's richest man began this week with Musk's public criticism of Trump's “big beautiful bill” pending on Capital Hill. Musk has warned that the bill will increase the federal deficit and called it a “disgusting abomination”.
Trump criticised Musk in the Oval Office, and before long, he and Musk began trading bitterly personal attacks on social media, sending the White House and GOP congressional leaders scrambling to assess the fallout.
As the back-and-forth intensified, Musk suggested Trump should be impeached and claimed without evidence that the government was concealing information about the president’s association with infamous pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Musk appeared by Saturday morning to have deleted his posts about Epstein.
What Kash Patel said on Joe Rogan's podcast
According to the New York Post report, Patel had discussed the pending release of surveillance video taken of Epstein's Manhattan jail cell that proves the convicted child sex trafficker killed himself in August 2019.
Speculations have been rife since Epstein's death that he was killed by someone afraid he would expose sex crimes of prominent figures in politics and finance whose friendship he had cultivated over several decades.
“I’m not saying every single camera in the place was working,” Patel told Rogan. “I’m saying we’ve got footage and you’re getting it, and then you can make up your own mind."
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