Kash Patel is Now Under Fire by Epstein Victims • Franknez.com

Victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s sprawling sex trafficking ring unleashed a blistering rebuke against FBI Director Kash Patel this week, accusing him of ignoring their hard-won testimonies and deferring to the very officials he’s long accused of cover-ups.

The outcry came during and after Patel’s two-day congressional grilling, where he repeatedly dismissed evidence of Epstein’s network extending beyond the late financier himself—claims that survivors say fly in the face of years of documented abuse.

Patel, a Trump loyalist thrust into the FBI role amid promises of explosive revelations, faced bipartisan fire on September 16 and the following days before the Senate Judiciary Committee and House Oversight Committee.

The sessions zeroed in on the FBI’s stalled probe into Epstein’s 2019 jailhouse death—officially ruled a suicide but a lightning rod for conspiracy theories—and the agonizingly slow release of related files.

Lawmakers from both sides hammered Patel on President Donald Trump’s past ties to Epstein, flashing artifacts like a purported 2003 birthday letter from Trump to the disgraced financier.

Bipartisan Push Grows

Tensions boiled over in a Tuesday exchange with Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana.

Patel flatly stated there was “no credible information, none… that [Epstein] trafficked to other individuals.”

He doubled down Wednesday, responding to Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie by suggesting prior administrations had already vetted and discarded reports naming other men—despite admitting he hadn’t reviewed them himself or even spoken to survivors.

That admission lit the fuse.

In a joint statement shared with CNN’s Jake Tapper, 12 Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell victims expressed raw disbelief.

“Even the limited information that has been made public includes accounts such as Virginia Giuffre’s report that Epstein trafficked her to other individuals besides himself,” they wrote, referencing the high-profile accuser who died by suicide in April at age 41.

The survivors laid out the stark contradictions in Patel’s stance.

Epstein Victims Speak Out

During FBI interviews, victims had named at least 20 other men they were trafficked to—a point Massie underscored in the hearing.

Yet Patel, they noted, “has not read the reports himself; he has not spoken to the victims himself; and yet he plans to defer to unnamed officials from prior administrations who treated the reports as not credible?”

Their frustration peaked with a pointed jab at Patel’s history of railing against the “deep state.”

“Those previous administrations are the ones that Kash Patel spent years accusing of a cover-up,” the statement continued.

“Now he will pass the buck to them to decide that information about other men in the Epstein-Maxwell trafficking ring is not even worth following up on?”

They warned that untold victims and witnesses remain uncontacted, urging Patel to prioritize justice over politics.

Patel’s testimony grew testy as the hearings dragged on.

He deflected queries by pinning delays on holdovers from Trump’s first term and earlier Democratic-led efforts, drawing eye-rolls from Democrats like Maryland Sen. Jamie Raskin, who brandished the Trump-Epstein letter as evidence of unfinished business.

Republicans, too, pressed for answers, with Kennedy echoing calls for full transparency: just “release the documents and let the chips fall where they may.”

The backdrop to this clash is Epstein’s sordid legacy.

The financier, who rubbed elbows with Trump for over a decade in the 1990s and early 2000s, died in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.

Trump, who once called Epstein a “terrific guy,” later distanced himself, claiming no contact for 15 years.

During his 2024 campaign, Trump pledged to unseal the FBI files, only for a July memo to declare no “client list” exists and reaffirm the suicide ruling—moves that irked even MAGA fans.

Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, is serving 20 years for grooming and abusing girls on his behalf.

In late July, she was transferred to a cushy minimum-security facility after assuring the Justice Department that Trump had never acted “inappropriately.”

Giuffre, who first encountered Epstein while working at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, alleged trafficking to figures like Britain’s Prince Andrew, who settled her 2022 lawsuit without admitting fault or apologizing.

For the survivors, Patel’s words weren’t just a misstep—they felt like a betrayal.

Their statement closed with a haunting reminder: the fight for accountability isn’t over, and dismissing their stories only prolongs the pain.

As the hearings wrap, pressure mounts on Patel to deliver on transparency promises, but with victims’ voices ringing louder than ever, the path forward looks anything but clear.

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