Trump DOJ's big Epstein claim smacked down by ex-prosecutor — using Kash Patel's own words

President Donald Trump attacked the process of releasing the Jeffrey Epstein case files on Friday, claiming that they just suddenly "found" a million more documents and that it's all a hoax manufactured by Democrats.

Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner, however, pointed out on his "Justice Matters" YouTube show that Trump's own FBI director has already contradicted this.

"So friends, before we turn to this new reporting, Donald Trump's DOJ is claiming that they just found a million new Epstein documents," said Kirschner, a frequent critic of the Trump administration. "Let's set this story up with what Kash Patel put in a memo back in July about the exhaustive search that he had conducted, that the FBI had conducted, for all evidence and information and documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein."

"What did Kash Patel tell us?" Kirschner continued. "Well, here's what he told us in that memo back in July. 'As part of our commitment to transparency, the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have conducted an exhaustive review of investigative holdings relating to Jeffrey Epstein. To ensure that the review was thorough, the FBI conducted digital searches of its databases, hard drives, and network drives, as well as physical searches of squad areas, locked cabinets, desks, closets, and other areas where responsive material may have been stored. These searches uncovered a significant amount of material, including more than 300 gigabytes of data and physical evidence."

Patel went on to call it a "systematic review" that exhaustively showed there was no so-called "client list," a claim that triggered the initial wave of controversy that blew up the Epstein scandal once again this year.

"It sounds like Kash Patel was trying to convince us that a more thorough search could not possibly have been performed," said Kirschner. "Heck, Kash looked in squad rooms and desk drawers and broom closets. You know, he turned over every rock. He left no stone unturned. Then he got all of the Epstein evidence and information and documents, so he could render that conclusion that, nothing more to see here, friends. Nobody else apparently did anything wrong. There can be no further investigations of anybody in connection with the reportedly 1,000 or more girls who were sex trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell."

All of which, he said, stands in stark contrast to Trump's claim that federal investigators just found a new trove of Epstein files out of the blue.

"You know, friends, one way or another, when these clowns, these incompetents fall from power — and they will, they won't be in power forever, you know — we are going to need to go on one hell of a cleanup mission and a reform mission and an accountability mission," Kirschner later concluded.

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