Kash Patel Demolished Over Epstein and Budgets

Despite previous declarations of the opposite, fanatical Trump sycophant and FBI Director Kash Patel believes Trump bestie and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein killed himself.

His statement left MAGA spiraling on after he explicitly shot down his long-held Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theory.

During a televised Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, Republican Sen. John Kennedy asked Patel, “Did Jeffrey Epstein hang himself or did somebody kill him?”

The haggard and defeated-looking Director answered, “Senator, I believe he hung himself in a cell in the Metropolitan Detention Center.”

His answer put the kibosh on a MAGA conspiracy theory alleging Epstein’s suicide was actually a murder. Patel’s answer also went against his image as a noted conspiracy theorist and his previous promises to reveal the truth in the “Epstein files.”

MAGA was left disappointed on both accounts in February after Pam Bondi's DOJ released unremarkable binders of redacted material on the FBI’s Epstein investigation. MAGA has demanded more information on the investigation be released—all of the information.

“Are you going to release all the information about that?” asked Kennedy.

Patel responded, “Senator, we are working through that right now with the Department of Justice.” As for when he would have it done, Patel added, “In the near future.”

“Like before I die?” Kennedy responded.

“We’re doing it in a way that protects victims and also doesn’t put out into the ether information that is irrelevant,” Patel replied.

This answer wasn't good enough for MAGA, as they flooded Twitter to show their disappointment.

“What is going on with @FBIDirectorKash; has he been compromised by the intelligence agencies? Do you remember seen Ehud Barak entering Epstein house in NYC?”

“Truth seeker" Kash Patel is cooked.”

“Remember when Kash Patel called for a 24/7 declassification office? Now he won’t even lift a finger get us the Epstein files.”

In addition to not sticking to his promises, Patel further embarrassed himself in the hearing when he was left sweating and stammering like a lying spouse when one Democratic senator dunked on him for showing up for the budget meeting without bringing an actual budget.

“Director Patel, where is the FY 2026 budget request for the FBI?” asked Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, the vice chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

“Uhh, it’s being worked on, ma’am.”

Murray continued, “Have you reviewed it? Have you approved it?”

Patel replied, “Uhh, not yet,” before blaming the budget’s delay on “interagency partners.” Patel couldn’t even offer a timeline for when he could turn in his budget request.

“I’m doing the best I can,” Patel told Murray, sounding like a college student in their junior year who hasn't yet declared their major.

Sounding every bit like a disappointed student advisor, Murray said Patel’s “best” was “insufficient and deeply disturbing.”

Murray added, “We’re now having a budget hearing without a budget request,” suggesting that Patel was refusing to follow the law.

During that same meeting, Patel was also tested on his understanding of the Fifth Amendment as Democrat Sen. Jeff Merkley demanded to know why he was not investigating immigrants who had been “swept off the streets of America and sent to El Salvador without due process.” Merkley questioned, “And you’re familiar that that applies to all persons in the United States?”

Patel is likely behind on submitting the FBI’s budget request due to a clash with the Trump administration’s 2026 budget proposal, which called for more than $500 million in cuts to the bureau.

At a House hearing on Wednesday, Patel told lawmakers that the FBI would “need more than what has been proposed in [the Trump administration’s] budget.”

But by Thursday, he had changed his tune, saying the FBI would “make the mission work on whatever budget we’re given.”

Patel’s apparent lack of preparation for the hearing is sure to hand more proof that the Trump loyalist is in WAY over his head as FBI director.