Kash Patel on Epstein Files, Crime Reduction, and Border Security

Epstein Files and Biden Administration

• ❓ Kash Patel stated that zero Epstein files were released during the four years of the Biden administration.
• 📄 He indicated that thousands of pages of related documents have been released under his tenure.

Crime Reduction and FBI Operations

• 📈 Patel attributes a dramatic increase in criminal arrests and decrease in crime to allowing "good cops to be cops" and energizing partnerships with state and local law enforcement.
• 🚫 He criticizes the weaponization of law enforcement and the focus on specific political areas rather than nationwide crime.
• 🗣️ He notes that Democrats and the fake news media have attacked him for a decade, particularly after he exposed the Russia hoax and what he calls the largest weaponization of the FBI and DOJ in US history.

Border Security and Terrorist Threats

• ⚠️ Christopher Wray previously warned that the Biden administration's open borders policy led to a significant increase in terrorist threats, citing 2 million "gotaways."
• 🗺️ Patel is focusing resources on identifying and apprehending these "gotaways."
• 🌍 While acknowledging progress in sealing the southern border against known or suspected terrorists, he highlights the growing threat from the northern border, with individuals entering from countries like China, Russia, and Afghanistan.
• 🇺🇸 Patel states that neutralizing the threat of international terrorist cells within the US is a top priority, with numerous individuals and rings taken down across the country.

Criminal Cartels and Hunter Biden Laptop

• 👥 Criminal cartels like Sinaloa, Jalisco, New Generation, and MS-13 have infiltrated the country by the tens of thousands during the Biden administration.
• 🚢 While DHS is best positioned to speak to numbers, tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of individuals with cartel associations have been deported.
• 💻 Patel believes the FBI was in possession of verified information from the Hunter Biden laptop and that it was improperly publicized as Russian disinformation, stating that this was categorically false.