Report: Kash Patel 'Going Nowhere,' Too
Busy Directing 'Major' Investigation Into Russiagate
Red State,
by
Bob Hoge
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
7/11/2025 10:50:29 PM
The Friday news cycle was dominated by reports that FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino skipped work and is considering resigning because of disagreements with Attorney General Pam Bondi over the Jeffrey Epstein files and the way their release was handled.
Many pundits felt that the AG had overpromised but then under-delivered on possible new revelations in the investigation of the convicted pedophile. The Department of Justice announced Monday that there was no Epstein “client list” and that it was confirmed that he died by suicide in his Rikers Island jail cell and was not murdered. It was a conclusion that left many observers dissatisfied, including, reportedly, Bongino.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 7/11/2025 10:56:48 PM (No. 1976222)
So, Dan, you have seen the Epstein list, then? Such a list exists? Any names come to mind?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Historybuff 7/11/2025 11:15:58 PM (No. 1976230)
Just a point of order. Epstein was not on Rikers Island but at the Manhattan detention center. Federal property
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Californian 7/11/2025 11:20:07 PM (No. 1976231)
And we have 10 hours of film from cameras we first told you were all broken.
Trust us!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
stablemoney 7/12/2025 12:46:27 AM (No. 1976250)
I don't think we can afford another confirmation process, but I do think the support staff should be strengthened a lot by those with a MAGA heart, and department experience in the DOJ and FBI. The heads are not going to do the work anyway. They have to build a staff that gets things done, and set a MAGA direction. The job is not getting done, because the heads don't have department experience, and do not know all the sabotagers in their ranks. They have to get assistants that do know.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
john56 7/12/2025 12:51:15 AM (No. 1976251)
The truth probably is somewhere in the middle and not as earth-shattering as some of us think.
Yeah, it's probable that Epstein killed himself. But there are a lot of questions beyond his proclivity towards underage girls, in itself pretty disgusting. My question is how Epstein financed his lifestyle. The cover story is that he was in some esoteric area of finance, but his "contemporaries" in that small universe say they never dealt with him.
Keeping politicians, business leaders, and universities entertained at multiple locations and obtaining the above mentioned underage girls is not an inexpensive hobby (at least so I have been told). Where did he find the money to play? Get me that answer and I'm a happy camper.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
john56 7/12/2025 12:53:12 AM (No. 1976254)
Oh yeah, and about Dan Bongino. Take the weekend off. Go back to work on Monday and get to all the mess we have to clean up in the FBI and our intelligence services. You and Kash are the guys we need to do the job.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
danu 7/12/2025 1:18:54 AM (No. 1976263)
the 3 most important postings...circling the drain. feathering their own nests; not seeking justice for all.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
coldoc 7/12/2025 1:25:04 AM (No. 1976265)
I've watched bongino for years and he always struck me as sincere and honest-until that interview when he claimed epstein killed himself. He was obviously very uncomfortable taking the position that he did. I am very disappointed in bondi - sadly, I think she needs to go.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Toodles3956 7/12/2025 2:42:51 AM (No. 1976274)
All these young girls involved with Epstein had no parents?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 7/12/2025 4:57:59 AM (No. 1976290)
Dan Bo=ngino was a bad hire for FBI Deputy Director. He's a wordy hothead ex-bodyguard who likes expatiating to fanboys & fangirls over his commercial podcast. It also "appears" that Dan has been quick to run to the Fox News cameras, independent of his boss. That's highly unusual in politics. I'm surprised Kash hasn't given him the, "One more time and I will..." speech by now. Bongino is not making things easier for his bosses, and that's HIS job, not pontificating on Fox News about investigations. Sorry, but that's the way authority and the chain of command works in America, and if he doesn't like it, he can resign and go back to his podcast.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
FJB 2022 23 24 7/12/2025 6:07:15 AM (No. 1976302)
I still have faith in Bondi. I think any client list was destroyed before she and Trump and Patel got to the Whitehouse, it was too incriminating to leave around in case the Dems DOJ lost power to protect the slugs on it.
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Are we still talking about this? "What difference, at this point, does it make?"
(sarcasm intended)
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
mifla 7/12/2025 7:12:25 AM (No. 1976322)
Bondi needs to focus on doing her job, and less on holding press conferences.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
tootall 7/12/2025 8:33:47 AM (No. 1976363)
#5 ... I've got your answer. It's diabolically simple.
Epstein never actually made any investments for the people he was blackmailing. He directed the assets of large foundations, corporations, and maybe even governments to investment professionals who actually made those decisions. I'm guessing (not much of a stretch) he blackmailed these powerful men and WOMEN to run the the business through him to those managers. He received an asset mgt fee for that that didn't cost the blackmailed sex offenders any additional fees. The actual investment managers knew what was happening (these are very smart guys), and observed the parties, yachts, planes, exotic resorts, and women uptown with amusement. I would imagine more than a few of them were participants as well.
There is an old Atlantic article that describes the whole thing plus Acosta's and Bondi's involvement from his first arrest in Florida. His connections to the CIA and Israeli intelligence make the slap on the wrist that he received logical.
So it doesn't surprise me that the most powerful folks in Govt, Finance, and God only knows who else got sucked up in this either willingly, because they lacked integrity, or were weak.
The outing of these folks would most certainly cause a worldwide tsunami!
There are people who know. All this evidence is somewhere, it's just been moved. It will come out at some point and I believe we can survive it.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
felixcat 7/12/2025 8:45:03 AM (No. 1976368)
According to Bongino on a Fox & Friends May 29 show, the prison video of Epstein's cell and the wing where it was located in the detention center shows all the cells empty except for Epstein. Now having worked in a federal high security prison, as important an inmate as Epstein was, no way would a federal detention center in Manhattan leave all cells vacant just for one man. Nope - but hey, Trump's then AG, Bill Barr whose father first hired Epstein decades ago to teach at some elite private school in NY says everything was legit by the Bureau of Prisons.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
happywarrior 7/12/2025 10:35:29 AM (No. 1976417)
I fear Bongino may be a bit too emotional for the job. That statement he made about sitting all day and staring at four walls and how he is "divorced" from his family, (which he quickly changed to separated from his family), really made me think twice about him. And now he needs a few days off? Dude, it's your job, get to work!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
justjoe1237 7/12/2025 10:57:31 AM (No. 1976434)
If Trump keeps Bondi, his MAGA support will crash and burn.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 7/12/2025 11:05:08 AM (No. 1976438)
That is fine. Just Bondi that she needs to clear her desk.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
preciosodrogas 7/12/2025 12:00:40 PM (No. 1976465)
So You're calling Dershowitz a liar?And Maxwell's judge? How about the victims? And, when you said that Epstein didn't kill himself and said having seen the vid you say he did, no doubt, but the vid doesn't show ... anything, where's the truth? And those who help get your pod up and running and have now turned their back on you for the flip flop, are they crazy when you said he didn't or crazy when you said he did? And now, are you going to quit because something is wrong, are you going to tell the truth about that? Are you just going to leave us hanging? What about Patel he was so busy reviewing the thousands of hours of sick sex and other child abuse and is now to busy on Russiagate. Didn't already investigate Russiagate? Didn't he make his chops on Russiagate and that got him his current position?
Russiagate ain't got nothing on Epsteingate, well except for Bondi, Patel, and you.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Kate318 7/12/2025 12:05:47 PM (No. 1976466)
Bondi needs to go. She is weak, clumsy, and her desperation for attention is preventing her from being effective as AG.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
chillijilli 7/12/2025 3:08:06 PM (No. 1976570)
The WH finds itself in an odd position. Claiming there is no client list doesn't mean there's no phone book, does it? Might there be a call history on hundreds of peoples' phones who had only INNOCENT connections to Epstein such as attending the same dinner or appearing in the same group photo?
Their lives could be totally destroyed by unfounded accusations taken completely out of context so it's understandable that Trump won't release their names. But, here's the rub: Under the guise of protecting the innocent, Trump's insistence on no names released would in effect ALSO be a way of sheltering the most corrupt, disgusting, powerful elite on the planet from pubic scrutiny. Wouldn't these political donors with the deepest of pockets, members of royalty, and international celebrities in turn feel somewhat beholden to Trump in exchange for his keeping their names classified? Just wondering.
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