Joe Rogan and FBI Director Kash Patel were left gobstruck Thursday as Elon Musk offloaded on Donald Trump with claims the one-time playboy real estate developer is in the Jeffrey Epstein files and that’s why they haven’t been released.
“I’m not participating in any of that conversation,” proclaims a clearly shaken Patel, a person who has supposedly seen the files on the very well-connected pedophile billionaire who died mysteriously in police custody in 2019. Up to this point in the nearly two-hour conversation between Rogan and Trump ultra-loyalist Patel, there didn’t seem to be any topic he wouldn’t address.
Watch the nervous exchange here, and see below for the full interview:
“Jesus Christ, that’s a crazy thing to say,” sputtered UFC commentator Rogan as his producer showed the duo the tweet from the SpaceX boss and frequent Joe Rogan Experience guest. Saying that someone should take Musk’s “phone away, Rogan turns to the wide-eyed Patel and says, “How does he know? Does he know that Donald Trump is in the Epstein files? Or does he have access to the Epstein files?”
Patel replies: “I don’t know how he would, but I’m just staying out of the Trump/Elon thing. That’s way outside my lane.”
In point of fact, with lots of evidence that Trump and Epstein were very close back in the 1990s, Musk’s allegations are exactly in the lane of the top cop in the USA. A lawyer for Epstein said Friday that his client told him Trump was not a part of his ring of young girls and sex-trafficking.
Add to that, no matter the true circumstances of Epstein’s death — which former conspiracy-theory advocate and now-Deputy FBJ Director Dan Bongino recently poured cold water on — releasing the Epstein files has been a major demand of MAGA influencers and pundits. Almost from the day Trump returned to power, Attorney General Pam Bondi has promised to release the files, but she hasn’t.
After the ruffle of the Musk-vs.-Trump blowup and the Epstein files accusation, Rogan and Patel wasted little time diving right back into their mutual safe space of Deep State antics, Hunter Biden laptops, media TDS and Joe Biden’s weaponization of the FBI. “We’re winning this fight!” Patel brags.
While proving dismissive of his former bestie and top donor, Trump has not yet responded to Musk’s allegations.
