JUST IN: Kash Patel Breaks Silence On Resignation Rumors

Cracks in the MAGA coalition are widening into chasms following the Trump administration’s decision to withhold further documents in the government’s Jeffrey Epstein investigation. Now, FBI Director Kash Patel, who was at the forefront of calling for transparency before taking his current role, is addressing rumors that he may be finishing his tenure in Washington, D.C.

In a fiery social media post, Patel denounced “conspiracy theories” about the late philanthropist and pedophile who is alleged to have kept a “client list” of high-profile individuals he serviced with underage sex slaves. Patel and his deputy director, Dan Bongino, revealed earlier this year that they now believe Epstein killed himself and was not the victim of an assassination, undercutting rumors both had furthered during the Biden administration.

Patel did not address whether Trump continues to have his back but said that he will lead the FBI “for as long as he called on me.”

“The conspiracy theories just aren’t true, never have been. It’s an honor to serve the President of the United States @realDonaldTrump — and I’ll continue to do so for as long as he calls on me,” he wrote on Saturday.

As social media influencers, Patel and Bongino were among those in MAGA circles who pushed the idea that powerful forces, potentially even some within the Democratic Party, may have killed Epstein.

But in a memo released last week, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi shot down those allegations, stating that raw video from the night of Epstein’s death showed no one entering or leaving the area of his jail cell. The memo adds that no one else will be charged as a result of the investigation.

It states that investigators found “no incriminating ‘client list'” of Epstein’s, “no credible evidence … that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals,” and no “evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.”

Since joining the Trump administration, both Patel and Bongino have changed their stances on Epstein, who was known to associate with Bill Gates, former President Bill Clinton, and Prince Andrew. Virginia Giuffre, a victim of Epstein who died earlier this year, accused Prince Andrew of sexually abusing her as an underage girl while in the care of Epstein and his mistress, Ghislaine Maxwell.

Hours after Patel’s post, President Trump took to Truth Social to express unhappiness with his followers’ anger at Patel.

“What’s going on with my ‘boys’ and, in some cases, ‘gals?’ They’re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB,” Trump wrote. “We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happening.”

The top Trump officials also received a robust defense from Tucker Carlson, who told NBC News over the weekend that he believes this is not “much relevant information about Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes” still being withheld by the government.

“Rather than just admit that, Pam Bondi made a bunch of ludicrous claims on cable news shows that she couldn’t back up, and this current outrage is the result,” Carlson says.

Mike Davis, a MAGA legal observer, told Politico that it’s possible Bondi, Patel, and Bongino entered the government with high hopes of exposing an Epstein client list, only to find that little evidence existed.

“The Justice Department, including the FBI, does not have evidence that many people thought it had,” he told the outlet.

He adds that more information may not be able to be released due to a grand jury investigation, court records under seal, graphic documentation of child sexual assault, and the need to protect victims of heinous crimes.

Moreover, says Davis, there are “unsubstantiated bogus claims like we saw during the [2018 Brett] Kavanaugh proceedings, where you had double and even triple hearsay.”