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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Andrew Feinberg

Kash Patel interrupts White House briefing to explain his secret flight to China

With the Trump administration reeling over bombshell emails from the late pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein that mentioned President Donald Trump spending time with one of his victims, FBI Director Kash Patel suddenly took to the White House briefing room podium — to talk about something completely unrelated.

The neophyte director of the country’s top federal law enforcement agency — who has been beset by reports detailing his frequent use of government-funded jets — took the lectern to justify the latest of those jaunts: a private jet run to the People’s Republic of China.

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