FBI Director Kash Patel has broken his silence on Elon Musk’s bombshell Epstein Files claims about President Donald Trump. His recent admission goes a long way in establishing his no-comment strategy while he hopes to steer clear of the brewing MAGA drama amid the ongoing feud between the world’s richest man and the Republican leader.

The Indian-origin FBI boss learned of the Tesla CEO’s shocking comments while he was in the middle of an interview on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast on Thursday. With plans to “drop the really big bomb,” Musk wrote on X, “[Donald Trump] is in the Epstein files. That’s the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT.”

FBI’s Kash Patel sidesteps Donald Trump-Elon Musk feud

Trump ally Joe Rogan couldn’t hold back his exclamatory reaction to the development during his conversation with Patel. Driving the attention to the “crazy thing” Elon Musk had stated online, the internet personality posed his own set of questions to the FBI director: “Does he know that Donald Trump is in the Epstein files? Or does he have the access to the Epstein files?”

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On first discovering Elon’s unexpected statement, Kash Patel outrightly sought to distance himself from the matter. “I’m not participating in any of that conversation between Elon and Trump,” he said. Reeling from the shock he had been dealt with, the Trump-appointed official eventually addressed Rogan’s queries, foregrounding his own confusion about how Musk could possibly have an insight into the Epstein files.

Noting that he didn’t “how how we would” know about the contents, the FBI director asserted, “I’m just staying out of the Trump-Elon thing; that’s way outside my lane.” Doubling down, he added, “I know my lane, and that ain’t it.”

Kash Patel reiterates Jeffrey Epstein suicide verdict

Deceased convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has especially climbed back headlines posthumously during Trump’s second term. In February, the Justice Department released about 200 pages of documents related to the financier, including flight logs. And then, last month, Patel and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino revisited the sex offender’s cause of death, insisting on a suicide verdict.

“I have reviewed the case. Jeffrey Epstein killed himself. There’s no evidence in the case file indicating otherwise. I’m not asking you to believe me, or not. I’m telling you what exists, and what doesn’t. If new evidence surfaces I’m happy to reevaluate,” Bongino said in a lengthy online post at the time.

Once again addressing the issue in the latest podcast interview, Kash Patel opened up about the pending release of surveillance footage of Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell that would ultimately prove that he killed himself in 2019. Countering Epstein murder conspiracy theories, the FBI director said, “I have reviewed the case. Jeffrey Epstein killed himself. There’s no evidence in the case file indicating otherwise. I’m not asking you to believe me, or not. I’m telling you what exists, and what doesn’t. If new evidence surfaces I’m happy to reevaluate… I’m saying we’ve got footage and you’re getting it, and then you can make up your own mind.”

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Kash Patel pushes back against holding out on information about Epstein files

Speaking for himself and Dan Bongino yet again, Patel asked, “Do you think… that myself, Bongino, and others would participate in hiding information about Epstein’s grotesque activities? Or do you think we would also participate in not prosecuting people we have evidence to prosecute people on?”

Patel relied on his former post as a public defender to back his headstrong suicide verdict in the Epstein case. “… based on public information… and the pictures of him hanging himself. That guy killed himself.” He further argued that there was no access point for someone else to have breached into the cell without any camera catching them.

As Joe Rogan reiterated queries about the guards possibly having not paid attention, Kash affirmed that even though it was difficult to surmise that from the footage, no one could have gotten in. “Do guards doze off on a night shift? Yeah. But no one can get into the cell. If they had… we would see it.”

Rogan again pressed that prior reports had stated that the cameras had been down all along. “I don’t know said that… we’re giving you all the news,” Patel continued, while highlighting that supposed misrepresented escalation at the time should be addressed by then-Attorney General Bill Barr.