Kash Patel, Eric Swalwell
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FBI Director Kash Patel Wrecks Swalwell: ‘I Call Bulls**t On Your Entire Career’

RNN Staff

FBI Director Kash Patel delivered a brutal rebuke to Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., during a heated exchange Wednesday, accusing the Democrat congressman of using child trafficking allegations for political theater and declaring, “I call bulls*** on your entire career in Congress.”

The fireworks came during a contentious House oversight hearing in which Swalwell grilled Patel over the FBI’s handling of recently released Epstein documents. Swalwell repeatedly accused Patel of hiding information, including alleged references to President Donald Trump, prompting a fierce pushback from the Trump-appointed FBI chief.

“What I’ve been doing is been busy providing the safest country this country has seen in modern U.S. history,” Patel said. “Because the men and women of the FBI are given the resources to reduce the homicide rate, to reduce the drug trafficking rate, to reduce the amount of children that have been trafficked.”

Swalwell ignored that answer and launched into a dramatic line of questioning, throwing out speculative numbers about how often Trump’s name appeared in the Epstein files—first suggesting 1,000 times, then 500, then 100. Patel shot down the speculation and slammed Swalwell’s obsession with political optics.

“My job is not to engage in political innuendo, so you can go out to the sticks and get your 20-second hits and your fundraising article,” Patel said. “Your fixation on this matter and baseless accusations that I’m hiding child pedo files is disgusting.”

Swalwell, increasingly frustrated, began condescendingly pronouncing his questions syllable by syllable, accusing Patel of dodging the issue. Patel mocked him in return: “Why don’t you try spelling it out. Use the alphabet. A B C D E F… don’t want to do it?”

Swalwell then tried to corner Patel over his book Government Gangsters, in which he named 20 federal officials as corrupt bureaucrats—including Swalwell himself.

“You put me on that list, at the top of the list. Thank you. My children find it flattering,” Swalwell said sarcastically before demanding Patel recuse himself from any investigations involving the listed individuals.

That was the final straw for Patel.

“Anyone that has been terminated at the FBI has been done because they failed to meet the muster and their constitutional obligation,” he said. “No, no. I’m going to borrow your terminology and call bulls*** on your entire career in Congress. It has been a disgrace to the American people.”

The moment immediately lit up social media, with many conservatives praising Patel for confronting what they see as years of grandstanding from Swalwell.

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