FBI Director Kash Patel reveals in Joe Rogan interview that his home was targeted in swatting attempt

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FBI Director Kash Patel told podcast host Joe Rogan during an interview released Friday that his house was swatted this week.
Patel was a guest on "The Joe Rogan Experience," and during the interview, the FBI director broke news about his home getting swatted.
"As Director of the FBI of responsibility, I'm not just gonna bring a case because somebody hurt me. They did. And they continue to do it," Patel said. "S--t. My house just got swatted yesterday."
Swatting is when a person attempts to send armed law enforcement to another person's house over a fake incident, which has led to deadly consequences in the past.
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The FBI did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment on the matter.
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Klas in Las Vegas reported that a swatting call was reported at Patel's home on Tuesday morning at about 11:15 a.m.
When police reached out to the residence, they were able to determine the call was a fake before sending a response team to check it out.
Patel mentioned the swatting as he spoke to Rogan about exposing the corruption of the leadership in place before President Donald Trump's return to the Oval Office. Specifically, the same leadership did whatever it could do to protect themselves and their friends, and Patel said it was his mission to educate the world that it happened.
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"It's the ultimate height of hypocrisy," Patel said. "They have two sets of rules, one against you and one for them. And what I want to do is lay out that entire body of work for the American people with Congress."
He also said he wants to "let the American people know that my mission has always been to put out the truth, whatever the consequences are, whoever it's against, like I did when I signed up for Russiagate. If Donald Trump was a Russian asset and I proved it, I was telling the world that. That's what matters."
"If we can hold people accountable in terms of indictments, then we'll work with our partners at DOJ," he continued. "His leadership team is in place. We've got great partners at DOJ. We're the ones working on all this stuff."
Patel then turned his attention to the Jeffrey Epstein case, telling Rogan that people are upset that Epstein got a "sweetheart plea deal" for committing the most horrific crimes on the planet nearly 20 years ago.
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But under Trump's last term, it was decided to not let the plea deal go and investigate Epstein once again, which led to charges and an indictment.
"I've said, [FBI Deputy Director] Dan Bongino said, we've reviewed all the information, and the American public is going to get as much as we can release," he said. "He killed himself. Do you think, let's play out the logical conclusion of this? 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 had evidence to prosecute people on?
"But the problem is there's been like 15 years of people coming in and creating fictions about this that doesn't exist," Patel continued. "I'm working my ass off along with the leadership at the Bureau and DOJ to get you what we're allowed to give you. And you're going to get the video of the cell. And you're going to see for yourself."
Patel's comments come days after Bongino told Fox News host Sean Hannity there is nothing in the Epstein file indicating he died by any other way than suicide.
Bongino updated Hannity on the investigation into the Epstein file as conspiracies continue to float that he was murdered in prison.
"The evidence we have in our files clearly indicates that it was, in fact, a suicide. We do have video. It's not the greatest video in the world. I don't want to set expectations on fire," Bongino said. "However, the video does show in that specific block, that he goes in, made a phone call; you'll see 12 hours of guards going in basically check on him, come back. You'll see nobody really comes out of that bay in that area than him. There's no one in there.
"There's nothing there in the file at all that indicates anything other than in fact a suicide," Bongino added.
The American financier died in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.Original article source: FBI Director Kash Patel reveals in Joe Rogan interview that his home was targeted in swatting attempt