(NewsNation) — In a Senate committee hearing, FBI Director Kash Patel said billionaire and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein did not traffic women to anyone other than himself.

Patel said he had not reviewed all the Epstein files but had read a good portion of them.

The files have been the subject of considerable debate after President Donald Trump backtracked on his campaign promises to release the files, which he has recently called a Democrat hoax.

The release of the files has now been left to the Justice Department, which has given some files to a House committee.

When asked whether Epstein had trafficked victims to anyone else, Patel said he had not.

"No one, for the information that we have in the files," Patel said.

He was also questioned on the way the files are being re

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