FBI Director Kash Patel testifies before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. Francis Chung/Politico/AP

FBI Director Kash Patel this week became the first prominent Justice Department official to testify under oath since the Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files blew up in its face.

While Epstein was an occasional subplot during Patel’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, it was a huge focus of his appearance in front of the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.

The hearing got very heated at times as Democrats decided to go with a scorched-earth approach and Patel responded in kind, leading to several shouting matches.

After one Democrat said that the courts had called “bullsh*t” on the administration’s strategy to try and get gr

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