Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed that he had traveled on convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s Lolita Express twice.
Kennedy Jr. also told Fox News host Jesse Watters that he wanted the plane’s flight logs to be “open to the public.”
The presidential hopeful was on “Jesse Watters Primetime” on Tuesday night discussing government overeach, the same day FBI Director Christopher Wray urged congress to renew a sweeping surveillance law.
Wray testified that allowing the expiration of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which is over on Dec. 31, “would be devastating to the FBI’s ability to protect Americans.”
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He further stated that FISA is “key to our ability to detect a foreign terrorist organization overseas directing an operative here to carry out an attack in our own backyard.”
However, critics on both sides of the aisle claim the law infringes on Americans’ civil liberties, as it allows the FBI to surveil the communications between Americans and foreign nationals without a warrant.
Over 50 bipartisan lawmakers signed a letter saying a temporary extension of Section 702 “would be an inexcusable violation of the public’s trust,” as they allege the power it has granted the FBI has been “flagrantly abused” by the law enforcement agency.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn presses Dir. Wray on why the FBI ignored allegations from Epstein's victims:
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“If Section 702 is to be reauthorized for even a single day, it must be through standalone legislation subject to robust, open debate and amendment,” the letter reads.
During his testimony, Wray was pressed by Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn over the Bureau’s failure to release Epstein’s client list.
Last week, Democratic Committee Chairman Dick Durbin refused to release flight logs from the plane that flew high profile people to the private island where he prolifically sex trafficked underage girls.
Epstein has been infamously linked to former President Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew.
Watters took the opportunity to ask Kennedy Jr. if he had ever flown on the jet, and his answer was twice.
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“I was on Jeffrey Epstein’s jet two times,” he admitted, noting that his late wife Mary Richardson Kennedy, was affiliated with Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.
“I was on it in 1993 and I went to Florida with my wife and two children to visit my mom over Easter,” the independent candidate said.
“My wife had some kind of relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell and they offered us a ride to Palm Beach, so I went then.”
Kennedy Jr. detailed that the second trip was family oriented, and he had previously been truthful about both trips.
“And on another occasion, I flew again with my family with, I think, four of my children and Mary, my wife to Rapid City, South Dakota, to go fossil hunting for a weekend,” he explained.
Neither trip was ever to Epstein’s private island, Little St. James, which has been dubbed “Orgy Island” amongst other names.
“But otherwise I was never on his jet alone,” the outspoken anti-vaxxer went on.
“You know, I’ve been very open about this from the beginning.”
“This was in ’93 – so it was 30 years ago. It was before anybody knew about Jeffrey Epstein’s, you know, his nefarious issues.”
Kennedy Jr. called for Congress to be “transparent” about the flight logs, and doesn’t understand why they’re “hiding” them in the first place.
“All of this information should be released,” he asserted.
“And we should get real answers on what happened to Jeffrey Epstein and any of the high-level political people that he was involved with.”
“All of that should be open to the public. It should be absolutely transparent,” he continued.
“And, you know, I don’t see why any of those records would have any redactions,” Kennedy Jr. pressed.
“Why would we be hiding that from the American public? I think that’s outrageous.”
In a statement to Newsweek, his spokesperson said that Mary Kennedy, who committed suicide in the family home in 2012, knew Maxwell.
“[Maxwell] learned that they were going to Palm Beach for Easter and offered their family a ride.”