Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., on Thursday asked FBI director Kash Patel if convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein killed himself, reports the Daily Caller.

“Did Jeffrey Epstein hang himself, or did somebody kill him?” Kennedy asked Patel during a hearing held by the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies.

“Senator, I believe he hung himself in a cell in the Metropolitan Detention Center,” Patel responded.

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