Conservative influencers have accused President Donald Trump’s legal professional normal of mishandling the investigation into the disgraced financier’s final hours
The 11-hour surveillance video recorded close to Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell contained a minute-long hole, fueling additional hypothesis in regards to the circumstances surrounding the late financier and registered intercourse offender’s dying.
In keeping with the US Division of Justice and the FBI, Epstein dedicated suicide at a Manhattan correctional facility on August 10, 2019, whereas awaiting trial on intercourse trafficking expenses. Nonetheless, some have claimed that Epstein may have been murdered, probably by rich and highly effective folks he equipped with underage ladies for intercourse.
On Monday, the DOJ and the FBI launched a two-page memo on the Epstein affair together with the surveillance footage. The video provided solely a partial view of a stairwell resulting in Epstein’s confinement within the jail’s Particular Housing Unit, moderately than the cell itself. The footage abruptly skips from 11:58 p.m. on August 9 to 12:00 a.m. on August 10.
The evaluation concluded that no “shopper checklist” of Epstein’s pedophile ring ever existed and located no proof of blackmail. There have been no grounds to analyze uncharged third events, the memo acknowledged.
The findings contradicted earlier statements by US Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi, who had claimed that the shopper checklist was “sitting on [her] desk,” whereas the FBI had turned over a “truckload” of supplies. She additionally accused the earlier administration of hiding proof.
Throughout a authorities assembly on Tuesday, Bondi denied that the hole within the safety footage was suspicious. She appeared to stroll again her earlier remarks in regards to the “shopper checklist,” saying she was referring solely to some information associated to the Epstein case.
“There was a minute that was off the counter, and what we realized from the Bureau of Prisons is each evening they redo that video. So each evening the video is reset, and each evening ought to have the identical minute lacking,” Bondi defined.
A number of standard conservative influencers, together with President Donald Trump’s former adviser Steve Bannon, criticized Bondi and federal legislation enforcement for mishandling the investigation. “Now we have to take these apparatuses down,” he mentioned.
Journalist Tucker Carlson described the Epstein memo as a “cover-up” after it was launched. Podcast host Liz Wheeler and influencers Keith and Kevin Hodge have known as on Bondi to be faraway from workplace.
“Nobody is believing the Epstein coverup, President Trump. This might be a part of your legacy. There’s nonetheless time to alter it,” political commentator Mike Cernovich wrote on X.
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