The Trump administration performed themselves.
In any case of this hoopla and grandstanding about releasing the unedited Jeffrey Epstein information, together with giving Epstein binders to influencers on the White Home, the Trump administration is now saying that the deceased intercourse offender didn’t preserve a consumer record and his demise in 2019 was a suicide.
The entire Epstein-White Home saga is in lots of instances an instance of Trump’s time in workplace: Make a bunch of guarantees and don’t fulfill any. And all of this might’ve simply been averted if prime brass on the Justice Division and the Federal Bureau of Investigation simply got here out and stated from the start that there was nothing new to current within the demise of Epstein who was well-known for kicking it with extraordinarily rich males and underage ladies.
Axios revealed a two-page memo, Sunday evening, from the DoJ and FBI that claimed after an “exhaustive assessment” of Epstein-related “investigative holdings,” carried out by “groups of brokers, analysts, attorneys, and privateness and civil liberties consultants,” each companies decided that there was nothing extra to launch. They added that there was no “consumer record” and there wasn’t any proof that wanted extra investigation into the pedophile’s highly effective associates, NYMag experiences.
From the memo:
… By means of this assessment, we discovered no foundation to revisit the disclosure of these supplies and won’t allow the discharge of kid pornography.
This systematic assessment revealed no incriminating “consumer record.” There was additionally no credible proof discovered that Epstein blackmailed outstanding people as a part of his actions. We didn’t
uncover proof that would predicate an investigation in opposition to uncharged third events.
The FBI additionally “concluded that Jeffrey Epstein dedicated suicide in his cell on the Metropolitan Correctional Middle in New York Metropolis,” on Aug. 10, 2019.
The memo says:
The conclusion that Epstein died by suicide is additional supported by video footage from the widespread space of the Particular Housing Unit (SHU) the place Epstein was housed on the time of his demise. As DOJ’s Inspector Common defined in 2023, anybody getting into or trying to enter the tier the place Epstein’s cell was positioned from the SHU widespread space would have been captured by this footage. The FBI’s impartial assessment of this footage confirmed that from the time Epstein was locked in his cell at round 10:40 pm on August 9, 2019, till round 6:30 am the subsequent morning, no one entered any of the tiers within the SHU.
The memo included two video hyperlinks that confirmed surveillance footage from the hallway exterior Epstein’s room, which supposedly confirms that nobody entered his room through the time of his demise.
In 2023, we have been instructed that Epstein was left alone with a “surplus of mattress linens” and that the guard on obligation fell asleep and all cameras on his unit didn’t document.
Even present FBI director Kash Patel and deputy director waded within the conspiracy principle waters earlier than becoming a member of Trump who requested them to bend the knee and be part of his administration. And now, they’ve been claiming that Epstein wasn’t killed and that there isn’t a there there.
Lawyer Common Pam Bondi has been utilizing the Epstein paperwork like an album rollout or a sneaker launch. Throughout “Part 1” of declassifying the Epstein information, conservative influencers got binders of what many believed to be new Epstein info. These fortunate sufficient to be invited to the binder buffet walked out of the White Home, exhibiting them off as if they’d the golden ticket to Willy Wonka’s home. Turned out that the one factor in these binders was a bunch of previous info, most of which was redacted. Bondi even claimed on Fox Information, in February, that she had the Epstein consumer record on her desk “proper now to assessment,” and now the Trump administration is claiming that it doesn’t exist.
“The place is the Epstein data the American folks have been promised? You handed us a pocket book and promised extra was on the way in which,” Chad Prather, who acquired an Epstein binder in February posted on X. “You instructed us it existed and now you say it doesn’t? America deserves solutions.”