Billionaire financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was found to have died by suicide in a jail cell on August 10, 2019. But in recent weeks, conspiracy theorists have been focusing on a minute of security camera footage that was reportedly missing.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi claimed the footage was taped over. But according to The Guardian's Richard Luscombe, that footage has been found — thus contradicting Bondi's claim.
"The video was in a cache of material, including 33,000 pages of records relating to the disgraced financier and former Donald Trump associate, released late on Tuesday, (September 2) by the U.S. House Oversight Committee," Luscombe explains. "The panel has been looking into Epstein's August 2019 death at Manhattan’s Metropolitan correctional center. In July, the same month as a government review confirmed Epstein died by suicide, the FBI released hours of surveillance footage taken from outside Epstein's jail cell on the night he died."
Luscombe adds, "Observers quickly realized from time stamps that a block of one minute, from 11.59pm to midnight on 10 August, was not there. Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell at 6.30am."
This development is generating a lot of comments on X, formerly Twitter.
Attorney Phil Hooloway tweeted, "EPSTEIN: 'experts found the clip released by the DOJ was chopped from at least two separate video segments and strung together using Adobe Premiere there was no lapse in footage-contradicting Pam Bondi's explanation that the last minute of footage is deleted every night.”
X user Hunter Hogan posted, "The missing minute from Epstein's prison footage – the one Pam Bondi said didn't exist – was just released. It reveals a group of guards right by Epstein's cell, doing something strange. Force Bondi to testify, fire her, and LOCK HER UP."
Another X user, Ed Pageau, argued, "Release of ‘missing minute’ of Epstein video contradicts Bondi claim cameras stopped recording - The Guardian. Bondi is paid to lie and help Trump get revenge on anyone who opposes his authoritarian agenda. Christians don’t do this."
Former litigator Viva Frei commented, "They found the missing minute from the Epstein cell footage. It’s immaterial, except Fox News seems to be leveraging it to highlight the inaccuracy of the statement from Pam Bondi explaining the missing minute. I've been saying it for a while: Pam Bondi should be fired. I think that is now in the works, that Fox got the memo, and they are now softening up the general public to that eventual outcome. It would also explain Andrew Bailey entering the scene."
Military veteran Robert Clark posted, " Is there ANYONE in this s— administration that isn't a compulsive, pathological liar?"
Former Middle East correspondent Richard Hall tweeted, "Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Blows Up Pam Bondi’s ‘Missing Minute’ Explanation."
Read The Guardian's full article at this link.
