Mark Epstein, brother of the disgraced New York financier Jeffrey Epstein, said Tuesday he’s not buying the Trump administration’s final report on his brother’s death, which happened in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges under mysterious circumstances.
“Every time they say or do something to try to quash the fact that he was most likely murdered, they just put their foot further down their mouth,” Mark Epstein told Newsnation’s Chris Cuomo on Tuesday.
A report this week from President Donald Trump’s Justice Department and FBI concluded that Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide, and that no evidence existed that the financier maintained a client list of powerful individuals for blackmail purposes. The report sparked outrage among many in Trump’s base, a creation largely of the Trump cabinet’s own doing, having fanned the flames of speculation surrounding Jeffrey Epstein for years.
New York City Chief Medical Examiner Barbara Sampson conducted Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy in late 2019, witnessed by Dr. Michael Baden at the behest of Jeffrey Epstein’s legal team. The conclusion was that Jeffrey Epstein’s death was more consistent with a homicide than a suicide.
FBI Director Kash Patel, among those that had promoted theories of Jeffrey Epstein running an extensive blackmail operation, said in May that conclusively, Jeffrey Epstein’s death was a suicide.
“You know a suicide when you see one, and that’s what that was,” Patel said.
Mark Epstein, after hearing Patel’s statement, said that all he could do was laugh.
“When Kash Patel came out with that statement, I laughed at how stupid it was,” he said.
Trump has been accused of trying to quash further inquiries into Jeffrey Epstein, with his White House press secretary shutting down questions into the matter during a press briefing on Monday, and Trump himself shutting down questions over Jeffrey Epstein on Tuesday.
