Posted on 07/07/2025 8:26:25 AM PDT by Red Badger
President Trump's Justice Department and FBI have concluded they have no evidence that convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein blackmailed powerful figures, kept a "client list" or was murdered, according to a memo detailing the findings obtained by Axios.
The administration is releasing a video — in both raw and "enhanced" versions — that it says indicates no one entered the area of the Manhattan prison where Epstein was held the night he died in 2019.
The video supports a medical examiner's finding that Epstein died by suicide, the two-page memo claims.
Why it matters:
The findings represent the first time Trump's administration has officially contradicted conspiracy theories about Epstein's activities and his death — theories that had been pushed by the FBI's top two officials before Trump appointed them to the bureau.
As social media influencers and activists, Kash Patel (now the FBI's director) and Dan Bongino (now deputy director) were among those in MAGA world who questioned the official version of how Epstein died.
Patel and Bongino have since said Epstein killed himself. But it has become an article of faith online, especially on the right, that Epstein's crimes also implicated government officials, celebrities and business leaders — and that someone killed him to conceal them.
The memo says no one else involved in the Epstein case will be charged. (Epstein's associate Ghislaine Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence for child sex trafficking and related offenses.)
Zoom in:
According to the memo, investigators closely examined footage of Epstein's Manhattan prison cell between around 10:40pm on Aug. 9, 2019, when Epstein was locked in his cell, and around 6:30am the next day, when he was found unresponsive.
The footage, which was reviewed by Axios but couldn't be verified independently, showed no one entering the area, the administration said.
"The FBI enhanced the relevant footage by increasing its contrast, balancing the color, and improving its sharpness for greater clarity and viewability," the memo says.
Investigators found "no incriminating 'client list' " of Epstein's, "no credible evidence ... that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals," and no "evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties," the memo adds.
President Trump's Justice Department and FBI have concluded they have no evidence that convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein blackmailed powerful figures, kept a "client list" or was murdered, according to a memo detailing the findings obtained by Axios.
The administration is releasing a video — in both raw and "enhanced" versions — that it says indicates no one entered the area of the Manhattan prison where Epstein was held the night he died in 2019.
The video supports a medical examiner's finding that Epstein died by suicide, the two-page memo claims.
Why it matters:
The findings represent the first time Trump's administration has officially contradicted conspiracy theories about Epstein's activities and his death — theories that had been pushed by the FBI's top two officials before Trump appointed them to the bureau.
As social media influencers and activists, Kash Patel (now the FBI's director) and Dan Bongino (now deputy director) were among those in MAGA world who questioned the official version of how Epstein died.
Patel and Bongino have since said Epstein killed himself. But it has become an article of faith online, especially on the right, that Epstein's crimes also implicated government officials, celebrities and business leaders — and that someone killed him to conceal them.
The memo says no one else involved in the Epstein case will be charged. (Epstein's associate Ghislaine Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence for child sex trafficking and related offenses.)
Zoom in:
According to the memo, investigators closely examined footage of Epstein's Manhattan prison cell between around 10:40pm on Aug. 9, 2019, when Epstein was locked in his cell, and around 6:30am the next day, when he was found unresponsive.
The footage, which was reviewed by Axios but couldn't be verified independently, showed no one entering the area, the administration said.
"The FBI enhanced the relevant footage by increasing its contrast, balancing the color, and improving its sharpness for greater clarity and viewability," the memo says.
Investigators found "no incriminating 'client list' " of Epstein's, "no credible evidence ... that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals," and no "evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties," the memo adds.
I was KIND OF KIDDING!
With this proclamation, the Trump DOJ has established themselves as liars. They are either lying now or when they claimed they were going through the list.
They have lost all credibility, I hope it was worth it.
lol. They expect anyone to believe this?
My main question is... do they really think this is going to fly with most of us ‘supporters’? Really? After all of the gaslighting we’ve been inflicted with from the Marxist Democrats...
do they actually think we’ll put up with same from the Republicans... the very party that we have stood up to the left for? They think we won’t notice the direct contradiction from what they told us then vs. what they’re telling us now? I’m... stunned and amazed.
Somebody... please. Make some sense of it all. Because right now, I’m feeling like we’re back in the Twilight Zone of Bizarro World. And I don’t like that familiar feeling.
Yep if the evidence is gone I think I’d be following an appeal. I don’t see how she could lose. There’s no evidence The FBI has said so
Dan Bongino and countless others promised bombshell revelations about the Epstein affair — smoking guns that would supposedly shake the foundations. And yet, after all the hype, what have we actually seen?
Nothing.
Case closed.
...and the covid vax worked brilliantly!!!
No, and they don’t care..................
Here’s a thought… I’m no Colombo, but, how about releasing the thousands of hours of footage (of course, blocking out identities of victims) and we’ll begin assembling our own ‘list’?
I believe it, Epstein obviously had all of the WashedUpDC’s politicians’ private phone numbers memorized in his head
so he could call them to visit his resort-spa-with-benefits at any hour day or night
no need to write anything down
... anybody can memorize 500 phone numbers and home addresses, it is easy as pie
/s
I have a feeling Bondi, Kash, Bongino etc., were so threatened and blackmailed, that they had no choice but to retreat from their original comments. The Deep State is called deep for a reason and it’s for very bad reasons.
Threat to life and families.........It’s how they roll..............Even the Mafia didn’t threaten families...................
Conclude is not “know”.
But no guards are there for visual inspections nor cameras on at the time of his death!
The US government still doesn’t trust US Citizens!
Bingo!
And some good amount of the responses in this thread are by anti-Trump, anti-MAGA moles fomenting distrust in the government, exactly as does our MSM.
Well I am certainly glad we finally know the truth now.
So, is Trump now using the damning information to control the Swamp dirt-bags in DC?
Is this his dead-man switch, the tool needed to stay alive and in control?
What’s good for the goose...................
I truly pray he does not know. It would be bitter, indeed, if he did.
Shattering.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.