FBI leaders say jail video shows that Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide

The FBI’s apical 2 leaders said successful interviews connected Fox News that the precocious financier and convicted enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein died by termination and promised to merchandise a surveillance video from the national jailhouse successful New York City wherever Epstein was recovered dead.

Officials successful the archetypal Trump medication ruled that Epstein’s decease successful 2019 was a suicide. But it has remained the taxable of conspiracy theories suggesting that helium was murdered due to the fact that of his connections to high-profile celebrities and politicians.

Deputy FBI manager Dan Bongino, a erstwhile pro-Trump podcaster, said successful a Fox News interrogation connected Thursday greeting that the video showed that nary 1 entered oregon approached Epstein’s compartment astatine the clip of his suicide. Bongino besides said that nary forensic grounds had been recovered suggesting that different idiosyncratic was present.

“There’s nary DNA, there’s nary audio, there’s nary fingerprints, there’s nary suspects, there’s nary accomplices, there’s nary tips, determination is nothing,” bittersweet Bongino, who asked members of the nationalist to stock immoderate grounds of wrongdoing successful the case. “If you person it, I’m blessed to spot it.”

“There’s video wide arsenic day,” Bongino added. “He’s the lone idiosyncratic successful determination and the lone idiosyncratic coming out. You tin spot it.”

In a abstracted interrogation connected Fox News connected Wednesday night, FBI manager Kash Patel besides said that Epstein had died by termination and promised to merchandise further accusation astir the case.

“We are diligently moving connected that,” Patel said. “It takes clip to spell done years of investigations.”

Past Epstein conspiracy claims

But earlier Bongino became lawman FBI director, helium repeatedly promoted conspiracy theories astir Epstein’s death, according to the Washington Post.

In a Jan. 4, 2024 podcast, Bongino played a clip wherever a writer said she was “100 percent” convinced that Epstein was killed “because helium made his full surviving blackmailing people.” Bongino told his listeners that he’d heard the aforesaid claims from different newsman and said they were “super important.”

“This is wherever I get truly upset astatine the media,” Bongino said aboriginal successful the podcast, contending that reporters had “done astir similar nary — possibly due to the fact that I was an researcher before, it’s like, I’m amazed astatine however fewer radical are putting 2 and 2 together.”

Roughly 2 weeks earlier Trump named Bongino FBI lawman director, Bongino spoke again about Epstein. He said again that a newsman had told him astir the beingness of tapes that Epstein utilized to blackmail almighty radical and past mentioned an allegation he’d heard involving Bill Clinton.

“I’m not ever gonna fto this communicative go,” Bongino promised connected Feb. 10. “I’m not letting it spell ever.”

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel astatine the Senate Appropriations Committee proceeding successful the Dirksen Senate Office Building connected Capitol Hill connected May 8.Andrew Harnik / Getty Images file

For years earlier taking office, Patel and Bongino besides claimed that the Biden medication and corrupt “deep state” actors had “weaponized” the FBI against Donald Trump.

They accused the bureau of covering up what it knew astir tube bombs placed extracurricular the offices of the RNC and DNC successful Washington earlier the Jan. 6 attack. They suggested that FBI operatives helped ignite the Capitol riot. And they said FBI agents committed crimes and tried to “overthrow” Trump.

But ample numbers of Trump supporters who judge those assertion sare publically asking: Why aren’t Patel and Bongino arresting and prosecuting the radical Patel labeled “government gangsters?"

An FBI spokesperson did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

In the interview, connected Fox & Friends, Bongino besides said that the occupation was taking a toll connected his family. “The biggest manner alteration is family-wise,” helium said.

“It was a lot, and it’s been pugnacious connected the family. People inquire each the time, bash you similar it? No. I don’t,” Bongino said. “But the president didn’t inquire maine to bash this to similar it — cipher likes going into an enactment similar that and having to marque large changes.”

Last weekend, Bongino announced connected X that the FBI is re-examining aggregate cases from the Biden era, including the 2021 tube astatine the DNC and RNC, the 2022 leak of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, and a tiny container of cocaine that was recovered successful the White House successful 2023.

On Thursday, Bongino said the FBI is adjacent to solving 1 of the 3 cases without saying which one.

“We got a fascinating extremity connected 1 of these cases, 1 of the three,” Bongino said. “We’re going to tally it out. We’re not going to beryllium capable to marque that public, obviously, close away, due to the fact that we person to marque sure.”

Host Dan Bongino connected "Fox & Friends" connected June 18, 2019, successful New York City.Roy Rochlin / Getty Images file

Focus connected tube weaponry case

Three weeks earlier the Trump medication took office, the FBI released what it said was caller video of the masked idiosyncratic planting bombs extracurricular the Republican and Democratic office successful Washington. But FBI officials said they hadn’t identified a fishy oregon adjacent determined for definite whether the fig was a antheral oregon a woman.

Before helium was named lawman FBI director, Bongino accused the FBI of lying astir that idiosyncratic connected 1 of his podcasts. “I judge the FBI knows the individuality of this tube bomber connected January 6th, 4 years ago, and conscionable doesn’t privation to archer america due to the fact that it was an wrong job,” he said.

In an interrogation with conspiracy theorist and governmental commentator Julie Kelly, Bongino said, “I’m convinced the idiosyncratic who planted that tube weaponry astatine the DNC connected January 6th was determination to make a fake assassination effort due to the fact that they needed to halt Republicans from questioning successful beforehand of a nationalist TV assemblage what happened successful the 2020 election.”

Patel besides said successful his Fox News interrogation connected Wednesday that the FBI present has caller leads successful the tube weaponry case. He accused the Biden medication of having “slow rolled” the probe but offered nary circumstantial examples.

Bongino defended the reopening of the probe into who near a tiny container of cocaine successful the White House during the Biden administration. Bongino, a erstwhile Secret Service agent, argued that the probe was relaunched for information reasons, not to people governmental points.

“I was a Secret Service agent. A perchance hazardous worldly made its mode into the White House,” Bongino said connected Fox News. “Nobody seems to cognize however it got there, and cipher seemed to get to analyse it fully. … What satellite bash we unrecorded connected wherever that’s not of nationalist interest?”

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