Jeffrey Epstein, MAGA and Trump
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Trump, Bongino and Jeffrey Epstein
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President Donald Trump made the claim that the Justice Department’s files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were “made up” by former President Barack Obama, ex-FBI director James Comey and the Biden administration.
Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
When the FBI investigated Jeffrey Epstein two decades ago, he “hired private PIs to investigate the investigators,” per one law enforcement official.
The House Speaker said he is "for transparency," in a moves that breaks with Trump's calls to move on from the Epstein case review.
Attorney General Pam Bondi had previously promised the public release of scores of records associated with federal probes into Epstein.
There is no evidence the footage was deceptively manipulated, but ambiguities around how the video was processed may further fuel conspiracy theories about Epstein’s death.
Democrats are highlighting the dramatic about-face by some Republicans, which has divided the MAGA movement and could weaken a critical following for President Trump.
President Donald Trump’s strategy has been to downplay the uproar over the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case as his supporters demand the Justice Department release much-hyped records in the investigation.
The former Secret Service agent and conservative media personality is said to be weighing his resignation from the FBI.
Bondi’s non-disclosure after months of media appearances in which she teased looming bombshells has sparked outrage by many prominent Trump supporters as well as internal tensions with FBI
Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was a "product of one or more elements of the intelligence community," Eric Weinstein, the mathematician and a former managing director of Thiel Capital, said during an appearance on the Diary of a CEO podcast, hosted by Steven Bartlett.