 "Epstein Files: DoJ & FBI conclude that the sex offender has no client list, died by suicide")
US President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have concluded that they have no evidence that convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein kept a “client list” to blackmail powerful figures.
According to the memo, obtained by Axios, the authorities also found that Epstein died by suicide, dismissing the murder theory. In light of this, the Trump administration is planning to release a video — in both raw and “enhanced” versions — that it claims indicates that no one entered the area of the Manhattan prison where Epstein was held the night he died in 2019.
The authorities noted that the video evidence supports the examiner’s finding that Epstein committed suicide, Axios reported. As per the memo, the investigators closely examined the footage of Epstein’s Manhattan prison cell between around 10:40 pm on Aug. 9, 2019, when the convicted sex offender was locked in his cell. He was found unresponsive around 6:30 am the next morning.
DOJ and FBI would make no further disclosure in the case
The administration repeatedly maintained that no one entered the Manhattan prison cell at night. “The FBI enhanced the relevant footage by increasing its contrast, balancing the colour, and improving its sharpness for greater clarity and viewability,” the memo says.
The memo also noted that the investigator found that there was “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.”
Another controversial part of the memo is that the DOJ and FBI said in the memo that no “further disclosure” of Epstein-related material would be appropriate or warranted.” The memo argued that much of the material relates to child sexual abuse, details of Epstein’s victims, and information that would expose innocent individuals to “allegations of wrongdoing.”
“Through this review, we found no basis to revisit the disclosure of those materials and will not permit the release of child pornography,” the memo furthered.
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This was the first time the Trump administration had officially contradicted conspiracy theories about Epstein’s activities and his death. Interestingly, these two theories were actively pushed by the FBI’s top two officials before Trump appointed them to the bureau.
When he was a social media influencer, Kash Patel (now the director of the FBI) and Dan Bongino (now deputy director) were among those in the MAGA world who questioned the official version of how Epstein died. Since then, both Patel and Bongino admitted that the British sex offender died by suicide.
Interestingly, the findings of the DoJ and the FBI were released just weeks after Tesla CEO Elon Musk accused US President Donald Trump of being "in the Epstein files. " In response to this, Trump took to TruthSocial to post a statement from former Epstein lawyer David Schoen, saying Trump wasn’t implicated in any crime. Schoen was the same lawyer who represented Trump during his first impeachment trial.
Musk eventually deleted the tweet in which he hurled the accusations and later admitted that “ he went too far ”. Still, the questions about whether Trump’s name is in the government’s Epstein files have persisted because they had been acquaintances who attended the same parties in the 1990s.
However, the POTUS maintained in 2019 that he was “not a fan of Epstein” and hadn’t “spoken to him for 15 years.” He also said he had barred Epstein from his golf resorts in the early 2000s. However, Democrats have been demanding a deeper dive into the relationship between Trump and Epstein.
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