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If it's got thing to bash with Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump doesn't privation to know.
The disgraced financier's sanction has been hitting the headlines erstwhile again implicit the past fewer weeks, six years aft helium committed termination successful prison.
Conspiracy theories astir some his decease successful August 2019 and his catalogue of horrific crimes person tally rampant since past - and now, they surely aren't slowing down.
Amid the changeless speculation astir Epstein's termination being an orchestrated sidesplitting and which celebrities were allegedly incriminated successful his small achromatic book, US authorities stepped in.
In May this year, the FBI announced it would merchandise CCTV footage, which would supposedly 'prove' the 66-year-old took his ain life, weeks aft Epstein's astir vocal accuser, Virginia Giuffre, died.
Bizarrely, Elon Musk past claimed that President Donald Trump was 'in the Epstein files', alleging that's why 'they person not been made public'.
Epstein died successful the Manhattan situation successful August 2019 portion awaiting proceedings (Kypros/Getty Images)
These unsealed documents were portion of a suit filed against Epstein's ex-partner Ghislaine Maxwell successful 2015 by the precocious Virginia Giuffre - and they dwell of documents, videos, and investigative materials.
Musk past started to call for the release of the 'unredacted' files, conscionable days earlier the FBI lived up to its committedness and dropped the footage of Epstein's past moments successful prison.
But for a batch of people, this ended up raising much questions than answers - but frankly, it seems that Donald Trump doesn't privation to speech astir the taxable immoderate longer.
What we cognize astir Epstein footage
The FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) released 11 hours of CCTV footage recorded successful New York's Metropolitan Correctional Centre which captured Epstein's last movements connected film.
It shows the exterior of the compartment helium was confined to portion awaiting proceedings connected a slew of enactment trafficking charges, but the clip is mostly uneventful.
What it did seizure though, was Epstein being walked into the lock-up by situation guards astatine 7:49pm connected 9 August, 2019, hours earlier helium is said to person taken his ain life.
According to the FBI and the DOJ, the information that determination was nary different ft postulation captured successful the footage from this infinitesimal onwards 'proves' that Epstein carried retired the termination himself.
Both judge that this easy debunks theories that the businessman was murdered, arsenic the camera would person seen anyone who went to the doorway and entered the cell.
Eagle-eyed viewers past spotted that there was a missing minute successful the 11-hour video - but according to US Attorney General Pam Bondi, it's simply down to a technological glitch.
She claimed that the 'lost minute' - which takes spot astatine 11.59pm, arsenic the clip switches from 11.58.59pm to midnight - was owed to the correctional facility's outdated system.
"There was a infinitesimal that was disconnected the counter, and what we learned from the Bureau of Prisons is each nighttime they redo that video...every nighttime should person the aforesaid infinitesimal missing," Bondi said, arsenic per ABC News.
Trump shuts down reporter
Trump made it wide helium didn't privation to sermon the taxable (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
During a Cabinet gathering connected Tuesday (8 July), President Trump fundamentally told a newsman to alteration the grounds erstwhile they asked a question astir Epstein.
The writer had tried to inquire Bondi astir wherefore she antecedently stated that Epstein's lawsuit database was 'sat connected her desk' waiting to beryllium reviewed backmost successful February, since officials person since made a U-turn connected this.
However, the commander-in-chief interjected earlier the Attorney General could muster up an reply and coldly unopen down the reporter.
The President said: "Are you inactive talking astir Jeffrey Epstein? This guy's been talked astir for years!
"We person Texas, we person this, we person each of the things that... and are radical inactive talking astir this guy, this creep? That is unbelievable.
"I can't judge you're asking a question connected Epstein astatine a clip similar this, erstwhile we're having immoderate of the top occurrence - and besides tragedy, with what happened successful Texas.
"It conscionable seems similar a desecration."
Why FBI says nary ‘client list’ exists
The disgraced financier, pictured with Ghislaine Maxwell, was rumoured to person an incriminating lawsuit 'list' (Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
After Trump finished giving the newsman a dressing down for daring to inquire a question astir Epstein, Bondi decided to reply the question which was posed to her.
Her remark astir the database being sat connected her table months agone has travel backmost to haunt her, arsenic the FBI and DOJ person present said determination was nary grounds to suggest Epstein owned a ‘client list’ that helium wielded for blackmailing purposes.
"This systematic reappraisal revealed nary incriminating 'client list,'" the study said. "There was besides nary grounds recovered that Epstein blackmailed salient individuals arsenic portion of his actions.
"We did not uncover grounds that could predicate an probe against uncharged 3rd parties."
It went connected to accidental that overmuch of the recovered Epstein worldly showed determination had been thousands of victims and included circumstantial details astir these victims, specified arsenic likeness, places of commencement and associates.
But still, radical can't get their heads astir wherefore Bondi would seemingly allude to the information that the lawsuit database existed - but according to the Attorney General, she simply made a gaffe of the lingua erstwhile she said it.
"In February, I did an interrogation connected Fox, and it’s been getting a batch of attraction due to the fact that I was asked a question astir the lawsuit list," Bondi said.
"My effect was, it’s sitting connected my table to beryllium reviewed - meaning the file, on with the JFK, MLK files arsenic well. That’s what I meant by that."
Elon Musk doesn't look convinced by this though, seeing him share a scathing response connected his societal media platform, X.
