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DOJ, FBI conclude Epstein had no “client list,” committed suicide

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 committed 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 committed suicide. 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.)

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Mystery surrounds the Jeffrey Epstein files after Bondi claims ‘tens of thousands’ of videos

It was a surprising statement from Attorney General Pam Bondi as the Trump administration promises to release more files from its sex trafficking investigation of Jeffrey Epstein: The FBI, she said, was reviewing “tens of thousands of videos” of the wealthy financier “with children or child porn.”

The comment, made to reporters at the White House days after a similar remark to a stranger with a hidden camera, raised the stakes for President Donald Trump’s administration to prove it has in its possession previously unseen compelling evidence. That task is all the more pressing after an earlier document dump that Bondi hyped angered elements of Trump’s base by failing to deliver new bombshells and as administration officials who had promised to unlock supposed secrets of the so-called government “deep state” struggle to fulfill that pledge.

Yet weeks after Bondi’s remarks, it remains unclear what she was referring to.

The Associated Press spoke with lawyers and law enforcement officials in criminal cases of Epstein and socialite former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell who said they hadn’t seen and didn’t know of a trove of recordings like what Bondi described. Indictments and detention memos do not reference the existence of videos of Epstein with children, and neither was charged with possession of child sex abuse material even though that offense would have been much easier to prove than the sex trafficking counts they faced.

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Jeffrey Epstein’s Top Criminal Attorney Reveals what Epstein Said About Donald Trump Days Before His Death – Following Musk’s Allegations

Attorney David Schoen revealed on Thursday what Epstein told him about Donald Trump days before he committed suicide.

On Thursday, business titan Elon Musk and President Donald Trump went after each other with a vengeance very publicly following Musk’s vocal rejection of the Republican Party’s One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB).

For several days Elon Musk has made public his disdain for the One Big Beautiful Bill that President Trump is pushing to cut taxes, cut the trade deficit, keep power away from Democrats, and bring jobs to America.

Today, tension between Trump and Elon Musk boiled over after the President responded to Elon’s trashing of the Big Beautiful Bill and its spending levels, sparking a very public feud between the two business giants.

Things really went off the rails when Elon Musk accused President Trump of being involved in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

Elon followed up the tweet with “Mark this post for the future. The truth will come out.”

But Elon was not done yet. Musk later tweeted out video of President Trump speaking with Jeffrey Epstein at a Nar-a-Lago party in 1992 with NFL cheerleaders.

On Thursday evening, Attorney David Schoen went public and revealed what Jeffrey Epstein told him about Donald Trump before his death in August 2019.

According to Schoen, who led Epstein’s defense as his criminal lawyer 9 days before he died.

Schoen says, “I can say authoritatively, unequivocally, and definitively that he had no information to hurt President Trump. I specifically asked him!”

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Chris Cuomo Has a Bombshell Theory on Why Trump Is So Quiet About Musk’s Epstein Claim

Donald Trump is unusually quiet after Elon Musk accused him of being “in the Epstein files.”

Why?

Chris Cuomo recently dropped a bombshell theory—and it makes complete sense. If he’s right, this feud could explode into something much bigger.

Elon Musk alleged on Thursday, “@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That’s the real reason they haven’t been made public.”

He said this shortly after Trump posted that Musk was “wearing thin” and that he “asked him to leave,” adding Musk went “crazy” after losing the EV mandate.

But Musk didn’t stop there.

At 4:14 PM Eastern, he quote-tweeted a post linking Trump to Jeffrey Epstein. His only comment? A single raised eyebrow emoji.

The post claimed Trump flew on Epstein’s plane at least 7 times, though there’s no proof he visited the island.

It also highlighted a 2002 New York Magazine quote where Trump described Epstein as “a terrific guy” who “likes beautiful women… on the younger side.”

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Elon Musk drops ‘really big bomb,’ accuses Trump of being in Epstein files as public brawl escalates

Elon Musk went low in his rapidly escalating feud with President Trump on Thursday, accusing him of withholding information from the public about infamous sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein because it would implicate Trump himself.

“Time to drop the really big bomb,” Musk posted on X after a multi-hour tirade against the president. “@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files.”

“That is the real reason they have not been made public,” he claimed. “Have a nice day, DJT!”

The Justice Department in February released more than 100 pages of Epstein’s phone contacts and flight logs in a “Phase One” disclosure that disappointed internet sleuths hoping for bombshell revelations.

The disgraced financier’s association with Trump has been known for years as the two were videotaped and photographed together at parties in the 1990s, and the initial batch of DOJ-released files revealed the president’s name in flight logs as well as some family members — including Trump’s first wife, Ivana, and daughter Ivanka — as Epstein contacts.

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Jeffrey Epstein’s brother slams FBI director for saying pedophile died by suicide: He has ‘no idea what the f—k he’s talking about’

Jeffrey Epstein’s brother is refusing to accept that his pedophile brother died by suicide — angrily attacking FBI Director Kash Patel for dismissing long-running conspiracy theories that it could have been a murder.

Patel “wasn’t there, he didn’t see the body, he didn’t see the autopsy,” Mark Epstein told the Daily Mail of his brother’s death in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

“[He has] no idea what the f—k he’s talking about,” he said of Patel dismissing the possibility that the pedophile’s death was anything but suicide.

“It would be a lot easier for me if I thought it was suicide, but there’s a long list of things that point away from it,” the younger Epstein said.

Epstein’s fiery comments come after Patel and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino declared the sexual predator took his own life at the notorious Big Apple lockup in 2019, putting a lid on conspiracy theorists who have long claimed he was murdered.

“Listen, they have a right to their opinion,” Patel told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” about skeptics of his assessment.

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Huawei Hires Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Dark Arts’ Spin Doctor To Beat Off Trump Ban

Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies has hired the former public relations firm of sex predators Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein as it fights against Trump administration efforts to ban the use of its computer chips over espionage and national security concerns.

Sitrick Group, owned by veteran publicist Michael S. Sitrick, registered this month as a foreign agent of Huawei and its American subsidiary FutureWei, according to documents filed with the Department of Justice. Sitrick, who calls himself one of the “most accomplished practitioners of the dark arts of public relations,” will provide “strategic counsel, media relations, analyst relations, data insights, content strategy, and public communications” for Huawei at a rate of $75,000 per month, according to a contract disclosed to the Department of Justice.

It could signal that Huawei—and its overseers in the Chinese Communist Party—are taking a new approach to fighting U.S. government sanctions against the company. American officials have warned for years that the CCP uses Huawei to conduct espionage and surveil critics of China’s government. The Trump administration issued a warning to tech companies last week that using Huawei chips would “violate U.S. export controls” issued against the Chinese firm. The Chinese government shot back that it will take “resolute measures” against the United States for blacklisting its chips.

Sitrick, whose memoir is entitled The Fixer, has represented thousands of clients, including companies like PepsiCo and McDonald’s and actresses Halle Berry and Kim Basinger. He’s also represented some controversial names in his nearly 40 years in the PR business.

Weinstein hired Sitrick’s firm in 2017 after the Hollywood mogul had been accused of sexual offenses. Dozens of women later accused Weinstein of sexual assault. Sitrick executive Sallie Hofmeister, a former reporter for the Los Angeles Times, served as Weinstein’s primary publicist and issued statements on behalf of Weinstein that “any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied.” Weinstein is serving life in prison following several rape convictions. Sitrick Group resigned from representing Weinstein in April 2018. Hofmeister is listed as a Sitrick Group representative on the Huawei account, according to documents filed with the Department of Justice.

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Kash and Bongino losing trust over Epstein

This past weekend on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, FBI director Kash Patel and his deputy, Dan Bongino, made a stunning declaration: Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide.  That was it.  Case closed.  Bongino even said he’s “seen the file,” as if that alone should convince the American people to move on.

But that’s not how this works.

I couldn’t tell if I was watching an interview or a hostage video.

The public doesn’t owe Patel and Bongino blind trust, especially not on a matter this explosive.  In fact, their appearance on Bartiromo’s show torpedoed their credibility.

Epstein wasn’t just another inmate.  He was a nexus of corruption, intelligence, and elite abuse — someone whose connections spanned elites, presidents, royalty, billionaires, and spies.  His death was either one of the most spectacular security failures in modern history — or something far darker.  And no number of official titles or vague references to secret documents should shut down public scrutiny.

Americans have good reason to be suspicious.  Epstein’s death was a hall of mirrors from the start.  There weren’t just a few oddities; there was an avalanche of contradictions and red flags.  Yet Bongino and Patel simply want you to trust what they say their eyes saw.

Nope.  Sorry.

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‘I call bullsh**’: Kash Patel and Dan Bongino hammered for claiming Epstein DID kill himself and downplaying Trump assassination attempts

FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino are facing fierce criticism for asserting convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein indeed killed himself in jail, and also downplaying concerns about the assassination attempts on President Donald Trump.

As WorldNetDaily reported, Maria Bartiromo of Fox News on “Sunday Morning Futures” asked both officials why many Americans don’t buy the government assertion that Epstein committed suicide in a New York City holding facility.

“They have a right to their opinion,” Patel said, “but as someone who has worked as a public defender, as a prosecutor who’s been in that prison system, who’s been in the Metropolitan Detention Center, who’s been in segregated housing, you know a suicide when you see one, and that’s what that was.”

Bongino said: “He killed himself. I’ve seen the whole file. He killed himself.”

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Reporter Asks Karoline Leavitt About Clinton Suicides and Epstein’s Ties to Israeli Intelligence Agencies After Trump Posts Video Tying the Clintons to Multiple Alleged Suicides

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt received a somewhat explosive question during Monday’s press briefing when a Zero Hedge reporter highlighted the bizarre deaths of associates of former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton and “the most famous Clinton-related suicide.” 

Many who have been close to the Clinton family have allegedly died mysteriously or “committed suicide” over the years.

This includes deceased pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, with whom Bill Clinton partied on Epstein’s pedophile island. Clinton made at least 27 trips on Jeffrey Epstein’s private plane. Most of those flights were with underage girls.

The Gateway Pundit has reported on a complete list of Clinton associates who died mysteriously or committed suicide before their public testimony. The list contains nearly 50 names.

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