FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino continued to assert that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide and promised to soon release footage as proof.
Epstein’s suicide has long been under scrutiny, but Bongino echoed FBI Director Kash Patel in his assertion that Epstein died by suicide in prison following an indictment against him that included sex trafficking allegations affecting some 254 victims.
“I’m never going to say we have all of it. People ask me: ‘Are these cases closed?’” Bongino said on Thursday of the Epstein case. “I just want to be crystal clear on this: I am not asking anyone to believe me. I’m telling you what is there and what isn’t. There is nothing in the file at this point on the Epstein case, and there will be a disclosure on this coming shortly — there is video.”
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Bongino clarified that the video is not of the act itself but includes footage just outside of Epstein’s cell.
“There’s video, that when you look at the video — and we will release it. That’s what’s taking a while on this. We’re working to clean it up and we’re going to give the original so you don’t think there are any shenanigans. You’re going to see no one there but him. There’s just nobody there,” Bongino said. “I say to people all the time, ‘If you have a tip, let us know.’ But there’s no DNA, there’s no audio, there’s no fingerprints, there’s no suspects, there’s no accomplices, there’s no tips. There is nothing. If you have it, I’m happy to see it. There is video clear as day, only person in there and only person coming out.”
PATEL ‘NOT GOING TO RUSH’ TO RELEASE EPSTEIN FILES, DOUBLES DOWN ON SEX TRAFFICKER’S SUICIDE
Earlier this year, the Department of Justice, along with the FBI, released roughly 120 pages of declassified details pertaining to Epstein’s associates who were already known years earlier via previous disclosures. While Attorney General Pam Bondi called on the FBI to release further documents the next day, that deadline came and went without any update.
In a letter he penned earlier this month, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) accused Bondi of intentionally delaying the release of more documents for “President Trump’s personal interest.”