Reporter Asks Pam Bondi About Missing Minute In Epstein Jail Footage
A reporter asked Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday about the missing minute in the released footage of disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on the night that he died.
The digital clock in the footage, released on Monday by the Department of Justice (DOJ), skipped from 11:58:58 p.m. to 12:00 a.m., which has raised questions about what happened to the missing footage. Bondi said during a cabinet meeting that the missing footage is a result of the Metropolitan Correctional Center resetting the cameras every night, and that the DOJ will release more information to show that a minute is missing from the prison’s footage at the same time each night.
“[T]he minute missing from the video, we released the video showing, definitively, the video was not conclusive but the evidence prior to it was, [with it] showing he committed suicide,” Bondi said. “And on that, there was a minute that was off the counter and what we learned from Bureau of Prisons is that every night, they redo that video, it’s old. It’s from like 1999. So every night, the video is reset and every night should have the same minute missing, so we’re looking for that video to release that as well showing that a minute is missing every night.”
President Donald Trump criticized the media for continuing to give Epstein press during a time of crisis in Central Texas, where a flash flood in the Guadalupe River killed over 100 people.
“Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?” Trump asked. “This guy’s been talked about for years. We have Texas, we have this, we all of the things … And are people still talking about this guy? This creep? That is unbelievable … I mean, I can’t believe you’re asking a question about Epstein at a time like this where we’re having some of the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened in Texas. It just seems like a desecration.” (Read more from “Reporter Asks Pam Bondi About Missing Minute In Epstein Jail Footage” HERE)
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