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AXIOS: DOJ, FBI conclude Epstein had no "client list," died by suicide (7/7/2025)

[quote]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.

[quote]Patel and Bongino have since said Epstein killed himself. 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.

[quote]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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[quote]Investigators found "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," the memo adds.

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[quote]When Elon Musk had a falling out with Trump last month, Musk accused the president of being "in the Epstein files."

[quote]Trump posted on Truth Social a statement from former Epstein lawyer David Schoen, saying Trump wasn't implicated in any crime. Schoen had also represented Trump in his first impeachment trial.

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[quote]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.

[quote]In a 2017 interview with author Michael Wolff, Epstein even claimed that at one point he was "Donald Trump's closest friend."

[quote]Trump, however, said 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.

[quote][bold]The DOJ and FBI say in the memo that no "further disclosure" of Epstein-related material "would be appropriate or warranted.”[/bold]

[quote]The memo says 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."

[quote]"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 says.

Sure, okay, sounds legit.

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by Anonymousreply 94July 12, 2025 4:07 AM

[quote]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.

[quote]The video supports a medical examiner's finding that Epstein died by suicide, the two-page memo claims.

[quote]According to the memo, investigators closely examined footage of Epstein's Manhattan prison cell between around 10:40 pm on Aug. 9, 2019, when Epstein was locked in his cell, and around 6:30 am the next day, when he was found unresponsive.

[quote]According to the memo, investigators closely examined footage of Epstein's Manhattan prison cell between around 10:40 pm on Aug. 9, 2019, when Epstein was locked in his cell, and around 6:30 am the next day, when he was found unresponsive.

[quote]The footage, which was reviewed by Axios but couldn't be verified independently, showed no one entering the area, the administration said.

[quote]"The FBI enhanced the relevant footage by increasing its contrast, balancing the color, and improving its sharpness for greater clarity and viewability," the memo says.

[quote]The footage, which was reviewed by Axios but couldn't be verified independently, showed no one entering the area, the administration said.

[quote]"The FBI enhanced the relevant footage by increasing its contrast, balancing the color, and improving its sharpness for greater clarity and viewability," the memo says.

by Anonymousreply 1July 7, 2025 10:26 AM

Apologies for duplicate copy/pasting at R1.

by Anonymousreply 2July 7, 2025 10:28 AM

Pam Bondi and Kash Patel successfully cover for the orange rapist.

by Anonymousreply 3July 7, 2025 10:42 AM

The bullshit is getting so deep it's amazing people can still walk through it.

Thanks for posting, OP.

by Anonymousreply 4July 7, 2025 10:43 AM

Then where are all those videos he took at his NYC mansion? All those massage room vids with underaged girls?

by Anonymousreply 5July 7, 2025 10:45 AM

Golly, I remember Pam Bondi going on TV just a couple of months ago and telling the world she was in possession of the Epstein client list and was going through it.

Suddenly, there's no client list! Golly, how did that happen?

by Anonymousreply 6July 7, 2025 10:46 AM

So Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in prison for helping Epstein traffic...no one?

by Anonymousreply 7July 7, 2025 10:47 AM

I'll admit it. I didn't expect them to go "There is no list" after years of people talking about the list. It's a bit frightening that they are comfortable with going with such a brazen lie instead of releasing something redacted or whatever.

by Anonymousreply 8July 7, 2025 11:09 AM

Exactly, R7, I hope she’s calling up her lawyers before she “commits suicide” too.

by Anonymousreply 9July 7, 2025 11:13 AM

As someone posted on Twitter, "So it looks like Jeffrey Epstein turned out to be just a misunderstood party planner."

by Anonymousreply 10July 7, 2025 11:17 AM

Elon is getting sassy again. Time to put up or shut up.

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by Anonymousreply 11July 7, 2025 11:21 AM

So this'll be like the Warren Commission on JFK's death. Oswald acted alone, case closed. The world accepted this with respectful interest, and went about its business. Oh, wait...

by Anonymousreply 12July 7, 2025 11:24 AM

[quote] The FBI enhanced the relevant footage by increasing its contrast, balancing the color, and improving its sharpness for greater clarity and viewability," the memo says.

In other words, what anyone learns in Photoshop 101, Day 2.

by Anonymousreply 13July 7, 2025 11:30 AM

R11 Yes, is Musky really has Epstein shit on Trump, he needs to release it now.

My guess is Musky, like Trump, lies a lot, though.

by Anonymousreply 14July 7, 2025 11:30 AM

But they had binders full of names!

by Anonymousreply 15July 7, 2025 11:33 AM

R15 Fake news. I never said anything such thing. You liberals are such liars.

by Anonymousreply 16July 7, 2025 11:36 AM

Such bullshit.

by Anonymousreply 17July 7, 2025 11:39 AM

[quote]My guess is Musky, like Trump, lies a lot, though.

Useful to sow simmering doubt though, to rile the official felon. Then again, nothing - nothing - ever seems to harm Trump. He's always behaved as though untouchable, and wildly annoyed when his deal with Satan is challenged.

by Anonymousreply 18July 7, 2025 11:43 AM

Epstein didn't have the cards!

by Anonymousreply 19July 7, 2025 11:47 AM

R5 Mossad has them probably, the US secret services or both. ( I am not some nut who believes that "the Jews" control us. There are many indications that point into the direction that Epatein was a plant and the system they let him build was an elaborate trap. How he ever become a hedge fund manager is wild, and how he got the first chunk of money to play with even more so. There are tons of posts and videos about it - dig into that rabbit hole yourself. Anyway: it is plausible that this is bigger than what we see. I am also co Vince's that Trump is no aupervillain in this but a useful idiot with his own interest in covering this up. Which of course absolutely goes into the direction the ones who set up the Epstein system want it to go .

by Anonymousreply 20July 7, 2025 11:47 AM

Oh, so the FBI and DOJ, according, to Bondi and Patel has been awash with politics, corruption and incompetence, but now that the evidence gathered by those same Bozos doesn't implicate Trump, suddenly they have all the credibility in the world.

Got it.

by Anonymousreply 21July 7, 2025 11:53 AM

We've always been at war with Eastasia.

by Anonymousreply 22July 7, 2025 12:00 PM

So Pam (“I’ve got the effing List, assholes!) Bondi suddenly realized that if she just released pages 321 (Bill Clinton) and 455 (Prince Andrew), people weren’t necessarily gonna believe that the intervening 134 pages (DJT, soaked in urine) were either all empty or just Epstein’s cookie recipes.

by Anonymousreply 23July 7, 2025 12:14 PM

Maybe Epstein had a teen fetish which didn’t really involve blackmailing others. Maybe not all the celebrities he was involved with had the same fetish. Maybe some were ok with sex with young women but not minors. All the names of those involved are out there already. I’m not sure what some magical list would prove.

by Anonymousreply 24July 7, 2025 12:20 PM

“I have it on my desk right now… Promises made, promises kept!” 🤡

by Anonymousreply 25July 7, 2025 1:04 PM

I thought his NYC townhouse and Pedo Island were wired for sound and videotape.

by Anonymousreply 26July 7, 2025 1:14 PM

r20 r21 r24 r25

by Anonymousreply 27July 7, 2025 1:14 PM

It’s because Trump and Clinton are on the list.

by Anonymousreply 28July 7, 2025 1:24 PM

It's because Trump is on the list.

by Anonymousreply 29July 7, 2025 1:26 PM

Sure, Jan. This reminds me of the announcement after Frank Sinatra died that the FBI concluded he had nothing to do with the mafia.

by Anonymousreply 30July 7, 2025 1:37 PM

We all saw the FBI raiding Epsteins' townhouse and removing boxes and boxes of sized evidence.

This is just pure gas lighting.

My hope is that some hacker or brave individual leaks all of it.

And expect that blond Christian spokescunt will get the Tulsi treatment.

by Anonymousreply 31July 7, 2025 1:50 PM

I truly don’t care about anything Epstein related. But it is sad that I now reflexively believe the opposite of any ‘conclusions’ that come out of this DOJ & FBI. I never felt this before. How far we have fallen as a country.

by Anonymousreply 32July 7, 2025 1:50 PM

R32 Well, it certainly doesn't help that Pam Bondi publicly stated she had the Epstein list and was reviewing it, and now she's saying a list doesn't exist.

I mean, for fuck's sake.

by Anonymousreply 33July 7, 2025 1:55 PM

Elon probably has copies of all the Epstein files. Trump stupidity gave him access to everything.

by Anonymousreply 34July 7, 2025 2:13 PM

[quote] I truly don’t care about anything Epstein related. But it is sad that I now reflexively believe the opposite of any ‘conclusions’ that come out of this DOJ & FBI. I never felt this before. How far we have fallen as a country.

R32 wait a second... You trusted any secret service in the first place? Anywhere in the world? Not only is their very purpose to do things in secret and lie about it, they always did their own thing and perousefully misled the public, even the representatives. Abu Greib? The NSU murders in Germany? Stalin's, Ceaucescu's, Putin's machine, .. (Putin, who his secret service likely got into power with a false flag operation) ... Before I believe anything a spokesperson of any secret service says, I would believe the pope.

by Anonymousreply 35July 7, 2025 2:13 PM

[quote]"So... umm... then what is Ghislaine Maxwell in prison for?" Musk posted to his X platform, referring to Epstein's former girlfriend and associate who procured underage girls for him to abuse.

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by Anonymousreply 36July 7, 2025 3:35 PM

MAGAT's are pissed. They're trashing Bondi, Patel and Bongino

by Anonymousreply 37July 7, 2025 3:50 PM

Even magats (by definition retarded) wont swallow this.

by Anonymousreply 38July 7, 2025 4:01 PM

Why isn't pedo warrior Cro-Marge speaking out about this?

by Anonymousreply 39July 7, 2025 4:06 PM

Gee, it’s good to be da king.

by Anonymousreply 40July 7, 2025 4:13 PM

Why would MAGATs be pissed if it exonerated their Cult Leader?

by Anonymousreply 41July 7, 2025 4:17 PM

At this point, we should all know that the truth is the direct opposite of what is spoken.

by Anonymousreply 42July 7, 2025 4:29 PM

That is SO preposterous. Everybody and their grandma know there is a client list and that was not even part of the conversation. Never. What was part of the conversation was who was on it and who wasn't. If anything the whole DOJ FBI denial only reinforces the idea that Trump IS indeed in this list. Even the MAGA hordes can see right through this BS.

by Anonymousreply 43July 7, 2025 4:41 PM

I think the magats are mad because they were hoping the list would take down the Clintons and maybe Obama or just any democrat on their shit list.

by Anonymousreply 44July 7, 2025 4:43 PM

But where are the MASSAGE videos from the NYC Epstein Mansion?

The ones they did the roman à clef, SVU episode about.

S12.E15 : Flight

I wouldn't be a surprise if Mark Burnett himself wrote the episode under a fake name.

by Anonymousreply 45July 7, 2025 4:51 PM

gotta love DOJ’s inverted phrasology

the DOJ’s unrevealed-list proves the clients’ innocence -- said the go-grease-lightning "systematic"

“The systematic review revealed no incriminating ‘client list.’”

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by Anonymousreply 46July 7, 2025 4:56 PM

Magats will come up with some excuse for why Trump is "protecting" the Demoncrats on the list, never pausing for even a second to consider that the only person he's protecting is himself.

by Anonymousreply 47July 7, 2025 4:58 PM

It's obvious, because it's being "memory-holed" by Trump's evil minions, that Trump is indeed on the list.

by Anonymousreply 48July 7, 2025 5:04 PM

[quote]1 MINUTE IS MISSING FROM EPSTEIN SECURITY FOOTAGE 💀

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by Anonymousreply 49July 7, 2025 5:50 PM

[quote]Also 😭😭 "Hallway did not have epstein door in the field of view" 💀

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by Anonymousreply 50July 7, 2025 5:50 PM

LOL what if this is thing that finally breaks the spell Trump has over his cult, and simultaneously returns liberals to being government skeptics?

by Anonymousreply 51July 7, 2025 6:28 PM

Musk would have been smart to snag a copy of the Epstein files for himself while he was stealing every other government record. Then he could sell the info to Iran or something.

by Anonymousreply 52July 7, 2025 11:12 PM

JD Vance can't wait for that Epstein list to be released!

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by Anonymousreply 53July 8, 2025 12:41 AM

[quote]AXIOS: DOJ, FBI conclude Epstein had no "client list," died by suicide

And they wonder why people still have suspicions about Lee Harvey Oswald.

by Anonymousreply 54July 8, 2025 12:45 AM

Who says he hasn't r52. I despise him but I hope he has.

by Anonymousreply 55July 8, 2025 1:17 AM

Gonna release those files any day now!

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by Anonymousreply 56July 8, 2025 2:52 AM

That tweet has already been deleted, R56. What did it say?

by Anonymousreply 57July 8, 2025 2:54 AM

Donald Trump is a child molestor.

by Anonymousreply 58July 8, 2025 3:17 AM

Epstein was arrested on Trumps watch. Died under Trumps watch. And the coverup on Trumps watch.

by Anonymousreply 59July 9, 2025 2:21 PM

He died of natural causes!

by Anonymousreply 60July 9, 2025 2:24 PM

I was looking at Twitter last night and noticed that MAGA is not letting Trump or Pam Bondi off the hook for this one.

by Anonymousreply 61July 9, 2025 3:43 PM

R61 only because they want certain Democrats to go down

by Anonymousreply 62July 9, 2025 4:56 PM

Someone post the maggot screeds attacking Boingo and KKKrazy eyed Patel.

I need some entertainment.

by Anonymousreply 63July 9, 2025 5:41 PM

Roseanne is outraged!

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by Anonymousreply 64July 10, 2025 4:50 AM

Remember Rose Mary Woods and the missing 18 minutes of tape?

by Anonymousreply 65July 10, 2025 6:00 AM
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by Anonymousreply 66July 10, 2025 6:50 AM

R66 Truth.

by Anonymousreply 67July 10, 2025 11:20 AM

R65 and that was just Nixon listening to Alice’s Restaurant!

by Anonymousreply 68July 10, 2025 11:33 AM

Senator Ron Wyden isn't letting it go; he's seen enough to call bullshit on the Trump-Bondi regime.

by Anonymousreply 69July 10, 2025 1:03 PM
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by Anonymousreply 70July 10, 2025 1:52 PM

[quote] Roseanne is outraged!

Is Roseanne not aware that Trump himself is most likely on that list?

by Anonymousreply 71July 10, 2025 7:11 PM

No doubt all of the Epstein records have been destroyed by now.

by Anonymousreply 72July 10, 2025 7:44 PM

So Prince Andrew was Epstein's only client?

by Anonymousreply 73July 10, 2025 8:51 PM

Bongino looks to be on his way out. How many Scaramuccis was that?

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by Anonymousreply 74July 11, 2025 8:26 PM

Aaron Rupar:

Don Bongino desperately misses the attention that comes with being an online shitposter and is bored to death having a real job. If he resigns, that's why.

by Anonymousreply 75July 11, 2025 8:33 PM

Epstein's death by suicide is almost as big a joke as the "assassination attempts" on Trump last summer.

Neither one of them could be further from the truth. But Americans are lapdogs and believe what they are told by their cult leader.

by Anonymousreply 76July 11, 2025 8:40 PM

Think about it. No one in America likes pedophiles, whether you’re left, right or center. Releasing the information and acting on it would be perhaps one of the only things that would have bipartisan support. Why would you not want to release the info?

by Anonymousreply 77July 11, 2025 11:22 PM

He had a black book, the names and # of people in it has already been published.

by Anonymousreply 78July 11, 2025 11:25 PM

Link, R78?

by Anonymousreply 79July 12, 2025 12:23 AM

[quote]Speaking on The Sean Spicer Show in March, Alan Dershowitz, a longtime criminal defense attorney, said he knew the names of individuals referenced in confidential Epstein files and claimed those names are being deliberately withheld.

[quote]On Thursday Spicer reshared the interview on X, formerly Twitter, in light of renewed interest in the case. It has racked up 1.5 million views at the time of writing.

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by Anonymousreply 80July 12, 2025 12:59 AM

[quote]Patel is also reportedly thinking about resigning if Bongino does.

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by Anonymousreply 81July 12, 2025 1:00 AM

[quote]A part of the Epstein nothing-to-see-here fiasco no one's talking about: what happened to the "army of FBI agents" pulled off their cases in March to work on the Epstein files? Pam Bondi made people move to DC, pull all-nighters redacting the files. Did they just.. go home

[quote]Bloomberg: Pam Bondi demanded all the FBI's Epstein files, then ordered "hundreds" of agents to work on them (bizarrely via their personal phones). They were "holed up in offices at the bureau’s sprawling Central Records Complex". Are they still there?

[quote]The public should know what happened to Bondi's redaction effort, when and why (and if) the decision was made to send FBI agents home. And if she won't answer maybe one of those hundreds of agents is mad enough to leak. Keep your eye on who is next laid off at the FBI, too

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by Anonymousreply 82July 12, 2025 1:03 AM

[quote]DOJ, FBI sitting on ‘treasure trove’ of Epstein information, victim attorney says

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by Anonymousreply 83July 12, 2025 1:06 AM

R79, the "black book" was an exhibit at Ghislaine Maxwell's trial and is (largely) in the public record.

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by Anonymousreply 84July 12, 2025 1:08 AM
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by Anonymousreply 85July 12, 2025 1:12 AM

celebs don't like to pay and this man had a private plane and he flew those cheapos around for free, that's how clinton, and others names appeared on the flights. They were flown to AIDS related charity events (one of them) If my memory serves...

by Anonymousreply 86July 12, 2025 1:13 AM

This just showed up on my Twitter feed:

[quote]If you or anyone you know has information involving Jeffrey Epstein that ties back to my jurisdiction, contact our office. We don’t care how rich or connected they are.

It will be interesting to see if he goes anywhere with this.

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by Anonymousreply 87July 12, 2025 1:38 AM

Link to Twitter post at R87.

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by Anonymousreply 88July 12, 2025 1:38 AM

It never fails to amaze me how MAGA is obsessed with child sex trafficking but they refuse to believe that Trump could be involved. Even without a list (as if Epstein would keep an Excel file called "Client List") the FBI knows who his clients were and probably created lists of those clients. I don't know how much Ghislaine spilled, but it's public knowledge that Trump was on Epstein's plane 20 times. Does MAGA think those were for charity events? We know his sex trafficking clients were Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and Alan Hershowitz, with probably many more high level people, and they don't want to release the information because it would create a shitstorm. There is a reason why Trump said, "I wish Ghislaine well" -- he knows that she could sink him but she probably stays quiet so she isn't killed.

by Anonymousreply 89July 12, 2025 1:57 AM

I ONLY GOT A MASSAGE FROM AN OLD RUSSIAN WOMAN!!!!

by Anonymousreply 90July 12, 2025 3:07 AM

[quote]r89 = she probably stays quiet so she isn't killed

Ya think???

by Anonymousreply 91July 12, 2025 3:18 AM

I don't know him

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by Anonymousreply 92July 12, 2025 3:50 AM

R89 And Bill Richardson. Former Governor of New Mexico, where Epstein had a property.

by Anonymousreply 93July 12, 2025 3:58 AM

And was it Epstein's dad who worked with Bill Barr?

by Anonymousreply 94July 12, 2025 4:07 AM
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