Trump's FBI hawk Dan Bongino reveals more details of video showing how Jeffrey Epstein REALLY died in prison
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FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino revealed Wednesday more details of a video that he says proves that Jeffery Epstein killed himself in his cell in the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York City.
'The evidence we have in our files clearly indicates that it was, in fact, a suicide. We do have video,' Bongino said in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity.
Bongino said the video proved there was a time period in which Epstein was alone.
'The video does show in that specific block that he goes in, made a phone call. You'll see 12 hours of guards going to basically check on him, come back,' he said. 'You'll see no one really comes out in that bay, in that area than him. There's no one in there.'
He conceded the Epstein case was 'a hot potato for folks' but also cautioned people against putting too much emphasis on the video he was preparing to release.
'It's not the greatest video in the world. I don't want to set expectations on fire.'
Bongino said he was still compiling evidence in the case and preparing it for release in the 'coming weeks' to demonstrate the Epstein committed suicide, and was not killed by some kind of nefarious third party.
'When you combine that with the other evidence where we will be releasing in the coming weeks, we're still finalizing some of the products, I think it's pretty clear,' he said.
Bongino's claims surrounding Epstein's death have triggered skepticism from people who have long believed that the wealthy billionaire was murdered because of his knowledge of secrets and incriminating evidence of wealthy and powerful people -even as high as former President Bill Clinton.
Investigations conclude Epstein died by hanging in is jail cell with an orange noose created from a either a shirt or a shirt while he was awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges while he was alone in his cell.
But details surrounding the case, especially reports of security footage failures of Epstein have continued to fuel speculation that he was secretly murdered.
His brother Mark Epstein, has also raised questions about the details surrounding the case, refusing to believe the results of the official investigation.
'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 brother told the Daily Mail this week. 'Somebody could've got in to Jeff's cell and killed him,' he says.
Powerful podcast hosts and media figures continue stoking questions surrounding the case.
Journalist Glenn Greenwald raised questions about the case in an interview with Tucker Carlson last week, noting that people who were involved with Epstein and traveled to his island remain untouched by federal law enforcement.
'There people to whom he trafficked minors because he was charged with sex trafficking, but nobody has been charged with being the recipient of that sex trafficking,' he said.
Greenwald also focused on the details of the plea deal reached with Epstein after several minor girls told police that Epstein hired them to give sexual massages.
In 2006, Palm Beach police moved to charge Epstein with multiple counts of unlawful sex with a minor but the case was sent to a grand jury by Florida State Attorney Barry Krischer.
Federal prosecutors prepared to indict Epstein, but the U.S. attorney in Miami, Alexander Acosta, reached a plea bargain with him.
Epstein pleaded guilty to one count of soliciting prostitution and one count of soliciting prostitution from someone under the age of 18 and was sentenced to just 18 months in jail. Most of his sentence was served in a work-release program.
The puzzling plea deal indicated that Epstein had the highest connections available to keep him from more serious prosecution that would have sent him to jail for decades.
When Acosta was drafted in the first Trump administration to serve as the Secretary of Labor, a senior Trump official told Daily Beast reporter Vicky Ward they asked about his connection to the Epstein plea deal.
'I was told Epstein "belonged to intelligence" and to leave it alone,' he replied.
'Something was going on there,' Greenwald told Carlson.
Carlson said that he was a friend of Bongino's but that the lack of transparency in the Department of Justice was troubling.
'I'm a friend of Bungino's and I do think that will come out, but I think big picture DOJ is making a huge mistake, huge mistake in promising to reveal things and then not revealing them,' he said.
