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Jeffrey Epstein's case continues years after his death, with new images of Maxwell in prison and a government memo upholds suicide while revealing over 1,000 victims
The fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein files flap is cascading, further roiling a Justice Department and FBI that have struggled for months to appease the demands of far-right conservative personalities and influential members of President Donald Trump’s base.
FBI director Kash Patel was adamant that “the conspiracy theories just aren’t true” amid a brewing MAGA firestorm over notorious sex predator Jeffrey Epstein.
A review of the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein has sparked a conflict between Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, sources say.
FBI Director Kash Patel addressed resignation rumours amid the reported clashes between his deputy, Dan Bongino, and Attorney General Pam Bondi over Epstein files ruling.
It’s hard to believe that not so long ago people actually thought I was a good guy. And now people are ashamed to say they knew me.” That’s what a forlorn Jeffrey Epstein told me just weeks before his July 2019 arrest for sex trafficking of minors and subsequent suicide in his jail cell.
The DOJ also released a video of Epstein’s cell the night he died. The video skips a minute before midnight, however, which led to more speculation about a potential cover-up.
Historian Richard Hofstadter was a pioneer observer of what he called “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” which he described in a 1964 Harper’s Magazine analysis of the use of loose facts and pseudo-facts to build an alternative reality for political ends.