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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Newly uncovered metadata reveals that nearly three minutes of footage were cut from what the US Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation described as "full raw" surveillance video from the only functioning camera near Jeffrey Epstein's prison cell the night before he was found dead.

The video was released last week as part of the Trump administration's commitment to fully investigate Epstein's 2019 death but instead has raised new questions about how the footage was edited and assembled.

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#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-15 07:29 PM | Reply

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#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-15 07:31 PM | Reply

From the link in #2

... Now, WIRED reports that one of the source clips was approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds longer than the segment included in the final video, indicating that footage may have been trimmed before being released by the DOJ. ...


I had thought the DoJ previously stated that there would be a minute missing each day around midnight because needed to be "rebooted" so that it continued to work.

OK, that seemed odd to me on the surface because a surveillance system in a prison is not active routinely each day, even if only for a minute?

But now, it seems like there were close to three minutes of video missing and the remaining video looks like it has been edited?



#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-15 07:49 PM | Reply

Yeah... murdering him in his cell was apparently a 3 min job.

I would suspect Steve Bannon did it, but he's to fat to get around that quickly.

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-15 07:51 PM | Reply

@#4 ... I would suspect ...

At this point, my main concern is ...

Why does the Trump admin seem to be making such a large effort to try to make this conspiracy theory, that Pres Trump had promoted, go away? Wasn't Pres Trump saying is would be a transparent Presidency?

That's what interests me most at this point.



#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-15 08:05 PM | Reply

Lara Trump says White House needs 'more transparency' on Epstein
www.politico.com

... Lara Trump, President Donald Trump's daughter-in-law and former co-chair of the Republican National Committee, said the White House needs to show "more transparency" in its handling of the investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. ...

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-15 08:06 PM | Reply

My guess as to what may happen in the near future ...

The Trump DoJ will release some highly ~sanitized~ files (similar to the apparent ~sanitization~ of the video?) in hopes that the release will quell the uproar.


#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-15 08:07 PM | Reply

This is like Watergate except it is a murder that is being covered up.

And evidence related to the murder victim, evidence that would establish motive, is sitting on the FBI Director's desk.

If Republicans allow this to happen, and they are actively doing that, there won't be an America by the midterms.

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-15 08:09 PM | Reply


PressSec: "President Trump is truly the most transparent & accessible President in American history" (April 2025)
www.whitehouse.gov

So, then, why does he seem to be hiding the Epstein files?

#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-15 08:30 PM | Reply

Where all the MAGATS at??

#10 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-15 10:04 PM | Reply

@#10 ... Where all the MAGATS at?? ...

My guess ...

Hoping, as Pres Trump seems to be, that this topic will disappear in the next news cycle.


#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-15 10:26 PM | Reply

This is like Watergate

Has anyone asked Rose Mary Woods?

#12 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-07-15 10:28 PM | Reply

The Orange Rapist is Calling Friends to Tell Them to STFU About Epstein

talkingpointsmemo.com

#13 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-16 01:56 AM | Reply

@#13 ... Calling Friends to Tell Them to STFU About Epstein ...

So, trying to extinguish the symptom, instead of trying to resolve the problem?


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#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-16 02:40 AM | Reply

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