The Trump administration’s apparent effort to move past Jeffrey Epstein found the late convicted sex offender’s brother sharing his “laugh” at recent unsatisfactory statements.
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Waves were made by President Donald Trump’s Justice Department in recent days after the release of a DOJ memo that declared there to be no “incriminating ‘client list'” regarding the infamous conductor of the “Lolita Express.” At the same time, a video from Epstein’s prison further strained credulity.
While Attorney General Pam Bondi offered up a lackluster explanation to justify a missing minute of footage, it was FBI Director Kash Patel’s testimony affirming the suicide story of the financier that left brother Mark Epstein laughing “at how stupid it was.”
Weighing in on NewsNation’s “Cuomo” after host Chris Cuomo heard BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler’s latest analysis, Epstein was asked, “Mark, you do not believe what the administration, the Trump administration, is putting out about your brother now. Why?”
“Well, every time they say something or do something to try to quash the fact that he was most likely murdered, they just put their foot further down their mouths,” began the brother. “I mean, for instance, Kash Patel in the congressional hearing, you know, he listed his credentials as a prosecutor and other such things, and he said that it was a suicide.”
“He said, ‘You know a suicide when you see it.’ You know, that’s basically what he said,” continued Epstein while referencing remarks that the FBI director had given alongside Deputy Director Dan Bongino during an interview with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo.
“So the question that popped into my mind was, first of all, number one, how many suicides has he seen? Number one. Two, is he a forensic pathologist? Does he have a medical degree? Does he have a certificate that he passed a CPR course? Does he have a Boy Scout merit badge for first aid?” Epstein further snarked. “What is he basing his expertise on?”
“Contrast that to Dr. [Kristin] Roman, who was a city pathologist who did the autopsy; she came out of the autopsy and said she couldn’t call it a suicide because it looked too much like a homicide,” recalled the brother. “Dr. Michael Baden, who was there on my behalf, who witnessed the autopsy, also concurred that it looked more like a homicide than a suicide. Now, was Kash Patel in that autopsy room? No. Was Kash Patel in the prison when they found Jeffrey? No, I don’t think so. And if he was there, that raises even a bigger question.”
“When Kash Patel came out with that statement, I laughed at how stupid it was,” expressed Epstein, who went on to detail the roadblocks that he’d faced in attempting to acquire footage from the facility his brother was being held in on the night of the death.
Regarding the roughly 10 hours of video that had been made public that did not include a view of Jeffrey Epstein’s cell and was missing a minute before the midnight hour, Bondi said during a Tuesday cabinet meeting after President Donald Trump berated a reporter for asking about Epstein given other matters at hand, “[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.”
“And on that, there was a minute that was off the counter, and what we learned from the Bureau of Prisons is that every night, they redo that video, it’s old,” continued the nation’s top cop. “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.”
In addition to her qualifying what she’d actually meant when she’d previously responded, “It’s sitting on my desk right now to review,” when asked specifically about whether the DOJ would be “releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein’s clients,” arguing she meant the entire Epstein file, many challenged the narrative around the video.
As Jason Buttrill, a former intelligence analyst for the Department of Defense, pointed out Tuesday after challenging the veracity of the claim about the missing minute, “… if this was widely known among the Bureau of Prisons; everyone — EVERYONE at that prison — knows that they have around a minute — every night — to do something that will get scrubbed from the record??? Ummm.”
“What this little disclosure reveals is that there is a specific time — every night — the guards know that they can get away with something,” he continued. “She [inadvertently] made this even bigger than it was.”
What this little disclosure reveals is that there is a specific time – every night – the guards know that they can get away with something.
She inadvertantly made this even bigger than it was.
— Jason Buttrill (@JasonButtrill) July 8, 2025
For his part, Cuomo said to Wheeler of Bondi’s statements before asking Mark Epstein for his take, “I don’t think it’s an unforced error. I think it’s absolutely intentional and they believe that you guys will just shut up and go along with whatever they say.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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