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FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said on Fox News Thursday morning that he is certain Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, died by suicide while in federal custody — and there is video that supports it.

"There is nothing in the file at this point on the Epstein case — and there is going to be a disclosure on this coming shortly... there is video. That is something the public does not know," Bongino said in an interview on Fox & Friends.

Bongino clarified that the video in question does not show the "actual act" but proves that Epstein was the only person who came in or out of his cell on the night he died, on August 10, 2019.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago

They just needed 'deepfake' tech to become more advanced, otherwise they would have released it earlier. /s

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Who cares about the video, release the investigation and names of people involve.

A high profile running a rape operation on US soils and they are scared to share info about it.

Land of the free

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

We already know Trump went to the island several times, but that didn't stop people from voting for him.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do they have proof that guards who were suppose to be watching him have a good excuse for allowing it to have happened?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Exactly what I thought.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've seen the video! It's proof! They even got his prison MS13 hand tat, you can see all the letters of "MISS13" in Calibri font clearly on his six fingers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Damn that's good lol.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They will present it when they can remove the Google AI logos off all frames.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Also in two weeks

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The lead sentence there cracks me up…deputy FBI director DAN BONGINO LOL.

What a joke this government is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

cocky want DAN BONGINO

[–] [email protected] 278 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I don't wanna be that guy but it's funny to me that this is suddenly true after many statements that there is no video and after GenAI/deepfake has hit the mainstream.

[–] [email protected] 184 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don’t want to be that guy either but it’s also after the guy with known ties to Epstein is the President again and appointed his zealot to run the FBI.

All of it is probably coincidence and/or incompetence but god damn are they making it look like a coverup.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Very convenient that it's revealed so long after he was killed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

And at a time where the perps can fully control the narrative and after DOGE destroyed all the evidence.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

Very convenient he dies in the end of Trump presidency 1, followed by four years of nothing, Trump gets reelected and suddenly there's evidence he killed himself.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago

After AI video generation got much better.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 147 points 4 days ago (2 children)

They just had to wait for generative AI to get good enough first!

[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That’s what I immediately thought. Like how else would you benefit from waiting so long to release it after saying there was no footage.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 days ago (9 children)

They release the tape

Epstein sits alone on the bed in his cell wearing a fancy golf shirt and jeans, the standard prison uniform, according to the FBI

He reaches for a burlap rope from his Acme toolbox with all three of his arms.

As he ties the rope around his neck, his face slowly appears to morph into different actors from royalty-free stock videos.

Once he secured the leather belt around his neck, the couch he was sitting on vanished underneath him, concluding his demise.

Several minutes later, the guards burst through the door to Mr JEFPY ESTÆN's cell. They realize they are too late and conga line dance out of the prison.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Not likely, it's too easy to distinguish from the real thing. Staging the same cell and manipulating the timestamps in the video is much easier.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is what chain of custody is for. Without documentation of origin and history of the videos, they are worthless and prove nothing.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 4 days ago

How many fingers does he have in the video?

[–] [email protected] 158 points 4 days ago (19 children)

So they admit that they just straight up violated suicide watch rules?

[–] [email protected] 118 points 4 days ago

and that they've been hiding evidence

[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 days ago

This really doesn't help the FBI's case at all.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Even if he did he was persuaded to do by threat of torture. Quit lying to us and release his client list

[–] [email protected] 67 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Gee... it only took them this long to AI this film. Proof.

Kind of like a tattooed knuckle, huh?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

"It very clearly said MS13 in the letters above the pictures."

[–] [email protected] 117 points 4 days ago

Bongino clarified that the video in question does not show the "actual act" but proves that Epstein was the only person who came in or out of his cell on the night he died, on August 10, 2019.

So there is NOT video. And this is an absolute lie.

Cool. Moving on, then.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I've seen law abiding citizen, yo.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago

Has he "MS-13" on his fingers?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

If by suicide, he meant "assisted suicide"

[–] [email protected] 70 points 4 days ago

proves that Epstein was the only person who came in or out of his cell on the night he died, on August 10, 2019.

So just an empty video of a hallway with a timestamp that is completely impossible to fake. Its been so long since then, even if they released a video showing him offing himself it wouldnt be proof because they could have just made a perfect fake in all that time.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 4 days ago

Given who’s in charge of the FBI and DOJ, I would be entirely unsurprised if this “video evidence” they suddenly “found” is actually just ML vidgen/deepfaked. They INSISTED for fucking years that they had no video evidence, and that there was no video evidence to be had.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Glad to see Lemmings continue the tradition of Reddit and don't read the article, just the headline.

Lots of advertising for LLM video generation that has nothing to do with the 8 hour empty hallway video they claim to have.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

And just like Reddit, no need to read the article when I can expect to find expert commentary and a succinct TL;DR in the comments.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago

The day I take Dan Bongino's word for anything...

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Bongino clarified that the video in question does not show the "actual act" but proves that Epstein was the only person who came in or out of his cell on the night he died, on August 10, 2019.

This dude thinks he can prove a negative. What a fucking dipshit.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I would like to take this opportunity to promote my own personal theory - Epstein was allowed to kill himself like a Roman general falling on his sword or a disgraced samurai being allowed to commit seppuku. It was mutually beneficial for both him and his elite friends for him to kill himself. For him, because he wouldn't have to go through trial being exposed as a pedophile sex trafficker, and for his friends so their involvement wouldn't have attention brought to it. This is what I have believed from the very beginning. It's way cleaner to pay guards to look the other way while he kills himself and lose the security cam footage than it is to pay them to murder Epstein or watch a hitman do it. "Epstein didn't kill himself" kind of misses the point because it doesn't matter who actually killed him, the corrupt justice system allowed him to die in custody to protect powerful individuals that Epstein was connected to. If there is a video of Epstein killing himself, it still doesn't exonerate the justice system because they still intentionally allowed it to happen.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Oh so now that near perfect deep fakes can be made, and there's a corrupt administration, NOW there's suddenly "evidence" it actually was suicide?
This just reeks of removing suspicion from the influential people that had contact with him, #1 suspect of course being Trump himself.

The party that pushed Pizza Gate, is itself controlled by a pedophile suspect!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Six years late mofos!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is hard af to prove. Even if it is "nobody visited him" it can be that he was told a couple of days earlier that if he didn't do it, there would be consequences.

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