Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday attempted to calm backlash from the right over the Justice Department’s recent memo regarding disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
On Monday, the Justice Department and FBI released roughly 11 hours of surveillance footage recorded outside Epstein’s prison cell door, aiming to dispel ongoing claims that he did not die by suicide. However, some figures on the far right have zeroed in on a timestamp jump from 11:58 p.m. to midnight, fueling conspiracy theories.
“The video was not conclusive, but the evidence prior to it was showing he committed suicide,” Bondi said during a Cabinet meeting.
She elaborated:
“And what was on that — there was a minute that was off the counter, and what we learned from the Bureau of Prisons is every night they redo that video. … 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 to show that a minute is missing every night. And that’s it on Epstein,” she added.
Bondi also addressed criticism of a February interview in which she said the Epstein client list was ‘on her desk’ for review. On Monday, she clarified that she had been referring to a broad set of files related to the Epstein case.
She added that thousands of hours of video tied to the Epstein investigation were determined to be child sexual abuse material and therefore would not be made public.