Metadata from the Epstein prison video released this week was “likely modified”.
Over the weekend a report was leaked showing the the DOJ had concluded that the Epstein case was coming to an end without any indictments for child sex trafficking. This was a shocker.
Axios reported:
President Trump‘s Justice Department and FBI have concluded they have no evidence that convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein blackmailed powerful figures, kept a “client list” or was murdered, according to a memo detailing the findings obtained by Axios.
- The administration is releasing a video — in both raw and “enhanced” versions — that it says indicates no one entered the area of the Manhattan prison where Epstein was held the night he died in 2019.
- The video supports a medical examiner’s finding that Epstein died by suicide, the two-page memo claims.
Why it matters: The findings represent the first time Trump’s administration has officially contradicted conspiracy theories about Epstein’s activities and his death — theories that had been pushed by the FBI’s top two officials before Trump appointed them to the bureau.
- As social media influencers and activists, Kash Patel (now the FBI’s director) and Dan Bongino (now deputy director) were among those in MAGA world who questioned the official version of how Epstein died.
- Patel and Bongino have since said Epstein killed himself. But it has become an article of faith online, especially on the right, that Epstein’s crimes also implicated government officials, celebrities and business leaders — and that someone killed him to conceal them.
- The memo says no one else involved in the Epstein case will be charged. (Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence for child sex trafficking and related offenses.)
Zoom in: According to the memo, investigators closely examined footage of Epstein’s Manhattan prison cell between around 10:40pm on Aug. 9, 2019, when Epstein was locked in his cell, and around 6:30am the next day, when he was found unresponsive.
The footage, which was reviewed by Axios but couldn’t be verified independently, showed no one entering the area, the administration said.
“The FBI enhanced the relevant footage by increasing its contrast, balancing the color, and improving its sharpness for greater clarity and viewability,” the memo says.
Investigators found “no incriminating ‘client list’ ” of Epstein’s, “no credible evidence … that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals,” and no “evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties,” the memo adds.
This was a terrible look for President Trump’s DOJ and FBI.
The DOJ Looks Horrible After Epstein Leak – It Couldn’t Be Worse
Then TGP reported that the video released along with the report had a minute missing from the video. This was not good.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/bombshell-doj-caught-cutting-60-seconds-newly-released/
Next it was reported that Maurene Comey had reported years ago that the video of Epstein’s cell had been lost and then the next day it was found. Ms. Comey is the daughter of fired FBI Director Jim Comey. She still works for the DOJ in NYC.
Now it’s being reported that the video that was provided earlier this week along with the DOJ’s report not only had a minute missing but it “was likely modified”. Wired reported today on X;
Metadata embedded in the video and analyzed by WIRED and independent video forensics experts shows that rather than being a direct export from the prison’s surveillance system, the footage was modified, likely using a Adobe Premiere Pro.
Metadata embedded in the video and analyzed by WIRED and independent video forensics experts shows that rather than being a direct export from the prison’s surveillance system, the footage was modified, likely using a Adobe Premiere Pro. https://t.co/kT890ZoJQW
— WIRED (@WIRED) July 11, 2025
Bondi needs to GO ASAP. Wiles needs to go ASAP. Patel needs to go ASAP. Bongino needs to go ASAP (which, I hear, he is threatening to do if Bondi stays).
Trump needs wake up to Bondi. If you wonder why, I’ve got a name for you…George Zimmerman.
https://spectator.org/pam-bondi-atone-framing-george-zimmerman/
Better articles than this exist. Trump has let his fondness for Bondi cloud his judgement. Loyalty can be the sign of ambition. IMO, it is in this case.
Bottom line…Trump is surrounded by people who want to destroy him and take the MAGA movement down with him.
Matt. 10:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
I feared there would be a RINO REPEAT of Trump’s first term and unfortunately his agenda seems to be hobbled yet again.
Really? Colored me shocked!
I’m going to get ahead of Pam Bondi’s speech tomorrow. She is going to claim they used Photoshop to enhance the contrast. But guess what Pam? That doesn’t change the metadata in the way it has been changed …
Unfortunately no one in this administration or the last seems to know how computers work. They also don’t understand video.
Some of us have been working in this field for a very, very long time.
I think it’s pretty obvious it was modified. And they didn’t just subtract one minute. The horizontal frames were compressed. It’s clearly visible from 12.00AM to the end. That means they had all night to set up the fake suicide. And the only way this could have happened is by some very high authorities getting involved.
Additionally, their forensic source for the autopsy had a different opinion than the credible Michael Baden whom an Epstein family/member hired to observe the autopsy. Baden said he did not believe the bed sheet could have produced the neck scarring and that it looked like a ligature had been used.
Why didn’t the FBI report Baden’s opinion?
Aaaaalmost like a repeat of Trump’s first term.
Well, if they can pass off a fraudulent copy of Obama’s birth certificate, what else have they falsified.
Bondi needs to GO ASAP. Wiles needs to go ASAP. Patel needs to go ASAP. Bongino needs to go ASAP (which, I hear, he is threatening to do if Bondi stays).
Trump needs wake up to Bondi. If you wonder why, I’ve got a name for you…George Zimmerman.
https://spectator.org/pam-bondi-atone-framing-george-zimmerman/
Better articles than this exist. Trump has let his fondness for Bondi cloud his judgement. Loyalty can be the sign of ambition. IMO, it is in this case.
Bottom line…Trump is surrounded by people who want to destroy him and take the MAGA movement down with him.
Matt. 10:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Aaaaalmost like a repeat of Trump’s first term.
I feared there would be a RINO REPEAT of Trump’s first term and unfortunately his agenda seems to be hobbled yet again.
The body in the cell was garotted. Whether its Epstein or not is another question.
Really? Colored me shocked!
I’m going to get ahead of Pam Bondi’s speech tomorrow. She is going to claim they used Photoshop to enhance the contrast. But guess what Pam? That doesn’t change the metadata in the way it has been changed …
Unfortunately no one in this administration or the last seems to know how computers work. They also don’t understand video.
Some of us have been working in this field for a very, very long time.
I think it’s pretty obvious it was modified. And they didn’t just subtract one minute. The horizontal frames were compressed. It’s clearly visible from 12.00AM to the end. That means they had all night to set up the fake suicide. And the only way this could have happened is by some very high authorities getting involved.
Additionally, their forensic source for the autopsy had a different opinion than the credible Michael Baden whom an Epstein family/member hired to observe the autopsy. Baden said he did not believe the bed sheet could have produced the neck scarring and that it looked like a ligature had been used.
Why didn’t the FBI report Baden’s opinion?
The body in the cell was garotted. Whether its Epstein or not is another question.
Well, if they can pass off a fraudulent copy of Obama’s birth certificate, what else have they falsified.
Very disappointed in Trump for trying to bury this after promising transparency, and I am a big MAGA guy. We are governed by crooks and liars. Trump was my last hope for someone on the side of the regular people.
Who’s writing these articles? Gatewaypundit also, the articles are confusing. How can normies understand if you don’t write clearly? The typical style is to waste 3 or 4 paragraphs on background nonsense before finally revealing the kicker information. This is stupid and confusing.
Analysis already revealed that the footage is the wrong door, that Epstein was in a corridor on the other side of that pod, on the right side out of view, and that the stairs in that area are also out of view, meaning anybody could come and go from that cell without being seen in the video.
Whoever released the video with time-stamp and metadata problems was a hero, obviously done intentionally.
Very disappointed in Trump for trying to bury this after promising transparency, and I am a big MAGA guy. We are governed by crooks and liars. Trump was my last hope for someone on the side of the regular people.
Who’s writing these articles? Gatewaypundit also, the articles are confusing. How can normies understand if you don’t write clearly? The typical style is to waste 3 or 4 paragraphs on background nonsense before finally revealing the kicker information. This is stupid and confusing.
Analysis already revealed that the footage is the wrong door, that Epstein was in a corridor on the other side of that pod, on the right side out of view, and that the stairs in that area are also out of view, meaning anybody could come and go from that cell without being seen in the video.
Whoever released the video with time-stamp and metadata problems was a hero, obviously done intentionally.