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The "missing minute" that led to many conspiracy theories about the death of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was now shown in newly released surveillance footage captured from outside his prison cell, the New York Post reports.
The clip was among more than 33,000 pages of documents and videos released by the House Oversight Committee as part of its probe into the Epstein case late Tuesday (September 2). The initial dump of the Epstein files included an 11-hour recording from outside his cell block at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, however, excluded footage from 11:58:59 on August 9 to midnight on August 10, which was viewed by skeptics as a cover up.
The newly released footage now shows the camera data switching over at midnight and nothing appears to happen during the missing minute, though it wasn't immediately clear why it was absent in the first place and Attorney General Pam Bondi has yet to address her previous explanation dismissing concerns of a wider conspiracy. President Donald Trump, whose name reportedly appeared seven times in Epstein's flight logs, and his administration have recently faced scrutiny for not releasing more information about the Epstein files, which led to the president publicly directing Bondi to release "pertinent" grand jury testimony.
On July 16, Quinnipiac University released a poll showing a majority of Americans (63%) disapproved how Trump and his administration had handled the Epstein files. Podcaster Joe Rogan, who staunchly supported Trump in the 2024 presidential election, criticized the administration's announcement claiming there was never a list or footage revealing Epstein's alleged clients, which was a talking point of conservative pundits for years.
“They’ve got videotape and all [of] a sudden they don’t,” Rogan said on the episode of his Joe Rogan Experience podcast released on July 15.
“You had the director of the FBI on this show saying, ‘If there was [a videotape], nothing you’re looking for is on those tapes,'” he added, referring to FBI Director Kash Patel's appearance on his podcast in June. “Like, what? Why’d they say there was thousands of hours of tapes of people doing horrible s–t? Why’d they say that? Didn’t Pam Bondi say that?"
Bondi had previously claimed that the supposed Epstein list was on her desk awaiting review months ago and told reporters that the FBI was reviewing "tens of thousands of videos" of Epstein "with children or child porn" on July 1 before the DOJ suddenly announced that there was no "Epstein list" or incriminating footage of his associates days later. President Trump spent months claiming he had plans to release everything the government had on Epstein and his alleged associates, which included releasing The Epstein Files: Phase 1 in February, though the files revealed next to no new information.