FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said Wednesday there is nothing in the Jeffrey Epstein file indicating he died of anything other than suicide.
Bongino updated Fox News host Sean Hannity on the investigation into the Epstein file, as conspiracies continue to float that he was murdered in prison.
“The evidence we have in our files clearly indicates that it was, in fact, a suicide. We do have video. It’s not the greatest video in the world. I don’t want to set expectations on fire,” Bongino said. “However, the video does show in that specific block that he goes in, made a phone call; you’ll see 12 hours of guards going in basically check on him, come back. You’ll see nobody really comes out of that bay in that area than him. There’s no one in there.
“There’s nothing there in the file at all that indicates anything other than, in fact, a suicide,” Bongino added.
The American financier died in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.
Epstein was merely one of many topics touched on during Bongino’s appearance on Hannity. The FBI deputy director said the bureau was completely overhauling its priorities.
“We’re not the Federal Bureau of freakin’ word games anymore, okay? It’s the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” Bongino said.
Asked if the American people were going to find out the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, Bongino said: “Damn right you are.”
“I ordered that case immediately to be looked into again. We have a great investigator on it,” Bongino said.
The conversation turned toward the August 2022 raid on Mar-a-Lago, in which FBI agents seized 33 boxes of documents. The raid spurred a legal battle that President Trump derided as a “scam.”
Former Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith to oversee the investigation, resulting in 40 felony counts against Trump, including his alleged violation of the Espionage Act, making false statements to investigators, and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
“I’ll leave it at this. We found some troubling, really troubling items in there that we actioned immediately, to say the least,” Bongino said.
Asked whether he thought there was a double standard in how federal prosecutors dealt with similar classified documents cases involving Hillary Clinton and former President Joe Biden, Bongino said: “I think that’s fairly clear when you look at how the two cases were handled.”
Bongino said the potential threats faced by the United States are “dramatic.”
“People say, ‘Well, what keeps you up at night?’ Well, the answers is, I’d never sleep if I thought about this stuff all the time, but it all keeps me up at night,” Bongino said.
Bongino also confirmed that the bureau was investigating how cocaine wound up in the Biden White House in 2023, the 2022 leak of the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, retaliation against pro-life protesters, and the treatment of parents at school board meetings.
“I get a kick out of it on social media. People are like, ‘This case isn’t a big deal. I don’t care.’ Well, I don’t care that you don’t care. I care,” Bongino said. “There is potential obstruction here. This is an enormous case. Cocaine in the White House?
“Again, I’m not interested that you don’t care what a hazardous substance [that] a hazardous substance made its way into the White House? We didn’t know what it was. And we don’t seem to have answers as to what was. Well, we’re going to get them. I’ve got a great team on it.”
