President Trump is failing to redirect attention from the Jeffrey Epstein crisis. His claims about Epstein being unimportant and the release of raw surveillance footage from Epstein's prison cell have backfired. Conspiracy theories among his supporters have surfaced as the White House retracted earlier statements about Epstein's lack of a client list. The surveillance footage, which showed signs of tampering, has left almost three minutes unaccounted for, exacerbating political concerns surrounding the situation and raising questions about Trump's past connections to Epstein.
Trump's loyal fan base devolved into a cesspool of conspiracy theories after the White House walked back claims about the late billionaire sex criminal, concluding that Epstein had no 'client list' and that the sex criminal had killed himself in jail, rather than being killed to keep him silent.
In a wildly backfired attempt to sweep the affair under the rug, Trump took to Truth Social last week, baselessly claiming that Epstein is 'somebody that nobody cares about.'
But as Wired reported at the time, the allegedly unaltered video showed signs of tampering. Metadata analyzed by the publication found that it was edited using the professional editing tool Adobe Premiere Pro.
Almost three full minutes remain unaccounted for in the over four hours of footage released by the FBI.
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