On February 22, 2023, Mark Epstein submitted an accusatory tip to the FBI about Trump’s involvement in Jeffrey Epstein‘s death. That tip is now publicly released as part of the Department of Justice’s latest Epstein document dump, and it’s sensational.
The document states plainly: “Jeffrey Epstein was murdered in his jail cell. I have reason to believe he was killed because he was about to name names. I believe President Trump authorized his murder.” While it is only an allegation, the statement has fired up long-standing controversy around Epstein’s death.
When the convicted sex offender was found dead in his jail cell on Aug. 10, 2019, it was ruled a suicide in the official ruling. But the claim was debated widely. People questioned how a high-risk felon managed to attempt suicide under strict watch. There’s too much to question.
Why did the guards not check on him regularly as they were supposed to? Why was a high-risk inmate housed alone, despite standard procedures? And why were the monitoring systems that should have been functioning not operating properly on the day of his death? The coincidence of so many safeguard measures failures raised suspicions that there was foul play in his death.
Mark Epstein has always rejected ‘suicide’ claims about brother Jeffrey Epstein
Mark Epstein has also long rejected the official conclusion that his brother died by suicide in 2019. In interviews over the years, he has claimed that Jeffrey had incriminating information on Trump. He said, “He didn’t tell me what he knew, but Jeffrey definitely had dirt on Trump.” Mark also added that Trump was in his brother’s office “all the time back then” (via The Week). So, his skepticism had a base.
The declassified tip now escalates that skepticism into a direct claim. Jeffrey Epstein was killed because he was about to implicate powerful people. And according to Mark Epstein, Trump was one of them. The DOJ has insisted that the release of the files shows “unprecedented transparency.” Yet, they buried a record showing that Trump was formally accused of authorizing Epstein’s death for two years.
The document itself is heavily redacted, with identifying details removed by the DOJ. But the core allegation remains intact and unstuck by any editorial note rejecting it. At a moment when administration officials are insisting the Epstein files contain “nothing new,” this document directly contradicts that narrative.
New or not, the declassified tip places a presidential murder allegation into the official public record. While this tip doesn’t prove anything, pretending it doesn’t exist or treating it as gossip would be a fool’s instinct.
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