Epstein DID Kill Himself?
According to FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t murdered but committed suicide in his jail cell in 2019.
If you’ve been on the Internet for more than five minutes in the last few years, you probably know that “Epstein didn’t kill himself” has become a ubiquitous meme. Why? Because so many people don’t believe that disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein hung himself in his New York prison cell in August 2019.
Too many powerful people had too much to lose by being exposed for involvement with Epstein and being within 100 miles of his ring of forced prostitution of young women. There were too many “coincidences” leading up to the suicide — sleeping guards, falsified records, malfunctioning cameras, deleted video, etc. — to believe it wasn’t foul play.
Nevertheless, if there were two men whom everyone on the Right could count on to play it straight and tell the truth about corruption involving government or powerful people, and whom the Left would characterize as conspiracy theorists, it might be Kash Patel and Dan Bongino. The FBI director and his deputy weighed in on Epstein’s death in an interview on Sunday.
“As someone who has worked as a public defender, as a prosecutor who’s been in that prison system, who’s been in the Metropolitan Detention Center, who’s been in segregated housing, you know a suicide when you see one, and that’s what that was,” Patel told Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo. People who disagree “have a right to their opinion.”
“He killed himself,” Bongino added. “I have seen the whole file. He killed himself.”
REPORTER: “You said Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide. People don’t believe it.”
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) May 18, 2025
PATEL: “They have a right to their opinion but…you know a suicide when you see one, & that’s what that was.”
BONGINO: “He killed himself. I’ve seen the whole file. He killed himself.” pic.twitter.com/pduX7bU9AF
Watch the video. Both men definitely come across as more confident than a videoed hostage who says everything is fine. I’m just sayin’.
Bongino followed up with a lengthy X post about several FBI-related things, saying, “I have reviewed the case. Jeffrey Epstein killed himself. There’s no evidence in the case file indicating otherwise. I’m not asking you to believe me, or not. I’m telling you what exists, and what doesn’t. If new evidence surfaces I’m happy to reevaluate.”
Is the case file accurate and complete? That’s the question.
Back in 2019, Donald Trump’s attorney general, William Barr, said Epstein’s suicide was the result of “a perfect storm of screw-ups.” Is there reason to think maybe the file is one of the “screw-ups”?
This is one of those stories where few people are likely to be persuaded to change their minds. If you believe that Epstein killed himself, you have no reason to change your mind, of course. If you don’t believe it, then the obvious explanation for Patel and Bongino’s comments is something along the lines of someone got to them or they’re sellouts.
Of course, Patel said the same thing in his confirmation hearings: “I believe he hung himself in a cell in the Metropolitan Detention Center.”
“Epstein’s brother Mark has publicly doubted that the notorious financier killed himself,” notes National Review’s Jim Geraghty. “A lawyer who met with Epstein days before his death says Epstein told him he had not tried to kill himself two weeks earlier, that his cellmate had given him a neck injury, and that he lied about it to avoid getting a reputation as ‘a rat.’ Epstein reportedly told a jail psychologist he had a ‘wonderful life’ and ‘would be crazy’ to end it.”
And yet here we are, six years later, with Patel and Bongino telling us Epstein killed himself.
Mark Epstein responded that Patel “wasn’t there, he didn’t see the body, he didn’t see the autopsy,” and he has “no idea what … he’s talking about.”
The odd thing is that this interview follows the February fiasco in which Attorney General Pam Bondi made a big show of giving redundant and yawn-worthy information via a small band of prolific MAGA social media influencers. We learned nothing new or noteworthy.
In short, Epstein’s death has a firm place in the annals of distrusted narratives. Many powerful people, including Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump and the UK’s Prince Andrew, had some level of relationship with Epstein. Even if one or all of them did nothing wrong, no one in Epstein’s orbit wishes to have anything further exposed. And most people find no reason to trust the same system that looked the other way while Epstein was exploiting countless young women to tell the truth about his death now.
