🔵 Epstein Video Cut

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Citizen Frank
July 16, 2025

Good evening. It’s Tuesday, July 15.

Newly uncovered metadata reveals that nearly three minutes of footage were cut from what the US Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation described as “full raw” surveillance video from the only functioning camera near Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell the night before he was found dead.

The video was released last week as part of the Trump administration’s commitment to fully investigate Epstein’s 2019 death but instead has raised new questions about how the footage was edited and assembled, WIRED reported.

WIRED previously reported that the video had been stitched together in Adobe Premiere Pro from two video files, contradicting the Justice Department’s claim that it was “raw” footage. Now, further analysis shows that one of the source clips was approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds longer than the segment included in the final video, indicating that footage appears to have been trimmed before release. It’s unclear what, if anything, the minutes cut from the first clip showed.

 
 

Donald Trump said the US has reached a trade deal with Indonesia that will result in goods from the south-east Asian nation to the US being hit with a 19 per cent tariff and Jakarta buying American energy and Boeing jets.

The preliminary deal is the first since Trump last week sent letters to more than 20 trading partners informing them of the US tariff levels on their exports if they do not reach an agreement by August 1.

The US president threatened Jakarta with a 32 per cent levy in last week’s letter, but said on Tuesday he thought the latest arrangement — under which America will pay zero tariffs on exports to Indonesia — was “a good deal for both parties”.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Afghan migrants who were imported to the United States under former President Joe Biden.

In May, Trump’s DHS announced that the agency would end TPS, a quasi-amnesty program, for about 75,000 Afghan migrants whom the Biden administration had resettled across the U.S. in mere months.

CASA, Inc., the open borders organization, filed a lawsuit.

A suspect is now in custody after Robin Kaye, a longtime “American Idol” music supervisor, and her husband were found murdered inside their Los Angeles mansion on Monday, a source told Fox News Digital.

Kaye and her husband, Thomas Deluca, were found dead inside their Encino home after Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers conducted a welfare check. Both were 70.

“We are devastated to hear of Robin and her dear husband, Tom’s, passing,” an “American Idol” spokesperson told Fox News Digital. “Robin has been a cornerstone of the Idol family since 2009 and was truly loved and respected by all who came in contact with her. Robin will remain in our hearts forever and we share our deepest sympathy with her family and friends during this difficult time.”

The son of a billionaire linked to Jeffrey Epstein is pending confirmation for a major foreign aid position in the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump appointed Benjamin Black to be chief executive officer of the United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), which helps mobilize private capital to “advance U.S. foreign policy and strengthen national security.”

The nominee’s father, private equity firm Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black, was “friendly” with Epstein, paying him least $158 million for advice on tax issues, philanthropy, estate planning and other matters related to “the operation of the Family Office,” according to a 2021 report by the law firm Dechert LLP.

Privately, Trump has doubled down on his support for Bondi. The president called some of the attorney general’s most vocal critics over the weekend in an effort to stem the bleeding over the Epstein files, CNN reported.

Trump’s calls included one with conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Saturday to express his support for Bondi. The call came as prominent MAGA supporters repeatedly criticized the attorney general at Kirk’s Turning Point USA Student Action Summit, a Florida event aimed at mobilizing young conservatives.

Members of the president’s inner circle have also reached out to some of Bondi’s critics to essentially ask them to ramp it down, noting that Trump, at this moment, was not getting rid of his attorney general. Sources cautioned that while Trump was currently still supporting Bondi, things could always change.

Lauren Southern, the Conservative Canadian YouTuber, has alleged in her new self-published memoir This Is Not Real Life that she was sexually assaulted by Andrew Tate in 2018, when she was 22 years old.

The accusation, detailed in excerpts Southern shared on her Substack page Tuesday, adds to an already lengthy list of allegations of rape and human trafficking against Tate and his brother Tristan, some of which have resulted in criminal prosecutions. The pair have successfully blocked an indictment in Romania, where they live, from going to trial, but currently face further investigation by authorities in the country. Once those proceedings conclude, they will face criminal charges in the U.K. that include human trafficking and rape. The brothers deny all accusations against them.

In the chapters published on her Substack, Southern describes traveling from the U.K. with the British activist Tommy Robinson to Romania around February 2018 to meet with the Tates and their team about a supposed opportunity to launch a new right-wing media venture with the siblings’ investment. Nervous about their lack of preparation for a pitch — and because, as she alleges, Robinson was heavily impaired by cocaine that he managed to smuggle aboard the plane — Southern recalls being surprised by the Tates, whom she did not know at the time, when they turned up at the airport in Bucharest. “Two sharply dressed men leaned against polished sports cars,” she writes, saying they “stood out like sore thumbs against the washed-out Balkan backdrop.”

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