The Department of Justice, under the leadership of then-Attorney General William Barr, did something very curious on August 9, 2019: It drafted a press release announcing the death of suspected sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein while in federal custody at the Manhattan Detention Center.
Epstein didn’t actually die until a day later, August 10, 2019.
What in the world is going on here?
That’s the question being asked across the internet this morning as documents from the most recent release of Epstein files are pored over by millions of people around the world.
Here’s the DOJ draft announcing Epstein’s death a day before he was actually pronounced dead:
“Unless it was typo (they got the day right, Friday, but date wrong, 9th instead of 10th) this is super weird,” journalist Mehdi Hasan wrote on Twitter/X:
Others then joined the debate.
Maybe current Attorney General Pam Bondi can shed some light on this latest revelation from the Epstein files. She testifies before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, February 11. There are reports that Republican members of the committee have been ordered not to ask any Epstein-related questions.
