The DOJ released shocking footage that appeared to be a recreation of Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide in his Manhattan jail cell — and it briefly set the internet on fire until it was revealed to be fake.
It was posted without explanation to the DOJ’s website as part of the Epstein file dump — and it’s just the latest item among a trove of documents and images revealed after the complete Epstein Files were ordered released earlier in November.
The grainy, 12-second computer-generated clip showed a white-haired man in an orange jumpsuit struggling and jerking his head about while kneeling at the base of a jail cell bunkbed.
A time stamp on the video showed 4:29 a.m. on Aug. 10, 2019 – just two hours before the pedophile’s body was found in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Facility in Manhattan.
The scene seemed to match Epstein’s cell, where officials determined he hung himself while awaiting trial for a litany of sex trafficking charges.
But a closer examination of the clip showed things were not quite right – a pile of orange prison clothes strewn about the ground looked like orange puddles without any texture, while the door to the jailcell did not match the one in Epstein’s real cell.
And it soon was revealed among other DOJ documents released in the latest Epstein files dump that the clip was in fact a fake video that circulated on 4chan, and was flagged by investigators by a Florida conspiracy theorist.
The Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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