Nah. Nobody who's career goes anywhere in government is that dumb.

I'd bet a lot of money that once things got "bad for my job" level bad people turned off the recording without having to be told. This is SOP slimy government behavior. Everything from your local permitting office to the CIA.

So they're probably right, the footage never existed, but the reason is even more damning.

Forget which Youtube channel it is, but there was a video recently detailing how one of the cameras that was supposedly not working the day of Epstein's death, had footage from the next day even though it was supposedly not fixed along with the other cameras until a few days later. I believe this footage was part of a recent Epstein files dump, when they DOJ was still doing dumps. It was from a different angle that gave a much better view of downstairs cell block including the stairs going up to his cell.

Maybe we can soon get an "unedited, raw" video with a mouse pointer on it!

There are pro-Trump bots that automatically try to get things removed if they paint the administration in any negative light.

The real reason:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, [...]. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

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