Epstein's Brother Says President Trump Intentionally Delayed Releasing the Files | Crime Alert 1PM 11.21.25

Jeffrey Epstein’s brother accuses President Trump of intentionally delaying the release of the Epstein files. Richard Barry Randolph is put to death as Florida carries out another record-setting execution. Drew Nelson reports.

 

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I'm Drew Nelson, Jeffrey Epstein's brother, accuses President Trump of
intentionally delaying the release of the Epstein files, and he's
now describing why he believes that delay matters. The President
signed the new law this week ordering the Justice Department
to release the files within thirty days. It's a sharp
reversal after months of resistance in which he dismissed the

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push as a political poax. Mark Epstein says the shift
only came after pressure from survivors, congressional Republicans, and growing
public scrutiny. He says the delay made sense to him because,
as he tells CNN.

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There's things in the way he doesn't want people to see.

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Mark says, the President and Jeffrey Epstein were closed for
years and moved in the same social circles.

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He used to fight each other's planes. But I said,
they say Donald was on Jeff's plane like seven times,
But I question, have they check Donald's flight logs from
those days to see how many times Jeffrey was on
his plane.

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Mark disputes me mister Trump's long standing claim about why
the friendship ended. He says a taped interview exists in
which Jeffrey explains he severed ties, not Trump.

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Jeffrey clearly stated that he stopped hanging out with Trump
when he realized Trump was a krook. That's a direct
Fulton Jeffrey. He stopped turning out with Trump when he
realized Trump was a crook.

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Mark also says Jeffrey told him the President called after
the twenty sixteen election, and it was sort of like.

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Can you believe this? Because nobody believed Trump was going
to win.

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The White House rejects Mark's remarks as baseless. The Justice
Department has not said how much of the file will
be released, or how much could be withheld to protect
victims or ongoing investigations. Whilemakers have warned that any selective
disclosure will face scrutiny, Mark says he wants every page
of the Epstein files release. He says the documents will

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show the depth of his brother's ties to powerful people,
and says he will keep pressing until every name is
made public. More crime and Justice news After this, a
man in Florida is put to death as the state
carries out another record setting execution in a year marked

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by a rapid pace on death row. Richard Barry Randolph
was pronounced dead at six twelve pm at Florida State
Prison in Stark. He received a three drug lethal injection.
Sixty three years old. The state reported no complications and
he offered no final words. This was Florida's seventeenth execution
of this year, the most ever recorded in the state

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since the death penalty was reinstated nationwide in nineteen seventy six.
Randolph's case goes back nearly four decades. In August of
nineteen eighty eight, he returned to the Handy Way convenience
store in Palatko, where he once worked. Court records say
he tried to break into the store safe. The store manager,
sixty two year old Minnie Ruth McCollum, walked in and

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saw him. Records say Randolph beat her, strangle her, and
stabbed her in the struggle, and then raped her, took
her car, and left her on the floor. Three women
saw him leaving the store and looked through the window.
They saw the inside torn apart and called the Sheriff's office.
A deputy found McCollum barely alive. She had severe brain injuries.
Doctors put her in a coma, and she died six

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days later. Randolph was arrested soon after at a Jacksonville
grocery store trying to cash stolen lottery tickets. Deputy said
he admitted to the attack. He also showed them where
he threw away his bloody clothing. A Putnam County jury
convicted him in nineteen eighty nine of murder, armed robbery,
sexual battery, and grand theft. The judge sentenced him to die.

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The Florida Supreme Court rejected his final appeals last week.
He argued for access to more public records and said
his prior defense attorneys took actions in his case that
he did not authorize. Though the execution proceeded, his last
petition was still pending before the US Supreme Court. Florida
leads the nation and executions this year. Forty four people

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have been put to death across the country in twenty
twenty five, figure not seen so high since twenty ten.
Two more executions are already scheduled in Florida for December.
Mark Allan Geralds is set to die on December ninth.
Frank Athyn Walls is scheduled to die on December eighteenth.
A family in Montana searches for answers eight years after

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a young woman vanished from the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Ashley
Loring heavy Runner disappeared on the week of June thirteenth
of twenty seventeen in Browning, Montana. She had been planning
to move to Missoula with her sister. Her family learned
that she was missing when her sister returned from a
trip and no one had heard from Ashley Kimberly. Louring
heavy Runner remembered her younger sister as quote funny, smart,

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and at times feisty. Speaking to NBC Montana, Kimberly said
her sister was pregnant when she vanished, and called the
father of the baby quote a good man and a friend.
She believes other people were involved in the disappearance, including
a relative, but she says the family had trouble reaching
investigators when the search first began. Ashley was born on
November twenty third of nineteen ninety six in Browning. She

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is Native American, about five foot two and ninety pounds,
with dark hair and brown eyes, and a checkmark shaped
scar on the top of one hand. Anyone with information
can call the FBI's Salt Lake City Field Office at
eight oh one, five seven nine, fourteen hundred. For the
latest crime and justice news, follow crime alerts hourly update
on your favorite podcast app with this crime alert. I'm

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Drew Nelson.