Jeffrey Epstein is dead, a suicide.
It should have never happened.
He previously had attempted suicide in his jail cell and had been placed on suicide watch.
Why was he taken off that watch? That’s the question someone is going to have to answer.
No matter what ultimate facts surface in answer to that question, one thing is for certain and you can bet the farm on it: the conspiracy theorists are going to be swarming like a fire ant bed run over by a lawn mower.
In fact, they already are with none other than Donald J. Trump front and center with his TWEETS implicating the Clintons. Another contributor to what is certain to become a cottage industry, Lynn Patton, who works for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, tweeted that Epstein had been “Hillary’d!!”
Of course, it’s common knowledge that Epstein and Bill Clinton were pals. Bill even flew in Epstein’s private jet. There’s no escaping that fact and no one is denying it.
Trump’s more rabid supporters, however, will pounce on this fact as some kind of validation of their theory that the Clintons had Epstein murdered and they will cling to that absurdity to the bitter end while at the same time dismissing credible reports from U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia did in fact intervene in the 2016 election, that it was all a “hoax,” “fake news.”
They will trumpet the Clinton “conspiracy” to eliminate Epstein while continuing to deny any possibility of Trump collusion with Russia or of any obstruction of justice on their hero’s part.
They will also overlook all the connections between Epstein and Trump first revealed HERE three years ago and AGAIN just last month.
If Trump’s supporters want a conspiracy theory, they may wish to review the Jeffrey Epstein-Alexander Acosta-Steven Hoffenberg-Donald Trump connection in an effort to untangle that little knot.
It was Acosta, you may remember, who was the Miami U.S. attorney who engineered that nifty little plea bargain for Epstein in 2008 in which the pedophile received a sentence of only 13 months in jail for running his underage sex ring but was allowed to leave the jail each day to go to his office to work while spending only his nights in the jail cell.
And it was Trump who plucked Acosta to be his secretary of labor until Acosta resigned when the heat became a little too intense.
And Hoffenberg? He was Epstein’s partner in a gigantic Ponzi scheme (the biggest on record until Bernie Madoff came along) and it was Hoffenberg who, after getting out of prison for that escapade, established a super PAC in 2016 and pledged $50 million of his own money on behalf of candidate….Trump.
In fact, the one common thread in all of this appears to be….Donald Trump.
Yet it was Hillary, the conspiracy nuts said, who ran a pedophile sex ring out of a Washington pizza parlor. This is the mentality we’re dealing with here.
With all these Epstein connections firmly established in the record—not a conspiracy—it seems rather curious that Trump would wade in with his tweets pushing a Clinton conspiracy in Epstein’s death. It might seem to make sense that Trump would prefer to back away from the whole sordid mess and try to let it blow over.
But that’s not his way because rationale has never been his strong suit.
So, if it’s conspiracies one wants, there seems to be plenty to go around with these four men’s association with each other.
But my guess is the newest Clinton conspiracy will “trump” those.
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First to officially jump into the conspiracy investigation fray is none other than AG Barr. Seems that he uses deflection as protection of Trump. thus, I have little doubt that Barr knows the facts and has interjected himself into this matter even before the local District Attorney, State officials, and certainly before the US Attorney for the Southern district of New York. Therefore, one can logically draw a parallel between Barr’s behavior regarding the Mueller Report and now the Epstein death. And that parallel is that Trump was personally involved in having Epstein killed.
All prison systems have strict protocols for suicide prevention and duration of the suicide watch after someone has attempted suicide or demonstrated suicidal ideation. If these are not observed and someone perishes at their own hand unnoticed due to those protocols not being followed, those responsible for that lack of supervision would be considered culpable. (Could that be called murder? It certainly would NOT be “negligent” homicide.) It will be interesting to see from how far up the chain the order came to end the suicide watch, and who falls on their sword to protect whom.
“It might seem to make sense that Trump would prefer to back away from the whole sordid mess and try to let it blow over.”
You’re right, it would seem to make sense under rules of normality. However, I am of the opinion Trump loves this. Why? Because he relies on every distraction from what he is actually doing as president to mask what he is actually doing (or not doing) as president. He also knows he could be implicated 7 ways from sunset in the Epstein scandal and his supporters would not care one whit.
Now that he has puppets throughout our government, including the justice department, I have little faith we will ever know the actual truth about Epstein’s death. There will be an official version hardly anybody will believe and there will be hundreds of “alternate facts” different people will believe, but only Epstein (now deceased) and anybody else directly involved will ever know the truth.
And, as I say, the longer we all stay focused on this, the longer the President will be able to do whatever he does under the radar and present whatever image he believes his supporters buy in his rallies.
Good thing I’m not a cynic.
Mr. Winham, you have just clearly and factually described the Nightmare America is enduring. Thank you…now we need to look at the solution!
You KNOW things are not going well in trumplandia when Anthony Scaramucci says the GOP will soon have to change its 2020 presidential candidate. Even Scary-muchy is disgusted with the malignancy spreading from the White House across our land – and now the world. There was just an attack on a synagogue in Norway inspired by El Paso. Great new export from the USA.
The same people that brought us the Russian collision hoax want us to ignore the fact that lots of democratic politicians and actors from pedowood spent time on a private island with a man accused of sex trafficking young girls. This same man committed “suicide” after he requested his denial of bail be overturned. Got it. Not sure why anyone would think the worst. I’d be willing to bet $1000 that this won’t end well.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but to the best of my knowledge, it was Trump who forwarded the “conspiracy” tweet.