Smith, center
Posted on 07/13/2017 5:11:50 PM PDT by Beave Meister
A Republican donor and operative from Chicago's North Shore who said he had tried to obtain Hillary Clinton's missing emails from Russian hackers killed himself in a Minnesota hotel room days after talking to The Wall Street Journal about his efforts, public records show.
In a room at a Rochester hotel used almost exclusively by Mayo Clinic patients and relatives, Peter W. Smith, 81, left a carefully prepared file of documents, which includes a statement police called a suicide note in which he said he was in ill health and a life insurance policy was expiring.
Days earlier, the financier from suburban Lake Forest gave an interview to the Journal about his quest, and it published stories about his efforts beginning in late June. The Journal also reported it had seen emails written by Smith showing his team considered retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, then a top adviser to Republican Donald Trump's campaign, as an ally. Flynn briefly was President Trump's national security adviser and resigned after it was determined he had failed to disclose contacts with Russia.
At the time, the newspaper reported Smith's May 14 death came about 10 days after he granted the interview. Mystery shrouded how and where he had died, but the lead reporter on the stories said on a podcast he had no reason to believe the death was the result of foul play and that Smith likely had died of natural causes.
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Full Title: Peter W. Smith, GOP operative who sought Clinton’s emails from Russian hackers, committed suicide, records show
Straight from Chicago
Arkincide is real.
It doesn’t say he committed suicide. He was 81 and very sick.
Smoke on smoke
Let me guess. He shot himself several times, then dragged his own lifeless body across the room and made it look like a suicide?
no reason to believe the death was the result of foul play and that Smith likely had died of natural causes......Well? Did he kill himself or die of natural causes? Or are natural causes when dealing with Clintons, homicide?
Another member of the Clinton body count
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Was this 81-year old lifting weights? Sometimes they end up crushing one’s windpipe. It’s been known to happen.
Move along. He was 81.
If he was here in Rochester, he was on his last legs.
Had a friend who used see them carrying people out all the time.
Mayo is usually the last try to fix the unfixable.
Smith, 81, left a carefully prepared file of documents, which includes a statement police called a suicide note
Mayo is usually the last try to fix the unfixable.
Exactly
A Republican donor and operative from Chicago's North Shore who said he had tried to obtain Hillary Clinton's missing emails from Russian hackers killed himself
Smith, center
Another Arkancide victim...
“A Republican donor and operative ... who said he had tried to obtain Hillary Clinton’s missing emails from Russian hackers killed himself in a Minnesota hotel room days after talking to The Wall Street Journal about his efforts, public records show.”
The long, deadly trail in the wake of the Clintons claims another victim.
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