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.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
In a radio interview this week, First Lady Hillary Clinton scoffed at "conspiracy nuts," as she called them, obsessed with Whitewater and compared them to cult figures, or cult groups rather, fascinated by UFOs and the Hale-Bopp comet. Although she did concede one point of similarity between Whitewater and Heaven's Gate: thirty-nine castrated dead people.
Peter Smith wrote two blog posts dated the day before he was found dead. One challenged U.S. intelligence agency findings that Russia interfered with the 2016 election. Another post predicted: "As attention turns to international affairs, as it will shortly, the Russian interference story will die of its own weight."
You can google even more. It's not always easy to separate out the obvious nutters from those who might have been killed by other people to keep a story secret.
Creepy picture - totally has that ‘gay’ look.
Arkancide.
A metaphor: Maybe he was trying to free a whale caught tangled in a pantsuit.....
click on the link and read the article.
Now. FYI I'm damn near 80 myself. Should that make a big difference in either case.
OR am I somehow less a person because of my age?
SO why don't you "Move Along" little boy
I hope that is sarcasm.
It's right there.
They’re calling a statement a suicide note....I’d like to see the statement. Sounds like the police are speculating.
“Move along. He was 81.”
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Delightful comment,I’m 84-———are you always so kind?
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Yes....bad me...
I guess we’ll find out more in a day or two.
I’m feeling sleepy.
Did he back into a knife twenty times or simply shot himself three times in the head?
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