generally responding to RitaOK:
That’s a possibility I hadn’t thought of.
To me, he sounded like someone who knew or suspected that JE was offed and the bodyguard was afraid he might be next. Especially if he said the wrong things.
I think the bodyguard knows much more (big names he observed with JE, etc.) and he doesn’t know which people hold the danger. But this tells me that whoever he is afraid of is still out there loose.
JMO
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It probably should be noted that the transcript of the interview was from 2015:
From the article:
“I spoke on the record with Zinoviev for an unpublished interview in 2015,...”
Of course the threats to him were out there and active at that time. Who knows about the situation today? Perhaps he learned some things about who has a hold over him....perhaps he has even been already threatened. We have no way of knowing developments of today from that interview. But it is still a significant document, and does give valuable insight.
Correct me if I am wrong, I don’t have that story in front of me, but I think the interview itself is very recent, since the Russian body guard and the reporter discuss the death of Epstein, and asking the guard if he believes it was murder. The Guard does not respond, which was eerie.
However, the 2015 interview is woven into the current story, because the interviewer was so perplexed by the guard now backing off from remarks he had made to same reporter, back in 2015. The reporter then starts reading back to the Russian what he had said in 2015, and takes some exception to hearing the numerous denials.
Reporter asks the Russian about why he is doing that, “since.Epstein.is.dead”.
My understanding is the same as RitaOK. It sounds like there was an interview in 2015 and the interviewer is asking Z about things he said back then. Notice, too, that she asks Z how he felt when he heard JE was dead. So definitely recent.
... just us FReeQs working together to clarify. :-)