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Americans Believe Epstein Was Murdered
Townhall.com ^ | January 12, 2020 | Jeff Crouere

Posted on 01/12/2020 4:41:05 AM PST by Kaslin

The American people no longer trust what they hear from the media and their government. Ever since his first campaign started in 2015, President Donald Trump has railed against his political opponents within the government and has often warned the American people not to trust the “Fake News” media. These warnings seem to have been heeded especially in the case of the death of disgraced financier and alleged pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

While the media and government officials have repeatedly assured the country that Epstein committed suicide in his prison cell on August 10, 2019, the American people are not convinced. A new Rasmussen Reports survey indicates that only 21% of the American people believe that Epstein killed himself. While 27% are undecided, most respondents, 52%, believe that Epstein was murdered.

The results are a significant change from the last Rasmussen Reports poll in mid-August. At that time, only 42% of respondents believed Epstein was murdered, while 29% believed the “official story” that he committed suicide. As time has passed, more Americans have become convinced that the suicide story is bogus.

Every day the evidence mounts that this case is highly unusual. It was just discovered that the video footage from outside Epstein’s prison cell on July 23, 2019, the night of his first so-called attempted suicide, was accidentally destroyed. According to officials at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, the videos were not preserved “as a result of technical errors.”

Prosecutors had guaranteed attorneys for Epstein’s former cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, that the evidence was being protected by jail officials. After learning of this new development, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s attorneys, Marc Fernich, said it “only adds to the unanswered questions and deepens the air of mystery surrounding (Epstein’s) death, feeding the perception that the public will never really know what happened — and that the powers that be aren’t really interested in finding out. Nothing about Jeffrey Epstein’s prosecution and death in federal custody surprises or could surprise me at this point.”

After Epstein allegedly tried to commit suicide in July, prison officials initially placed him under close supervision. Incredibly, the extra monitoring did not last long for he was found dead on August 10. At that time, he was alone in his cell because his cellmate had been transferred the previous day.

The two guards entrusted to monitor Epstein supposedly neglected their duties. Instead of watching the most high-profile prisoner at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, they reportedly were napping and surfing the Internet. It strains credulity to believe that a notorious prisoner who had purportedly just tried to commit suicide would be left alone in his jail cell with no supervision and allowed to possess the apparent means to kill himself.

This week, the CBS news program 60 Minutes released the first photos of Epstein’s autopsy. It showed that the noose supposedly used in the suicide did not contain blood even though Epstein’s neck was bloodied. The noose was also not cut, even though a jail guard reportedly cut down Epstein from his hanging position after discovering him.

Famed forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden was hired by Epstein’s brother and was present at the autopsy. It is his determination that Epstein was most likely murdered. During a career that has spanned more than 60 years, Baden has conducted over 20,000 autopsies. Regarding the condition of Epstein’s body, Baden asserted that “There were fractures of the left, the right thyroid cartilage and the left hyoid bone. I have never seen three fractures like this in a suicidal hanging. Going over a thousand jail hangings, suicides in the New York City state prisons over the past 40-50 years, no one had three fractures.”

Baden’s doubts about Epstein committing suicide are now shared by most Americans, according to the Rasmussen poll. One reason so many Americans suspect that Epstein was murdered is that there were many powerful people who may have wanted him dead.

He operated what authorities believe was a sex trafficking operation involving underage girls and prominent individuals, including the elite from politics, Hollywood and business. In July of 2019, Epstein was indicted on sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy charges and he was being held in Metropolitan Correctional Center awaiting trial. His list of influential associates included former Democratic Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, Prince Andrew and former President Bill Clinton among many others.

This week, The Sun released photos of former President Bill Clinton with Chauntae Davies, a massage therapist, who was one of the “sex slaves” abused by Epstein. Another photo shows Clinton boarding Epstein’s plane, “The Lolita Express,” for a 2002 trip to Africa. It has been documented that Clinton flew on Epstein’s plane over two dozen times.

Even though Attorney General Bill Barr claims that Epstein committed suicide, citing the video evidence he saw from that night, the American people are very skeptical. Over the years, there have been many cases in which the federal government has been less than truthful with the American people. There is strong suspicion that this may be another case of the American people being purposely misled. 


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: conspiracytheory; trustbarr
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1 posted on 01/12/2020 4:41:05 AM PST by Kaslin
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2 posted on 01/12/2020 4:43:41 AM PST by Veggie Todd (Voltaire: "Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool".)
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To: Veggie Todd

3 things that don’t hang themselves....Christmas Ornaments, Drywall and Jeffrey Epstein.


3 posted on 01/12/2020 4:45:22 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Kaslin

Except Attorney General Barr, who publicly said he committed suicide.


4 posted on 01/12/2020 4:53:39 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Kaslin

He didn’t hang himself.....


5 posted on 01/12/2020 4:54:04 AM PST by stockpirate (Anyone who believes Epstein killed himself is a fool)
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To: SkyPilot
Barr has had some worrisome moments......

I had hoped he would be better. His unwillingness to go after the corruptocrats is more than puzzling.

6 posted on 01/12/2020 4:59:10 AM PST by Lakeshark (Trump. He stands for the great issues of the day. Stay the course!)
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To: Kaslin

Hillary saw to it that he committed Arkanside.


7 posted on 01/12/2020 5:05:35 AM PST by SandRat (DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY !!!!)
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To: Kaslin

Arkancized


8 posted on 01/12/2020 5:07:14 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Kaslin
The American people no longer trust what they hear from the media and their government. Ever since his first campaign started in 2015, President Donald Trump has railed against his political opponents within the government and has often warned the American people not to trust the “Fake News” media. These warnings seem to have been heeded...

No Mr Crouere.

Our distrust of media and the government far precedes the Trump campaign. You folks in the gov't/media bubble just didn't/couldn't/did not want to hear us. At the time Mr Trump started calling you and your gov't. buddies out, you were all waiting for him to implode. You would report everything he said or did in hopes you could use it to pile on at a later date.

SURPRISE!!

The people agreed with him! They did not heed him...HE heeded THEM.

It's not that we "followed" him, it's that he, with media's unwitting (dimwitted?) assistance was the first person of stature to give voice to our frustrations and the media gave him that platform.

You media/gov't types STILL don't get it!

9 posted on 01/12/2020 5:09:00 AM PST by Roccus (Prima di ogni altra cosa, siate armati!)
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Corrupt, bias anti-American democrat media + corrupt, bias anti-American democrats in Congress, the FBI and AG = Difficulty if not impossibility in draining the swamp.

The President could have and should have fired ALL the AG attorneys and fired all democrat, anti-Trump, anti-American bureaucrats, which were in his authority to fire. Then, the problem would be to receive Conservative and (true) Christian counsel to replace the people he fired. Wray is just one example of hiring a swamp dweller - the wrong guy.

We got problems. Keep praying that the Lord helps the American people drain the swamp.

10 posted on 01/12/2020 5:09:47 AM PST by JesusIsLord
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To: Kaslin
It strains credulity to believe that a notorious prisoner who had purportedly just tried to commit suicide would be left alone in his jail cell with no supervision and allowed to possess the apparent means to kill himself.

The prison authorities must certainly have known they were in custody of one of the most important detainees in the past 30 years. Therefore, what instructions were given those subordinates in charge of his custody? I have not heard any report on this.

He operated what authorities believe was a sex trafficking operation involving underage girls and prominent individuals, including the elite from politics, Hollywood and business.

These were all young women involved, apparently. Were they specifically chosen to be underage for blackmailing purposes? Very few men will knowingly have sex with an underage girl.

Were recording devices/cameras etc. found at Epstein's facilities?

11 posted on 01/12/2020 5:14:27 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Please, oh pretty please let Crazy Uncle Joe Biden be the nominee.)
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To: Kaslin

Why were there so many orange sheets in his cell? That fake “noose”, the ligature marks on his neck?


12 posted on 01/12/2020 5:25:16 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Kaslin

Someone needs to do a poll: Who killed Epstein?


13 posted on 01/12/2020 5:27:36 AM PST by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: stockpirate

Why would he risk being an invalid from a botched suicide when he knew the Clintons would get it done correctly?


14 posted on 01/12/2020 5:34:02 AM PST by cnsmom
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To: Cowboy Bob

Who could steal Plutonium from the US?


15 posted on 01/12/2020 5:35:29 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Kaslin

Our most vaunted crime fighting outfit, the FBI, has lied to us for a very long time.
Case in point, the Clintons and their various criminal enterprises.
Everyone knows they are dirty on many counts and the crooks at the FBI cover for them.
How or why should anyone trust any damned thing that comes out of that dirty outfit.


16 posted on 01/12/2020 5:41:22 AM PST by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' baby, Molon Labe)
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To: Kaslin

Of course he was murded. He had too much dirt on too many big shots.
Stevie Wonder could see that...Ray Charles, too.


17 posted on 01/12/2020 5:43:27 AM PST by GoldenPup
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To: Kaslin

Ya think?


18 posted on 01/12/2020 5:44:03 AM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Kaslin
the videos were not preserved “as a result of technical errors.”

Whole swaths of management should have lost their jobs from that.

19 posted on 01/12/2020 5:47:14 AM PST by glorgau
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To: The_Media_never_lie

I honestly believe that 99.9% of the billionaire and hundred millionaire set are chosen. Very few people have the innate ability to create a billion dollar fortune on their own, so they are chosen. It almost always takes government connections to make these outsized fortunes, so corruptible people are chosen. They are promised the world, if they comply. They are also promised personal ruin if they resist.


20 posted on 01/12/2020 5:50:03 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
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