The Death of Epstein

 

Two pals on the so-called "Lolita Express": A Boeing 727-100 aircraft that was owned by one of them, namely the convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein, to the left

As the whole world knows by now, these two men, Jeffrey Epstein and Donald tRump, enjoyed some "carnal pleasures" with under-age girls. (In some cases, there may also have been boys of a tender age, but they were not the main target of these two, who went for very young girls). Some years ago, Snopes gave its verdict on some of the allegations as "Mostly false", so there may not have been any male victims. On the other hand, there may have been at least three boys:

Now, tRump is once more resorting to his favorite "sport": Lying. He is claiming that he never even went to the private island of Epstein, which is either a joke in very bad taste or an attempt to appeal to his MAGA-supporters. 

The "playmates", Epstein and tRump, met several times for "fun" with under-age girls, and some accused them of rape. Actually, there seems to be witnesses to (some of) these crimes, but it took much too long for the authorities to do what it should have done several years back in time.

However: On July 6, 2019, Epstein was arrested and taken into federal custody. After what looks like an attempted suicide on July 23, he is put under surveillance, although he says that he didn't try to kill himself, but was attacked by someone. His cell-mate is a former police officer, and he denies having attacked Epstein. Somehow, this incident is classified as an attempted suicide, but the wounds from it don't seem to have been kept as evidence of what happened. On July 29 the suicide watch is stopped, and Epstein is moved back to a regular cell in the SHU-department. He gets a new cell-mate, but he is removed the night of August 9, and as the video of the cell (all of a sudden???) doesn't work anymore, nobody knows for sure how he died. Anyway, in the early morning of August 10, he is found dead/unconscious in a cell with 11 orange sheets.

What are those sheets doing there, and who brought them? One of the two guards who were to keep an eye on him, but who allegedly fell asleep? Were the sheets forced upon him as a "hint" to commit suicide, or did they come to use when the door of his cell may have opened to let in a murderer? And, if he was murdered, who did - or ordered - it?

Those who say it was a suicide are having a hard time explaining why the marks on his neck don't look like "normal" marks when people hang themselves. No, as confirmed by the NYC medical examiner who was set to observe the autopsy, they look much more like those one sees in cases of manual strangulation. Also, there found fractures in the hyoid bone and both horns of the thyroid cartilage that aren't consistent with hangings.

And, of course, all kinds of conspiracy theories abound. Discussions go from murder allegations to suggestions of an assisted escape to Israel. Some of those who don't believe that he died make references to this photo of what presumably is his dead body:

The non-believers point out some details of his nose and ears which, according to them, "proves" that the corpse belongs to someone else and not Epstein. His girlfriend and business partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, has told her family that Epstein "would never commit suicide", others find it "natural" that he did as he was facing an unpleasant trial and a long sentence. One thing is for sure, what he did, others did too, and his death will not put an end to the case. 

 

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/assault-allegations-donald-trump-recapped 

 

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/epsteins-ghost-the-coffee-klatch/comments 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/25/trump-sexual-misconduct-allegations-timeline  

 

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