• RunningInRVA@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    His indication that he took the “short route” home implies he wrote the letter before committing suicide. It certainly implicates Trump, but the conspiracy theorists will not be happy.

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      I’ve always leaned toward suicide over assassination.

      The assasination scenario is very Hollywood, but everyone in this administration is pretty incompetent and it would be pretty ballsy for someone with access to Epstein to do it. It’s just not as likely as suicide, when the guy was looking at being behind bars for eternity.

      Doesn’t in any way imply Donald Trump isn’t a child rapist though.

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      If he did, why the hell would they go through all the trouble of claiming the tapes were lost, then releasing obviously doctored footage, and putting out some shitty animation passed as the real thing? Seems like it would have been unnecessary.

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        I believe he was on suicide watch. The prison guards would have been implicated as complicit if the whole thing was on camera.

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          Well, yeah. He was on suicide watch, but also right before he was to testify, just happened he was given a bit of time where the prison guards left him alone, and the tapes “stopped” recording. Assisted or not that’s at best negligence and coincidence, at worst actively complicit and planned.

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      Is there any other way to read that if we didn’t know he’s dead? Like, maybe the short route home from prison would be to give up the location and code to his other secret safe with the video of Trump raping a 14 year old or sucking off Clinton