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A note addressed to Larry Nassar, signed by “J. Epstein,” appears to claim that Donald Trump loved “young, nubile girls”

The note was postmarked three days after Jeffrey Epstein’s death and appeared to reference his intention to die by suicide

Epstein apparently wrote, “As you know by now, I have taken the ‘short route home,’” in the hand-written note

The White House referred PEOPLE to a statement from the Department of Justice that called claims against Trump unfounded and false

  • SippyCup@lemmy.ml
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    13 hours ago

    I tend to apply an assumption of incompetence before conspiracy as a sort of Occam’s razor and it’s never steered me wrong.

    Could the circumstances of Epstein’s death be explained by ordinary incompetence? Almost certainly.

    Is there any actual evidence that it was something other than incompetence? In this case, not really.

    It’s easy to believe that a guard fell asleep, that the prescribed routine of checking every half hour just wasn’t fucking happening, and that prison guard isn’t really a “skilled” position. “He didn’t seem like he was going to kill himself so I didn’t check.” Is a lot more believable than a vast conspiracy that has yet to be independently confirmed by any involved person. “I was ordered to look the other way while Epstein hung himself” sells a million copies in weekend. If anybody had any evidence that it was malicious in any way, that shit would have been front page news 5 years ago.

    • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 hours ago

      Generally speaking, I agree with you, but in this case, there is a massive amount of evidence in the released documents that suggests there is an international network supplying women to powerful people. Several of these people are still in office or hold aristocratic titles, and they will do damn near anything to hold on to those.

      Let’s say it was basic incompetence that led the guards to fall asleep and the cameras to malfunction—how did Epstein know that was happening to act at the moment that he did?