• psivchaz@reddthat.com
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    8 hours ago

    The only thing that makes me hesitate on that one is… Trump or the Clinton’s or whoever could have had him assassinated in prison, I don’t believe they would have gone through the added effort of keeping him alive. He’s gonna have a hard time sourcing kids now so why bother? Certainly not because any of the list of suspects values friendship or loyalty

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      7 hours ago

      Trump or the Clinton’s or whoever could have had him assassinated in prison

      I’ll never understand the theory that Hillary Clinton - a woman who hadn’t held political office in over three years, had nothing personally to lose by Epstein yapping, and had no material contacts in the current federal government - managed to get this job done.

      But Trump, the sitting President, with an upcoming reelection fight where he was underwater in the polls and surrounded by Epstein associates, was the guy who stood beyond repute.

      Given the number of people Epstein touched, and the rank incompetency of both Trump and Clinton, I’d sooner put my money down on Thiel or Gates or even Prince Andrew as the mastermind. But dropping Clinton and Trump into the same lineup? Come on. One of them definitely had a bit more leverage with the fucking NY Prison Bureau.

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        4 hours ago

        Yeah it’s pretty far down my list too but I think the theory goes that Hilary wanted him dead because if he ratted on Bill then it would hurt her election chances. Plausible enough as far as motives go. Still, I agree that Trump is the obvious choice.

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          Hilary wanted him dead because if he ratted on Bill then it would hurt her election chances

          In 2019? Hillary was well past her expiration date by then.

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      It makes sense if he had a dead man’s trigger set to release a ton of files if he doesn’t refresh some timer every x days. Guessing that the x days after his arrest were approaching and he was obviously unwilling to trigger a refresh where they could see it.

      I kinda suspect that his arrest might have been a part of the fascist takeover plan. Before that, it didn’t take much imagination to realize that it was more of a mutual destruction thing. If they expose someone, there’s a good chance they’ll talk about everything they know, which at the very least is that Epstein was running a child sex ring.

      But his arrest changed the equation. Everyone knows about the shit anyone might try to tell them in retaliation. The main instigator is apparently dead while the other big name is fucking president. Also, the protection is more active, stopping information from being released rather than releasing information. “Work with us, we will protect you. Don’t and we’ll just let whatever happens happen.”