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And there were other strange doings that night and morning. There’s the missing three minutes of the footage Pam Bondi said was “complete” that turned out to actually be footage spliced together in Adobe Premiere Pro, with time missing around midnight. Snoozy guard Bonhomme got off his shift at midnight, then guard Michael Thomas came on. And though Thomas should have been bright and bushy, he and Noel missed every single mandatory-every-30-minutes wellness check of Epstein from midnight until Thomas found his body at 6:30 a.m. That’s sure a lot of negligence overseeing a man who was the highest-profile prisoner in the federal system aside from maybe El Chapo!

The events surrounding the discovery of Epstein’s body were unusual too. Thomas said he “ripped” Epstein down from the hanging position, but he doesn’t remember seeing any noose. “I don’t recall taking the noose off. I really don’t. I don’t recall taking the thing from around his neck.”

And Noel says that while she saw Thomas pull Epstein down from a hanging position, she never saw a noose either, and an actual noose or ligature has never been identified. What’s more, the Medical Examiner has never settled on a time of death, because Thomas moved the body. And no one has ever seen any footage or photographs of Epstein’s body in the cell.

Odd too, Noel decreased her inmate count from 73 to 72 sometime between 10 p.m. and 3 a.m., a change Noel says she has no memory of making.

So many coincidences! And of course the Attorney General on August 9, 2019, and person in charge of the federal prison system was Bill Barr, whose own weirdo father wrote fantasy SciFi about teenage sex slaves and gave Epstein a teaching job at Dalton, even though Epstein did not even have a college degree.

Epstein’s brother Mark also thinks Jeffrey was murdered, and that Trump was behind it, worried that Jeffrey was about to spill dirt that would end his career. Mark also hired former NYC chief medical examiner Dr. Michael Baden to do his own autopsy, and Baden concluded that the “evidence points to homicide rather than suicide.”

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[–] PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In UK cabinet minister had to resign, because he has advised PM to assign a diplomat which turned out to have Epstein ties.

In US, pedo train keeps on going strong! Yee haw, Murica!

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Resigning, admitting fault, and having the tiniest amount of shame is for losers!

[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

The majority used to resign because they knew they would be thrown out otherwise. They now know that won't happen anymore so why bother?

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's a lot of great stuff in this piece but this does not seem correct:

(There is no evidence of ties between Epstein and the intelligence service of Israel — in fact, in one email, after being invited to Israel, Epstein rejected the invite, saying, “I do not like Israel. AT ALL.”)

Epstein was deeply involved with Ehud Barak, meeting with him regularly including when barak was serving as defense minister.

The article they link showing "no evidence" is a times of israel piece that's just a press release from netanyahu calling barak a "far left anti-zionist" who has been working to take down the israeli government 😂 That's just obviously netanyahu lying. No serious person could believe that.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 3 points 14 hours ago

He took private jet flights to Israel and back with with their intelligence boss too.

If the article says that, they are part of the conspiracy, and I discount everything they say. Lying to us to protect Israel is not acceptable.

[–] kutt@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

TW: dead body images

But these really look too real… Maybe he did kill himself but he told them before to let him, explaining all the hiding and coincidences

Edit: also, there are no 3 missing minutes here

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They look real, and they look like ligature marks matching a garrotting or strangulation, as opposed to a person who hung himself.

I'm not a forensic expert though, of course.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd never looked at those pictures before. It would be interesting to hear more experts weight in. Makes me wonder why the markings weren't further up the neck to the jaw, because you don't have enough room to fall far, so wouldn't you hang for a bit with the rope dragging up to the highest point on the neck it could get to. This almost looks to me like someone put something around his neck from behind and choked him

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 7 points 1 day ago

Yes, those were my thoughts exactly too.

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I never did like the word "expert".

An ex is a has-been and a spurt is a drip under pressure.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

A fan of the Liam Rosenior school of thought, I see.

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

I was thinking more Ted Lasso.

[–] kutt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don’t think they found signs of battling.

Think about what a scandal that would be if it were revealed that the government allowed him to commit suicide. Maybe they want us to believe he was assassinated by a 3rd party or that it was negligence, but the truth could lie elsewhere.

[–] Horsecook@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

mere days before the launch of the /pol/ board, 4Chan’s first politically themed message thread.

For fuck’s sake. /pol/ was the third iteration of /new/ and /n/. Nominally news boards, they were primarily used to discuss politics, with a pervasive neo-Nazi bent, which Moot, and much of the rest of the site’s users, disapproved of. The board deletions were unsuccessful in getting the posters to leave, instead causing the neo-Nazi content to be disruptively posted on many other boards.

The third version was referred to as a containment board, it was called Politically Incorrect to make fun of the users, who were constantly bitching about n*ggers and posting crazy hot takes. A double entendre, saying they were incorrect about politics. Users were nicknamed /pol/tards.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

Thomas said he “ripped” Epstein down from the hanging position, but he doesn’t remember seeing any noose.

Well...what was he hanging from?

And Noel says that while she saw Thomas pull Epstein down from a hanging position, she never saw a noose either, and an actual noose or ligature has never been identified.

I've seen photos of a makeshift noose in his cell so there definitely was one at some point.