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HKJANE's avatar

A federal judge unsealed a purported Epstein suicide note today. Seven years it sat in a New York courthouse. Sealed. As part of the criminal case of a convicted quadruple murderer who happened to be Epstein’s cellmate.

Federal prosecutors say they didn’t know it existed. It’s in their own files.

Read that again.

The note is handwritten. Unsigned. Unauthenticated. It says investigators found nothing on him. It says time to say goodbye. It does not name a single person. It does not implicate anyone. It gives us nothing we can use to hold anyone accountable.

Funny how that works.

Because here is what we still don’t have. The client list. The flight logs with names attached. Howard Lutnick’s testimony — given behind closed doors. Pam Bondi’s deposition — rescheduled. The voices of Epstein’s survivors — not amplified once by the Justice Department that claims to be pursuing this.

The same DOJ that called Fox News before raiding a Democratic state senator this morning somehow cannot find a way to publicly hear from a single woman Epstein trafficked.

A dead man’s angry note gets a press cycle. The people who paid him get another week of quiet.

This is not accountability. This is the appearance of movement. There is a difference. One produces headlines. The other produces consequences.

Epstein is dead. His network is not. His clients had names and addresses and some of them still have power and access and the ability to pick up a phone and make things happen.

That’s the story. It has always been the story. The note is a distraction from the story.

Follow the network

Jennifer Goodman's avatar

Come on now. It’s like when Trump use to call networks and use an alias. Who ever wrote it was sloppy and didn’t take the time to analyze how Epstein wrote. Pathetic

Jack Ryder's avatar

I just don’t understand why someone with his psychological complex would commit suicide before fighting the charges at trial. Someone like him would be extremely confident in their ability to beat the system or certainly beat criminal charges, and that would only be heightened by the favourable results he received in his previous criminal proceedings. If this were to have occurred after he had been found guilty, I would have a far easier time believing the supposed events, and even more so, if it were to happen after he had exhausted all appeals.

Nina Burleigh's avatar

Agree. But who knows. He was kind of a weakling and hadn’t been in a real cell for weeks on end.

Deidre Lisenby's avatar

What makes you think he was a weakling. Narcissists always think of themselves as the strongest, smartest, best looking in the cell... I mean the room. And why would he hide it in a book ?

D . O. Olson's avatar

Could not agree more

Betty Smith's avatar

Take in the fact that he was a habitual abuser and his drug of choice was underage girls to which he would have no access to for the rest of his prison life.

Perhaps he paid someone to take him out. He had enough money to buy everything he wanted and more.

Tranquil Rain's avatar

Very interesting. There are too many things that point to a murder or a hit. He was silenced. Someone didn’t want him to talk.

TomL's avatar
May 7Edited

Thanks for the analysis. The note proves nothing, you'd have to compare the thoughts therein to 100 other suicide notes and do a technical analysis of thoughts expressed and subsequent actions to find where this one fits in with the pattern of those who are in jail or in troubling circumstances and find verifiable suicides. As Julie K. Brown has said repeatedly, he was too frail and physically weak to do the deadly deed. Plus he had a big legal team that could have gotten him off again.

Dan Bongino and the other lackeys tried to whitewash the actual facts that have been uncovered by investigative journalists and some of the others exposing the Epstein murder and the files. Remember when he, Bondi and Patel pulled their press conference and tried to convince the American public and their followers that Epstein's death was a suicide. This note and the fabricated one sent to Nassar were probably what the double digit IQ sycophants were referring to? The Trump pantheon of infamy keeps expanding.

Minnie's avatar

I don’t feel it is. We feel his roomie may have written it, notoriety for “finding” it. Felon4547 and many, many, many other mainly men, nationally snd internationally had/have too much to lose by his ending up going to trial. Got a bridge to Epstein’s Island to sell you.

D . O. Olson's avatar

Anyone close could have observed that repeated use of that phrase and used it to make it look authentic. When in doubt check it out.. lots of good motives for a hit.

Carrington Ward's avatar

Barr had one job, which was to get Epstein to testify, name names, and face sentencing. Instead he let the guy cheat the hangman.

Very convenient and docile of Epstein to die quietly.

TomL's avatar

Barr was no doubt a central figure in the cover-up after Epstein was whacked. The Epstein files ensnare many dozens of very wealthy and politically connected people. Remember Trump said "...I didn't do it". Why would a president say that? This was carefully planned as all such hits are. They're not cheap and they have to be done right to look like "suicide". There was this note and the one to Larry Nassar that sleuths found to have been sent from a DC postal code not NYC. Certain handwriting like Barr. He's a lawyer (professional liar) for a long time. Lots of skeletons in his closet. Everyone in Trump's orbit are carefully chosen then usually disgarded like used snot rags. Trump realizes the risk of exposure, his biggest fear, hidden in the bank records and the rest of the files. Epstein would not have come back to NYC unless he thought he was shielded from capture and incarceration, his biggest fear. Maureen Comey was the government lawyer in NY supposedly working on these cases. I have my own suspicions on her, and her father, the former FBI head, tends to be seen as an honest and good lawman. But there was the time at Bridgewater associates run by Dalio where he was covering up insider trading and sexual harrassment, then he becomes Obama's FBI head. A number of major Democrats have been tied into the Epstein files now; Larry Summers, Bill Clinton, John Kerry, Burns, they're all dirty.

Edogawa Ranpo's avatar

Why was there a mound of prison uniforms in his cell?

Jonathan D. Simon's avatar

As for the phrase "bust out cryin" as an authenticator, certainly if *you* could do the research and locate three prior examples of its use in Epstein's emails, so could *anyone* with motive to pass off a fake note as authentic, am I right?

This is not to prove it is fake, only to suggest that, with the stakes being as high as they are, if I were ginning up a fake note, I'd put in at least as much time as you put in mining the archive for a previously used locution -- in this case "bust out cryin" -- that would seem to authenticate the note when skeptics combed the archive, as you did.

Clee's avatar

It isn't evidence of suicide at all

Anne Lockwood's avatar

And what is odd is that Epstein's cellmate for a while has filed for a pardon from Trump. His cellmate was convicted of murdering 4 people. Why in the world does he think that he would be eligible for a pardon, unless Epstein shared some info maybe?? Maybe??

The plot thickens...

Kim Balkoski's avatar

We will never know whether he jumped or was pushed. But there is so much we do know that can be acted upon! State AGs must act.

Bob A's avatar

Transparent hoooey. Balderdash. BUSHWAH

Jill B.'s avatar

The note doesn’t spell or punctuate like Epstein did.

Chad Nagle's avatar

Very interesting. Unfortunately, as a member of the HSCA forensic panel in the late 1970s, Baden was a lead proponent of the preposterous Single Bullet Theory in the murder of JFK. Not that he’s necessarily lying about Epstein, but he might be trying to atone for past sins by telling the truth now.

TomL's avatar

Baden and the other "experts" are paid often at trial as advocates. Henry Lee, etc.. The trick is finding impartiality. With JFK, the first witnesses at Parkland, around the Grassy Knoll, eye witnesses said pretty much the same thing. Then as usual lots of paid propagandists and government agents muddied the waters with their fake evidence and schemes. The most obvious explanation is usually the most rational. First I'd ask if anyone wanted him dead? Hello? Everyone wanted him dead with the possible exception of his brother. Many people had means, motive and opportunities. There are loads of Gerald Posner types in the media especially Kash Patel, Bondi and Bongino claiming he killed himself. Nonsense. And JFK had lots of enemies in the CIA and other government agencies, means, motives and opportunities. The professional liars are trained to get people to deny their senses and instincts throwing out absurd but believable theories. And they just love that term "conspiracy theorist"!

Karen S's avatar

So the note was written when? I’m not sure that’s an actual suicide note. If he wrote it weeks b4, not sure it’s connected. Am I following the timeline?