I am embarrassed that, like so many others, I was deceived by Mr. Epstein,” he wrote. “I know now that my trust in him was grossly misplaced, and I deeply regret having ever crossed his path.”
I bet somebody finally tested his blackmail scheme and there was no trove of dirt — or the fixers found and destroyed them all.
The people he was blackmailing, perhaps? He does, for sure, the coward (I might be for suicide when it comes to depression but not when someone treats it as a way to avoid facing justice when they’ve committed a crime).
At least he can’t hurt any underage females any more, much less impregnate any of them…
PS: THE US TAXPAYERS! Yes, I know - justice should’ve been served but it wasn’t. At least now we won’t have the expense of the trial and, were he to’ve been imprisoned, maintaining him in jail. So that’s something.
You could argue that criminal trials are not designed to reveal the larger truth. Rather, it is it solely a matter of whether the government can overcome the burden of proof. Hence, a trial is a waste of money.
He hanged himself, from what I heard. All you need is enough cloth and something high enough off the ground to attach it to, so that the weight of your body will pull the ligature tight. Prisoners have done it with a bedsheet and a bed frame turned vertically.
I can’t see how they’d prevent it without stripping the prisoners naked, and/or removing any possible attachment points above waist-high (including securing the bedframe to the floor or wall, and not having any bars on the cell doors or windows).
I mean, it’s certainly possible to prevent such a thing, but you’d basically have to design the jail with that in mind.
Or, you know, actually employ enough guards to monitor your prisoners, and incentivize them to do so.
Will we ever know the true actual truth of what goes on behind anything of this nature (not necessarily sex-related, but evil-network-wise in any case, and throughout history)?
Does the parenthetical statement qualifier make sense? I suppose I could’ve used “conspiracy” but one can conspire to do something nice for others, can’t they…? And by “truth” I mean the whole magillah every damned reason why something happened. However, I recognize that we live in a world of theories.
That’s exactly what gets done in other prisons I’ve seen photos of. Beds are bolted to the wall, and sit on plinths rather than legs. Plumbing pipes are covered.
Trump and the GOP are in the endgame now; they’ve lost an important pretext for installing Pence. The only thing left is for Trump to be a complete suckass to the insider trading and arbitrage scams that will play out through the election. The GOP think they can win it against Biden (they aren’t wrong) or the “socialists” (they are wrong).