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      Jeffrey Epstein’s Former Attorney Who Secured Plea Deal Dead at 80

      damnit, and I like a good conspiracy too… /s

      He was also sick before it happened, per Newsweek.

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    What’s with the headline - “found dead?” His law partner said he died, at 80, after a long illness. Nowhere in the article, following that headline, did it mention he was “found dead,” which, juxtaposed in the same sentence as Epstein, makes it sound nefarious, when in fact, it was just an old guy dying after an unnamed prolonged illness. My guess would be cancer. Not exactly a “found dead” context.

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      Can’t we just do the GOP playbook and make up a bunch of bullshit, spread rumours, intentionally ignore the facts and live in dipshitland? The answer is no but I do wonder what it’s like over there

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        No that just allows differently colored snakes to take over, we don’t beat this by stooping to their level — at least not that level.

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      Probably something like, “found dead in his bedroom when the nurse went to check in on him in the morning”. My MiL died in hospice, at home; she wasn’t hooked up to a ton of machines, so we don’t know exactly when she died. She was dead when my spouse woke up from napping.

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        The title of the post ≠ the headline of the article, which make it all the more problematic.

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      Interesting how you, a seemingly random commenter, seems to have personal knowledge of the death of a lawyer with ties to Epstine.

      How did I do?

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    Coin flip of whether it is just age or the tying of a loose end. Regardless, enemies of the Regime should just run with the latter narrative.

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      Stone cold take. Let’s face it if he weren’t in those files he would have released them. He has no loyalty to anyone else so he wouldn’t care about protecting them.

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    That’s not what the headline says, OP unless it’s changed since you posted it.

    He was sick and 80. He died. Not “found dead”.

    Black died on Monday at his home in Coral Gables at the age of 80 after an illness, his law partner Howard Srebnick said.

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      Honestly. I’m glad he made the title what it is. Makes it obvious when people comment without even bother to open the article.

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      How do you know he’s dead? Because someone tried calling him, and maybe went to his home to check on him… And (dare I say it) found him dead?

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    Lol. This will destroy any progress they thought they were making burying the Epstein story, even if it is natural causes

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            and a very traumatic experience even when you survive. does he still like swimming in the ocean? I know I didn’t after my experience

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            Yep RIP tides are no laughing matter. I was lucky enough when it happened to me I just ended up several hundred feet down the beach. Once you are in it. It can be way harder to get out than a lot of people might think.

            • Yes, we needed help getting out. I was swimming parallel as needed and kept pushing my son out 2-3 feet ahead of me so I was motivated enough to swim to him. After a few minutes, a young man, probably 20s, came in to help.

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      Putin kills people all the time. Everybody knows it was him but he’s still in power.

      It doesn’t matter if this keeps the story alive as long as no one faces actual consequences for it.

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      The world’s elite rulers are credibly accused of molesting children for decades and doing everything possible to deny it, including seemingly the murder of the alleged Israeli spy that has evidence of their crimes. His lawyer who potentially knows way too much conveniently dies when he’s granted legal protection to speak up, and we should just accept that 80 year old sick man died?

      Maybe, but you’d be very naive to dismiss foul play.

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        You’d be naive to jump right to that conclusion.

        The worldwide pedophile ring of rich people definitely does exist. That doesn’t mean we throw out rational skepticism in other ways.

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          I didn’t jump to any conclusions, I simply didn’t dismiss it outright and stop engaging critically as soon as I see the official narrative of “80 year old sick man dies”

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    Lea Black, his wife, told the Miami Herald that he always “fought for the underdog and people’s civil rights.”

    “He understood that we all have our flaws…He was able to separate people’s behavior from their character. He wanted the best for everyone,” she said.

    I knew love was blind, but this is bordering on black hole levels of blindness.

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      Actually I respect it. Its easy to view this comment from her to be about Epstein when the article mentions him specifically, but a person’s career is more than the 1 bullet point people become known for. I didn’t follow his career so I dont really know.

      I think everyone deserves representation in court, no matter how heinous they are. If they have a multi million dollar defense and still go to prision… that fucker is guilty. When they are stuck with some overworked public defender, it starts to raise doubts even when it would otherwise be an obvious case.

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    Stop posting sensationalist shit. The dude died at 80, this wasn’t an assassination. He wasn’t ‘found’

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    always supported and fought for the underdog

    I have a hard time imagining a world where Epstein, Bieber, the Kennedys, or any of their ilk could be considered underdogs. Good riddance.