Democrats descend on Iowa
— with renewed anxiety
Posted By: NorthernDog, 8/10/2019 6:04:34 PM
DES MOINES —As Democrats descend on Iowa to kick off a six-month sprint to the first primary vote, party activists are increasingly anxious that former vice president Joe Biden, the consistent polling leader, has not disposed of persistent questions about whether he is well-equipped to take on President Trump. Adding to the Democrats’ nervousness is that a clear alternative has yet to emerge. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) is rising in the polls and has a high-quality campaign organization, but doubts linger in some quarters about the appeal of her left-leaning policies in a general election. Sens. Kamala D. Harris (Calif.)
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Jeffrey Epstein dead in apparent suicide
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Jeffrey Epstein dead in apparent suicide
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Epstein dies of Arkancide
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The Daily Beast reported this morning, "The Biggest Bombshells in Newly Unsealed Epstein Documents."
Hours later, he was dead in his jail cell.
Officials call it suicide. I'm thinking Arkancide.
(Snip)He was on suicide watch. I wonder if any of the suicide watchers loses his job.
Likely not. The public doesn't mind if we dispose of this rat without a trial.
But many rich and powerful people will also escape a trial, including the prosecutors who let him skate in Florida a decade ago.
Jeffrey Epstein, accused sex trafficker,
is dead by apparent suicide,
found in his Manhattan jail cell 35 replies
is dead by apparent suicide,
found in his Manhattan jail cell 35 replies
Jeffrey Epstein, the millionaire financier and accused sex trafficker, is dead by apparent suicide, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
Epstein was in his federal jail cell in Manhattan but was not on suicide watch at the time of his death, multiple people familiar with the investigation told NBC News.
His death comes a little over two weeks after he was found injured and in a fetal position in his cell at the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. He was semiconscious with marks on his neck at the time.
In July, two sources told NBC News that Epstein was on suicide watch.
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The Shame and Disgrace Will Linger
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August 10, 1969: SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.—President Nixon accused his predecessor Lyndon Baines Johnson of complicity in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Speaking with reporters on the first day of a 10-day stay at his Pacific Ocean vacation home ….
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Investigative reporter Chris Hansen is raising questions about Jeffrey Epstein’s reported suicide today, and claims “heads will roll” at the prison where he was being housed.
(Snip)
“Epstein, because of his earlier suicide attempt, was in a special area of the lockup where he was monitored 24/7. He was wearing paper clothes with which he could not have hung himself,” he said, “and he was given blankets which he could not use to hang himself.”
(Snip)
Hansen claims not every person watching Epstein was a corrections officer.
“They are so short staffed at this facility that officials use inmates themselves as trustees to monitor other inmates,”
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The two prison guards at Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan jail who reportedly failed to follow procedure and check on prisoners every 30 minutes were both working long overtime shifts the night the pedophile took his own life, a source has revealed.The former financier, 66, was found hanging in his prison cell shortly before 7am and was rushed to nearby New York Presbyterian-Lower Manhattan hospital where he was pronounced dead. A prison official told The New York Times one of the guards was working his fifth straight day of overtime
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Dems are so nervous they need to breath into a bag. Only questions is - paper or plastic?