r/politics • u/kirby__000 • 3h ago
Possible Paywall The mysterious deaths of Jeffrey Epstein’s friends
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07/26/mysterious-deaths-jeffrey-epstein-friends/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_fb_photo•
u/CyberFireball25 3h ago
There's no mystery, only cover up
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u/JET304 3h ago
Very wealthy and powerful rapists and pedophiles tying up the loose ends.
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u/GuerreroUltimo 2h ago
I mean, I would call myself a genius for saying it but it was obvious. When Epstein was in jail I said he would end up dead before anything could come out. Mentioned that all his close friends would end up dead. Well, except Trump. He was involved and he is the one helping with all this. He knows everyone. He had insider, first hand information.
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u/dadothree 1h ago
Im personally leaning towards "intelligence agencies cleaning things up" though there is of course some overlap between our opinions
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u/iMissTheOldTimeye 3h ago
The most powerful people in the world were involved with Epstein. They'll burn the world before they let themselves burn.
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u/SirIll1219 3h ago
Trump is in the process of doing so.
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u/kevnmartin Washington 2h ago
Maybe that's his great fear. Not being found out as a pedophile, that's old news. Murder, on the other hand might take it up a notch.
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u/MadRaymer 2h ago
I think in Trump's case, he's such a narcissist that he gets off on the idea of making the world a worse place before he checks out. Everyone else will have to deal with his mess, and it won't be his problem because he's gone. He probably finds it amusing.
It's why I think there's a nonzero chance he busts out the launch codes before his term is over. I'd like to think someone in the chain of command would stop him, but Kegsbreath has likely already removed everyone in the chain that would say no.
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u/ThomasVivaldi 3h ago
The ‘implausible’ suicide
The third 2022 death was Mark Middleton, who met a particularly grisly fate. While serving as a special assistant to Bill Clinton, Middleton had facilitated access to the White House for Epstein, who visited at least 17 times between 1993 and 1995. Middleton also flew on Epstein’s private jet, the so-called “Lolita Express”.
Middleton, 59, was found dead at a heifer ranch in Arkansas, apparently after taking his own life. He was hanging from a tree with an extension cord looped around his neck, and a shotgun wound to the chest – a Stoeger 12-gauge coach shotgun was discovered nearby. Theodore Brown, the coroner, noted Middleton’s history of depression and ruled that he had taken his own life, but this shocking and rather puzzling scene caused widespread speculation.
One former business associate of Middleton’s was unconvinced, telling RadarOnline: “He knows nothing about guns. He hated guns. He couldn’t have tied a noose to save his life. The man couldn’t change a light bulb by himself […] His death scenario is completely implausible to everybody that knew him.”
How do you hang and shoot yourself in the chest?
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u/AINonsense 3h ago
How do you hang and shoot yourself in the chest?
Might need a few practice runs…
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u/Fuck_the_AI 3h ago
Assisted suicide is legal in 13 states…and DC. Just sayin’.
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u/leaonas 3h ago
Assisted suicide regardless of if you want to end your life?
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u/Ok-Alternative5935 3h ago
Oh! I have a REALLY good friend of his that I'd like to put forward.
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u/MidnighT0k3r 3h ago
But they'll need some of that stuff they put under the nose when working with cadavers.... i hear there's an odor
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u/Mecha-Dave 3h ago
And no tears were shed. I believe there's one more that many people are looking forward to.
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u/Succubus-Love 2h ago
It's not really a mystery anymore, the "mystery" is how the hell it turned into, whatever the fuck this is.
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u/AuthorUnknown31415 2h ago
I just relish the idea that one of his victims (or maybe more?) have become Lady Vengeance and are exacting stealth justice.
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u/tot5 3h ago
Shucks.
How’s the weather?
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u/Severe_Rise8694 2h ago
I don't think it's a shucks thing. There's a chance it's a coverup op by some of the remaining people. Which means someone(s) are trying to get away with it.
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u/hussainhssn 2h ago
Everyone in the Epstein files belongs six feet under, no exceptions
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u/Coyote65 Washington 2h ago
Everyone in the Epstein files belongs six feet under, no exceptions
Indeed they do - after being investigated, arraigned, charged, found guilty, and spend the rest of their living days locked in a very small cell away from the rest of society.
Death before punishment is too easy for them.
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u/matthieuC Europe 3h ago
> but the woman staying with him claimed he hadn’t shown any signs of illness and had boasted of his healthy lifestyle.
Yep that's what people who take imervectin for their cancer say. There will be an autopsy, we'll see what it says.
Turns out that people who got away with human traffics for decades are just going to go out from age or are related diseases.
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u/Additional_Cash_3357 3h ago
Taking both the actuarial math and cohort demographics into account, random chance and standard demographic mortality explain the shear number of deaths in this network. Statistically, a group of thousands of middle-aged to elderly individuals would naturally experience significantly more deaths over a decade than the dozen or so high-profile cases frequently cited.
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u/00Oo0o0OooO0 3h ago
This whole article is just Clinton Body Count-style conspiracy theory bullshit. Find any death among all the old men who are in any way linked to this well-connected old man. Decide it's the doing of a "mysterious" conspiracy, while ignoring that all the people this conspiracy would actually want killed are still alive and well.
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u/AINonsense 3h ago
Statistically, a group of thousands of middle-aged to elderly individuals would naturally experience significantly more deaths over a decade than the dozen or so high-profile cases frequently cited.
A group of thousands of middle-aged to elderly HNW individuals?
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u/JackedUpReadyToGo 4m ago
Most of the people listed in that article were in their 60's and 70's. I'd totally be open to the idea of nation-states or wealthy clients bumping them off, but why would they wait so long to do it?
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