Whose Conspiracy?
Monday, August 12, 2019 Trump re-tweeted a White Nationalist’s conspiracy theory, that the Clintons arranged to have Epstein commit suicide.
This, after Trump’s failed visits to El Paso and Dayton, sites of the last two mass murders, happening only about 12 hours apart. How can you console people, when you’re so complicit in the chaos now endemic in the US? Trump can’t. People see him as increasingly part of the destroyers.
The facts emerging from Epstein’s suicide make conspiracy theories more likely.
1. He was on a suicide watch that was discontinued.
2. He was in the overcrowded, underfunded Federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.
3. He was placed in a cell with another inmate, as a) per agreed upon protocol for someone who’s been subject of a suicide watch, b) is a high-profile prisoner, and c) has received depressing news (a major release of info from a witness, and former friend).
4. His cell-mate was transferred, so Epstein had the cell to himself.
5. Half-hour checks to his status 24/7 were mandated, but not carried out. Consequently, Epstein had at least several uninterrupted hours in which to hang himself, before anybody noticed. Tru
The prison offered excuses: the most prominent being that the two officers who were supposed to be responsible for keeping Epstein adequately monitored, were working on overtime, one of the two for several days. The prison, a federal facility, has been woefully underfunded.
So, Trump re-tweeted a White Nationalist conspiracy theory, that the Clintons (!) had conspired to do Epstein in!
Now, it’s probably true that Epstein could have implicated Bill Clinton in nastiness, since he was one of many to go to Epstein’s “parties,” in which Jeffrey arranged to kidnap/carry off teenage girls found on the NY streets, and offer them up for “entertainment.”
But it’s also true that there were a lot more “friends” who could have been implicated by Epstein. Including Donald Trump, not only known as one of his frequent guests, but also known for disappearing a rape case of a then 13-year old girl, whose virginity he supposedly took, forcibly, at one of Epstein’s parties, and supposedly, Jeffrey had been angered by Trump’s taking away this virgin he’d wanted to deflower himself.
So, Jeffrey Epstein could have offered damning testimony against Trump.
And as President, Trump could have indicated, through indirect routes and through not directly saying, but implying, that precautions against Epstein committing suicide, were unnecessary. The prison guards were probably only too willing to not get up every half hour and look in at Jeffrey’s cell.
That’s all Trump had to do. Epstein was primed to do away with himself, and no one came by to stop him.
But I think, the very fact that Trump retweeted the white supremacist Clinton conspiracy theory is telling. He was projecting. It’s not what the Clintons did; it’s what Trump could have done, or would have liked to do.
I wonder if we’ll ever know which is true: did he arrange the suicide, or did he simply project what he would have liked to do?