AP: Feds Feared Epstein Confidant Might Kill Herself | Talking Points Memo

[mattinpa]

I want some paper outfits.

Make mine terry cloth. Been hot AF lately.

[bryan]

Why would Maxwell be more prone to suicide than any other federal prisoner? How does Epstein’s “suicide” make her’s more likely?

She may be prone to the same type of suicide as Epstein: The involuntary, assisted kind.

[mattinpa]

I doubt tRump is up to it. I mean can you seriously imagine him actually planning such a thing?
My money is on Putin or one of the various international oligarchs.

He doesn’t have to plan it. All he has to do is express, however vaguely, a willingness that it be done. “Turbulent priest” is a longstanding precedent. Epstein was in custody and then he was dead. None of us can say how or why it happened.

[lisaaug]

None of those protocols and safety measures will stop the real threat: a prison employee who knows how to shut down the cameras just long enough to smother her.

[Mustellus]

“Feds Confident that Feared Epstein Confidant Ghislaine Maxwell Will Kill Herself”.

There, I fixed the typos in the headline.

[eldonlazar]

I lean toward a larger conspiracy. These scum got rich by blackmailing richer scum. tRump is just one of the scum.

I’m not a conspiracy nut, but the Russians mastered kompromat decades ago. For instance, we know that Fallwell Jr and his wife were screwing a pool boy. Somehow, tRump met with him in private, and all of a sudden Fallwell came out and supported him. Similar thing with Lindsey (Lady G.) Graham.

There’s no way an incompetent boob like tRump develops the kind of wide ranging intelligence to gather those threads together. But if you assume, as I do, that tRump was himself suborned decades ago (1987?), you also have to assume he is not the only one they’ve been working.

If an effort to compromise rich and influential people is being run against us, those running it would have sophisticated muscle to cut off any loose threads.

[bluinmaine]

she is already dead, the powers that be just haven’t laid her down to rest yet.

[dogmaalsocatma]

Where’s @castor_troy? This should have been meat and drink to him.

[jimtoday]

So basically they are pre-announcing Maxwell’s “suicide”.

[Volvo_Birkenstock]

She’s alleged to have set up many minors to be raped. I usually consider suicide worthy of prevention. If prosecutors believe she is considering suicide, it is likely because she feels great shame. There are three ways to look at this:

1. She’s a late-learner with regard to morality and is finally learning shame.
2. She may also be a victim of childhood sexual abuse, in which case her behavior is somewhat understandable while also being reprehensible.
3. She’s deserving of her own suicide.

When I look at all the lives she’s helped damage or destroy, I could go with any of these three, but I would not mourn her loss if she took her own life. If she was a victim of childhood abuse, I would mourn that.

[Hatmama]

I want her to live long enough to tell a series of juries about who was participating in the crimes, and where the money is hidden, and who was laundering it.

Then she can jump over the side of a big boat. I’m sure there are many who would be there to “help” her.

[boidster]

Before this woman is found dead, I hope someone clues us in on how her name is pronounced.

Well the ‘L’ is silent and the emphasis is on the second syllable, so it is pronounced “Groomer Diesinjail”

[boidster]

Attorney General William Barr said his death was the result of the “perfect storm of screw ups.”

Emphasis on the word ‘perfect’.

[epicurus]

The ‘s’ is silent.

Indeed it is, and thanks for the correction.

[castor_troy]

I’m just waiting for Killary to intervene.

They had also taken away all that stuff from Epstein.

[lanabill]

I want to know if these cell mates speak Russian.

[littlegirlblue]

Soon her name will be digital, as in prisoner number (fill in the blanks).

[mys_lys]

she will ascend to the 9th circle

…descend? or is this a layered reference that is over mah head

[mys_lys]

Case fatality rates (= rates of mortality among confirmed covid19 cases) for coronavirus patients in their fifties and sixties are in this graphic.
Ms. Maxwell is about 58 and a half (apparently she’s a Christmas Day baby), so, unless her risk is aggravated by other conditions – of which one of the most major, obesity, can clearly be ruled out – it’s fair to assume that, if she were to contract the virus in prison, she’d be facing a mortality risk on the lower end of these figures.

So, like, a 1% chance of dying from covid, and that’s GIVEN that she gets the virus.
AKA the least of many considerations here.

@commanderogg @occamscoin

[kovie]

One wonders how many more versions of her are out there, still doing this sort of thing, because apparently, there’s a subset of people who are into it, like, really into it, and just can’t or won’t stop themselves until caught.

Her “list” is sure to include people who are not just tied to Trump, Repubs and others we’d love to take down (and perhaps some whom we’d rather not, but who should go down if they’re on it), but who are tied into other such sex with minors and coerced victim networks.

I strongly suspect that Barr is on one of these lists. He seems like the type, creepy, furtive, domineering. But she probably won’t be alive once Trump is out.