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Any reasonable review shouldn’t leave out the minor detail that Epstein had attempted suicide a month prior. Not saying that that should eliminate all suspicion, but it’s certainly a pretty huge piece of context to leave out.

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well, how do you know there was a first attempt. because there's a tape ... there was a tape. it got accidentally deleted due to a "data entry error" :)

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/09/795004811/video-outside-cell-...

Any reasonable review shouldn't assume any validity of the first "attempt" given the improbable series of "accidents" the night of his death. If anything, it is more likely it was fabricated or used to support the narrative. I mean, the guy had dirt on billionaires and ultra-powerful politicians and you want to be believe it was an actual suicide? That approach would produce such bad investigations.

Without the first attempt, we wouldn’t be talking about many of the suspicious procedural and technical failures that occurred with the successful attempt, because he wouldn’t have been moved and placed on suicide watch. Your explanation doesn’t make sense because it would have made the job harder and introduced more suspicion and none of it would have been difficult to foresee.

The crooked, drug-running cop who was Epstein's cellmate (and charged with murdering four people in a drug conspiracy) was quietly spared the death penalty in December last year, with no reason given: https://www.lohud.com/story/news/2022/12/14/nicholas-tartagl...

the tape covering the first attempt got accidentally deleted due to a "data entry error"

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/09/795004811/video-outside-cell-...

Thank you. There is such an overwhelming number of these details it becomes very difficult to remember all of them.

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