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National News See other National News Articles Title: WATCH: Tucker Carlson says Epstein was 'murdered,' claims Bill Barr lied about it Conservative journalist and media starlet Tucker Carlson slammed former United States Attorney General Bill Barr for stopping the investigation into notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's death and accused him of lying about how the convicted sex offender died, saying, "He was murdered." Carlson made the claims about the infamous sexual predator, who reportedly died by suicide in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019 as he awaited trial for child sex trafficking and conspiracy, while recently appearing on the "Full Send" podcast last month. "I don't want to overstate what I know," Carlson said. "I'm just telling you what I do know. He was killed." "We know for a fact that he was killed in federal custody. He was murdered. That's true," Carlson claimed. "I spent a week looking into it because his brother Mark reached out to me." "I know nothing else. I don't know what Jeffrey Epstein was doing. I've never seen any tapes. I don't know anything," Carlson said. "So, the the things we know, are that we don't know where the money came from, we don't know what he did for a living, and we know that he was murdered." "He was murdered in the special housing unit of a federal lockup in Manhattan," Carlson told the hosts. "Whoever did it was able to do it in the most secure lockdown in the United States of America and then get away with it ... so that tells you a lot about whoever that group of people was. They're no one to f*ck with." Carlson told the hosts that his friend was one of the last people that spoke with Jeffrey Epstein before he was found dead, who had claimed that on the day of Epstein's death, they spoke on the phone and Epstein was not "despondent." "A friend of mine is one of the people who last talked to him on the phone the day he was killed. He had an expectation of a bail hearing in two days, he thought he was getting out. He was not despondent at all," Carlson said. "I talked to his lawyer, told me the same thing." The former Fox News host mentioned how at the time of Epstein's alleged suicide all of the cameras in the prison wing stopped working and the prison guards assigned to Epstein were not at their respective posts. Former US Attorney General Bill Bar launched an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's death but stopped it despite the extreme skepticism surrounding the child sex trafficker's infamous death. AG Barr sided with the medical examiner's ruling that Epstein died by suicide which Carlson slammed him for blatantly lying about. "I have no idea why the Attorney General of the United States would be lying about this, but there's literally no question that he did. I know him," Carlson said. "We reached out to Bill Barr like, 'Hey, why don't you come on and explain why you lied about Jeffrey Epstein's death?'" "So, I don't want to overstate what I know. I'm just telling you what I do know. He was killed," Carlson concluded. Poster Comment: Of course he was murdered and that lying sack of squeeze Barr (who should be tried and hung for treason) very knows it. https://medium.com/arc-digital/why-epstein-didnt-kill-himself-became-a-populist- battle-cry-d4bdd399f45d onspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide preceded its actual occurrence. The extent of his sex crimes was matched only by his connections to an array of world leaders, from the current U.S. president to the British royal family. When he was finally imprisoned in Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center this summer, even normally sober-minded voices whispered of his impending demise. By all appearances, Epstein hanged himself in his cell in mid-August, abandoned by dithering guards in one of the country’s most notoriously dank and inhumane jails. But forget the medical examiner’s report, the MCC’s long history of grisly suicides, and the high statistical likelihood of someone in Epstein’s position committing the act. None of these have quelled the rise of what’s not just a meme or conspiratorial catchphrase, but an article of faith among skeptics across the ideological spectrum: Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself. The axiom is rooted in the belief that a sinister cabal of figures with personal or professional connections to Epstein, such as former President Bill Clinton and England’s Prince Andrew, had the financier assassinated to silence him. It’s been embraced by everyone from Bernie-loving Brooklynites to the podcaster Joe Rogan and his fans; from errant Navy SEALs on Fox News to Syrian president Bashar al- Assad. Republican member of Congress Paul Gosar even encrypted it acrostically into a series of tweets from his official House Twitter account. As disparate as these groups may seem, they share a common interest that makes the idea’s appeal obvious: the desire to discredit those they view as the “ruling class.” Liberals and the left think of class in economic terms. But since World War II, conservatives and the Republican Party — from Nixon’s “Silent Majority” to modern Trumpism — have subverted that idea, defining it not by economic but cultural status. Now, multi-millionaires from Kid Rock to Donald Trump himself can say credibly, at least to their supporters, that they stand in opposition to the “elite.” In this formulation, conspiracies are the purview of the “lower” class, implicating the elite in unspeakable crimes and cover-ups. Regardless of political beliefs, the believer is then positioned as part of what Trump so memorably called the “super-elite,” the class of noble outsiders willing to thumb their collective nose at a crooked system. Conspiracy has always been a part of political life, but the cross-ideological ubiquity of “Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself” is the result of America’s’ decades-long rethinking of class, culture, and social status. Given how ubiquitous the theory about Epstein’s murder has become, it can seem like the vast majority of Americans fall on the conspiratorial end of that spectrum. Fueled by a second autopsy from the dubiously credible celebrity pathologist Michael Baden that showed supposed signs of strangulation, influential voices on the left and right hammered “Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself” hard enough over the past few months that it’s crossed over from its ideological use to become a staple of teenagers’ TikTok videos and even online dating profiles. For a meme to reach that status, it needs its signal boosted by influential media voices. On the subcultural left, those voices include the hosts of the popular Chapo Trap House podcast and the exclusively Epstein-focused True Anon. And on the right, the belief is promulgated not just by some institutional Republicans like Gosar, but by most of the usual far-right conspiracy-mongers, like Alex Jones of InfoWars. The two camps share bogeymen in Bill and Hillary Clinton, whose vague association with Epstein makes him a convenient locus for a conspiracy about how the rich and powerful take care of their own. As with many conspiracy theories, there’s a kernel of truth there — Epstein dodged legal consequences for his depredations for decades, most notoriously with the lenient treatment afforded him in 2007 by then- U.S. attorney Alex Acosta, who would go on to become Trump’s Secretary of Labor. Still, basic review of the facts in the Epstein case reveals no evidence of a nefarious assassination, much less some of the even further out-there explanations proposed by some true believers. But faced with endless streams of competing information, it’s easy to see how that kernel of truth takes primacy for those who have similarly been failed by American institutions at some point in their lives. Not too long ago, there was a word for that feeling: “truthiness,” or “the quality of seeming or being felt to be true, even if not necessarily true.” When Stephen Colbert coined the term, it was embraced by his liberal fans as a critique of conservative media’s willingness to play fast and loose with the facts. In the Trump era, it’s just the air that we breathe. And when the “elite” have engaged in deception and self-dealing — think of what’s been uncovered regarding everything from the War in Afghanistan to the pharmaceutical industry — why wouldn’t it feel right to position oneself against them? The Epstein theory is the ne plus ultra of the feverish, populist mood that has gripped the nation in fits and starts since Watergate, showing its face to some extent in Jimmy Carter’s folksy revolution, UFO-logist Whitley Strieber’s best- selling abduction testimonials, the 9/11 “truther” cottage industry, and more. If conspiracy theories have become more socially accepted in recent years, it’s because fewer Americans are identifying with the other side of the “elite”/anti-“elite” cultural divide. But a falsehood is still a falsehood, regardless of how much “truthiness” it may contain. To be sure, the further “Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself” travels from its anti-elite core, the less of an ideological charge it carries. But the glib acceptance of conspiracy as fact only diminishes the prospect of ordinary Americans someday finding the epistemological closure they still desperately crave. And there’s nothing quite so charitable to be said for those who promulgate conspiracy theories — what Christopher Hitchens once called “the exhaust fumes of democracy” — than for those who idly consume them between shifts. The conspiracy consumer reaps little benefit aside from a handy catchphrase and mild psychological salve. The hosts of True Anon make $220,000 per year in Patreon donations. Conspiracy paterfamilias Alex Jones has built a minor media empire shilling for something called “Brain Force Plus.” There’s a shorter distance between their claims of outsider status and those of someone like multi-millionaire blue-blood Tucker Carlson, who’s waging his own jihad on the “elite,” than they like to imagine. In making a tidy profit peddling bunk, today’s conspiracy mavens embody the re-ordering of American status around one’s position vis-à-vis the “elite.” Fighting them may not get you invited to any fancy Manhattan book release parties, and that’s likely the point. But, still, it sure as hell pays. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 1.
#1. To: Original_Intent, to whom it may concern. (#0)
There was enough evidence of total criminality and genocidal proclivities to force me out of ever supporting the FEDS and D.C. in any way, shape or form. In my opinion the avalanche of problematic issues have piled up throughout my lifetime to become a tsunami that will drown America because Americans have been propagandized into a comatose state becoming zombies incapable of seeing through the flood of bullshit being shoved up their asses by a complicit media. However, I don't think that excuses us for waiting apathetically for a savior. Since November 22, 1963, this country has been shoe horned into a pathetic, fat, lazy, and ignorant collection of entitlement pussies deserving of the final load of butchery these fucktards in D.C. are about to deliver with or without the assistance of foreign entities. I had a heart attack last week and while in the hospital had an opportunity to watch Tel Aviv-vision. After not viewing this shit for 25 years or more I was taken aback to see two men kissing during in a commercial during the prime time viewing period. Are you shitting me ? We no longer even have a right to ignore the demonic because our rulers intend to shove it up our asses regardless. If we haven't witnessed a very long train of events that surely justify leaving the current shit storm behind then we haven't been paying attention. God forgive us.
#2. To: noone2222, 4um (#1)
I'm glad you're still suckin' air, Doug. I was wondering where you were. I'll bet you loved that shit.
Thanks much for the bad news/good news - I wish that "someone" had let us know sooner. Prayers up for a full and compete recovery.
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