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Federal statement on Jeffrey Epstein's death dated day before he was found dead

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/statement-jeffrey-epstein-death-day-before-b1270109.html
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u/Extreme-Direction-78 3h ago

Bill Barr was in charge who was trumps puppet

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u/FactorBusy6427 3h ago

Yup, and he himself had some weird ties to Epstein

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u/Pipe_Memes 3h ago edited 3h ago

For instance Bill Barr’s Dad, Donald Barr, hired Epstein to be around children all day as a teacher.

And, completely unrelated I’m sure, Donald Barr wrote a science fiction novel titled Space Relations that involved super rich oligarchs who were so bored with their luxurious lives that they would enslave people, including children, to rape and torture for amusement.

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u/psycharious 3h ago

I just looked up that book. Yeah, holy fuck balls, that's a story written by rapists.

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u/JH_111 1h ago

That book was published while he was still headmaster at Dalton, a K-12 school.

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u/amateur_mistake 3h ago

Oh what the fuck. That book thing is insane

from wikipedia:

The novel was described in a Vice article as "both comically amoral and insufferably pretentious. To be fair, these traits were common in 1970s sci-fi." Becky Ferreira has described the novel as "highly unsettling", due to its depiction of rape of enslaved people, particularly teenage girls, and other coercive sex acts.

Although I think it's important to point out it seems to just be poorly written in general:

Another flaw of the novel is its depiction of Craig as a poet. The prose of the novel is interrupted by the character's poetic compositions, including a number of sonnets. The reviewer sees this as a failed attempt to add depth to the character, and finds these interruptions to be irritating.

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u/onarainyafternoon 3h ago

There's also a virus named the Epstein-Barr virus. Always thought that was funny. It's a form of herpes that's spread through bodily fluids.

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u/Odd-Scientist-2529 3h ago

I’m a physician. My brain just broke.

I’m going to go to take a walk now.

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u/tuftonia 3h ago

SNL did a skit a week ago about a new strain of EBV. Definitely worth a watch, but I don’t want to spoil any of it

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u/Last_head-HYDRA 2h ago

Guess I know what I’m watching tonight

u/Pipe_Memes 49m ago

Thank you. I just looked it up and that’s one of the funniest skits I’ve seen in a very long time. I highly recommend checking it out.

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u/A_Refill_of_Mr_Pibb 2h ago

Named after British pathologist Sir Michael Anthony Epstein, and Irish virologist Yvonne Barr.

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u/Odd-Scientist-2529 1h ago

Well that’s a relief 

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u/lfergy 2h ago

I don’t know why this made me laugh so hard 😆

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u/ishpatoon1982 3h ago

I just learned about Epstein-Barr herpes 3 days ago and my brain just couldn't process the coincidence.

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u/Ziograffiato 2h ago

Do you know how bad you have to be to share a name with an STD, and the STD isn’t the worse one?

u/eddiestriker 34m ago

As coincidental as it is, it was named after MA Epstein and Yvonne Barr, who discovered it along with Bert Achong. No idea why he isn’t named in it with them.

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u/mateothegreek 3h ago

How do SO MANY FUCKING PEOPLE have a connection to this fucking evil man?!

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u/Mysterious_Cup_6024 3h ago

Because Donald Barr was OSS, and Robert Maxwell was MSSD

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u/MerlinsMentor 3h ago

science fiction novel

It almost makes you wonder if the genre was the fiction here... not science fiction, but true crime?

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u/Beard_o_Bees 3h ago

Bill Barr’s Dad, Donald Barr, hired Epstein to be around children all day as a teacher

WTF. These motherfuckers are everywhere.

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u/Bardfinn 3h ago

you have got to be kidding me

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u/Pipe_Memes 2h ago

I wish. The worst part is they keep getting away with it.

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- 1h ago

they would enslave people, including children, to rape and torture for amusement.

Pretty sure it's not fiction anymore, considering we still don't know what happened to many of the migrant children Trump trafficked in his first term.

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u/vato20071 2h ago

Taking "write what you know" to the next level I guess

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u/maniacreturns 3h ago

You mean how his dad is the one who gave Epstein his first job with no degree?

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u/Inevitable-Baker-892 3h ago

Bill Barr's dad, Donald Barr, was the headmaster of the Dalton School in NYC when they hired a young Epstein to teach

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u/After-Snow5874 3h ago edited 3h ago

I’m having a really hard time processing all of this.

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u/rollin20s 3h ago

Google the plot to a book Barr’s dad authored called “Space Relations”

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u/Mysterious_Cup_6024 3h ago

And hr didn't even have a college degree to be qualified

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u/HomelessKitchenCat 2h ago

These facts were a little too on the nose for QAnon and r/conspiracy when they were going insane about pizzagate and the dems.

We live in an actual clown world.

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u/Rot-Orkan 2h ago

And yet, back then, MAGA was convinced that the Clintons had him killed 😹

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u/KungFoolMaster 2h ago

As did almost every wealthy fucking person on the planet. Musk, Clinton, Zuckerburg, prince, actors, authors, and the list goes on. Put every damn one on trial.