Epstein Dead

Applause goes to Martin Armstrong who writes a blog that is linked on this blog's sidebar. I added him because I thought he talked a lot of sense economically, and he seems to be on the money as far as power politics goes as well. From his July 25 post, titled When will Epstein be found Dead? Before or After a Deal?

Question: Do you think Jeffrey Epstein will ever go to trial?
Answer: NO WAY!!!!!! [...] Epstein will hang himself, so they will say, or be killed by a fellow inmate who will take the blame for time off his bid.

No high profile case is EVER allowed to go to trial where things the government does not want to be revealed could ever become public.  The Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2000, which collected similar data from states, expired in 2006, so it is next to impossible to get any data on even how many inmates commit suicide no less under what condition they are determined to be suicides rather than strategic murders.

Indeed, Epstein did hang himself before trial as predicted by Armstrong. This despite officially being on suicide watch.

This blog commented previously after Epstein's arrest on July 9 in Morning Grab Bag.

This is the closest we've come yet to seeing some actual swamp drainage. It has long been alleged that Epstein is at the center of a vast blackmail ring that keeps various factions of the ruling elites bound together. While the actual evidence collected in the raid will likely not see the light of day - because by nature it is pornographic - it may be an effort by white hats to break up the corrupt ruling cabal. On the other hand, details are scant about who actually is running the operation here. We've lost trust in both the DOJ and New York state prosecutors. It could actually be an effort by black hats to secure the damning evidence to protect the cabal.

To my own credit, I was a bit more skeptical than most in the MAGA or dissident right quarters who were proclaiming that justice was coming, the swamp would be drained, etc. At this point, we still don't know if the arrest of Epstein was a black-hat or white-hat operation, and probably we won't ever know. In either case, Epstein was arrested by federal agents and was being held by a federal court system - which allowed either a murder or suicide to take place. If Trump was serious about draining the swamp, he should have had loyalists monitoring Epstein 24/7. The biggest failure of Trump has been getting the right people into the right positions, and his biggest weakness has been an inability - or unwillingness - to protect the people who need to be protected. Is his power really limited to nothing by Twitter activism? Tweeting what he thinks should happen? It seems so.

At any rate, Epstein is dead, his case is dead, and the closest development we've had towards swamp drainage is dead.