himself. quote, no one s going to believe it was a suicide bomber. suide.t to his chief of staf f. there will be conspiracyrett theories all over the place. now,response it s a pretty odd e if you think about it at the time. there is no way that bill barrew could have known for sure how jeffrey epstein died.ncern so you would think as the attorney general, his first conceroun would be finding out what actually happened, but instead, his first concern waseu worry that the public mightto jump to unapproved conclusions d. not belhappene and in some ways, bob barr was right to worry. many americans did notth believr that jeffrey epstein had killedc himself. he was ge strange circumstanceus of his death. stranger even the most a people understood at the time ustainedit was going to takeconn a sustained public relations campaign to convince americans that jeffrey epstein killed th himself. but bill barr was willinghe fle to make the effort. two days later, he flew to new orle
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medical examiner had conducted an autopsy and ruled thatimse epstein killed himselflf bs this by hanging. that s the first piece of evidence. the second is this. it s a videotape that, quote,he confirmed the medical examiner s finding medicals. fog i personally reviewed that video footage.t betw barr writes. it showseen th conclusively that between the time epstein was locked in a cell at seven fortya nine pm the night of august 9tht and the time he was discovered the next morning at six thirty ,no one entered his tiertherefo, and quote, therefore, bill barr epplained, we can know for sure that jeffrey epstein killed himself. in his book, barr ends this section on epstein with the self h congratulatory note. the management changes i madee at the time to the federal prison system were good ones,n and i think the agency is slowly on its wayit back . in other words, everythingle is fine. now, let s movt s movee on .uals this was enough for most journalists in washington, virtually eve
of weeks on december third of 2010, is not clear why trump hasn t gone yet. jim mattis.. has said he is advised not to go to certain places, it suggests that perhaps things are may be worse in afghanistan than the public understands. it s just not big enough for the president to visit. it gets to a complication with any trip for the president to a combat zone. the president himselflf has sta stated, he sort of was pulled kicking and screaming by his advisors to continue our engagement innt afghanistan. he is frustrated with the way it has gone, the same in syria fighting isis i think he wants to be done and out of there. would visiting the troops send a mixed message?