The latest release of Jeffrey Epstein documents includes an FBI report about a caller’s claim of a suspicious death in Kiefer, Oklahoma, in January 2000.

The caller said a woman was found with her head “blown off” in the small town in northeast Oklahoma days after reporting to police she had been raped by Epstein and Donald Trump. The caller described the death as a murder.

The FBI report was in the nearly 30,000 new documents released by the U.S. Justice Department on Dec. 23.

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    Republicans and Trumpers are now playing the 'I don’t like politics/don’t want to talk about it" card. They’re going back to quietly supporting all this rather than openly supporting it.

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    Shut up. I can get only so impeachy. Oh wait the people in Congress do not actually represent me?

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      You can only impeach for presidential crimes (e.g. Emoluments Article I, Section 9, Clause 8). Murders will have to wait until Trump is out of office.

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        You can impeach for high crimes and misdemeanors. There is no constitutional restriction of impeachment grounds to crimes that are not covered under criminal statute. For example, you could impeach someone for bribery, for example, then prosecute them for bribery after they’ve been removed from office. Same for treason. Same for murder.

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            It’s cute that you think they won’t make presidential immunity retrospective. That man will never be charged for a thing

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    So, when does it stop being worth owning the libs, dbshitters?

    When does letting this murderous, rapist pig to seize power balance the scales?

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      Putin hasnt given his right wing pundits any talking points to spin this any other way, meaning its too severe for him to twist. Putin is likely suspect in the files too.

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        Putin wasn’t visiting Epstein Island. If he wants young girls, he can have his pick from millions of them without leaving home. Besides, he’s definitely into something far more exotic.

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      Based on the Republicans I’ve encountered, this won’t change their mind. It’ll be fake news, documents planted by Democrats or some shit.

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    Oh, it’s a different murder from the one Trump was implicated in a few days ago. That one was a baby born to a 13 year old rape victim and thrown into a lake. This one is a rape victim herself who reported him. You know you’ve picked a good President when he has too many alleged rapes and murders to keep track of.

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      People have jumped on this but it’s just an anonymous tip done through an open web form. It’s about as substantiated as writing on a bathroom wall.

      Doesn’t mean it’s not true, but it’s also the weakest evidenced thing in there.

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        If you’re worried about your head being blown off isn’t this how you’d say it? Doesnt it line up with his ex wife and the MANY other “suicides” of victims or people involved who were going to go public? The context makes it so much more frightening.

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        I suspect the DOJ is deliberately releasing the unsubstantiated tips and other crap as a smokescreen, while also withholding anything substantial.

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        I hate all this bullshit (Epstein, trump, politics right now etc…) But the way I watched people pull shit out of their ass when talking about that leak. If that’s the comprehension and emotional level of the average human, society is completely fucked. But honestly that was already told by the reactionary drama of COVID and 2020s issues.

        Like that alone tromps the whole Epstein and American politics thing because it means people are too stupid, lol. Like literally just too stupid for society to even be a society. It’s almost to the level that sometimes I wonder if it’s a psyop… People being so reactionary and emotionally dumb that that they are easily discredited so that trump ends up being the “sane” one.

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    Dont forget the ex-wife he pushed down the stairs because he hated him due to his affair. And then had buried on his golf course so he could claim it was a cemetery for tax purposes.

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    When he said he could shoot someone and get away with it…I guess he was actually telling the truth for once.

    Actually twice now…

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    So far none of the major outlets have covered this story but I have seen it on a ton of smaller sites. This seems odd

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      the MSM are largely trumpers/conservative owners now. they arnt reporting it, because it potentially hurts the republicans, also executives, ceos and politician both foreign and domestic.

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        Real documents, but describing tips submitted during the 2020 election without apparent link to more investigative content.

        Any random person can generate a tip, so a tip is a starting point for an investigation, but in and of itself should not be considered newsworthy.

        I’m sure you’d have scary sounding pizzagate themed tips implicating Hilary Clinton during her run. I’m sure there were Hunter Biden laptop tips in 2020. I’m sure there were terrorist themed tips about Obama during his runs.

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            I never said they were anonymous. Not sure what the consequence of a known false tip might be, it’s not a police report. Also not sure that the tip giver realized they weren’t anonymous.

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        Yeah I know I’m just wondering why they aren’t reporting this huge story even the outlets that don’t like trump aren’t reporting it yet

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          Because it is a claim made by one single person 25 years ago, as far as we currently know. The big outlets or at least some of them probably have someone on the ground right now trying to establish whether this claims makes any sense, whether this death actually happened, whether with this specific cause of death etc etc. They know that Trump will sue them if they get even a tiny slither of facts wrong.

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            Actually it was claim made by a tip line caller in 2020 about a potential Epstein/Trump event in 2000.

            If it was a tip submitted back on 2000, when no one was really thinking about Epstein and Trump as particularly important, controversial, nor linked, then I’d say it would be a very suspicious situation that seems unlikely to be made up.

            Since it was a tip made in October 2020, and the person held on to this supposed big deal for 20 years and only bothered to call it in during the election… After Epstein/Trump was a big thing…

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            but they already established that this death happened

            A 19-year-old student from Kiefer died on Jan. 10, 2000, according to death notices in two newspapers, the Tulsa World and the Sapulpa Herald. The state’s chief medical examiner, Dr. Eric Pfeifer, told The Oklahoman on Dec. 24 that the death of Dusti Rhea Duke was ruled a suicide by a gunshot to the head.

            Her body was found at an address in Sapulpa, which is near Kiefer, according to medical examiner records.

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              Problem is the tip was made in 2020, with no prior allegations about this woman being Epstein related, and no apparent reason why this person would have held onto this for 20 years.

              So someone seeing the Trump/Epstein news and moved by the asshole running for re-election could have scanned through news stories and fabricated a Trump/Epsrein connection for a death they found.

              Folks remembered that Comey led credence to the Hilary email stuff in 2016, and likely there were quite a few attempts to induce a similar event through a tip.

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          I mean there is a really simple obvious explanation. They have either been told not to or are afraid of repercussions from the administration

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            Rather than assuming every single news source is in league with maga or scared of them, the simplest explanation is that the claim doesn’t hold any substantial weight.

            There’s thousands of documents, not all of them are going to be accurate and spreading something that later turns out to be false will cheapen the public perception of credibility of the other issues bought against them.

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              Rather than assuming every single news source is in league with maga or scared of them, the simplest explanation is that the claim doesn’t hold any substantial weight.

              It’s not an assumption that every single (major) news source is owned by a MAGA crony or is run by someone afraid of a Trump SLAPP suit or regulatory retaliation. And some, such as the New York Times, seem to be going through contortions to minimize Epstein’s intelligence links

              Having said that, it’s inevitable that there will be crackpot claims in any high-profile case. So check it, and if it’s bullshit, discard it. But also, don’t assume that something’s bullshit just because the person who wrote it can’t write, or has other issues. Those issues might be the reason they’re not intimidated when a more rational person would be. Someone like that can be a good source but a poor witness.

              One of the DOJ’s tactics is to flood the zone with shit. They’re deliberately releasing a huge quantity of documents with all context stripped out, to make it harder for journalists and the public to make sense of them. That’s not the way they’re organized in the DOJ, it’s malicious compliance. And the document sets are also almost certainly being deliberately filtered to make the signal/noise ratio even worse-- for example, by redacting all mentions of Trump and by adding in items mentioning Clinton, probably redacted to support false conclusions about his level of involvement.

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                So check it, and if it’s bullshit, discard it. But also, don’t assume that something’s bullshit just because the person who wrote it can’t write, or has other issues

                Sure thing, but thus far these two tips haven’t been meaningfully checked and corroborated.

                The two most bombshell events were both tipline fodder during the height of the 2020 election, after Epstein’s death and pictures of him and Trump became huge things.

                So yes, by all means scour current and future documents for anything corroborating these tips, but the context makes me extremely skeptical that these two tips are real. Both accounts were held back for decades, both only coming forward during his second election run, both only coming forward implicating a nefarious Trump/Epstein event after that was already a known thing…

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                I believe neither of them. Life’s more than 2 options.

                People lie all the time, who knows why.

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      That is because it’s an FBI tip likely left by a mentally ill person. Read the whole thing.

      Most of the “unredacted” stuff is of this nature. We are being played. What they did was hand America one of those archaeology digs for kids and people who don’t understand what was done are crowing about the mummy they found in the compacted sand they chipped away with their plastic chisel.

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      Ideally, the bigger guys would be trying to corroborate the story by other means before reporting it. Verify facts before reporting claims. Generally the purpose of journalism.

      Not that I have much faith left that the big guys do journalism.

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          the last 2 depends on funding, so they might be compromised i dont know about NBC isnt it owned by comcast which is trump leaning anyways? whos the owner.

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      It’ll get a small mention soon, when they’ve all decided how to Bari the lede.

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    Nothing is going to happen, except some Democrats will have to leave public life. Dear Leader is above the law. He is the law. And America seems OK with that.

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      It was ruled a suicide. Case closed.

      He said he learned on Jan. 10, 2000, from his girlfriend that the woman was dead, according to the report. He said officers on the scene had stated there was no way it was suicide but the coroner stated it was suicide.

      He said his girlfriend later told him the woman committed suicide because she had gotten cocaine from a Mexican drug cartel.

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      A 19-year-old student from Kiefer died on Jan. 10, 2000, according to death notices in two newspapers, the Tulsa World and the Sapulpa Herald. The state’s chief medical examiner, Dr. Eric Pfeifer, told The Oklahoman on Dec. 24 that the death of Dusti Rhea Duke was ruled a suicide by a gunshot to the head.

      Her body was found at an address in Sapulpa, which is near Kiefer, according to medical examiner records.

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        It is worth noting, however, that the FBI document states the Trump/Epstein link was newly alleged as of 2020. So if you wanted an FBI agent to make a messy statement about opening an investigation into a Trump/Epstein event the same way Comey talking about Hilary email investigation in 2016, well adding a Trump/Epstein Angle to an old death from the news could do it.

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        Yeah, Oklahoma is a shining example of good governance and freedom from corruption, why doubt an official conclusion?

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          I was just stating why there was no police investigation. Of course this is sus af

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        I don’t think people get their heads blown off without some sort of investigation.

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          You would be amazed how many murders go almost completely uninvestigated in America.

          Do some research on some of our more famous serial killers in American history,and police investigation surrounding them. What you’ll find will disgust you. And that’s just ones that we know about after the fact.

          Especially so if the police force is tipped off that it might involve someone with lots of money.

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            If it looks like a suicide and the victom is either poor or a minority, coroners aren’t going to expend much effort. And that’s just the laziness part. If the powerful are also involved, it’s even worse.

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            As a background watcher of more true crime than I’d like to have watched, you’re completely right. In addition, the investigations the police do are often unbelievably terrible and have at times led to decades of the wrong people in jail or under suspicion because they’re racist, xenophobic, or just plain lazy and bad at their jobs.

            I watched one that I found particularly sickening where they spent lots of time investigating the dad of the victim and coersing a confession out of him when the paroled, actual perpetrator left a shoe with his name on it at the scene of the crime, and the victim’s young brother said that his dad didn’t do it and saw someone else take his sister.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Riley_Fox

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    claim of a suspicious death in Kiefer, Oklahoma, in January 2000.

    The caller said a woman was found with her head “blown off”

    That certainly sounds suspicious.

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    January 2000, when a guy from the blue party who also happens to be in the epstein files was in charge. Both parties are the same, we are ruled by criminals.