The U.S. Justice Department said on social media that some documents contain "untrue and sensationalist claims" made against President Donald Trump.

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.

  • Microw@piefed.zipEnglish
    6·
    23 hours ago

    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.

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
      5·
      13 hours ago

      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…

    • saimen@feddit.org
      6·
      17 hours ago

      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.

      • jj4211@lemmy.world
        4·
        13 hours ago

        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.