Elon Musk has said an Axios report that the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had concluded there was no evidence of a Jeffrey Epstein client list was the “final straw”.

The report also said the agencies had concluded there was no credible evidence the disgraced financier and pedophile blackmailed high-profile and prominent individuals, and confirmed that surveillance footage showed Epstein had killed himself in prison.

“So… umm… then what is Ghislaine Maxwell in prison for?” Musk posted to his X platform, referring to Epstein’s former girlfriend and associate who procured underage girls for him to abuse.

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    Nobody ever asks “are suicides not common?” Nobody ever asks “are US prisons run correctly?”

    We average like 50 suicides a year in federal prisons. Despite being under watch, suicides are greater in prison populations than in the general population.

    US prisons are not run correctly. People are not taken care of, or kept from hurting themselves and others, and there’s negligence and abuse and more.

    Why is Epstein killing himself in federal prison weird? That’s literally a trait of conspiracy nuts: they never allow small things to be responsible for big outcomes.

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      Why is Epstein killing himself in federal prison weird?

      That prison had a great record. I read somewhere that the previous suicide at the Metropolitan Correctional Center was over a decade before Epstein’s. Google is now too enshitified to find the source though.

      Also Epstein told multiple people he was not feeling suicidal nor was he acting so.

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      Yes, but, he was also attacked in prison by someone trying to kill him shortly before this, if I remember correctly.