{"id":193086,"date":"2019-08-12T07:17:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T07:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=193086"},"modified":"2019-08-15T05:56:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T05:56:16","slug":"msnbc-hosts-push-conspiracy-theories-invoking-russia-ag-barr-after-jeffrey-epsteins-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=193086","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC hosts push conspiracy theories invoking Russia, AG Barr after Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Domi Good \u2013 Aug 11, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Two prominent MSNBC hosts pushed conspiracy theories in the immediate aftermath of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s apparent suicide on Saturday. A Joe Scarborough, who hosts &#8220;Morning Joe,&#8221; invoked Russia while Joy Reid, host of &#8220;AM Joy,&#8221; pointed toward Attorney General William Barr.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">What Scarborough say?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;A guy who had information that would have destroyed rich and powerful men&#8217;s lives ends up dead in his jail cell,&#8221; he wrote on Twitter. &#8220;How predictably&#8230;Russian.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeNBC\/status\/1160184410588758018<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;He reportedly tried to kill himself two weeks ago. And is allowed to finish the job now? Bulls**t,&#8221; Scarborough\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeNBC\/status\/1160184829490733062\">added in a separate tweet<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Powerful Democratic and Republican figures breathing a huge sigh of relief\u2014as well as a Harvard professor or two,&#8221; he\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeNBC\/status\/1160185278465740800\">later said<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">What did Reid say?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;This is somebody who is not only high-profile, who not only knew a lot of high-profile people &#8230; who was friends with the president of the United States, who flew a previous president of the United States around on his plane, who was alleged to have trafficked girls to a member of the royal family of Britain,&#8221; Reid said on her show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;This is a famous person who is now in prison, he knows a lot about a lot of people &#8230; his only out at this point would be to talk about those people,&#8221; she continued.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;And then you throw in the fact that &#8230; this is a facility under the control of the Department of Justice, and\u00a0<em>this<\/em>\u00a0Department of Justice does not exactly inspire confidence,&#8221; Reid added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Let&#8217;s just be blunt: William Barr&#8217;s Justice Department is not one that you can readily simply rely upon and feel confident in,&#8221; she went on to say. &#8220;So what do we make of all this now that in this federal facility this person was allowed to be alone long enough to either harm himself or killed by someone&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">At the end, Reid qualified all of her preceding comments with &#8220;we don&#8217;t know what happened.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Following her MSNBC\u2019s colleagues\u2019 conspiratorial theme, Joy Ann Reid is repeatedly using her show this AM to suggest AG Bill Barr may be connected to Epstein\u2019s death. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KE4IG7EILH\">pic.twitter.com\/KE4IG7EILH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1160207158203559936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.domigood.com\/2019\/08\/msnbc-hosts-push-conspiracy-theories.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some conspiracy theories are more plausible than others. But the ones touted by the mainstream media, like Russia was behind Epstein\u2019s death, are the least convincing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193086"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193089,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193086\/revisions\/193089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}