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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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[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 121 points 11 hours ago (8 children)

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

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 77 points 11 hours ago

The big ones are waiting to be told who the scapegoat is.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 67 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)
[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 41 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 hours ago

Thanks, I don't know what happened there.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 16 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Repercussions? Like getting your head blown off?

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

I mean, Oklahoma sets that precedent

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

They might be real files, but they might just be unproven accusations.

[–] Microw@piefed.zip 3 points 2 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.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 39 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 21 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

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.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 12 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

If it was a Democrat in the story, it would be the top story EVERYWHERE.

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)
[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

How many major outlets aren’t owned by trump supporter?

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

My usuals are NPR, PBS, and NBC but I haven't seen anything from them

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 5 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 hour ago

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.