Trump admin official / troll already saying Hillary Clinton was responsible for Epstein's death

[highplainsdem]

The official troll is Lynne Patton, former wedding planner who was named regional director for HUD even though she has no qualifications.

Just a week and a half ago, on July 29, Trump apparently sent her to Fox News to suggest federal money given to Baltimore had been stolen by Elijah Cummings and others:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212330455

I guess he decided that since she was good at spreading that conspiracy theory, she'd be useful for spreading another.


I was alerted to this by a Maggie Haberman tweet

Link to tweet

and there's an article about it at Heavy.com, too:

https://heavy.com/news/2019/08/lynne-patton-clinton-conspiracy/

Lynne Patton, the head of New York and New Jersey’s Housing and Urban Development, promoted a Hillary Clinton conspiracy theory in the wake of Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide.

At around 7:30 a.m. on August 10, Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his cell in the Metropolitan Correctional Center. Epstein is believed to have killed himself by hanging. At the time of his death, Epstein was on suicide watch. A few weeks earlier, it was widely reported that Epstein had attempted suicide in his cell.

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Shortly after news of Epstein’s arrest spread, Patton posted this to her Instagram page.

The caption for the post read, “Hillary’d!! 😳P.S. Let me know when I’m supposed to feel badly about this… #VinceFosterPartTwo.” On that Instagram page, Patton says of herself, “Longtime Trump Aide | RNC Speaker | Posts are my own & do not represent @HUDgov, incl. all images, links, tags & comments left by readers | NY ✈️ DC.”

The reference to Vince Foster is regarding Bill Clinton’s former White House counsel who committed suicide in July 1993, six months after Clinton took office. Five separate investigations ruled Foster’s death a suicide. Despite this, conspiracy theories regarding a Clinton-led cover-up remain to this day.

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It's bad enough that we have RW trolls crawling out of the woodwork to spread conspiracy theories, but this troll is being paid by taxpayers, and this is the second conspiracy theory she's promoted in less than two weeks.

Can Congress do anything about this?

[gordianot]

1. The crazy is getting started I have already seen a long list of accusations.

Hillary, Bill, Obama, Deep State. It will be interesting to see who goes to the funeral if there is a funeral.

[dalton99a]

2. Yeah, Bill Barr works for Hillary Clinton

[highplainsdem]

3. Mediaite story:

https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump-official-implies-hillary-clinton-to-blame-for-jeffrey-epsteins-death-minutes-after-news-breaks/