Reporter investigating Trump dies same day as Peter Smith.

[dixiegrrrrl]

ALBANY — Journalist, author, advocate and longtime Capital Region resident Scott Christianson, whose diverse subjects ranged from the history of incarceration to runaway slaves, died suddenly on Sunday at his home in Great Barrington, Mass.
Christianson, 69, died from massive head trauma after falling down the back stairs of his home. His wife, Tamar Gordon, said the banister had given way.
Gordon described her husband as a man who combined a voracious curiosity with a deep sense of social justice — and a keen nose for a great story.

Christianson had recently begun working for the investigative unit of the McClatchy news service. Just two weeks ago, he and his McClatchy colleague Greg Gordon published a comprehensive investigation on the ties between President Donald Trump and the hedge-fund mogul Robert Mercer.

http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Scott-Christianson-69-acclaimed-journalist-11149980.php

[crazylikafox]

1. O.M.G

[BainsBane]

2. Putin's henchmen have been busy.

[The_REAL_Ecumenist]

3. These deaths are just TOO coincidental & scarily familiar

to ACTUALLY be coincidences...

[MedusaX]

4. Tying up loose ends on US soil...probably a few more will be tended to before this is over...

Sad but true.

[flamingdem]

5. The bannister gave way and he died??

That sounds rather extreme. A broken arm maybe but dead?

[cstanleytech]

7. Its not that uncommon for them to break especially for older homes as for causing death

again its not impossible, hell someone could just as easily slip in the shower and kill themselves with a broken neck or a severe trauma to the head.

[politicat]

12. Alas, no. The LD50 for falls is 8 feet.

Half of everyone who falls eight feet takes fatal damage, usually a broken high spine or neck, or massive head trauma, or severe internal injuries.

Use the handrails, and if one feels wobbly, hire a handyperson or plan a DIY weekend. Stairs are the most dangerous place in a house that's not the bathroom.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Two months ago. Now who could arrange for a banister to give way?

[UCmeNdc]

8. People investigating Trump are starting to die.

[StatGirl]

9. Roger Ailes died of a fall around the same time

He died on May 18, after falling the previous week (which somehow didn't make the news at the time).

[politicat]

13. Hemophilia, not a very stable variant.

The curiosity isn't that a septuagenarian fell (they do), but that he reached that age at all. Hemophilia isn't forgiving.

[VigilantG]

10. Follow the dead Rus----Americans...

[SunSeeker]

11. Wow.

[arthritisR_US]

14. How many will be dead before the orange shitgibbon is out

of office?

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. Remember all the dead Russians ? Something like 9 during the campaign.

The lawyer Don Jr. met with was representing the defendants in that Prevezon case, where there would have been a huge fine, but the day before he was to testify for the good guys, a witness fell "accidenlty"
out of a 4 story building. Not quite dead all the way, turns out.
Preet Bahra was prosecuting that case, has worked for years to put it all together, then Trump fired him, and guess what?
The case was settled here recently--I want to say this May-- for pennies on the dollar

[arthritisR_US]

16. I Hope Mueller and his people are taking heavy precautions and

are well secured!