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    Lea Black, his wife, told the Miami Herald that he always “fought for the underdog and people’s civil rights.”

    “He understood that we all have our flaws…He was able to separate people’s behavior from their character. He wanted the best for everyone,” she said.

    I knew love was blind, but this is bordering on black hole levels of blindness.

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      Stone cold take. Let’s face it if he weren’t in those files he would have released them. He has no loyalty to anyone else so he wouldn’t care about protecting them.

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    Stop posting sensationalist shit. The dude died at 80, this wasn’t an assassination. He wasn’t ‘found’

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    Even though this dude was 80y old, that won’t stop far-right conspiracy theorists from running with this. I think most will be sane enough to point out his age, but you know there will be those on the fringe of the fringe who see something suspicious about it. Personally, I look forward to seeing the melted explanations they come up with.

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    That’s not what the headline says, OP unless it’s changed since you posted it.

    He was sick and 80. He died. Not “found dead”.

    Black died on Monday at his home in Coral Gables at the age of 80 after an illness, his law partner Howard Srebnick said.

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      How do you know he’s dead? Because someone tried calling him, and maybe went to his home to check on him… And (dare I say it) found him dead?

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      Honestly. I’m glad he made the title what it is. Makes it obvious when people comment without even bother to open the article.

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    always supported and fought for the underdog

    I have a hard time imagining a world where Epstein, Bieber, the Kennedys, or any of their ilk could be considered underdogs. Good riddance.

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    Reading his history he was famous for defending assholes getting scot free or getting much less than they deserved. Was one of those “if you have the money he’ll fix it”

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      Your daily reminder that ~1% of the population are high-functioning (not actual murderer) psychopaths.

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      That’s kind of the job of a defense attorney. By definition, most of his clients are going to be scumbags. He’s no different than any other defense attorney, except some of his clients tend to be celebrities.

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        It’s a requirement, and a flaw, of the adversarial justice system, particularly where lawyers arent appointed, but hired. It breaks down if there isn’t a vigorous defense of the accused, but it is exacerbated by money giving access to more capable defense, which can lead to rich people having a license to do whatever they want, up to and including killing their spouses.

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      The world’s elite rulers are credibly accused of molesting children for decades and doing everything possible to deny it, including seemingly the murder of the alleged Israeli spy that has evidence of their crimes. His lawyer who potentially knows way too much conveniently dies when he’s granted legal protection to speak up, and we should just accept that 80 year old sick man died?

      Maybe, but you’d be very naive to dismiss foul play.

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        You’d be naive to jump right to that conclusion.

        The worldwide pedophile ring of rich people definitely does exist. That doesn’t mean we throw out rational skepticism in other ways.

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    Lol. This will destroy any progress they thought they were making burying the Epstein story, even if it is natural causes

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      Putin kills people all the time. Everybody knows it was him but he’s still in power.

      It doesn’t matter if this keeps the story alive as long as no one faces actual consequences for it.

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            and a very traumatic experience even when you survive. does he still like swimming in the ocean? I know I didn’t after my experience

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            Yep RIP tides are no laughing matter. I was lucky enough when it happened to me I just ended up several hundred feet down the beach. Once you are in it. It can be way harder to get out than a lot of people might think.

            • Yes, we needed help getting out. I was swimming parallel as needed and kept pushing my son out 2-3 feet ahead of me so I was motivated enough to swim to him. After a few minutes, a young man, probably 20s, came in to help.

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    The prosecutor who offered that joke of a deal WAS GIVEN A CABINET POSITION by The Dipshit.

    Acosta was the secretary of labor for 2 years. He’s still alive.