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A Republican donor and operative from Chicago's North Shore who said he had tried to obtain Hillary Clinton's missing emails from Russian hackers killed himself in a Minnesota hotel room days after talking to The Wall Street Journal about his efforts, public records show.
In a room at a Rochester hotel used almost exclusively by Mayo Clinic patients and relatives, Peter W. Smith, 81, left a carefully prepared file of documents, which includes a statement police called a suicide note in which he said he was in ill health and a life insurance policy was expiring.
He was found with a bag over his head with a source of helium attached.
In the note recovered by police, Smith apologized to authorities and said that "NO FOUL PLAY WHATSOEVER" was involved in his death. He wrote that he was taking his own life because of a "RECENT BAD TURN IN HEALTH SINCE JANUARY, 2017" and timing related "TO LIFE INSURANCE OF $5 MILLION EXPIRING."
originally posted by: WeDemBoyz
Sounds like the Trump death machine has claimed it's first victim. Stay tuned, more to come.
originally posted by: Perfectenemy
a reply to: LesMisanthrope
Does life insurance cover suicides as well? Seems weird to point that out in a suicide letter. The no foul play whatsoever line is also very weird. Why should people care about his reason to kill himself? Holy # this stinks to high heaven.
originally posted by: DanteGaland
RUSSIAN hit job.
originally posted by: Perfectenemy
originally posted by: DanteGaland
RUSSIAN hit job.
This makes no sense. Why would the russians hacker agree to a meeting and just hand the emails over when they could publish them at any given moment or sell them on the black market? Btw they didn't even asked for anything in return. This is next level stupidity.
originally posted by: ConscienceZombie
I just had this thought. What if they are not killing them what we think. But the information they dig up is so horrendous, so disturbingly inhuman that the very knowing of it makes you not want to exist. The truth has that power. Just a thought.
This is getting very coincidental.
originally posted by: DanteGaland
originally posted by: Perfectenemy
originally posted by: DanteGaland
RUSSIAN hit job.
This makes no sense. Why would the russians hacker agree to a meeting and just hand the emails over when they could publish them at any given moment or sell them on the black market? Btw they didn't even asked for anything in return. This is next level stupidity.
YOu DONT spill RUSSIA's beans...
originally posted by: DanteGaland
a reply to: Perfectenemy
YOU aren't one of our Colorado boyz...?
How would you know that Russia wasn't INVOLVED in hacking???