'Washington Post' reporter Carol Leonnig's tweets have been fueling Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theorists. Why is she still covering the story for a paper of record?
staffer Carol Leonnig tweeted a link to a news story she co-wrote with three otherreporters. The story itself was fairly straightforward, reiterating what were then the known facts of Epstein’s death. Leonnig’s tweet, however, was less so. “People close to Epstein fear he was murdered,” wrote the longtimestaffer and 2015 Pulitzer Prize winner, citing reports that Epstein had told authorities someone had tried to kill him weeks earlier. “He was described as being in good spirits in recent days. .
But perhaps more to the point, the language of the tweet sounded suspiciously similar to the outpouring of conspiracy theories that have appeared following Epstein’s death, from to those on the left who pointed to Trump — or, more often than not, just vaguely gestured at other unidentified, shadowy forces.
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