Epstein was murdered Chelsea Manning RT World News

The pedophiles prison guards were likely involved, Manning said on a recent podcast

US Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning told podcast host Ethan Klein that Jeffrey Epsteins apparent suicide in a Manhattan jail cell was likely a prison murder that correctional officers allowed to happen.

Arrested in 2019 and charged with sex trafficking of minors, Epstein was found hanging in his cell in Manhattans Metropolitan Correctional Center a month later. His death was ruled a suicide. However, video cameras covering Epsteins cell malfunctioned and two guards falsified records stating that they had monitored the sex offender on the night of his death, generating public skepticism about the suicide story.

Epsteins death was murder, Manning said on an episode of Kleins H3 Podcast on Friday. Thats how a prison murder happens. I know when it happens.

You wanna get rid of someone in prison? Thats how you do it, she added, referring to the apparent switching off of the security cameras covering Epsteins cell.

Manning, who was born a man, served in the US Army as an intelligence analyst until her arrest in 2010 for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks. Some of this material depicted possible US war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq. Charged with espionage, she was locked up at a Marine Corps brig in Virginia that year. Manning was later transferred to a military correctional facility in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and was sentenced in 2013 to 35 years there.

Mannings sentence was commuted in 2017 by outgoing President Barack Obama. However, she served another stint in jail in Virginia between 2019 and 2020 for refusing to testify to a grand jury against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Manning has spoken extensively about her time behind bars, and told Klein that in her experience, prison guards were responsible for most of the violence in correctional facilities.

They f**k with people, she said. Imagine youre sitting there and your job is to watch inmates for 12 hours. Of course youre gonna screw with us.

Time and time again, the most violent and dangerous people in prison are the prison guards, Manning said. Just endless amounts of fear and anxiety ofwhat a[Correctional Officer] or prison guard of any variety was going to do. It haunts me to think, I dont associate someone in a prison uniform with a threat, but I see the CO uniform and its different.

Epstein was a well-connected financier whose frequent contacts included former US Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, and British royal Prince Andrew. While his death ensured that some details of these relationships would never be brought to light, it also resulted in the prosecution of Prince Andrew and of Epsteins long-term girlfriend and madam Ghislaine Maxwell. Andrew paid a settlement to a woman accusing him of sexual assault in March, and Maxwell was found guilty on five counts of sex trafficking involving a minor in December 2021.

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