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Two staff members guarding the jail unit where Jeffrey Epstein apparently killed himself

fell asleep and failed to check on him for about three hours, according to this morning's New York

Times. They then falsified records to cover up their mistake. The two employees were placed on

administrative leave yesterday, and the warden of the

jail was temporarily reassigned. Skepticism surrounding Epstein's death has ranged across the political

spectrum, from President Trump and Rudy Giuliani to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and MSNBC host

Joe Scarborough. We have to ask who stood to gain from his permanent silence,

said Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Tribe. Who could he have incriminated in an effort to win

favorable treatment from the Trump Justice Department? Such questions reflect our growing

skepticism of our government and elected leaders. According to Pew Research Center,

public trust in government was nearly 80% in the mid-1960s. Today, such trust has fallen to 17%.

Only 3% of Americans say they trust the federal government to do what is right just about always.

14% say they trust it most of the time.

Conspiracy theories have long been with us.

On the recent 50th anniversary of the lunar landing,

claims that NASA faked Neil Armstrong's moonwalk received renewed attention.

Next month, the remains of FBI bank robber

John Dillinger will be exhumed. For 85 years since his death, conspiracy theorists have claimed that

the FBI killed a body double. DNA testing could confirm the corpse's true identity. Some have

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