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ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 09:03 AM Jul 2019

William Barr's father hired Jeff Epstein to teach at a private school when Epstein was 20 yrs old

During Attorney General, William Barr’s confirmation hearing, he was mostly peppered with questions about how he would handle the Mueller Report. Senator Ben Sasse’s (R-NE) questioning, however, diverged from the pack. Sasse asked Barr about the lenient sentence given out to billionaire pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. The future Attorney General told Sasse that he would look into the matter.


In 1973, Barr’s father Donald, the headmaster at Manhattan’s Dalton School, hired Epstein as a calculus and physics teacher.

Great twitter thread on this:




While hiring Epstein, a noted mathematics genius, was not strange on its face, the hire was unusual for a number of reasons. Epstein had not earned a college degree as he dropped out of New York’s prestigious Cooper Union. The other odd circumstance was that the new teacher was only 20 years of age



Donald Barr resigned in 1974 after a fight with the board or Trustees.


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William Barr's father hired Jeff Epstein to teach at a private school when Epstein was 20 yrs old (Original Post) ehrnst Jul 2019 OP
Bill Barr is corrupt just like the rest of the Republican party. Iliyah Jul 2019 #1
Was the school an all-girls school? IggleDuer Jul 2019 #2
It was made co-ed after in 1966 after being all-boys, by Donald Barr ehrnst Jul 2019 #3
Well now, there's the Epstein-Barr connection! Cousin Dupree Jul 2019 #4
Such a small world. Amazing how some individuals and families and other PufPuf23 Jul 2019 #5
 

ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
3. It was made co-ed after in 1966 after being all-boys, by Donald Barr
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 09:28 AM
Jul 2019

One tweet posited that perhaps Donald Barr was a "fan" of teen girls, and Epstein knew this, and this possibly gave Epstein blackmail material to get hired without a college degree to teach at a high school - where he wouldn't be fired for doing the same.

PufPuf23

(8,791 posts)
5. Such a small world. Amazing how some individuals and families and other
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 10:37 AM
Jul 2019

associations span issues and decades.

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