January 1, Police: El Paso Shooter Targeted Mexicans

Hello middle Americans!

Shocking new details from the shooting El Paso Texas have come to light, now that police have released the probable cause affidavit from his arrest and confession.  Also, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers is naming names and those people are now defending themselves. And we also have a very sad sign of the times story out of Washington State. According to a report from NBC news, an elderly couple died in a murder-suicide, apparently because they couldn’t pay their medical bills.  Read all about it. 

 – Fraser Dixon

El Paso shooting suspect said he targeted Mexicans

(ABC) – Patrick Crusius, 21, waived his Miranda rights and agreed to speak with detectives, telling them he entered the store with an AK-47 assault rifle and multiple magazines, and that he was targeting Mexicans.

Read more from ABC News here. 

Epstein Accuser Names Powerful Men in Alleged Sex Ring

(The Daily Beast) – Virginia Giuffre, who says that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell trafficked her to powerful people for erotic massages and sex, claimed in depositions in 2016that Maxwell directed her to have sex with former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, Britain’s Prince Andrew (whom she has accused before), wealthy financier Glenn Dubin, former senator George Mitchell, now-deceased MIT scientist Marvin Minsky, and modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, as well as “another prince,” a “foreign president,” a well-known prime minister” and the owner of a “large hotel chain” in France.

See what Bill Richardson and others are saying in response to these accusations here. 

Elderly Couple Found Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide, Left Notes About High Medical Bills

(NBC) – “Several notes were left citing severe ongoing medical problems with the wife and expressing concerns that the couple did not have sufficient resources to pay for medical care,” the sheriff’s statement said. 

Find out more from NBC News here.