Trump HHS Official Found Dead: Ruled Suicide By 'Multiple Blunt Force Injuries'

NN ^ | 11/18/18 | Jay Greenberg

[LoicW]

Daniel Best, a pharmaceutical executive who recently took the lead at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, tasked with President Trump's initiative to "lower prescription drug prices" in the United States, was found dead with "multiple blunt force injuries" on November 1.

Officials in Washington, D.C. have just announced that his death has been ruled a "suicide."

[Red in Blue PA]

So he beat himself to death?

[Celerity]

I don’t trust these nnettle articles at all. Sensational as anything.

[babble-on]

ditto

[LoicW]

so they would have us believe.

[Bitman]

At least he didn’t shoot himself in the head 7 times with a six gun.

[babble-on]

He jumped off the balcony.

[central_va]

The city's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner on Thursday said Best died from "multiple blunt force injuries" and it ruled his death a suicide. It would not release further information.

Here's a link to the same story in the Cleveland.com

[central_va]

He jumped off the balcony.

Where does it say that?

[Stevenc131]

Google LBJ & Henry Marshall. Marshall became so despondent he shot himself 5 times in the body with a bolt action .22 rifle.

[Diogenesis]

DC Police blame it on Seth Rich and John Kennedy, Jr.

although as a pharmaceutical exec he had access to
suicide drugs better than beating himself to death.

[Jane Long]

Welcome to Free Republic.

Did you join just to post articles?

I see you primarily only post, threads and rarely comment. Your few comments are limited to your own threads.

[pepsionice]

Cops say (this is DC now) that he was found right at the garage door exit of the condo building that he was living at...just laying there next to the doorway. This was over at the Navy Yard district of DC (north side of the Anacostia River). Time that the cops found the guy...around 5:30 AM.

Some folks are suggesting that he fell from a balcony/window. Cops didn’t suggest that theory...they just suggest it’s all suicidal (maybe there is some note but no one has said that in public).

[babble-on]

That’s how you die of both suicide and multiple blunt force trauma

[Texas Fossil]

Did he fall down a flight of stairs? Or was he thrown down a flight of stairs?

There is too much missing from the article.

We wait.

[reasonisfaith]

Do you trust in your own awareness that the deep state commits murder to get what they want?

[AppyPappy]

ClickBait

[sphinx]

The family and the Medical Examiner's Office need to be a bit more forthcoming. Perhaps he left a suicide note. That leaves hanging the question of just how a person beats himself to death. I suppose it could be done, though it seems a clumsy, unnecessarily painful and uncertain way of doing oneself in. Alcohol, drugs and/or mental illness would seem likely to figure in such a case. The details may be sufficiently macabre that the family doesn't want them disclosed, but as it stands, this story will generate endless speculation.

Would the term "multiple blunt force injuries" be used in connection with a fall? Or with toppling some heavy objects onto oneself? If yes, he might have jumped to his death. If he left a note, that becomes a plausible theory. Beyond that, the story gets sketchy fast.

[rawcatslyentist]

In all truthfulness, it WAS a suicide.

Everyone knows full well what's gonna happen if ya cut the Clintons.

He was probably trying to trust bust Skankles epi pen gravy train.

[UnBubba]

Thank you for the article.

Mr. Best knew where all the bodies were buried. He had to go.

Mr. Best was about to blow the lid off the corrupt Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) industry. The PBM's are the middlemen who negotiate drug prices. Their secretive contracting and business practices have drawn suspicion from lawmakers and administration officials for years.

Mr. Best was one of them, but he switched sides when he came to HHS.

Bad move by Mr. Best.

What are PBM's? In the United States, a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) is a third-party administrator (TPA) of prescription drug programs for commercial health plans, self-insured employer plans, Medicare Part D plans, the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP), and state government employee plans. Major PBM's include CVS Health, Express Scripts, and UnitedHealth Group.