I am not suicidal

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"The Statement No Congressman Should Ever Have to Make
White Rose
February 13, 2026
“I am not suicidal.”
Those four words do not belong in the public record of a sitting United States Congressman. They do not belong in the political bloodstream of a functioning democracy. They belong in war zones, mafia trials, and intelligence defections. And yet there they were, written plainly by Congressman Thomas Massie, not as metaphor, not as rhetoric, but as documentation.
He did not stop there.
He clarified that his brakes were in good condition. That he handled firearms safely. That he had no deep water hazards on his property. That he was a strong swimmer.
It read less like a tweet and more like an affidavit.
Massie was not joking. He was creating a timestamp.
Because history has taught anyone watching closely that proximity to certain networks can carry strange statistical gravity. People do not simply lose reputation. Sometimes they lose oxygen.
Jeffrey Epstein died in federal custody in 2019. Officially ruled a suicide. Yet the cameras outside his cell malfunctioned. The guards assigned to monitor him fell asleep. Records were falsified. The most valuable witness in a global trafficking and blackmail scandal died under the one condition that guaranteed his silence. Not in transit. Not during arrest. Not during trial. But alone, in custody, before testimony could unfold.
Jean-Luc Brunel, the French modeling agent long linked to Epstein’s recruitment pipeline, died in a Paris prison in 2022. Also ruled a suicide by hanging. He had been awaiting trial. He had knowledge. He had names. He, too, died before proceedings could fully expose the architecture around him.
Ivana Trump died in 2022 after a fall down the stairs in her Manhattan townhouse. Officially ruled accidental blunt force trauma. She was days away from providing deposition testimony connected to civil litigation involving Donald Trump’s business practices. Her death removed her from that process permanently.
Mark Middleton, a former Clinton White House advisor who had arranged early meetings between Epstein and senior officials, was found dead in Arkansas in 2022. His death was ruled suicide. Yet the circumstances were unusual enough that authorities initially sealed investigative records.
None of these cases produced criminal homicide charges. Each carried official explanations. Yet each left behind something harder to extinguish than evidence.
Pattern.
Not proof. Pattern.
And pattern has weight, especially when the pattern intersects with power.
Massie’s statement must be understood in that context. He was not confessing vulnerability. He was denying prewritten narrative. He was placing into public record a simple assertion: if something happens, it was not by his hand.
That is an extraordinary act for an elected official in a modern Western democracy.
It reveals something deeper than fear. It reveals erosion of institutional trust.
Because in a healthy system, no Congressman believes he must preemptively certify his own continued will to live.
In a healthy system, witnesses testify. They do not expire.
In a healthy system, knowledge is examined, not buried alongside the people who carried it.
Massie’s words hang there now, preserved in digital amber.
Not as accusation.
As insurance.
And insurance only exists where risk is real.
Bruce Fangar