Is this the guy who killed himself after the speech?
Yeah, he got caught in some sort of fraud and sucked on a .357 on live TV.
Iirc he was falsely accused/a scapegoat or something
Sidenote, this came up in my search while I was refreshing my memory
He wasn’t falsely accused, he just claimed he was, to protect his memory for his family. There’s enough evidence for me personally to convict him, starting with the notebook that had the date of the meeting with the bribers torn out. Just that one page.
Also, while I am… unsure of what to think about the whole thing, I do recall that basically, if he killed himself instead of going to jail, somehow, that ended up so that his family would still be elligible for his pension pay out, or something like that.
Yep, ok, I’m not nuts:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Budd_Dwyer
Death benefits
Since Dwyer died in office, his widow Joanne was able to collect full survivor benefits totaling more than $1.28 million (equivalent to about $3.63 million in 2025), which at the time was the largest death benefit payment ever made by the Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement System. If Dwyer had been sentenced, state law would have prohibited the payment of his state-provided pension benefits.[14][100] A spokesman for Dwyer suggested that he may have killed himself to preserve the pension benefits for his family, whose finances had been ruined by legal defense costs.[101]
Man that sounds delicious, why do these politicians these days have to be such picky eaters
Fetterman, if you’re listening…
Please let’s see the current leader do this when he realizes the child rape walls are closing in on him and there’s no more escape
He would need to feel shame of any kind
yeah, there are events that cause you to lose your sense of shame. I am confident krasnov has been through at least one of them, given the behavior he has displayed and the level of wealth he was born into.
Hey man, nice shot!
It’s not what he said but how he said it
You know, in certain older civilized cultures, when men failed as entirely as you have, they would throw themselves on their swords. – The Operative
We should bring that back.
Norm Macdonald thought this guy killing himself was hilarious
Good shot man!
What you could have taught me. I could have saved some face.
Would love to see more of this type of statesmanship
I’m so lost can someone tell me who he is
The song was written about the public suicide of Pennsylvania state treasurer R. Budd Dwyer on January 22, 1987, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Dwyer had been convicted of bribery charges in December 1986, and was expected to receive a lengthy sentence from U.S. District Court Judge Malcolm Muir. Professing his innocence and decrying the legal system, Dwyer shot and killed himself with a .357 Magnum revolver during a live televised press conference.
Damnnn off of bribery charges? Our politicians used to have some semblance of decency
Part of what made it so memorable - and inspired the song - is that school was cancelled that day so a bunch of kids were watching the press conference.
Imagine such a thing as criminal charges for a US politician today. Different times.
This is Budd Dwyer, who ended his life after giving a speech. You can read about the event here.
he has such a way with words ☺️
He had his constituents dreams in the back of his head.
In hindsight, he probably did it not out of any shame, but because he wanted to go out in a way that might make people view him as a tragic, misunderstood figure. If Epstein did kill himself, it was probably for the same reason. Narcissists, both of them.
Same thing corrupt cops do when they’re caught, they off themselves and make it look like they went out a hero.
