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For Jeffrey Epstein's Survivors The Pain Remained Even When The Abuse Stopped · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
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  Whenever you're talking about somebody who has been exposed to
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  years and years of abuse, there is no doubt that
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  the trauma that they suffer in their lives moving forward
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  after that abuse doesn't go away. All they can do
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  is learn how to manage that trauma and try and
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  navigate their new normal. And unfortunately, a lot of times
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  it leads to substance abuse issues, and those substance abuse
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  issues continue to bloom, they continue to grow, until eventually
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  the person hits rock bottom and decides I have to
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  get help and try and fix what's going on. Or
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  as we saw with Carolyn, they die of an overdose.
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  And there really aren't too many other outcomes for people
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  who are addicted to drugs. Unfortunately, you notice there aren't
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  very many old junkies. Well there's a reason, folks. Okay,
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  you pumping up of this poison into your body. Eventually
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  it's gonna catch up with you. But when you're talking
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  about people who have suffered the trauma that Carolyn suffered
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  at the hands of Epstein, at the hands of Glenn
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  Maxwell's disgusting ass, Yeah, it's going to be a lifelong
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  process to try and get right, and unfortunately, not everybody
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  is going to be able to do it. And that's
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  one of the main reasons I go so hard in
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  the paint talking about the USVII and them taking money
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  right out of the survivor's pockets. Do you know how
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  expensive it is to go to a good rehab center
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  and get right. It is not cheat. So when you
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  have the US Virgin Islands collecting two hundred and ninety
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  million dollars of survivor money that could have been used
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  by these women for drug rehab, could have been used
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  by these women for therapy, whatever it might be. Yeah,
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  I'm gonna have a few things to say about that.
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  And that's another reason why I wasn't out here spiking
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  footballs and doing happy dances like some other people when
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  the US Virgin Islands got that bag. And for all
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  of their on sensical talk down there in the USVII,
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  there hasn't been too much walk. You would think that
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  collecting all that money, maybe they'd set something up for
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  Epstein survivors themselves. Nah, they're not gonna do that. This
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  money's going for XX and X. Meanwhile, we all know
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  the money's gonna end ub with some corrupt ass politician
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  or at that corrupt politician's favorite charity where he's gonna
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  get a little piece later on. Guess who's not getting
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  a piece? People like Carolyn, People who have been abused
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  by Epstein, People who have suffered trauma at the hands
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  of these animals for all these years, only once again
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  to get victimized by the United States Virgin Islands. Today's
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  article is from twelve News headline Trauma remains Epstein abused
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  victims tragic overdose shows enduring pain of survivors. Well, I
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  can tell you with a certainty that the pain that
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  has been caused by Epstein and by Maxwell has lasted
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  all these years, and a lot of the survivors that
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  I've talked to, they've all said the same thing, that
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  that trauma has been one of the hardest turtles to overcome.
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  The PTSD, all of the nightmares, the thoughts of what
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  happened to them, that's not easy to get rid of.
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  So it's a constant struggle for these women, day in
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  and day out to get right. Many survivors who are
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  either groomed, sexually abused, or trafficked as miners by now
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  deceased billionaire finance here, you mean pedophile finance here. Jeffrey
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  Epstein and his exploiters are still dealing with the trauma
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  years later, and it manifests in different ways. Right, Some
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  people become self destructive, They do drugs to try and forget.
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  Other people whom I have been abused might become a
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  sex worker because they think that's all they're good for. Look,
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  there's a lot of psychology that goes into this, and
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  to tell you the truth, I'm certainly not qualified to
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  dig deep as far as psychology goes, but as an observer,
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  it's very, very obvious the trauma that these women are
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  still suffering. Back in May, one of Epstein's survivors, Carolyn Adriano,
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  was found dead of an accidental overdose at the Double
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  Tree by Hilton in West Palm Beach. According to the
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  West Palm Beach Police Department, her children were there, her
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  husband was there. Just all bad And now you know
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  what the sad part is, her children are now going
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  to be traumatized as well. Imagine having to deal with
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  this situation as a kid. Your mom overdoses in a
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  hotel room where you are. You might not understand now
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  but as you get older and you start to understand
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  a little bit more about the world and about what's
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  going on, that's not going to be fun for these children,
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  and my heart really goes out to them. According to police,
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  her husband found her unresponsive that morning with her children
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  inside the hotel room. Fentanyl and prescription drugs were also found.
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  Police said, and how many times do we hear it?
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  I'm telling you right now, fentanyl is the scourge of
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  the earth. This shit has to go. The only problem
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  is there's no way to stop it with prohibitionist tactics.
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  We have to dig in deep, and we have to
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  deal with the pervasive problem of addiction in this country.
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  And unless we do that, there's no hope. Folks. We
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  can beat the drum until our hands fall off, we
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  can yell until we have no voice, but unless the
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  people in power decide that the stupidity that we're engaging
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  in doesn't work, then well we're gonna continue engaging in
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  stupidity and it won't be long until somebody you love
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  dies of an overdose. Two. Her testimony helped put Epstein's
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  accomplice Glenn Maxwell, behind bars. The local mother reportedly testified
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  years ago how she had been addicted to drugs to
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  numb the pain of Epstein's sexual abuse. And this is
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  just something you see all the time. Unfortunately, I cannot
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  tell you how many people I know who weren't even
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  abused but have gotten into the sex worker lifestyle have
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  ended up on drugs. That has to be a hard
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  go of it, right with a different guy all the time.
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  You know, it just can't be an easy life. So
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  I completely understand why somebody would look to escape. It's
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  very common for people with childhood abuse and sexual trauma
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  to turn to addicted behaviors because they don't know how
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  else to cope with it. Clinical psychotherapist Jennifer Tomco of
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  Clarity Health Solutions told CBS twelve News, it hurts all
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  the time. They just want to escape the pain, and unfortunately,
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  there's no escape from your own mind. You can run
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  away from threats, you can run away from other people,
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  you can run away from just about anything. You can't
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  get away from what's in your own mind. And that's
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  why people turn to drugs. That's why people turn to
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  alcohol because they can't deal with their reality. Healing, including
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  overcoming addictions and other substance abuse occurs in stages. The
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  first step is empathy can pass and psycho education to
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  help them understand that what they're going through now is
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  not forever. Make sure they understand that they are not alone,
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  she said, And that is true too. It's a very
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  tough struggle. But if you can find the willpower and
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  you can find the strength to say, you know what,
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  today's the day, and you have that support behind you,
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  you have a chance to kick in your addiction problems.
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  But unfortunately, a lot of people don't have that support,
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  They don't have the willpower, and they certainly don't have
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  the resources to do what they have to do. So
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  that's why we have the walking dead invading every city
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  in America. Palm Beach County lawyer Spencer Coven with Gold
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  Law litigated against billionaire pedophile Epstein over the past decade
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  and represented nine of his victims. He did not represent Andreano.
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  Even though Epstein is dead and Maxwell is behind bars,
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  survivors of Epstein will forever live with the abuse that
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  occurred to them. Couvin said. Many of Epstein's survivors were
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  recently paid out in settlements, but years ago, Couven said
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  many of his victims didn't have the money to seek
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  the proper treatment they needed to cope with the pain.
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  And that's the thing. When you're poor, forget it. There's
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  no hope. When you're poor man, the cycle is just perpetual.
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  There's no resources there for you. What are you going
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  to do? Go to the local Salvation Army shelter and
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  get you a bed to go and have a withdrawal.
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  In this day and age, it's not like that. It's
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  not like the old days where somebody goes and dries out,
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  goes cold turkey. That's not how it works anymore. And
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  that's because the synthetic drugs that they're taking are so powerful.
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  So we have to have the resources available if we're
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  going to help people. And until we have those resources available,
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  this is what you're going to see. A lot of society,
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  including the state attorney's office and federal investigators at the time,
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  were in complete disbelief. These young women had to convince
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  adults of what was occurring to them. Couvin explained, imagine
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  being such a jerk off that you don't listen when
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  all of these girls have the same story about Epstein.
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  What kind of dirty scumbag would not listen? Oh, I'll
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  tell you what kind, the kind that's found down in
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  Palm Beach, Florida. He said, for years they were denied
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  by potential partners and family members too. It really wasn't
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  until the Me Too movement came out that all of
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  a sudden there was a support system for these women.
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  But unfortunately for some, it was too late, Covin said.
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  And I have to tell you, even the whole Me
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  Too movement, they weren't around for the trial. Where were
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  they for Glen Maxwell's trial. Was anybody out there marching,
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  going crazy and demanding accountability? No, they were not. And
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  you all know why. It's not a political issue that's
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  going to move the needle. And if it doesn't move
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  the needle, forget it. You're not gonna have any of
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  the powers that be give a damn about what's going on.
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  Because the issue is they don't really care about our problems.
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  They care about making sure that you're voting quote unquote
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  the right way. That's what they really care about. If
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  they cared about our problems, well they'd address them. And
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  not only would they address them, well they'd be present.
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  And the facts are that the Me Too movement was
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  not present when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein and to survivors.
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  So while the movement itself might have set the tone,
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  there was really no help on the ground when it
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  comes to Epstein survivors and the trial against Glen Maxwell.
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  So for me, it was the tenacity of the survivors
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  themselves and their wherewithal and their refusal to give up
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  that led to this, not the me too movement. But
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  either way, there needs to be resources that are available
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  for people who are trying to get off of drugs.
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  There's just no doubt about it. And when we're talking
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  about Epstein survivors, shouldn't the US Virgin Islands the pony
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  up a few bucks maybe to set up some kind
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  of program to help with trauma, to help with Epstein
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  survivors who were dealing with drug addiction. I mean, they
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  got two hundred and ninety million dollars. They talked a
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  lot of talk about how they care about the survivors.
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  So how about we see a little bit of that
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  talk put into action the United States Virgin Islands. You're
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