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Theater on the Hill: The Terrible Optics of the Epstein Investigation Led By Congress · The Epstein Chronicles

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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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Epstein Chronicles. Over the past seven months or so, one
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of the questions I keep getting asked has to do
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with the Congressional investigation and whether I think it's legit
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or fogazy, And unfortunately, I think it's fugazy. I've said
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that from the very beginning that it was all theatrics
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and k fabe, and it remains so. Do you really
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think that James Comer really wants to get to the
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bottom of what happened here? Or do you think he's
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trying to uncover for the people that don't want this
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investigation to progress. I mean, look, we should definitely hear
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from Bill Clinton, and we should definitely hear from Hillary Clinton.
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I don't have any beef without whatsoever. As you know,
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I think that both of them were enabling Jeffrey Epstein
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for years. But there's no doubt that it was a
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dog and pony show during the deposition of both Hillary
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and Bill Clinton, and the fact that it wasn't public
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is a joke. All of these should have been public.
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Bill Barr, alex Acosta, Hillary Clinton, Les Wexner, Bill Clinton.
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Enough is enough, but it's not about getting to justice.
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That's what it comes down to when we're talking about
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the congressional investigation, not Massy, not Rocana, not the discharge petition,
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but the investigation being led by Comer and his little proxy,
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Anna Paulina Luna. Make no mistake, they have one goal
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laying covered down for the administration. That's it. Not about justice,
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not about the survivors, certainly not about the survivors. I mean,
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look at what Anna Paulina Luna said. Oh, these girls
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are all traffickers. A lot of these women were turned
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into traffickers. Come on, we know the truth, and so
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did she. But the idea was to cause confusion instead
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of just being very clear and saying that Nadia Leslie,
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Sarah Kellen Vickers, and Adriana Ross where the women she
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was talking about. She was very vague and opaque because
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she knew all she had to do was throw a
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little red meat out there and all of the buffoons
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would run with it, and boy they sure did so.
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Today we have an article from Politico and the headline
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serious investigation or clown show. Clinton's close testimony on Epstein
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leave room for disagreement, and again we haven't seen the transcripts,
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So we're only basing what we're talking about on what
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other people told us. So until we get the transcripts
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and the video, I'm not going to get launched into
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orbit one way or the other. This article was authored
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by Maya Kaufman, Jillia Negisi, and Hailey Fuchs. As House
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Republicans and Democrats embarked on two days of depositions with
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Bill and Hillary Clinton. Both sides professed to seriousness of
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purpose to find answers that could aid their investigation into
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convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Well, Comer and his friends,
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if they were serious, would have been at the less
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Wexner deposition. There is no good reason for them not
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to be there. And I'm sorry, but it's the truth.
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This committee is playing serious games. And the funniest thing
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is they really stepped on their own dick. What do
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I mean by that? Well, they've opened the door now
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for Donald Trump to be deposed. Wasn't Comer supposed to
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protect Donald Trump? And can you imagine how steamed up
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el Donaldo is gonna be when he has to get
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in that chair at some point, because it's coming. Maybe
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not while he's in office, but it's coming and he
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can thank mister Comer and is pal Luna. They left
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with completely different versions of what transpired behind closed doors.
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Of course they did, and that's why I'm telling all
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of you to reserve your judgment. Wait until we see
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the transcripts, because you know, both sides are playing loose
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with the truth. Both sides want to pitch a narrative,
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and that's how it works. So that's why I wait
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to see the actual transcript or the actual documentation that
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we're being told about. Unfortunately, it's hard to trust anybody
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when they're telling you anything these days, especially when it
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comes to such a politically charged issue as this. One
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Republican said President Donald Trump was now exonerated. Democrats said
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Trump was no such thing and called the event an
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unserious clown show, and amid dueling news conferences and social
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media posts throughout Thursday and Friday, the public is now
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left with starkly divergent narratives in a congressional probe that
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shows few signs of ending anytime soon. This is what
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I warned of guys. Look, just be very careful. Don't
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give into your inner base emotions. I know it's easy
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to do that especially here. You want to throttle everybody involved. Right,
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All these people are absolutely disgusting and vile. But what
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they're relying on is people retreating into their bunker and
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making this a political issue. It is not. Now, of
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course politics are involved, but there is plenty of scum
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baggery to go around. But for me, the buck stops
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with the guy upstairs. If you're the boss, the president,
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the buck stops with you. And that's under the best
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circumstances possible. Right under these circumstances where Trump is named
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in the files more than anyone besides Glaine and Jeffrey. Basically, yeah,
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probably somebody that has to answer some questions, and probably
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somebody that I'm not going to trust when they're telling
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me to move on. Now. That might work for your base,
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that might work for you know, the cat turds of
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the world, but the rest of us, we're not going anywhere,
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and we want answers. I don't care how many wars
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you crack off either. By the way, I refuse to
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get sidetracked. We are going to talk about this topic
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and we're going to keep demanding justice and ramifications for
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the people that were involved. And there is no shiny
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object on this planet that's going to make us deviate
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from this course. The split screen underscores the politically fraught
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nature of the House investigation, which is unfolding as the
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electorate clamors for someone to be held accountable for the
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years that the sex trafficking operation of Epstein and his
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co conspirator Glenn Maxwell went unchecked. Oh, it was checked.
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They just ignored it. They knew about it, they didn't care.
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And I remember trying to tell people about this years ago,
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and they all looked at me like I was fucking
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Alex Jones. Homie. I'm not telling you that there is
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skin changing aliens. I'm telling you that the people that
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are lording over you are corrupt. And guess what they are.
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And now the curtain's been pulled back and everybody can
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see in the room. The House Oversight and Government Reform
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Committee spent hours grilling both Clintons, the former Secretary of
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State on Thursday and the former President on Friday, about
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Epstein and Maxwell in compliance with the perisipoenas issued by
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the panel as part of its long running Epstein investigation.
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Republican and Democratic Committee members took turns chiding each other
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for their characterization of the Clinton's testimony, while also selectively
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leaking comments from inside the room to support their respective
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party lines. Not a word about the survivors, not a
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word about me, and you all about their cafee wrestling bullshit,
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all of them. It's just a big joke to them,
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just another political battle. Well, I assure you, to the
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people who were harmed, is a lot more than that.
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And to those of us who are watching, it's a
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lot more than that to us too. And I am
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sick and tired of the elected officials and their WWE
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wrestling like behavior. Okay, stop with the bullshit. None of
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you care, None of you want justice. All you want
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is a gotcha moment. The Republicans, all they cared about
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was getting Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton to sit in
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front of them. And now the Democrats, of course, what
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they want the golden Goose is Donald Trump. And look,
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I get it, I understand. But if that's your only goal,
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and you have tunnel vision and that's all you think
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this is about, you're wrong and you're causing big problems.
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Because the more political theater that we see here, the
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more political theater that they engage in, the larger the
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divide becomes between the populace, and that's what they want.
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They don't want us together, the pitchforks and the torches.
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That is the last thing they want. They want us divided,
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They want us arguing, and they want us focused on
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anything but the Epstein files. The question is are you
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going to grant them their wish? Don't fall for the bs,
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stay on target, especially right now, they're going to attempt
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to use your emotions against you, and with a heightened
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situation around the world, they're going to do everything they
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can to steer the narrative away from Epstein and towards
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the new shiny object. Oversight chair James Comer said that
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Bill Clinton told the committee that Trump never said anything
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to me to make me think he was involved with
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Epstein and left Republicans confident there was no reason now
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to depose the president. Wait, so Bill Clinton is the
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co signer and that's good enough for James Comer. Didn't
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the Republicans tell us for years about the Clintons and
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how they're going to lock them up? But now all
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of a sudden, Bill Clinton's the paragon of virtue and
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somebody we should listen to. Yeah, Okay, I guess from
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all the evidence I've seen, he's been exonerated for a
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long time, Comber said of Trump during a news conference
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on Front. Yeah, they're real serious about an investigation here.
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Exonerated by Bill Clinton. In other news, Michael Myers has
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been exonerated by Jason. Representative Robert Garcia California, the top
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Democrat on the committee, said repeatedly the former president's deposition
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Friday sets a precedent for Trump to testify under oath,
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and that Comber's remarks were not an accurate description of
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Bill Clinton's testimony. You know, I told you that this
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was the plan. The only reason they were willing to
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throw the Clintons under the bus is because they want
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Trump that bad, and some of the younger members of
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the Democratic Party, namely the Democratic Socialists, they don't care
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about the old guard. So they're more than willing to
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throw the Clintons out the door if that means that
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Donald Trump is going to be in the hot seat
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at some point. So it's give and take, right, They
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thought that the risk was worth the reward, Democrats said.
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Bill Clinton's deposition raised additional questions about Trump and Epstein's
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falling out. Trump has Long said that he kicked Epstein
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out of his club mar A Lago and Florida years
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before Epstein's twenty nineteen arrest on sex trafficking charges because
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he stole people that worked for me. While the White
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House is said that Epstein was banned for being a creep.
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We've heard like nine different stories. Look, they had a
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falling out. For sure what that falling out was that
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is still up for debate. Neither of the Clintons have
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ever been accused of misconduct in connection with Epstein, nor
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has Trump. Bill Clinton has maintained that he was acquaintance
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of Epstein and traveled on his plane several times internationally
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while Secret Service details were present, but stopped communicating with
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them at least a decade before his arrest in twenty
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nineteen on federal sex trafficking charges. Behind closed doors, Bill
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Clinton testified that Trump told them he and Epstein had
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great times together. According to a person in the world
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who was granted anonymity to describe the private deposition, YO,
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people don't want to realize it, but it's true. Bill
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Clinton and Donald Trump were friends. Donald Trump was a
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New York Liberal for all these years leading up to
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twenty sixteen, then he flipped the script, became a Republican,
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and all of a sudden, the Clintons aren't his friends anymore.
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You want to talk about KFE, this is it, especially
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considering the way Donald Trump's talking about Clinton. Now, Oh,
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I'm sad he's being deposed. This that the other thing.
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The mass certainly slipped. Donald Trump was running around in
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the same circles as Bill Clinton with the same scumbags.
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Democratic Representative Maxwell Frost said Bill Clinton testified that Trump
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told him though falling out with Epstein was over a
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land dispute, he's been caught in multiple lives as it
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relates to his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, Frost said, referring
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to Trump, I got bad news from mister Frost. Same
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goes for Bill Clinton, and just from the opening statement alone,
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he perjured himself. Now again, I'm not going to go
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too deep because I don't have the transcript, but let's
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not act like this is one way traffic. Both of
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these dudes are lying through their teeth about their relationship
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with Jeffrey Epstein. Stop defending them. Bill Clinton's office did
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not immediately return a request for comment. The White House
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referred back to an earlier statement from Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt,
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who said the President has always remained consistent and that
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he kick Jeffrey Epstein out of his club mar A
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Lago because frankly, Jeffrey Epstein was a creep. Well, somebody's
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lying and considering both of these dudes are notorious liars.
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I have no idea which one it is, but I
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can tell you this much. Their lips are moving, so
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lies are coming out. The Republican led committee is expected
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to release videos of the preceding as soon as this weekend.
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Democrats on the committee requested full, unedited versions to be
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made public, with each side promising their version of events
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will then be vindicated. My guess is somewhere in the middle.
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Neither side cares about you. Both sides think you're stupid,
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and they're going to try and dog walk you every
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opportunity they get. Republicans are under increasing pressure to have
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something to show for their investigation and are eager to
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find a win in the Clinton's testimony. Well maybe if
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they showed up to ask questions of Les Wexner, they
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would have had something, But they were too busy that day,
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way too busy. Comerce at Friday as panel, we'll call
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in additional witnesses as part of the ongoing probe. Saying
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lawmakers had refrained from naming any of these individuals before
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the Clinton's deposition, he suggested names could be announced before
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the deposition of the co executors of Epstein's estate, which
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will take place in the coming weeks. While those are
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going to be good ones, but the problem is Comer's
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involved and his band of merry morons, so they're gonna
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run cover. Obviously, they don't care about getting to the
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bottom of it. They don't even think that the survivors
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were abused. According to Luna, the survivors or traffickers themselves.
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This is the kind of bullshit we have to navigate,
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and it's all by design. I didn't want to do
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anything that jeopardized losing them, he told reporters Friday, referring
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to the Clintons. As lawmakers left the deposition site in Chappaqua,
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it also appeared likely the panel with student subpoena Commerce
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Secretary Howard Nutlick I mean Lutnik, who his face calls
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to resign over revelations in the Justice Department's material about
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the extent of his relationship with Epstein. Representative Nancy Mace a,
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South Carolina, a Republican on the oversight panel, said she
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was on board. Well, yeah, everyone should be on board.
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Lutnik's an absolute tool. And when all of this started
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to go down with I cannot tell you how many
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of my ex coworkers from Canner hit me up. Yo, Bobby,
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you see this shit is Lutnik and hiding. Yet when
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they going to get him, he still owes me my
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IPO shares a whole bunch of shit. And that's just
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from Canner's gaming division, never mind actual Canner Fitzgerald. Lutnick
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recently acknowledged that he visited Epstein's island in twenty twelve
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with his family, after he previously claimed their relationship ended
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before Epstein was convicted in two thousand and eight of
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soliciting a prostitute. Lutnick has not been accused of wrongdoing
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in connection with Epstein's crimes. We have a lot of
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questions about anyone who spent time with Epstein post conviction.
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Comer told reporters when asked about calling in Lutnick to testify,
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I don't worry. They'll call him in and then they'll
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exonerate him too. And this whole dog and pony show
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that this Congressional Committee is engaging in is embarrassing, it's disgusting,
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and it's getting in the way of real justice occurring.
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But then again, isn't that the goal to try and
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confuse people, to try and slow things down, and to
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try and make everything go away. They were just waiting
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for a new disaster. The stuff with ice didn't do it,
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all the other stuff that they tried to interject it
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and do it. So now we have a war, and
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they hope that because of this war, everybody's gonna be
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focused on that. Well, that's probably true. A lot of
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people will be, but not me. We're gonna be right
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here swimming through all this muck looking for that clarity.
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All right, folks, that's gonna do it for this one.
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