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America’s Reckoning With the Epstein Files According To Brad Edwards · 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. During yesterday's press conference held by the survivors
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of Jeffrey Epstein and Glenn Maxwell and Washington d C,
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we heard from one of the lawyers who has been
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representing a lot of these women for a very long time,
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and that person is Brad Edwards, and he was talking
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about how the American public is going to be appalled
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when they actually see what's inside of these Epstein files.
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And he's not just talking about the so called powerful
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people that are going to be caught up, but he's
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also talking about how the system itself failed, not only
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the Epstein survivors, but all of us. So today we
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have an article from Fox News and we're going to
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talk about that a little bit more. Headline Epstein victims
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press lawmakers to support bill to release hidden files say
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Americans will be appalled. The author of this article is
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Greg Norman, a lawyer representing victims of Jeffrey Epstein, said
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Wednesday that the American public is going to be appalled
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about documents relating to the disgraced late financier that have
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not been released by the federal government. The government has
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mistreated them after Epstein mistreated them, Bradley Edwards said of
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the victims in Washington, d C. And we already know
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the court absolutely hammered the government over this CVRA, but unfortunately,
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because of Epstein's death, nothing was able to move forward.
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Edwards spoke at a news conference that is part of
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an effort by Representatives Rocanna of California and Thomas Massey
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of Kentucky to pass through the House a procedural motion
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known as a discharged petition, which could force a House
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vote urging the Justice Department to release the Epstein files.
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The fact that they have to be urged is crazy,
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Like you would think you just want to release them
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and be done with it, right. This could have been
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what a six week story could release the files back
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when you said there was nothing left to investigate, and
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this story would have already effectively been over probably, But
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instead you continue to double down, You continue to call
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it a hoax, and you continue to refuse to be transparent.
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But everybody else's hostile. Everybody else has a problem, I
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think the problems with the people who refuse to release
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the documents. We filed lawsuits against Jeffrey Epstein against his estate,
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and against two financial institutions JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank
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that prove that they provided knowingly provided the financial infrastructure
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for a sex trafficking operation. Unfortunately, all of the documents
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and evidence that we work so hard to gather hide
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behind protective orders, confidentiality agreements, and bank secrecy laws. Edward said, well,
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that's the whole rub, right. If you want to get
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that settlement, you have to sign these NDAs, you have
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to promise to be quiet, you have to take your
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money and shut up. And that's the way the systems
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set up. And trust me what I tell you. It's
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not set up for you or me. That's why the
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discharge petition is so important. While we have seen the documents,
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you haven't. And when you see the documents, you're going
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to be appalled. And the American people deserve to see everything.
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He added. When you sign this discharge petition, it should
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mean nothing is all limits. The documents in possession of
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the CIA should be made available. Those in the possession
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of the FBI going back decades should be made available.
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The sec financial records should be made available. Edwards continued,
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as he stood alongside the victims. Everybody knows that evil
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flourishes in the darkness. Corruption flourishes in secrecy. It is
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time right now to make a difference for the women
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that are behind me right now. Words added. And of
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course that all starts with transparency, because if the American
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people aren't privy to what's going on, how can we
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hold anybody accountable? And that's what they fear the most.
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Right They don't want to let go of the narrative.
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They don't want the American people to know what truly
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happened here. You think you have no faith in the institutions,
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now wait until you get a load of this. President
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Donald Trump on Wednesday called the push to release the
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files relating to Jeffrey Epstein a Democrat hoax because they're
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trying to get people to talk about something that's totally
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irrelevant to the success that we've had as a nation
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since I've been president. It's always about me, me, me
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with this guy, it's never about anybody else. I'm the greatest.
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I did this, I did that. Well, you know what
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else you did? You promise to be transparent, and here
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we are, and you know what's crazy. Trump could have
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been a real hero. He could have walked down to
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that press conference yesterday, took the microphone and and told
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the world and told those survivors, Look, I'm with you.
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We're going to go through the process and we're gonna
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get all of this stuff dumped and brought out into
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the public. But no, instead we get more ridiculous rhetoric
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and more doubling down on nonsense. I understand that we
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were a subpoena to give files, and I understand that
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we've given thousands of pages of files, and I know
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that no matter what you do, it's going to keep going.
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Trump told reporters at the White House. And really, I
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think it's enough, because I think we should talk about
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the greatness of our country and the success that we're having.
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I think we're probably having, according to what I read
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even from two people in this room, we're having the
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most successful eight months of any president ever. And that's
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what I want to talk about. That's what we should
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be talking about, not the Epstein hoax. Yo, is there
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anybody out there that really believes this bullshit? We're having
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the greatest eight months of any president ever. I mean,
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maybe cat turn and the people that showed up for
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the white binders, but anybody with a brain in their
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head actually believe this not. I don't know about you,
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but this hasn't seemed like the greatest eight months I've
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ever lived through. I thought we were getting rid of
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the war in Ukraine. I thought that the situation in
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Gaza was going to be rectified. I thought that we
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were going to handle the problem with drug addicts in
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America and we were going to tackle addiction as we
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make America healthy again. But instead, no, what do we do?
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We doubled down on the war on drugs. We talked
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about more innerdiction policies. We don't have any support for
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the people that really need it, you know, the people
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actually addicted to drugs that are driving the epidemic. But yeah,
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tell me more about this eight months. Epstein died in
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prison six years ago while awaiting federal charges related to
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sex trafficking. This is not a hoax. This is real.
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There are real survivors, Massey said earlier. There are real
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victims to this criminal enterprise, and the perpetrators are being
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protected because they're rich and powerful and political donors to
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the establishment here in Washington. So today we're standing with
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the survivors and we're giving them a voice and kudos
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to mister Massey. I mean, it takes a lot of
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courage to do what he's doing, especially going against Donald Trump.
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And the same goes for Marjorie Taylor Green. That takes
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a lot of courage. And I know a lot of
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people don't like her, but I'll tell you what. In
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this instance, she's leading by example and her colleagues should
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take note because she's showing them the right way to
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go here. Representative Marjorie Taylor Green also said Wednesday that
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the women behind me have never received justice and do
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you want to know why? It's because Jeffrey Epstein somehow
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was able to walk among the most rich, powerful people,
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not only in America, but foreign countries. Yesterday I heard
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countries like Saudi Arabia, Russia, and even Israel and other countries.
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Green said, the truth needs to come out, and the
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government holds the truth, that the cases that are sealed
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hold the truth. Jeffrey Epstein's estate holds the true. The FBI,
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the DOJ, and the CIA holds the truth. And the
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truth we are demanding. And what's so wrong about that?
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Why is there so much pushback against that? How is
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that a fucking hoax? The real hoax is all these
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fake ass MAGA influencers who said they care about children
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and who said they care about what's going on with
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Epstein all of a sudden don't care anymore because they're
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a dear leader told them not to. I mean, for real,
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how do you look at yourself in the mirror? How
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do you wake up every day and pitch that bullshit
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to your audience, to your listeners, to the people who
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trust you, and do it with a straight face. Epstein
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victim Jenned Lisa Jones said Wednesday that she was only
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fourteen years old when my friend brought me over to
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Jeffrey Epstein's house in Palm Beach in two thousand and three.
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I always did my best in school, and I had
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such a positive outlook on life, she said, until that
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day that I met Jeffrey, I have never been more
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scared in my life than I was that first time
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that he hurt me. I remember crying the entire way
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home thinking about how I couldn't ever tell anyone about
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what actually happened in that house. It was really hard
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for me to find my voice and to become strong
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enough to speak about my abuse. She also said, thanking
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Massey and Conna for hosting her together. We can finally
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make a change, and that is thanks to the people
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like these two congressmen and their teams who actually care
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about the victims. Jones also appealed to President Donald Trump directly.
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If you are a member of Congress and you are
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listening to all of us speak here today, please really
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listen to us. Please vote for this bill to be passed,
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Jones said, Please President Trump pass this bill and help
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us make us feel like our voices are finally being heard.
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So what's the big pushback? Why is there such an
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issue and why are people getting so mad that people
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are demanding transparency? That's the real question, because there's no
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logical reason for it unless you're protecting someone or something.
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Another Epstein victim, Lisa Phillips said Wednesday that US Epstein's
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survivors have been discussing creating our own list. We know
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the names many of us were abused by them. Now,
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together as survivors, we will confidentially compile the names we
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all know who were regularly in the Epstein world, and
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it will be done by survivors and for survivors. No
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one else is involved. Stay tuned for more details. Another victim,
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Anuska di Georgiou, said she was abused by Jeffrey Epstein
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and Glenn Maxwell for over ten years. Glaine Maxwell was
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present for some of my abuse at the hands of
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Jeffrey Epstein. She was present, she was complicit, she was enabling,
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and it's appalling and disgusting and it's one of my
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worst nightmares. The possibility that is very much going around
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that she might be pardoned. This is not okay, guys,
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This is not okay. And I think that really sums
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it up. Nothing about that's okay. Even the talk about
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Glaine Maxwell getting a pardon is not okay, especially considered
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she didn't give up any actionable intelligence. She had a
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fireside chat with her buddy. That's all that happened. Nothing
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of consequence occurred in that profer session, if you even
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want to call it. That, just to people having a chat,
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rehashing history, rewriting history instead of looking for the truth.
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And of course that's what those kind of sessions are
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supposed to be about, right And if you get accommodations
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from the government, you should get some kind of hookup.
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That's how it usually goes. But Glenne Maxwell didn't give
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the government shit. All she did was sit down and
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have that conversation and nothing has come of it, Nothing's
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going to come from it. So why would she move
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to Camp Brian. We all know why. It was because
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she played ball right, She said what they wanted her
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to say. It gave them some plausible deniability, and it
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provided them the cover of them actually looking like they
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were doing something to try and get to the bottom
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of what happened. But those optics were bad from the
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very beginning, and I think the whole entire fiasco with
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mac has only made things worse for the administration and
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for the DOJ. And unless we get some transparency, this
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story is not going away anytime soon. All of the
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