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Epstein’s Birthday Book: Now With Creepy Cartoon Bonus Features (5/25/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. Well, apparently Epstein's birthday book wasn't just a
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  creepy roll of decks of presidents, princes and powerbrokers sending
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  him best wishes. Nope, we have illustrations, because nothing says
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  happy Birthday creep like disgusting fan art. We're talking full
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  on drawings of Epstein handing balloons to little girls like
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  this bitch ass motherfucker's auditioning for the role of Pennywise
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  at a private equity fundraiser, and then another one of
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  him laid out on the Lolita Express getting rubbed down
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  by topless women, one literally branded with his initials like
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  a prize steer Picasso. Forget him, forget Banksy's. This was
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  Epstein's inner circle of degenerates, apparently deciding his scrap book
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  needed a visual component, like some sick coffee table book
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  from hell. These weren't Epstein's doodles, by the way. This
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  wasn't him hiding in his cell scribbling stick figures like
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  a deranged fourth grader. No, someone else thought this was appropriate.
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  There are some degenerate out there who thought, you know what,
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  Jeff's birthday needs a hand drawn cartoon of him with
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  balloons and kids that'll get a laugh. That shit right
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  there tells you everything you need to know about the
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  culture that surrounded them. Not only did these people know,
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  not only did they accept it, they commemorated it. They
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  turned his depravity into caricature, like it was some inside
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  joke at the world's most disgusting frat party. And now
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  we're looking at these little sketches like archaeologists digging up
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  the ruins of sodom. We're not talking about just doodles here, folks.
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  These are receipts, receipts of the arrogance, the entitlement, the
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  absolute mockery Epstein's circle made of morality. Imagine opening a
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  scrap book and finding your name scrawled a neat cursive
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  right next to a cartoon of your buddy being serviced
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  on the Lolita Express. You want to talk about uncomfortable,
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  that's not uncomfortable, it's radioactive. And yet half the people
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  in this book will still go on TV and it
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  swear they barely knew the guy. Right, because casual acquaintances
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  always leave behind topless massage cartoons in your birthday album.
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  Totally normal, And the worst part is the sheer brazenness
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  of it. This isn't some hidden ledger, some secret folder
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  locked away in his safe. It was a birthday book,
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  a keepsake, the kind of thing you leave on the
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  coffee table like it's something to show guests. Oh, here's
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  a note from Bill, here's one from Prince so and so,
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  and oh, don't mind the grotesque cartoon of me handing
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  out balloons to kids. It's just an inside joke, darling.
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  That's how untouchable Epstein felt. His entire world was built
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  on the confidence that not only could he get away
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  with anything, but people would happily draw him doing it
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  and then hand him the pen back with a wink.
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  If that doesn't screen power, corruption and rot, nothing does.
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  So let's talk about it. Whatever fails does it. Just
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  when you think the Epstein saga has already scraped the
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  bottom of the cesspool, out comes another leak, another artifact,
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  another disgusting piece of memorabilia that makes you wonder if
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  this guy lived his entire life inside of a fucking
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  parody skid. Now we've got birthday book illustrations, little hand
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  drawn cartoons where Epstein apparently fancied himself has some kind
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  of balloon bearing pied piper, because nothing says trust me
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  with your kids like a billionaire pedophile doodling himself handing
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  out party favors. And let's not skip over the obvious
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  balloons innocent, childlike, colorful symbols of fun, but in Epstein's
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  warped imagination, they become props in a living nightmare. This
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  isn't a man who just committed crimes. This was a
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  man who liked to document the theme. The balloons float
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  cheerfully in his sketch, but the subtext is heavier than
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  an anchor. It's like Penny Wise trading in his sewer.
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  Great for a private jet. That private jet, of course,
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  is the infamous Lolita Express, which Epstein himself apparently thought
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  deserved a cameo in his artwork. Can we just pause here?
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  The guy had a plane literally nicknamed after Nabakhov's most
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  notorious character, and people still hopped on board with a smile. Hey,
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  you'd think the branding alone would have scared off half
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  of high society, but no, they treated it like delt
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  the first class minus the peanuts and plus the depravity.
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  Then comes the massage scene, because obviously Epstein couldn't resist
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  adding a personal touch to his dudal diary. There he
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  is or aclining like Caesar getting rubbed down by topless women,
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  one of whom is conveniently stamped with his initials. You
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  almost have to admire his efficiency. He managed to combine narcissism, misogyny,
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  and advertising into one tidy little frame. Forget got milk,
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  This was got je And what kind of twisted self
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  awareness does it take to draw this out? I mean
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  most people hide their shame, they bury it, they deny it.
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  Epstein had people sketch it. He practically left behind an
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  illustrated guidebook to his perversions, as if his life was
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  one long storyboard for rejected adult swim cartoon. Except no
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  network would dare touch it, not even Late night Cable,
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  well maybe Newsmax. And you can almost hear his smug
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  internal monologue while he looks at the sketches. They'll never
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  touch me. I'm untouchable. Hell, I'll even let people draw
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  it out and put it in my birthday book, right
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  next to the signatures of presidents and princes, because when
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  you're backed by money connections in blackmail, apparently, you think
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  even your sharpie confessions are fireproof. The audacity of it
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  is almost impressive. Most predators at least try to appear
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  respectable in public. Epstein was having his crimes doodled like
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  a middle schooler who just discovered graft paper. It wasn't
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  enough to live in luxury and pray on the vulnerable.
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  This bitch ass wanted to memorialize it, as though future
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  has historians might one day study the artwork. Well, congrats, Jeff,
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  they are And the balloons, ah, they're rich with symbolism. Now,
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  each one is like a lawsuit floating toward them, ready
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  to pop. Each one is a victim's testimony, ready to
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  burst into the open. Yet in the cartoon, they're just
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  floating props, because that's how we saw it. Children as decorations,
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  as accessories to his amusement. It's sick, but it's also
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  revealing in a way that even deposition transcripts couldn't capture.
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  Now the massage scene drives it home even further. This
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  was an indulgence. It was branding, women reduced to canvases,
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  initial scrawled like trademarks. Epstein didn't need a billboard in
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  Times Square. He turned people into billboards. He was running
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  the most disgusting marketing campaign in history, with human beings
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  as his product. And let's not ignore the context. This
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  wasn't found hidden in a basement sketch book. It was
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  his birthday book, the same book stuff with greetings from
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  powerful men who to this day still want us to
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  believe that they were casual acquaintances. Imagine being one of
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  those guys now flipping through the book and realizing your
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  warm wishes are two pages away from Epstein's balloon and
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  massage comic strip. Awkward doesn't even begin to cover it.
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  And of course the establishment will spin it. They'll say
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  it's satire, it's metaphor, it's artistic expression. Please. That's like
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  Charles Manson insisting his doodles were just misunderstood landscapes. We're
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  not talking about abstract brushstrokes. We're talking about stick figure confessions.
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  And what's galling is how brazen it all is. He
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  wasn't just mocking the law. He was mocking us, mocking
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  the public, mocking morality. The drawing scream I'm so untouchable.
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  I can have myself drawn committing crimes and nothing will happen.
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  And for far too long, he was right, and that's
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  because these weren't just pictures. They were receipts, receipts of
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  a system that looked the other way, receipts of a
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  culture that excused him because the guest lists were too
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  glittery to disturb. He's reclining on his jet in the
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  drawing shure, but he might as well be reclining on
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  the shoulders of every institution that shielded him. Justice didn't
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  just fail here, it collaborated. And what's worse, now that
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  these duolos are public, everyone shocked, shocked, as though Epstein
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  hadn't already left a trail of hers as long as
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  his flight LODs, Politicians, celebrities, billionaires. Suddenly they're all pro clutching,
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  insisting they had no idea spare us. If you didn't know,
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  it's because you didn't want to. Because here's the thing.
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  Epstein wasn't just a monster. He documented his own evil.
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  Every balloon, every topless massage, every stroke of the pen
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  was a dare. You can draw it, I'll save it,
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  and you'll still let me live like a king. And
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  for decades that's exactly what happened. So what some might
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  call arrogance, I'll call performance art, and the audience was
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  everyone who can have quiet. And the sad part is
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  the illustrations aren't even the worst thing. They're just the
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  exclamation mark at the end of a sentence we already
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  knew by heart. Epstein flaunted his depravity because he believed
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  he was untouchable, and the sick joke is he almost was.
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  The doodles don't just depict crimes. They reveal his mindset,
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  a man who didn't just act in secrecy, but reveled
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  in making a spectacle of his dominance. Well almost, because
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  the walls did eventually close in, but not before he
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  mocked everyone, not before he'd left behind doodles as monuments
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  to arrogance. We're not talking about just silly sketches here, folks.
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  These are his trophies. They're evidence of a man so
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  confident in his protection that he let the worst things
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  about him get turned into casual art. The balloons in
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  these drawings floated away the real balloons finally burst, so
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  we're left with these images, little hieroglyphics of corruption staring
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  back at us from pages of his birthday. Oh they're disturbing, sure,
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  but they're also clarifying. They strip away the last excuse,
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  the last defense, the last shred of plausible deniability, and
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  Epstein's crimes were sketched play by play. He left behind
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  a coloring book for investigators to decode, except there's no
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  need to decode it. It's all right there. And that,
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  of course makes up his twisted legacy. Not just that
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  he was a predator, not just that he was enabled,
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  but that he felt so invincible he thought his doodles
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  belonged in the archives, that he believed future generations will
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  look at these sketches and see power, not shame. A
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  billionaire pedophile leaving behind stick figure self portraits of his
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  own depravity. If Hell has a museum, this belongs in
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  the lobby, and right next to it should hang a
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  plaque naming every enabler who helped them keep the crayon sharpened.
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