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The Mar-a-Lago Break: Inside the Trump–Epstein Fallout According To The WSJ · The Epstein Chronicles

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. So Ever, since Donald Trump started talking about
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein, we've heard several different reasons as to why
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  Speaker 1: their friendship collapsed. Well, now we're getting a story from
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  Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal that was told by a former
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  Speaker 1: employee of mar A Lago who said that she was
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  Speaker 1: called to Jeffrey Epstein's house for some sort of house
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  Speaker 1: call and he attempted to assault her. So when she
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  Speaker 1: got back to mar A Lago, she reported this incident,
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  Speaker 1: according to the Wall Street Journal, and that led to
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump barring Jeffrey Epstein from mar A Lago and
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  Speaker 1: from the services. And we have to keep in mind
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  Speaker 1: at the time, Jeffrey Epstein was not somebody that was
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  Speaker 1: under police suspicion yet, so it wasn't like he was
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  Speaker 1: already a convicted offender. We have to be honest with
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  Speaker 1: the conversation. But with that said, Trump has told us
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  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of different versions of this story, so
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  Speaker 1: which one's the truth? And honestly, the only thing that
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  Speaker 1: we can take from all of this is that Jeffrey
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  Speaker 1: Epstein and Donald Trump did have a relationship and at
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  Speaker 1: some point they had a falling out, And this is
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  Speaker 1: what I mean about Donald Trump creating his own problems.
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  Speaker 1: If he would just be forthright and tell everybody about
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  Speaker 1: the relationship with Epstein throughout the years, he could have
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  Speaker 1: avoided a lot of this trouble. But instead they're engaging
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  Speaker 1: now in an ongoing cover up to cover up the
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  Speaker 1: cover up, and I've never seen anything like it. And
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  Speaker 1: the more they talk, the more they bullshit, the deeper
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  Speaker 1: that hole gets, because this isn't going away. If they
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  Speaker 1: think that it's going to fade into the background and
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  Speaker 1: there's never going to be ramifications, they're crazy. At some point,
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump's not going to be president anymore. And then
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  Speaker 1: what we've already seen how things go for former officials
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  Speaker 1: now in this country, like we live in a Banana republic.
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  Speaker 1: So do you really think the next administration if their
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  Speaker 1: Democrats aren't going to call for a full review of
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  Speaker 1: what's going on with Epstein and with the files. They
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  Speaker 1: most certainly are. And that's why I think that employees
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  Speaker 1: of the DOJ better be very very careful with what
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  Speaker 1: they're doing and with what kind of nonsense they're getting
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  Speaker 1: themselves involved in, because this is the kind of thing
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  Speaker 1: that not only run's careers, but could end up putting
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  Speaker 1: people in prison down the line. I mean, there's a
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  Speaker 1: law on the books that says you have to release
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  Speaker 1: those files. So if you're playing games to protect people,
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  Speaker 1: what should be the penalty for that? In my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: you should go to prison. Today's article is from The Independent,
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  Speaker 1: and the headline new report digs in on details of
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  Speaker 1: the incident that reportedly caused Trump to ban Epstein from
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  Speaker 1: our A Lago. This article was authored by Joe Summerlad
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  Speaker 1: and I was going to go to the actual article
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  Speaker 1: at the Wall Street Journal, but it's behind a paywall
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not giving them one single dollar. Jeffrey Epstein
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  Speaker 1: was never a fee paying member of President Donald Trump's
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  Speaker 1: mar A Lago club in Florida, but routinely received home
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  Speaker 1: visits from staff members sent to provide massages and manicures.
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  Speaker 1: A new report is alleged is that something that is
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  Speaker 1: an offer from mar A Lago to all members, we
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  Speaker 1: send beutitions to your home. What does that even mean?
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  Speaker 1: So we're gonna have to go back and take a
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  Speaker 1: look at how prevalent that was and how many girls
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  Speaker 1: were sent from mar Alago to Jeffrey Epstein's house probably
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  Speaker 1: a pretty important part of the story, you know. And
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  Speaker 1: of course it's going to be important to know how
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  Speaker 1: many other people they were providing that same service for,
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  Speaker 1: so we can see if it's something that was common
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  Speaker 1: or if it was something that was just offered to
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  Speaker 1: people like well, Jeffrey Epstein. And if mar A Lago
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have, you know, records of other people doing this
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  Speaker 1: or going to other people's houses, that's gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: big problem. I mean, why were they sending girls to
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein and nobody else. And again, look, we're not
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  Speaker 1: at that point yet. We don't have all the details
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  Speaker 1: here about who was being sent where or at what time.
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  Speaker 1: But it definitely doesn't look good for mar A Lago
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  Speaker 1: and it certainly doesn't look good for Donald Trump. Former
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  Speaker 1: employees of Trump's Palm Beach estate told The Wall Street
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  Speaker 1: Journal that the house calls took place around the late
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  Speaker 1: nineteen nineties and early two thousands and went on for years,
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  Speaker 1: even as young female employees warned each other about Epstein's
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  Speaker 1: predilection for being sexually suggestive and exposing himself during the appointments.
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  Speaker 1: And this is what I say, all the time about
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  Speaker 1: people acting like they didn't know they knew Jeffrey Epstein
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  Speaker 1: was a degenerate fuck from Jump Street. He was somebody
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  Speaker 1: that was doing all kinds of disgusting shit for years,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody knew what was up. Maybe they didn't know
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  Speaker 1: all the details, but they knew he was a disgusting bastard.
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  Speaker 1: And how many of those people just looked the other
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  Speaker 1: way and sent more women and girls directly into the
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  Speaker 1: belly of the beast, A whole hell of a lot
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  Speaker 1: of them, that's how many. The former staff members told
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  Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal that the house calls were an
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  Speaker 1: occasional service offered to SPAW members, although Epstein was not
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  Speaker 1: a member. They said they alleged that Trump had told
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  Speaker 1: them to treat them like one, and that Epstein had
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  Speaker 1: an account where appointments were booked for him by Glenn Maxwell,
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  Speaker 1: his accomplice and then girlfriend, well let's just call her
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  Speaker 1: an associate. Guys like Jeffrey Epstein don't really have girlfriends
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  Speaker 1: the way most normal people would, but certainly somebody that
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  Speaker 1: was intimately involved with him. Maxwell reportedly frequented the club herself,
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  Speaker 1: making use of Epstein's account, and used the SPA to
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  Speaker 1: recruit young SPA workers for side jobs, which weren't authorized
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  Speaker 1: by the club. However, Epstein's relationship with mar A Lago
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  Speaker 1: ended abruptly in two thousand and three, according to the
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  Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal sources, when an eighteen year old beautician
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  Speaker 1: returned to the club and told its Human Reason Sources
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  Speaker 1: team that he had pressure for sex. Well, that's certainly
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  Speaker 1: good for mar A Lago, right, the fact that they
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  Speaker 1: ended this relationship after the report was filed. But the
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  Speaker 1: problem is that they were sending these girls in the
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  Speaker 1: first place. Why are you sending these girls to somebody
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  Speaker 1: like Epstein who's not even a member. Would that benefit
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  Speaker 1: be given to just anyone or somebody who was a
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  Speaker 1: very very close friend. That's what we should be asking
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  Speaker 1: ourselves at this point, because there's no doubt that they
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  Speaker 1: were very close friends for quite some time, and there's
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  Speaker 1: also no doubt, just to be real, that they did
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  Speaker 1: have a falling out. My issue is, with all the
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  Speaker 1: different versions that we've heard of the falling out, I
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  Speaker 1: have no doubt that there was one, But what caused it,
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  Speaker 1: I still think that's up in the air. Now. This
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  Speaker 1: new report by the Wall Street Journal is adding some
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  Speaker 1: context for sure, but even then it's very difficult to
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  Speaker 1: figure out what's what right to navigate the truth from
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  Speaker 1: the bullet because they've piled the bullshit so high. A
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  Speaker 1: manager responded by sending Trump a fax were laying the
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  Speaker 1: employee's accusation against the wealthy financier, and urged them to
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  Speaker 1: ban Epstein, to which the future president replied by saying
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  Speaker 1: it was a good letter and agreeing it was appropriate
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  Speaker 1: to sever tie. The beutician's complaint was never passed on
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  Speaker 1: to the Palm Beach Police, well it should have been.
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  Speaker 1: And look to give Trump credit if that's how we responded,
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  Speaker 1: good for him, because anybody who's trying to do that
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  Speaker 1: to your employees is somebody you don't want a round.
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  Speaker 1: But I think the bigger question is why were these
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  Speaker 1: bututicians going there in the first place, especially considering that
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  Speaker 1: it's a benefit so they say for members, and Epstein
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  Speaker 1: wasn't even a member. So we're definitely going to have
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  Speaker 1: to get some more context here, and we're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to hear some more information from the people that were involved.
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  Speaker 1: Trump has not been accused of doing in relation to Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: who took his own life in a new York City
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  Speaker 1: jail in August of twenty nineteen, allegedly while awaiting trial
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  Speaker 1: on sex trafficking charges, but his face consistent pressure this
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  Speaker 1: year to explain their past friendship. The accounts supplied by
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  Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal tally's with Trump's claim that he
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  Speaker 1: kicked Epstein out of mar A Lago around two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and four for being a creep. White House Press Secretary
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  Speaker 1: Carolyn Levitt told the newspaper Tuesday, it was writing up
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  Speaker 1: fallacies and innuendo in order to smear President Trump. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think that's a smear. I think that if that
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  Speaker 1: story's true, it's actually a mark in the positive department
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  Speaker 1: for Trump. I mean, if it's true and he acted
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  Speaker 1: right away to Ben Epstein, good for him. But there's
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  Speaker 1: more to the story, and I think that we're starting
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  Speaker 1: to get a little bit more of the context here,
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  Speaker 1: and I think as we move forward, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: get more. But one thing's for sure. The official narrative
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  Speaker 1: that we've been told just doesn't add up. And I
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  Speaker 1: think that it was more than just what we're being
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  Speaker 1: told about this situation with a Beutitian or women from
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  Speaker 1: mar A Lago that might have been recruited by Epstein
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  Speaker 1: and Maxwell, and it probably has something to do with
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  Speaker 1: a situation that's more personal between Trump and Epstein, maybe
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  Speaker 1: some kind of business deal that went wrong, maybe alone, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: But there's certainly more to the story. The Independent is
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  Speaker 1: reached out to the White House for further comment. The
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  Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal report goes on to allege that Trump
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  Speaker 1: and Epstein continued to cross paths after he was banned
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  Speaker 1: from mar A Lago, and that the pair found themselves
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  Speaker 1: in direct competition for au Palm Beach property up for
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  Speaker 1: auction in late two thousand and four, with Trump coming
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  Speaker 1: out on top in the bidding process. So that definitely
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  Speaker 1: played a part too. When you have two guys like
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  Speaker 1: Epstein and Trump and they're going after a property like that,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to leave animosity with the person who didn't
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  Speaker 1: get the property, because, as you all know, people like
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  Speaker 1: this think the whole last world revolves around them and
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  Speaker 1: every decision should fall in their favor. Trump and Epstein
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  Speaker 1: both The pressure on the President to provide justice for
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's survivors ramped up in July when the DOJ and
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  Speaker 1: the FBI issued a joint memo stating that there was
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  Speaker 1: no client list in existence, detailing the late pedophiles powerful friends,
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  Speaker 1: and that conspiracy theory is alleging he was murdered in
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  Speaker 1: jail were false. Well, folks, it's a rap. We can
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  Speaker 1: pack it all in. The DOJ told us that there's
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  Speaker 1: nothing to see here, and everything's just a bunch of bs,
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  Speaker 1: just a lone predator, you conspiracy theorists. Meanwhile, the whole
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  Speaker 1: entire file is connecting them to other people. The memo
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  Speaker 1: only served to revive interest in the case, however, and
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  Speaker 1: set in motion a call for the DOJ to release
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  Speaker 1: all government files on Epstein, which resulted in the Epstein
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  Speaker 1: Files Transparency Act near unanimously passing Congress in Ovember and
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  Speaker 1: the first tranch of documents and photographs being made available
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  Speaker 1: via the department's website on December nineteenth. A second, much
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  Speaker 1: larger tranch was published on December twenty third, and the
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  Speaker 1: DOJ has since said it's uncovered over a million more
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  Speaker 1: documents possibly tied to the Epstein case, and that'll take
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  Speaker 1: weeks to release them all. Well, I guess they can
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  Speaker 1: just do whatever they want, right, Oh, there's a law
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  Speaker 1: who cares. We don't give a shit. We're gonna slam
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  Speaker 1: dance on your grave. Fuck the constitution, fuck the law,
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  Speaker 1: fuck the American people, basically what they're saying. Trump is
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  Speaker 1: suing the Wall Street Journal for reporting on the existence
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  Speaker 1: of a leud fiftieth birthday letter he allegedly sent to
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  Speaker 1: Epstein in January two thousand and three, which was subsequently
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  Speaker 1: uncovered by the dead man's estate in response to a
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  Speaker 1: subpoena by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. The President
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  Speaker 1: has denied authorship of the letter, but the newspaper has
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  Speaker 1: argued its reporting was accurate and seeking to have the
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  Speaker 1: lawsuit dismissed. You know what's funny about that whole entire
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  Speaker 1: birthday card. They sure were quick to be able to
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  Speaker 1: come out and say that the letter to Nasser by
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein was fake. We haven't had any of that
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  Speaker 1: confirmation one way or the other about the birthday card.
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  Speaker 1: Should be pretty easy, right without quickly they were able
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  Speaker 1: to come out and say that the Nassa letter was fake.
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  Speaker 1: Shouldn't they be able to do the same about this
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  Speaker 1: birthday greeting that Trump allegedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein. I
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  Speaker 1: would think so, and you would think that they'd want
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  Speaker 1: to do that to put that to bed, right. So,
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  Speaker 1: I have a funny feeling that lawsuit isn't going anywhere,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that when all the said and done,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be dismissed by the court. But we'll
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  Speaker 1: keep an eye on it. And as far as the
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  Speaker 1: relationship between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, I think that
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  Speaker 1: only two things are clear at this point, one that
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  Speaker 1: they were friends and two that they did have some
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  Speaker 1: kind of falling out. It's everything in between that we
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  Speaker 1: still have to figure out. So Oh, like usual, will
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  Speaker 1: continue swimming through all this muck and all this bs
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  Speaker 1: as we continue to look for some clarity. All of
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  Speaker 1: the information that goes with this episode can be found
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