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Silicon Valley’s Dirty Secret: Jeffrey Epstein and the Tech Elite · 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. So now we've come to the part of
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the story that the brologarchs hope would never come into
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the light. Not the island, not the flights, not the
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salacious headlines they could laugh off as gossip. I'm talking
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about the paper trail, the emails, calendars, introductions, wire records,
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and quiet investments, the Jeffrey Epstein files that are now
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circling the true centers of modern power, the oligarchs of
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Silicon Valley. And let me be clear from the jump,
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this isn't about one rogue predator slipping into tech cocktail parties.
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This is about a system that welcomed them, used them,
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and profited alongside them. Epstein wasn't just lurking on the
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margins at tech. He was embedded. He was meeting founders
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before they were famous, attaching himself to early stage companies,
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floating money through opeg vehicles, emperors, venting himself as a
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fixer who could open doors. No accelerator ever could. The
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file show Epstein operating as a shadow venture capitalist, not
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pitching ideas but picking people. He wasn't betting on products,
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he was betting on access, leverage, and future obedience. And
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at this point this pattern is very familiar. Silicone Valley
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loves to pretend it's a meritocracy built on code and brilliance,
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but the Epstein records tell a different story, one of
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backroom trust, whispered referrals, and no questions asked capital. He
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didn't just fund startups, he funded founders, He paid tuition,
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He wired loans that never had to be repaid. He
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embedded himself as a patron to people who would one
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day control platforms shaping global discourse, finance, surveillance, and political influence.
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And here's the part that really should make your skin crawl.
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Epstein wasn't hiding who he was when much of this happened.
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By the time many of these relationships deepened, his reputation
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was already radioactive and public. Yet in private, Silicon Valley
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kept the door open. Why Because Epstein understood the tech
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elite better than they understood themselves. He knew they prized
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disruption over morality, ambition over accountability, and growth over scrutiny.
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He sold himself as a necessary evil in a world
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that already believed it was above the rules. The files
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lay bare a truth that Silicon Valley pr teams are
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now scrambling to smother. Epstein wasn't tolerated despite his crimes.
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He was tolerated because he was useful. He introduced people
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to money, He introduced money to secrecy. He bridged finance, academia, intelligence,
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and tech into one murky ecosystem where ethics were treated
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as an inconvenience and victims as secondary. It's sickening because
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this is an ancient history. These are the same circles
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that lecture the public about safety, trust and responsibility today
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and monetize your attention and sitting in their origin stories
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like a rotting beam in the foundation, is Jeffrey Epstein
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signing checks, making calls, and shaping futures. So save the
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whole entire this is about embarrassment routine, because it's not.
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It's about complicity. The Epstein files aren't coming for Silicon
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Valley because of gossip. They're coming because the receipts are real.
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And for an industry that claims to worship transparency in data,
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there is nothing more damning than its own records finally
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telling the truth. This article was published by NBC News
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headlined latest Epstein files release rattles Silicon Valley. This article
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was authored by David Ingraham and Bruno Horvath. The latest
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release of Jeffrey Epstein files from the Justice Department indicates
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that the late sex offender maintained wider and deeper connections
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in the tech industry than was previously known. The revelations
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are now causing fractures in the usually clubby world of
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Silicon Valley. Well, look, if you paid attention even a
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little bit, you knew all of this. Like people are
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shocked about Brock Peers. You know, we were talking about
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Brock Pierce and his Epstein escapades literally five or six
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years ago. And so it's always laughable when this news
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gets recycled as something new. Now, it might be new
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to you, NBC, but to those of us who have
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been following along, we all know, and we all knew
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that Silicon Valley was playing their part too. Emails and
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other documents show that Epstein was in contact with at
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least twenty prominent tech executives, investors, and researchers, including some
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current CEOs, according to an NBC News review of a
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portion of the documents. In emails, they discussed a wide
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array of subjects such as startup investments, the prospects of bitcoin,
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social gatherings, helicopter rentals, and in one case, negotiations over
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a corporate exit package. Sure sounds like somebody that had
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intimate knowledge and intimate relationships with these people know. And
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the wildest part is how many of these tech gurus
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have tried to distance themselves from Epstein. The problem is
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the paper trail doesn't lie. Two tech billionaires, Tesla CEO
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Elon Musk and LinkedIn co founder Ried Hoffmann, have been
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locked in a social media struggle for days since the
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documents were released, trading public insults on x as. They
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have accused each other of having exercised poor judgment in
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connection with Epstein. Both men were already known associates of Epstein,
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and the documents released on Friday included further details about
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further connections. Authorities have not accused either of wrongdoing in
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connection with Epstein. Well, they're both liars. That's a fact.
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Anything else past that, well, we need evidence, But I
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think there's ample evidence to show us that both of
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these clowns are liars. And you know what's wild as
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hell that we let these people run the world. These
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are the dudes that were getting shoved in lockers in
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high school. These are the dudes that were getting atomic wedgies.
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But sure, let's let them run the whole entire world.
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And as far as the girls go, we're talking about
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dudes that could never get girls growing up, right, dudes
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that never had women around them. And then they meet
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this guy, Jeffrey Epstein, and he has all these girls,
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and before you know it, these dudes think they're in heaven.
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But while they're in heaven, what they don't care about
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is the fact that the girls that are being trafficked
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to them, the girls that are being abused by them,
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well those girls, they're in hell. On Tuesday night, Hoffman
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and Musk we're still battling online. After Hoffman call for
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justice for Epstein's victims, Musk taunted them, while you're at it,
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maybe you can help Bojay find the real killer, a
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reference to Oj Simpson. Hoffman jab back at Musk by
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posting a screenshot of an email in which Musk asked
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Epstein in twenty twelve, what day or night will be
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the wildest party on your island? And this stupid, disgusting
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bastard elon. Musk ask that of Jeffrey Epstein after Jeffrey
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Epstein was already convicted. So what's the excuse. Oh what,
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he's one of your faves, so he gets a pass.
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He builds rocket ships, so he gets a pass. Not here,
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not on this podcast, not ever. Every last one of
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these dudes can get fucked. None of these dudes are heroes.
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None of these dudes are role models. All these dudes
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are degenerate scumbags. And now it's not only me telling
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you that you can read the emails for yourself. It's
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been known for years that Epstein had friendships or business
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relationships with major tech figures, including Microsoft co founder Bill
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Gates and tech investor Peter Thiel, both of whom are
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named in the millions of pages in the most recent release.
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Authorities have accused neither of them of wrongdoing. Epstein also
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hosted dinners at which scientists and tech entrepreneurs would gather.
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Oh so that makes it okay if little Johnny jumps
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off the building, you should follow him. Like, didn't you
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learn that as a kid just because your friends are
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doing something doesn't mean you should do it. Did your
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parents never tell you that? I know mine did be
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a leader don't be a follower the whole thing. But
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I guess the richest men in the world, you know,
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they don't know any better. They don't know that this
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guy's on molester. They don't know he did time for
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diddling a kid. No big deal. Let's go to Jeffrey
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Epstein's house for some dinner. Are you fucking serious right now?
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And then you expect us to just accept that what
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they think? We're all Michael Tracy. But the files include
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communication with and references to others from the tech sector
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who have not been publicly associated with Epstein, and they
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provide more detail about the relationship that were already publicly known.
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In some instances, the relationships appear to have been lopsided,
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with Epstein showing more initiative to stay in touch, but
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some of the tech figures also eagerly sought Epstein's advice
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or help on business and personal matters. For some tech
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executives or investors, such as Musk, the documents demonstrate a
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closer relationship to Abstein than they had previously acknowledged. I've
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told you this for years now. I'm not saying they
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were best friends, but they were at dinners together, conferences,
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scientific meetups, the whole thing, and Elon Musk talks all
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that shit like you some kind of tough guy. Bro.
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You're not a tough guy, all right, stop it. You're
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a dorky dude who's into tech and who's into science,
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and that's okay, but own it. Don't run around like
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you're some kind of tough guy like you're looking for justice.
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Because if you were really a tough guy and you
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were at a dinner with Jeffrey Epstein's bitch ass, it
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would have been on site. The second you seen him
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walk in the room, you would have got up and
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punched them directly in the face. Elon Musk has fuck
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you money. What's he gonna do? Get sued? Big deal?
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So he talks all that tough shit on the internet,
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gets on Twitter X whatever you want to call it,
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runs his fat yeap, and then goes and breaks bread
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with Jeffrey Epstein. Save the bullshit. I mean, how do
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you think he got that black guy? My guess is
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he tried that tough guy routine off the internet and
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he found out isn't that their favorite saying faffo all
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these weird ass boomers. Well, I guess he faffoed. Hoffman's
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size to Epstein had been revealed in earlier releases of
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the files. In twenty twenty three, The Wall Street Journal
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reported that Hoffman visited Epstein's island and introduced Epstein to Fiel.
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Hoffman and Epstein shared interest in cryptocurrency and appeared to
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have a close relationship, with Epstein, writing in an email
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exchange with Hoffman that he missed talking and seeing him. Oh,
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they were definitely close, to read Hoffman's another Liar, an
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Absolute liar. The newly released document show that Epstein's schedule
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meetings with Hoffman several times from twenty thirteen to twenty eighteen,
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via email, online Skype calls, and in person meetings laid
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out in written itineraries. In an email exchange with Epstein
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in twenty thirteen, Hoffman asked to set up a Skype
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call to talk to him about when he would be
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at his island. In another email, Epstein invited Hoffman to
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his island or his New Mexico ranch to play. Whatever
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that means. Probably pretty concerning when a guy like Jeffrey
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Epstein is inviting you to come play. And again, timelines matter.
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This is twenty fourteen we're talking about. In an exchange
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in twenty fourteen, Hoffmann wrote that he had sent gifts
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to Ebstein's home in New York, which included ice cream
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for the girls and something that may strike your funny
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bone for the island. It's not clear which girls Hoffman
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was referring to or what the other gift was. A
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spokesperson for Hoffman did not immediately respond to a request
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for comment. Oh he has nothing to say now, huh,
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mister twitter fingers. Sure is quiet now, isn't he. Hoffman
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said Tuesday on X that he only knew Jeffrey Epstein
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because of a fundraising relationship with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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which I very much regret. In a separate ex reply,
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Hoffman wrote that he did not go to the ranch.
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He did confirm that he went to Epstein's island in
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another reply, writing that he went with joy Eto, the
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director of the MIT Media Lab, who had asked me
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to help MIT fundraise from Epstein. There's that excuse again.
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Oh well, joy Eto was doing it, so it's okay, right, No,
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it's not okay, and you're both degenerates. Ito did not
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respond to a request for comment. He resigned as MIT
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Media Lab director in twenty nineteen and published an apology
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for having associated with Epstein, saying he never saw any
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evidence of the horrific acts that he was accused of. Of course,
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not all those young girls. They were there because Jeffrey
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Epstein is just a modern day Adonnis, real handsome fella
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that Jeffrey Epstein, Hoffman, Musk, and Feel are all former
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PayPal executives from the company's early days, illustrating how small
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the tech sector can be. They have all greatly added
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to their wealth since then and have been heavily involved
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in politics. Hoffman for Democrats and Musk and Feel for Republicans.
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Epstein was a registered sex offender who pleaded guilty in
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two thousand and eight to procuring an underage girl for prospers.
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His case got some media attention at the time, and
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the scrutiny on him ramped up in twenty fifteen after
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victims began providing more details about their allegations in court records.
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Don't try and cover for him. Everybody knew the deal.
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This dude was arrested. It was a big deal back
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in two thousand and eight, and the smartest people in
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the room read Hoffman Elon Musk Bill Gates. They knew
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exactly what Epstein was, and they didn't care. Epstein died
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in the jail cell in August of twenty nineteen after
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federal prosecutors charged them with sex trafficking. Some of those
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who met Epstein said they did not follow the news
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about his case. One of the documents in the latest
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release is an email exchange in twenty seventeen between Epstein
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and Brian Johnson, a tech entrepreneur an investor who was
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focused on slowing the aging process. They were introduced to
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email by mutual contact Alex Clocus, at the time the
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CEO of the media website Futurism. Epstein and Johnson agreed
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to a video conference call. Oh. I had no idea.
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Nobody told me that Jeffrey Epstein was a notorious diddler.
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I didn't have access to the news back then. I
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didn't have people around me that were in charge of security.
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These people think you're dumb. That's really what it comes
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down to. During that call, I was left with a deep,
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unsettling feeling and left the call feeling as though Epstein
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was the most dark and evil person I had ever encountered.
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He said in the email. Clocus, who introduced them, did
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not respond to a request for comment. The latest Epstein
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documents also reveal that he was an investor in Coinbase,
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a cryptocurrency exchange founded in twenty twelve. He invested about
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three million dollars in the startup, less than one percent ownership,
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according to coinbase valuation at the time, and emails show
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that he and coinbase co founder Fred Ursom tried to
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meet in person in two thousand and four. It's not
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clear whether that meeting ever took place. Coinbase declined to comment.
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Ersom's new company, Paradigm, did not respond to a request
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for comment. Well, that's not shocking. Last thing I want
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to do is talk about this shit. That's for damn sure.
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The release of the documents Friday has set off a
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scramble as the people whose names appear in the files
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respond to public criticism on social media or try to
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avoid the spotlight. It's still unclear what the eventual repercussions
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from tech figures association with Epstein could be, but some
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of them have experienced personal fallout. Melinda French Gates, Bill
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gates ex wife, told NPR in an interview on Tuesday,
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that Gates needed to answer for his behavior with Epstein. Well, yeah,
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probably a good idea, but once again, do you think
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he's going to do You think anyone's going to be
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able to compel him to do so? He should at
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least be called before Congress. Right. Bill Gates said last
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year that he had been foolish and quite stupid to
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spend any time with Epstein. The latest Epstein documents include
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a series of emails that Epstein sent to himself in
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twenty thirteen, appearing to suggest that Gates was having an
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extramarital affair and seeking illicit drugs. A spokesperson for Gates
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deny those allegations, calling them completely false and an attempt
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by Epstein to entrap Gates. And there's probably some truth
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to that, but I have no doubt that Bill Gates
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did what Jeffrey Epstein was suggesting. We have heard about
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numerous women that were provided for Bill Gates, a lot
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of them nameless, a lot of its speculation. But then
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we see here in Jeffrey Epstein's email that he sent
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as a draft to himself, that Bill Gates was in
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fact engaging in some pretty devious shit, whether it was
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with underage girls or not. I can't tell you, but
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we have heard from multiple adults that that was going on.
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And let's be very clear, just because somebody is of
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age doesn't mean they can't be trafficked. So that's a
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whole lest other conversation. In some cases, the Epstein files
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raised more questions than answers about why some tech executives
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or investors appeared to seek out Epstein's advice so often.
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Epstein came out of New York's financial industry and lived
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primarily in Manhattan, making them, on paper, something of a
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stranger to the tech hubs of northern California and Seattle.
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One tech figure who shows up repeatedly in the latest
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document release is Steven Sinofsky, a one time protege of
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Gates who was the Microsoft executive in charge of Windows
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before he left the company in twenty twelve after a
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disastrous product launch. The file include numerous emails between Snofsky
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and Epstein dated soon after Sinofsky left Microsoft, as he
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was negotiating an exit package that included a fourteen million
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dollar retirement payment. Must be nice, Must be nice, Get
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yourself a nice little golden parachute on the way out.
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Can go and be a scumbag full time. That shit's
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a dream come true for these type of fellow travelers.
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For reasons the emails do not make clear, Sinofsky turned
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to Abstein to help negotiate the exit package and to
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navigate the next phase of his career, even though Epstein
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did not have particular expertise in the software sector. Sinofsky
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also told Epstein that he planned to share his exit
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payment with him in exchange for the help. According to
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the emails, which were reported by The Verge and other outlets,
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Sinofsky declined to comment, well, isn't that nice. I have
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nothing to say to you peasants. Beat it. It doesn't
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matter if I was getting money from this diddler, doesn't
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matter if I was getting advice from him. Not your business,
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is it? Now? Go do my laundry, make my food,
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Come pick me up in your uber. In an email
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exchange with Snofsky in twenty twelve, Epstein suggested that he
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was in communication with Tim Cook, who a year earlier
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had become CEO of Apple. Epstein wrote to Snofsky that
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Cook was excited by the idea of meeting Sinofsky, who
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at the time was looking for a new job, but
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according to Ebstein, Cook was concerned that Snofsky might start
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a new company with a former Apple executive. Epstein doesn't
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make it clear whether he spoke to Cook directly or
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through a third party, and does not elaborate on whether
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or how well he and Cook knew each other. Apple,
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where Cook remained CEO did not respond to a request
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for comment in another document. In the most recent release
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of the Epstein files, Google co founder Sergey Brynn emailed
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with Epstein's girlfriend he mean co conspirator, fellow all around scumbag,
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child abuser, and bipedal serpent Glenn Maxwell about meeting up
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with Epstein during a trip to New York in two
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thousand and three, well before Epstein's two thousand and eight
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guilty plea. Let me know what works for you, and
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Jeffrey Brynn wrote. Larry Page, Brin's Google co founder, also
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appears in the files, including in a twenty ten email
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from a redacted sender. The sender says Page's personal pilot
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wants to use Epstein's helicopter for a vacation in the
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Caribbean and wants Epstein's approval. The files do not appear
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to include a response. Google did not respond to a
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request for comment. Deal, a billionaire tech investor and former
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Facebook board member known for his early support to Donald
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Trump in twenty sixteen, appears in thousands of new Epstein documents,
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some of which are duplicates. He appears in emails arranging
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for lunches or other meetups in twenty fourteen through twenty seventeen,
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including at least one lunch at theal's San Francisco office.
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This guy is dangerous, Pallenteer, THEAL, the whole entire intelligence
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apparatus we're dealing with not good. These dudes want every
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aspect of your life under surveillance. A representative for THAL
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did not respond to a request for comment. One document
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from the latest Epstein files is an email exchange between
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Epstein's assistant and the chief of staff for Meta CEO
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Mark Zuckerberg. The exchange is from twenty fifteen, when Zuckerberg's
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company was still called Facebook. Epstein's assistant wrote that Epstein
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and Zuckerberg had recently attended the same group dinner hosted
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by Hoffmann in Palo Alto, California, a fact that became
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publicly known in twenty nineteen. But yeah, no big deal
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right read nothing to see here. You guys weren't really
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close at the party. Mark requested Jeffrey send his contact
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details to him. Could you please pass the below onto Mark.
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Epstein's assistant Leslie Groff wrote, noted with thanks. Zuckerberg's chief
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of staff, Andrea Bessmann replied, there's no evidence the two
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men spoke after the dinner, and Meta says they did not. Well,
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that's up to you to believe it or not. I
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don't know one way or the other. Mark mett Epstein
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in passing one time at a dinner honoring scientists that
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was not organized by Epstein, Mark did not communicate with
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Epstein again following the dinner, Meta said in a statement
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on Wednesday, reiterating a statement from twenty nineteen. According to
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other emails, Epstein attended or planned to attend numerous large
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group dinners at which prominent tech executives were present, although
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it was not always clear whether he spoke to them there.
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was at an Edge Foundation dinner
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for billionaires Vancouver, British Columbia in twenty fourteen, according to
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photos from the event, and Epstein, a donor to the foundation,
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plan to attend the same dinner, according to emails in
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the latest release. Another email in twenty eleven has about
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thirty confirmed attendees for a planned dinner in Long Beach, California,
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with Bezos, Brin, and Musk among those listed. Amazon did
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not respond to a request for comment. And that's the
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billionaire dinner I was talking about. So look all these
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people that get up there and tell you all this
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flowery bullshit about how they care about you, how they're
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these great defenders of humanity. They're all breaking bread with
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Epstein too. And the truth is, the whole entire power
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structure of not only America, but the world is broken,
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and the people that inhabit it are a very very
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very very degenerate, sick people. And I want you to
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remember that the next time one of these people gets
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up on their ivory tower and tells you how to live.
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All right, folks, that's gonna do it for this one.
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