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Doug Band Gives His Epstein Related Testimony To Congress (7/2/26) · 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. Yesterday, Doug Band had his time before Congress
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where he was talking about what he knew about Jeffrey Epstein,
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and according to sources that were in that meeting, Doug
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Band came down with the case of amnesia. And I
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know that's gonna shock you, right, considering that so many
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people that have been in Epstein's orbit have been afflicted
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by the same malady, I'm not shocked to hear that
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Doug Band just couldn't remember his interactions with Jeffrey Epstein.
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And also, shockingly enough, he walked back his claim that
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Bill Clinton went to the island. Now, I don't buy
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that for a second, considering what Virginia has said and
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what mister Scully said, I'm gonna go with what they
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had to say about Bill Clinton on the island. But
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remember that doesn't mean that Bill Clinton was abusing people
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on the island. I think there's a misnomer where people
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think that if you went to the island, you were
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engaging in abuse. That's not how it worked. Not everybody
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who went there was engaging in that. So I'm certainly
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not saying that Bill Clinton was part of the abuse machine.
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But I'm gonna have to go with what my friend
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Virginia told me, and she said that Bill Clinton was
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on this island. So let's dive into this article from
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ABC News and let's see what they had to say
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about Doug Band and his conversation voluntarily with Congress and
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the headline Doug Band, former aye to Bill Clinton, repeatedly
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tells panel he can't recall interactions with Epstein. Well that's convenient. Huh.
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Who would have thought that's the defense strategy of everybody
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who's involved, and Congress just lets him get away with it.
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This article was authored by John Parkinson, Lauren Peller, and
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James Hill. Doug Band, the former close advisor to a
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president Bill Clinton, repeatedly told lawmakers that he could not
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recall his involvement on several topics related to convicted sex
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offender Jeffrey Epstein. Multiple sources said following Band's appearance on
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Tuesday before the House Oversight Committee, Such a joke. What
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an absolute waste of time. And that's why I'm going
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through all the transcripts with you so you can get
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a full view of what these people say and how
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ludicrous it all is because without the transcripts, obviously they
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could pitch us whatever bullshit they wanted to. The one
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thing that they hate the most is losing control of
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the narrative. Band, who began his tenure with Clinton as
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an intern in the mid nineties, was questioned for four
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hours by the panel as part of its ongoing probe
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with the government's handling of the investigations into Jeffrey Epstein.
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Multiple sources familiar with his testimony said Band had no
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evidence or information that President Clinton ever went to Epstein's island,
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Little Saint James in the US Virgin Islands. Despite telling
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Vanity Fair on the record in twenty twenty that Clinton
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had visited the island, Band told the committee that he
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didn't remember why he had made that claim to a
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Vanity Fair. So just another guy that's a liar. Let's
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just come out and say it. Doug Band, not exactly
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or a liable narrator. This dude's out here saying whatever
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he wants because he knows there's no consequences. Oh yeah,
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Bill Clinton never went to the island. Bill Clinton never
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met him. I've never even talked to Bill Clinton. That's
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the kind of ludicrous bullshit that I would expect Doug
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Band to say. Often described as the architect of Clinton's
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post presidential endeavors, including the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton
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Global Initiative, Band was pressed about his own communications with
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Epstein's convicted co conspirator Klhainne Maxwell, which were made public
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earlier this year by the Justice Department as part of
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the release of files mandated by the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
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And all these people that were friendly with Maxwell who
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act like it was no big deal, You're wrong. We're
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talking about a convicted sex trafficker. We're talking about somebody
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that was targeting the most vulnerable girls in society. So
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when they try and fall back on the excuse, oh, well,
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I was a friend of Maxwell's, not exactly the optics
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you're looking for. I mean, how many times have survivors
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told us that Maxwell was just as bad, if not
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worse than Jeffrey Epstein. Emails between Band and Maxwell included
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talk of meetings with Epstein and numerous exchanges containing suggestive
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innuendo and cheeky nicknames for each other like baby cakes
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and Booboo. According to the files released by the doj Yo,
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you ever call anyone in baby cakes in an email?
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How about booboo? And then Doug Band goes on to
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say that he had no intimate relations with Glenn Maxwell.
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I don't believe that. You know why, because Glenn Maxwell
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is a skufuza. She was having relations with everybody. Remember
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the story about George Clooney went to the bathroom with George,
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gave him a little dome piece and then bounced back
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to the table. Oh, I remember that story. So if
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anybody is a prostitute, if anybody is a slut, I
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think it would be Glenn Maxwell. The bulk of the
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messages were exchanged between two thousand and one and two
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thousand and four, before Epstein first faced criminal charges in
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Florida in two thousand and six. Yeah, nobody knew. Come on,
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everybody had their eyes wide shut. That was the problem. Band,
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according to sources, told committee members that he didn't recall
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sending individual emails to Maxwell, but he confirmed that an
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email address associated with Clinton that was found in the
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Epstein files was Bands and that no one else had
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access to it. Oh yeah, so it wasn't you right?
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It was the dog, Your dog ate your homework. And
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then he sent emails to Glenn Maxwell. Band stated that
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he took steps to insulate Clinton from Maxwell as Band
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became aware of allegations. According to the sources, don't you
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love how all these people try to set themselves up
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as heroes. Well, I stepped in because I knew that
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there were allegations, So Doug Band knew, but not Bill Clinton.
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Is that what you really want me to believe, because
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I'll tell you right now, I don't believe that, because
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it's unbelievable. Band stated that he never had sexual contact
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of any kind with Maxwell and didn't recall ever being
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introduced to any woman or girl associated with Maxwell. Sources said, well,
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I don't know. I don't have any evidence one way
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of the other. But is it out of the realm
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of possibility? No, considering who we're talking about and considering
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the way she was moving. Band also said he didn't
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recall ever engaging with that Epstein on any of the
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flights he took with Clinton on Epstein's private jet, and
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didn't recall having conversations with Epstein, said sources, like, who
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believes that you're on this dude's private jet. You didn't
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have a conversation. You didn't go up to him and
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say Hey, look, I'm Doug Band on Bill Clinton's you
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know go to guy. If you want to talk to
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Bill Clinton, you got to go through me. None of
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that happened, huh Okay, I guess we know that mister
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Band set up several meetings between Clinton and Epstein House
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Oversight Committee Chairman James comer Pole reporters prior to Band's appearance.
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We know mister Band accompanied mister Clinton on several flights
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on Epstein's jet. We know that mister Band also had
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a lot of communication with miss Maxwell. So that'll be
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a topic of several questions, and it should have been.
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But look, Doug Band very small player in all of this.
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He was never going to have the keys to the kingdom.
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He wasn't going to provide information that was going to
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be groundbreaking or But what he does is adds a
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little clarity, right, and it gets him on the record.
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So I guess, if anything, at least we have that
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Ban fifty four has not been accused of any wrongdoing.
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His appearance before the Oversight Committee was voluntary and was
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not recorded. The Committee has typically released transcripts of interviews
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after they're reviewed for accuracy and redacted to remove any
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potential references to allege victims. So it's usually been a
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few days to a few weeks. So we'll see how
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quickly this ban one comes out. And now that we're
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done with Bill Gates, we're going to be diving into
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Leslie Groff. So we'll get to Band after that. Earlier
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this year, Band told The New York Times that his
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message with Maxwell occurred when he was in his twenties
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and unmarried, and he denied any romantic involvement with Maxwell,
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who is currently serving a twenty year sentence for sex
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trafficking and other offenses. Well, how do you prove it.
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I don't think that Glenn Maxwell is going to spill
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the beans and say, yeah, you know, I was getting
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cracked by Doug band Bro had me in the Monica
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Lewinsky dress and had me hollering. Highly doubt that's gonna happen.
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There was absolutely no physical relationship that occurred between us, ever,
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Band said in a statement to The Times in which
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you refer to Maxwell as a monster. Records created by
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Epstein's pilots, made public through civil litigation, show Clinton and
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an entourage that typically included Band aboard Epstein's plane on
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more than two dozen flight legs in two thousand and
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two and two thousand and three, but none of those
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flights went to the island, according to the pilot's logs. Clinton, Epstein,
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and Maxwell have all denied that the former president had
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ever been to Little Saint James. And again, I believe
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Virginia people can believe whatever they want, right. We don't
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have hard proof one way or the other. So it
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comes down to who you find more believable. He never
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absolutely ever went, and I can be sure of that
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because there's no way he would have gone. Maxwell told
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then Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in a recorded interview
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last summer, But how would she know? I thought Maxwell
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wasn't around Epstein anymore. What happened to that? Remember? She said? Well,
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I took a step back. I was dating Ted Waite.
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So it can't be both things. She can't know everything
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and not know nothing. I've never been to that island,
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Clinton said in his own interview with the Oversight Committee
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in February. The former president has not been accused of
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any wrongdoing in connection to his association with Epstein. He
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has said he stopped interacting with Epstein before any criminal
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allegation surfaced and denied knowledge of any of Epstein's crimes.
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Why did he have a picture of you in a
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blue dress? That's one for the ages. Imagine being somebody
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like Bill Clinton and knowing that picture exists, that painting
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it would be a Tony Soprano moment for me. Remember
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how pissed off Tony gets when Paul takes the fucking
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picture out of the dumpster and has it touched up,
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and then Tony goes to his house and sees it.
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That would be me. I would have ripped that shit
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off the wall and punched Epstein directly in his face.
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Clinton told the committee that he and Band were once
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close and that Band had been one of the people
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he tasked to operationalized plans to develop the Clinton Global
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Initiative in his early post presidency years. He worked for
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me for years, Clinton said. He arranged airplane flights and
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things like that, and was doing work on the first
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Clinton Global Initiative in two thousand and five. And I
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know that he both Epstein and he knew Maxwell. I
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don't know to what extent he was in contact with him.
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In her interview with Blanche, Maxwell said she began spending
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time with Clinton after he left the White House in
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two thousand and one, as he was forging his post
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presidential path through the establishment of the Clinton Foundation and
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later the Clinton Global Initiative, which is a lot. They
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were at the White House seventeen times, so let's not
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act like Lann Maxwell and Bill Clinton didn't know each other.
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They most certainly did. I was part of the beginning
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process of the Clinton Global Initiative, and that was something
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that I helped with, and that was me and Epstein
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may have helped me helped them, she said. According to
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the transcript of July twenty twenty five interview, I started
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spending time with the former president and with Doug and
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his team, Maxwell said, I had no purpose really other
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than obviously offered something I don't know ideas. In recent weeks,
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the committee has heard from Microsoft co founder Bill Gates
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and two of Epstein's former assistants, Sarah Kellen and Leslie Groff.
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Later this summer, interviews are scheduled with former Obama White
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House counsel Catherine Rumler, former Epstein attorney Alan Dershowitz, and
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Epstein's former private banker at JP Morgan Chase jess Daley
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huh no, Folly huh Okay, I guess the guy that
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signed the NPA, we don't need to talk to him.
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Huh no. Marie Villafana, that's interesting. What about Barry Krusher?
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Notice they want nothing to do with the NPA. Ask
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yourself why Comber has indicated that a report on the
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investigation's findings will be issued by the end of the year.
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And I bet you that shit's going to read like
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a comedy, considering Comber has no stones and considering he
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has no teeth, does anyone really think that the n
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report's going to be skating? I doubt it. Maybe for
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some of the administration's enemies, but not overall. Now, look,
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I hope to come back after the report's released and
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have a different tune to sing, but as of right now,
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I'll remain skeptical. So we'll see where it all goes,
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and once we get that transcript, we'll get to see
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what Doug Band actually said. So until then, that's going
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to do it for this one. All the information that
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goes with this episode can be found in the description.
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