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Mega Edition: How The Death Of Jeffrey Epstein Broke Established Protocol (6/27/26) · 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. The whole entire situation surrounding Jeffrey Epstein's death
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has been shady, to say the least, from the very beginning,
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and no matter how much time goes by, I still
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can't wrap my head around how badly they botched the
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whole investigation. We're not talking about some random guy who
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was picked up on a petty charge. This was Jeffrey
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fucking Epstein, a due tie to billionaires, ex president's royal CEOs,
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half the goddamn Forbes list, and they treated him like
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some low level nobody in holding for shoplifting. You'd think
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with the names he could drop, they'd guard his ass
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like the Crown Jewels. Instead, it was amateur hour from
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start to finish. We're supposed to believe that one of
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the most watched inmates in America just happened to kill
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himself in one of the most secure jails in the
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country under constant supervision, while every single safeguard breaks down
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at the exact same time of bad luck. Huh More
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like the setup for a bad movie. You had guards
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who were asleep on the job, like literally sleeping and
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others who falsified bogs to make it look like they'd
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done their rounds. Cameras conveniently malfunctioned right outside of cell,
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the only selling the entire facility anyone in the right
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mind would actually want footage from. They said the camera
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memory cards were corrupted and couldn't be recovered. That's like
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saying the fire alarm broke during a fire. What are
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the odds right? Add to the fact that his cellmate
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was mysteriously transferred the night before, leaving them alone despite
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protocol requiring two inmates per cell after a suicide attempt.
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You might call that negligence, but it looks like obstruction
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to me. Then there's the timeline. None of it fits.
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The supposed suicide happens in the window when the guards
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were asleep, the checks weren't done, and the cameras were off.
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No witnesses, no footage, no accountability. They found them with
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bed sheets that somehow poorted, a full grown man's weight
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tied to a bunk frame that was barely higher than
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his knees, and yet his neck bones were fractured in
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ways that line up more with strangulation than hanging. Even
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the medical examiner couldn't make sense of it. Doctor Boden,
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the former NYC corner, straight up said that the injuries
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didn't match suicide by hanging. But the official story rolled
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out like a press release. Case closed, folks, Nothing to
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see here. The so called investigation that followed, please, it
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was a joke from the jump. The FBI and the
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DOJ did their review, but they didn't release squat no
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full timeline, no sell inspection records, no interviews that went anywhere,
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just a couple of sleepy press conferences with the same
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rehearsed lines. Were committed to transparency, sure you are. They
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barely even talked to the people who might have actually
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known what went down that night. And don't get me
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started on Bill Barr actinglike he was shocked, then backing
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the suicide conclusion before the dust even settled. And then
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like clockwork, everyone got to disciplined, which in government speaks
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means quietly reassigned, given paid leave. Nobody got fired for
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letting the most infamous sex trafficker and modern history die
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on their watch. They just handed out risk labs and
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moved on. You had two guards who admitted to falsifying records,
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and they walked away with probation, no jail time. Think
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about that, Epstein's dead, the cameras are off, the guards lied,
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and somehow they get to go home and watch TV
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while the rest of us are told to swallow the
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official story. If any of us pull that same stunt
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at a warehouse, a factory, or hell, even McDonald's, we'd
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be fired and facing charges before the day was over.
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The thing that really gets me is how quickly they
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buried this story. One week its front page news, the
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next it's like it never happened, and you could tell
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from the start that they wanted it gone. The press
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got limited access, witnesses went silent, and every document worth
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reading got buried under ongoing investigation nonsense that never produced
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a single clear answer. The Bureau of Prisons acted like
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a deer in headlights, the DOJ ran interference, and the
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media stopped asking hard questions the second it stopped trending.
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It's like they all looked at each other and decided,
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all right, enough truth for today, and yo, let's be real.
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The idea like a guy like Epstein who had dirt
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on some of the most powerful people on the planet,
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just conveniently died before naming names yeah, pull the other one.
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We've all seen the movie before. Every time a scandal
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threatens the elite, something unfortunate happens, and the people who
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might have talked end up silent permanently. The system closes ranks,
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throws a few crumbs to the public, and moves on.
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This trick was old when Jesus was young, and look,
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the story never made sense then, and it makes even
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less sense now. Nobody can explain where the missing footage went,
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why the cell mate vanished, why the suicide watch was lifted,
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or why the autopsy doesn't line up with the narrative.
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They keep saying, we may never know the full truth. Well,
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that's bureaucrac speak for we already do, but we're not
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telling you. It's insulting. They're not even trying to make
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the lie convincing anymore. Nobody at the top got burned
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for this. Not one warden, not one supervisor, not one
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DOJ official, just the usual government shuffle denied the fleck delay,
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the same machine that protected Epstein while he was alive.
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May damn sure he couldn't talk when it mattered. Most
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they called it a tragedy, but it was a clean
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up job. Planning simple. So yeah, the narrative didn't make
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sense then, and sure Azelle doesn't know the whole thing
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reeks a rot from top down. Epstein might be gone,
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but the stink from that cover up is still thick
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in the air. Every time they tell us to trust
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the system, I can't help but laugh, because if that's
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what justice looks like, we're all screwed. The system didn't fail.
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It performed exactly how it was designed to protect its
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own and bury the rest and the rest of us
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we're just left staring at the wreckage, shaking our heads, knowing,
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damn well get the truth. Today's article is from CBS
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and the headline in cell where Jeffrey Epstein died a
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scene of disarray that never underwent thorough inspection, experts said.
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This article was authored by Daniel Rutnick, Graham Kates, and
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Kara Tebatschnik. The federal investigation into the death of convicted
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sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was marred by significant lapses, experts
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told CBS News, including the failure by investigators to interview
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potential witnesses, properly, preserve certain evidence, and run basic forensic tests.
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And this is all stuff we've been talking about for
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years now. I mean, this is not new news. All
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of this stuff came out at the time, and we
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were told to get stuffed. It's an ongoing investigation. You
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can't have that information yet. We'll release this information someday,
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but today's not the day. And that's been the song
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and dance we've received from the government whenever we've tried
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to get answers, and I'm talking about Freedom of Information
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Act requests, etc. It's been one stonewall after the other.
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And that's because they know the investigation was garbage. They
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know that they didn't do the things they were supposed
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to do, and they don't want the rest of us
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to know it. Nearly two years past before investigators interviewed
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the top key corrections officers on duty the night Epstein
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died in his cell in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in
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downtown New York City and what was later ruled as suicide.
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According to court documents, one of those officers was the
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only person to attest to seeing Epstein hanging by a
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bed sheet from his bunk, Like, come on, man, how
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can anyone out here really just buy into what they're
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telling us and just accepted hook line and Sinker like,
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I just don't understand if they've bullshitted us about everything else. Basically,
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you really think they're going to give you the truth. Here,
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we're still getting JFK documents at a slow role, but
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all of a sudden we're getting full transparency about what
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happened with Epstein. The idea is throught out the clock.
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The idea is to wait for you to fatigue, and
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details pulled from the ninety photos of the cell and
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other evidence collected in the hours after Epstein's death, but
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before FBI agents arrived to process the scene, appear to
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show a succession of basic oversights, ranging from an absence
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of evidence markers to items being moved, experts told CBS News,
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which shouldn't even happen. The scene should be treated as
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a crime scene. Every death in prison or jail is
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looked at as a homicide first, and that obviously didn't
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happen here, and they didn't follow a protocol from the
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very beginning, and that's led us to a place where
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we are today. And it's my assertion that that was
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always the plan. Confusion, that's their best defense right to
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have everybody arguing about what happened. They'll fire off some
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numbskull ass narrative. Some people will buy into it, other
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people have questions, but it gives them the cover they need. Well,
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we have an ongoing investigation. We can't give you any information.
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And then they thrive in the confusion because when people
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are confused, it's much easier to control the narrative, right,
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And that's why you see all of these crazy storylines
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that intersect when it comes to Epstein. That's all by design,
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and that's why we don't go on any of these
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crazy ass goose chases here on the podcast. That's what
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they want. They want everybody to sound crazy as fuck
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and chasing ghosts. Well, they're not going to get their
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wish here. The FBI literally has all of the best tools,
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I mean spared no expense, They have every tool you
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can imagine, and they use none of it as far
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as we can tell. Forensic analysis Nick Barrerio said, after
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reviewing the photos, many of which have never been published,
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How are there not way more people pointing out this
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absurdity of this, Well, thank you for showing up to
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the party, Nick Barrerio, because I've been pointing this out
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for years. None of it made sense then and it
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doesn't make sense now. The whole entire so called investigation
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was straight up trash and it was designed to fail.
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If you think that investigation was launched to get answers,
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you're crazy. In my opinion, they already have those answers,
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and the answer is Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself. The
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images were previously obtained by sixty minutes after the recent
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release of surveillance video from the night Epstein died, which
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appeared to show details that contradicted official reports. CBS reviewed
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them and other documents with several forensic experts, and while
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I appreciate CBS showing up to the party, they're a
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bit late. We could have used you folks shown up
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to the party a few years ago, because there's no
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way we're getting a full picture about what went on now,
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how much evidence has been degraded, how much evidence has
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been destroyed. The results of the federal investigation were made
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public in twenty twenty three, four years after Epstein's death,
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in a report by the Department of Justice Office of
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Inspector General. It concluded that the financier who entered a
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guilty plea in two thousand and eight on state level
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charges of procuring a child for prostitution died by suicide
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that matched the findings shared by Attorney General William Barr,
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who told Congress in August he had no doubt that
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Epstein had taken his own life. But lingering questions raised
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by individuals, including Epstein's lawyers and brother, have fueled continued
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speculation and suspicion. And it should Why should anyone just
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accept the narrative? That's the question I have, and that
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goes forward both sides of the aisle. Whenever we have
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a Republican in charge, the Democrats don't trust the FBI
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all of a sudden, and then when a Democrat's in charge,
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it's the same thing. Meanwhile, I'm over here telling you
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that none of that shit matters. Meet the new boss
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and is the old boss. And what I mean by
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that is nothing's going to change. And that's because the
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president's just a placeholder. Every four or eight years, a
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new person comes in, out with the old, in with
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the new. But guess what remains the people that are
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making those decisions behind the scenes, And unfortunately, those are
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the very same people that were in lockstep with Epstein.
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I do not believe he died by suicide. No. Epstein's
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co defendant Glaine Maxwell said this summer during her interview
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in August with Deputy US Attorney General Todd Baby Billy
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Blanche Well. Glene Maxwell a real paragon of virtue. Huh.
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But even liars tell the truth sometimes, and I have
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to agree. I can't believe I'm saying that with Glenn
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Maxwell when she says she doesn't think that he killed himself.
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I don't think he killed himself either, not willingly. Now,
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maybe he did so because he was ordered to do it,
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you know, tartag leone sending the message and then Epstein
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killing himself and finishing the job. But I don't think
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he did it on his own, not without some motivation.
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And that's because if you talk to everybody around him,
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all of his family, his friends, his lawyers, even the psychologists,
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there were no signs that the do was suicidal. Epstein's
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brother Mark told Sixty Minutes in twenty twenty that in
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his view, the evidence he has seen to date points
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more to murder than suicide. Five years later, he still
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questions the investigation. This was never properly investigated as a
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proper homicide. It was never investigated. Mark Epstein told CBS
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News recently. Nothing about the CBS News review into the
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investigation of Epstein's death suggests foul play. Oh yeah, but
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the review found that the federal probe did not follow
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typical investigative procedures into the suspicious death. Yeah, so we'll
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just bumble our way through it and then we'll use
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that as our cover. They think you're stupid, That's what
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this is all about. They truly think you're stupid. Don't
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fall for it. The reason they had this shoddy ass
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investigation is so that later on down the road they
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can say, oh, look, mistakes were made. There was some
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serious errors, and our personnelle wasn't trained correctly to deal
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with it. Meanwhile, nobody's been trained up. Everything's still the same.
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So when it happens again, it'll be the same bullshit. Right.
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Oh wait, it's not gonna happen again, because this kind
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of thing very rarely happens. And you can go and
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look at MCC and look at the people who have
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died there. It's not like people were killing themselves on
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a regular basis. So the whole entire narrative is stunk
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from the jump, and it stinks even more now. And
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the more they double down on this narrative, the more
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suspicious it looks. All right, folks, we're gonna wrap up
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episode one right here, and in the next episode we're
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gonna pick up where we left off. All of the
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information that goes with this episode can be found in
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the description box. What's up everyone, and welcome back to
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the program. In this episode, we're picking up or left
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off talking about Jeffrey Epstein's death via that CBS article
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once again. This article was authored by Daniel Rutnick, Graham Kates,
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and Ca Kara to Batschnik. Evidence Photography one oh one.
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Epstein's body was discovered at six thirty am on August tenth,
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twenty nineteen, by Corrections officer Michael Thomas when he arrived
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at his cell to deliver breakfast. Thomas said he found
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the accused felon in a near seated position, suspended from
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the top of the bunk by a homemade noose, with
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his legs straight out and his buttocks approximately one inch
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to one and a half inches off the floor. According
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to the Inspector General's report, internal Corrections Department memos obtained
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exclusively by CBS News described him as cold with no
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palpable pulses. And remember, Michael Thomas was one of the
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guys that was in charge of maintaining Jeffrey Epstein's supervision,
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but instead he was busy screwing around on the computer, sleeping,
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reading the internet, you name it. And what happened to him?
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That's right. Nothing. The first FBI agents arrived at the
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cell more than seven hours later, at one thirty five pm,
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according to the twenty twenty three report. But when they arrived,
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photos showed that they found a disorganized rifle through clutter. Crucially,
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Epstein's lifeless body had already been removed from the cell,
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eliminating a critical source of information investigators would need to
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determine how and when he died. Forensic pathologist Michael Bowden said, now,
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why would they do that? Why would you remove this body?
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Why wouldn't you call and get guidance right away from
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the FBI or Bureau of Prisons whatever. We're not talking
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about some nobody here, and don't get that twisted. I
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don't mean anybody deserves that kind of treatment, but I'm
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talking about the scope of the kind of inmate we're
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talking about. Here. This is a man that is a
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high profile inmate, a man that might have information on
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other people. Do you really think this is the proper
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protocol to follow the fact that he was moved diminishes
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the ability to determine how long he was dead before
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he was found, Bowden said. Emergency medical technicians wrote in
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their reports on the incident, which was obtained by CBS News,
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that the staff they interacted with cauldnot say when Epstein
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was last seen alive or describe how he was found
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in the jail cell, other to say, we found them
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on the ground, no pictures taken, nothing. You would think
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you'd come in there with body cameras everything. Right, Let's
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make sure we memorialize the scene and make sure everything's
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on the up and up. There's gonna be questions, but no,
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and we're supposed to just suck this shit down like
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the good little rubes we are. Well, I'm telling you
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right now that I don't buy it, and I'm not
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going to buy it until you give me some definitive
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proof because everything about this investigation, hell, everything about the
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investigation screams cover up. Inside the cell, piles of linens
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had been strewn about mattresses were squeezed into a corner
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on the floor near his bunk bed, and Epstein's personal
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items were rearranged or moved. Photos from the scene show
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experts who reviewed photos from the scene for CBS News
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said there were also inconsistencies between the investigator's official reports
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and what the images show. Well, why would they give
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us the real story? There's nothing that's going to challenge them, right,
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not the DOJ, not the BOP and Epstein's family. Nobody's
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going to listen to what Mark Epstein has to say.
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But I'll tell you this much right now. Out of
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all the people that we heard from, all the people involved,
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I think that Michael Boden is the most respected as
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far as professionally. I mean, I remember as a kid
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watching that show on HBO with Michael Boden. I forget
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the name of it now, some kind of you know,
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criminal Corner Tapes or whatever the fuck it was called.
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But it was fascinating as hell back then. And this
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is a guy that's been involved in how many autopsies.
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So I'm going to defer to Michael Boden and what
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he has to say. And if you want to believe
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what the State of New York and the federal government
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has to say instead, then that's completely fine. Just know
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that the evidence doesn't line up with the narrative that
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you're being pitched. In those photographs, it was obvious that
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things were moved around, said former New York Police Department
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detective Herman Weisberg, who is now managing director of Stage Intelligence.
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It definitely appeared to me that the scene was, for
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lack of a better term, staged a bit. Yeah, yes
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it was. They did that on purpose. They wanted the
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cover and that cover is ah shucks. We're just a
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bunch of ignorant morons who don't know how to do
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our job. And how do you challenge that very difficult right?
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You got yourself a whole ass baked in alibi right there.
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We're just bad at our job. And while I don't
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disagree that most of these people probably were or are
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bad at their jobs, I think that the coincidences that
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piled up here are a lot more than just coincidences.
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One coincidence, Fine, the guys fell asleep, If that was
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just it, I get it. People have rough nights the
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day before they're out partying, whatever it might be. But
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all of this stuff to happen at the same exact time,
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in the same exact place, to the same exact inmate.
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Come on, man Epstein's medications, a special mask for treating
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sleep apnea, and at least one piece of fabric tied
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into a noose appeared in different places over the course
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of ninety minutes when a photographer from the Medical Examiner's
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office was documenting the scene. And that's another reason why
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I just don't believe what they're pitching us. There has
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been a lot of tom foolery, if you will, when
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it comes to this crime scene investigation. And then after
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that we start learning about stage photos, we start learning
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about the questions that were even being poised by the
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coroner himself. So there's a lot going on here, and
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they just want to file it all under coincidence and
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it's obviously not true. Weisberg and other experts emphasize that
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regardless of whether Epstein's death was a suicide, the cell
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should have been treated as a crime scene using standard
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investigatory practices. And this is what I was saying earlier.
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I have friends that are prison guards, and they told
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me straight up that everything that happened here was against protocol. Now,
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they didn't work at MCC, but they have worked in
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federal lockups, and according to them, none of this was
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on the up and up. Now, again, that doesn't mean
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that they're saying that it was some kind of you know,
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hit job or whatever they're talking about. From the investigative
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portion of it, none of it adds up. So when
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you have all these things that converge at once, what
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are we supposed to think? It almost appears to me
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that whoever was investigating this just took it at face
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value that it was a suicide with no foul play
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whatsoever suspected. Wiseberg said, But in a situation as high
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profile as this, I would always as an investigator, consider
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that there might be foul play. Yeah, you don't know
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what's going on, especially if the cameras are broken, nobody
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was checking on them, guards were negligent in their duty.
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You're just gonna go with suicide right off the bat
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and be like, hey, that's what it is. No need
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to do an investigation here, We already know. Bitch, you
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don't know nothing. And that's becoming very apparent as the
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days slip by. While some experts question federal investigator's treatment,
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of the scene. Forensic pathologist Judy Melanick, who used to
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work at the New York City Medical Examiner's Office, said
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former employer appears to have handled the case by the book.
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Oh of course, go ahead and trot out the mouthpiece
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that used to work in the office. I'm just going
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to tell you right off the bat, I don't believe
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a word that Judy Melanick has to say. It's just
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people doing what they normally do for any other case,
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Melanich said, the majority of cases, if you aren't such
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a high profile decedent, the scrutiny would not apply. This
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is how they treat every other jail death of somebody
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who is not high profile. That is incorrect and a lie.
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Just another person trotted out by the powers that be
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to try and tell you some bullshit and use their
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official title or former official title as some sort of
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justification for the shit they're saying. Well, guess what, I
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don't believe you, how about that, Judy Melnick. The sequence
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of evidence photos starts with a picture of the stairs
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leading up to Epstein's cell block Tyre l. Underlying data
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from the photo shows it was taken at nine thirty
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four am three hours after Epstein's body was found and
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four hours before the federal investigators arrived. Why would it
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take them four hours to arrive. You mean to tell
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me there's not an FBI field office close to MCC
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that could dispatch some officers right away. What exactly is
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it that they were doing, or rather, should I say,
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what were they giving the staff at the jail time
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to do? Time went by, even as the nation's top
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law enforcement officer sought a rapid investigation. I was obviously
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covering it very quickly and wanted to rule out anything
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other than suicide. Bar told Congress in August, adding that
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within an hour or minutes of finding out about it,
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I directed the Inspector General to have people in New
24:31
York go to the scene and conduct an investigation. Now,
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I don't know if you know this about me or not,
24:36
but I don't trust Bill Barr. I don't trust Darth
24:39
Barr as far as I can throw them. Everything this
24:44
guy says about Jeffrey Epstein sets the alarm bells going
24:47
in my head. I just don't trust anything Bill Barr
24:49
has to say. On the back wall, a surveillance camera
24:53
is visible. It was streaming but not recording. This was
24:57
due to a hard drive malfunction that had previously been
25:00
identified but not fixed, according to a Justice Department report.
25:04
So who all knew about that? You want to get
25:06
deep in the weeds? Was it an inside job? Did
25:09
somebody know that the cameras weren't working? Then Tovia Noel
25:13
and Michael Thomas, they do their little fall asleep routine,
25:17
may pretend they're tired whatever, And then Epstein's clipped seems
25:22
just as plausible as any of the other bullshit they're
25:24
trying to pitch to us. In fact, seems even more plausible.
25:30
Next is a blurry image of the door to Epstein's
25:32
cell number two twenty. Running Underneath the door was a
25:36
cable that provided power to a sea pat machine. Epstein
25:39
had initially been assigned to a cell in a different tier.
25:43
What he was moved to sell to twenty free easier
25:45
access to an outlet, according to the Bureau of Prisons records.
25:49
And that's another thing that doesn't make sense. Why would
25:52
he use bedsheets and not just this cord? If you
25:54
were going to kill yourself, would you put together a
25:56
bunch of bed sheets or would you use the cord
25:59
for your or sleep apnea machine. I think I'd go
26:03
with the cord. Makes things a lot easier, right, and
26:05
if you want to make sure you're successful, probably better
26:08
off than a bunch of sheets that are tied together.
26:10
The jails computer systems were never updated to note that move,
26:14
according to investigators. A source close to the investigation told
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CBS News that correction staff rarely updated internal inmate moves,
26:23
instead preferring to call out their names while in the tears.
26:27
Two documents on the door are shown in images after
26:30
Epstein's death. One was a print out with Epstein's personal
26:33
details and a booking photo above that was the ID
26:37
card for Epstein's former roommate, Eprin Reyes. Stone Reyis, you
26:41
know the guy that Bill Barr ended up having a
26:43
personal meeting with and then said he didn't meet with
26:46
him in the deposition. Yeah, that's Sam Stone Rayis. Cells
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typically hold two inmates, and following a suspected suicide attempt
26:54
two weeks earlier, Epstein was mandated by correction officials to
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have a cellmate. The day before Epstein's death, however, Reyes
27:03
was transferred out of the detention center. Investigators eventually concluded
27:07
that Reyes move aloud Epstein the solitude needed to kill himself. Well,
27:12
do you think Reyes made that decision himself or was
27:14
he moved? Okay, who signed off on it? Why? What
27:17
was the motivation? Why wasn't another inmate placed in the
27:21
cell with Epstein? Why was all of this protocol broken?
27:25
From the first photo to the last, It's clear the
27:27
scene in the cell was chaotic, so much so that
27:31
investigator is never conclusively determined which strip a bed sheet
27:36
was around Epstein's neck when he died. How the fuck
27:39
don't you even determine that? I mean, you're the federal government, right,
27:43
you have all the power, all the ability, all of
27:46
the technology. The only reason why something like that occurs
27:49
is because you wanted to occur. You don't want to
27:52
get to the answers, you don't want to get to
27:54
the bottom of it. Instead, let confusion rain photos of
27:59
the bed to also raise questions. One chose an orange
28:02
string hanging from a bar. This picture was included in
28:06
a twenty twenty three report by the Department of Justice
28:08
Inspector General, alongside a description of how Epstein was found,
28:13
suggesting investigator is believed that was what he used to
28:16
hang himself. Yeah, don't buy that, And when you look
28:20
at these photos, I doubt you're gonna buy it either.
28:24
If that was the case and the room hadn't been
28:26
disturbed before the photographer arrived, Epstein's rear would have come
28:29
to rest on a mattress instead of hovering over the floor,
28:33
complicating investigator's explanation of how he hanged himself. So let's
28:37
just move the body, let's just stage the scene, and
28:40
then we'll claim ignorance when you know people have questions
28:43
later on best way to do it. Right. Ah, we're
28:47
just ignorant. We didn't know. We're just a bunch of
28:50
people who are untrained, unqualified, shouldn't even be here. But hey,
28:54
here's what happened. You should listen to our narrative now
28:57
because you know, even though we're ignorant, even though we're
29:00
or morons, we're telling you the truth. Now. Yeah, sorry,
29:04
not buying it, Not today, not tomorrow, Not ever. Some
29:09
of the evidence was not photographed in Epstein's cell, but
29:12
instead appeared to be in an entirely different room, one
29:15
with floor tiles distinct from the barrel concrete of Epstein's cell.
29:19
These pictures show a defibrillator and another strip of orange
29:22
cloth tied into a noose like shape. It is visibly
29:25
different from the one shown hanging from Epstein's bedframe. Of
29:29
course it is, because it's not the same one. Just
29:33
listen to what we have to tell you. Don't question anything,
29:36
don't do any kind of constructive reasoning. Just listen to
29:39
the narrative and shut up and move on. Well, here's
29:43
an idea. At least try and pitch us a narrative
29:46
that makes sense, because what you're selling here is garbage.
29:51
There is no indication in official reports where this noose
29:55
was found or which of several knotted strips of bed
29:58
linen may have been removed from around Epstein's neck. A
30:02
rendering of this noose was included in Epstein's official autopsy,
30:05
but the Justice Department later revealed in its twenty twenty
30:08
three report that the news depicted is not the ligature
30:11
Epstein used to kill himself. So why include it in
30:14
the report? Oh that's right, trying to make a look
30:17
official like they had an idea of what was going on.
30:20
And isn't it convenient The whole entire narrative fits with
30:24
the whole perfect storm narrative. Oh, this was a screw up.
30:27
That was a screw up. Everything's this screw up, and
30:29
it was all a mistake. By the time that the
30:31
FBI arrived, it was clear that their work would be
30:34
scrutinized by the top brass inside the Justice Department. After
30:38
the suicide, I told the headquarters to make sure that
30:40
they flooded the zone. Bar told Congress in an August deposition,
30:45
there is no indication in any official report that an
30:48
FBI crime scene investigator officially known as an evidence response
30:52
team ever ran fingerprints or DNA tests on anything found
30:56
in the cell. Well, no, shit, they didn't. That's what
30:58
they do in a real investigation, not in an investigation
31:02
that they want to claim was botched. Epstein's autopsy report
31:06
indicates medical examiners collected fingernail clippings and swabs from his
31:10
neck and hands. Epstein's brother told CBS News that he
31:14
still hasn't received any information about the results of DNA
31:18
tests if they were carried out, and Barr said in
31:21
his deposition that he couldn't remember if they had been done. Now, folks, look,
31:25
was this ignorance because of ignorance, or was this willful ignorance?
31:30
In hopes to cover up what happened. I'll leave that
31:34
up to you to decide. A twenty twenty four report
31:38
by Department of Justice researchers warned that their investigators risked
31:41
missing and important opportunity to gather evidence if DNA is
31:45
not collected at the scene as needed or at the
31:48
time of examination. They advised that the body swabs should
31:52
be considered both at the scene and during the autopsy.
31:57
Wiseberg said investigators left too many stones on turned missing
32:00
the opportunity to close the case in a way that
32:03
would feel conclusive to the public. In the back of
32:06
any good investigator's mind, he's preparing this to be scrutinized
32:09
by counsel. In this case, you're preparing it to be
32:12
scrutinized by a lot of desktop detectives. So you'd better
32:15
have all your facts straight. Wiseberg said the FBI inspected
32:19
to sell and retrieve what they believed to be relevant
32:22
to its investigation into the cause of Epstein's death, which
32:26
included one torn sheet, miscellaneous papers, and an MP three
32:30
player inspector General investigators wrote in the twenty twenty three
32:33
report Forensic Analysis Barrio said he considered the agency's treatment
32:39
of the scene to be striking. Some really shoddy work here,
32:43
if you can even call it that, Barrerio said, I
32:46
mean there's absence of work here. One basic procedure, which
32:50
Borerio referred to as evidence photography one oh one is
32:53
photographing scenes in a progression that goes from wide shot
32:57
to close ups with markers identifying evidence. There's no evidence
33:02
markers in any of these photographs. Like, how do you
33:05
keep track once you get the stuff back to the
33:07
crime lab. This is essentially useless, said Burrio, a former
33:11
police detective and an FBI trained member of the Digital
33:15
Imaging and Video Recovery Team. So look, it's not just
33:18
my dumbass saying this. You have people that are actually
33:21
trained in the art of investigation who feel the same
33:24
exact way. And I've spoken with a lot of people
33:28
who have knowledge of how these investigations should work, and
33:32
they all come to the same conclusion that we're getting
33:34
here from mister Barrerio. Federal investigators questioned fifty four people
33:40
before issuing their final report, including three inmates who had
33:43
been housed on Epstein's tier, as well as JEL staff, administrators, contractors,
33:48
and his brother. However, several other witnesses or the representatives
33:52
told CBS News they were not interviewed. That included many
33:56
other inmates housed in Epstein's tier the night of his death,
34:00
at least one staffer who arrived at epstein Sell shortly
34:03
after his body was found, and nearly all of the
34:05
visitors he saw in the days leading up to his death. Now,
34:10
why wouldn't you talk to everybody that was there, especially
34:13
the other inmates. Two witnesses who did provide eyewitness accounts
34:17
with their lawyers present, were in the cell directly across
34:20
from Epstein the night he died. One describes seeing Thomas,
34:23
the first corrections officer on the scene, and to Epstein's
34:26
cell and began performing CPR, only to emerge holding a
34:30
rope and a defibillator. The other said he saw Thomas
34:34
enter and shake Epstein. He said Thomas tried to pick
34:37
Epstein up but fell over. He then began giving chess compressions.
34:40
The inmates said. The accounts which appear in the official
34:44
report do not explain what is seen in photos of
34:47
the jail tier. Their cell windows covered by paper that
34:50
could have obscured any view outside. It's not clear if
34:55
the cell window was papered over at the time after
34:57
Epstein's death, but before the first foll podos were snapped.
35:01
The Bureau of Prisons declined to comment. Now, why would
35:04
they decline to comment. It's not an on going investigation anymore.
35:08
What are they hiding? And you know what really gets me,
35:13
I think they forget that they work for us. This
35:17
isn't their information to guard. This is our information, taxpayer information.
35:21
We pay for all of it. So guess what quipy
35:24
at assholes and pony it up. Attempts to reach Thomas
35:28
were unsuccessful. A lawyer for his former coworker, Tovin Nowell,
35:32
said she would not comment. The former officers agreed to
35:35
be interviewed by investigators in twenty twenty one as part
35:39
of a deal that'saw prosecutors drop charges all falsifying records
35:43
related to mandatory checks on Epstein and other inmates after
35:47
falling asleep on the job. Imagine imagine that shit. No
35:51
real punishment here, They get to go on with their lives,
35:55
probably getting some kind of pension in shit, And here
35:58
we are left with all these questions and no answers.
36:02
Other staffers with first hand knowledge of the scene and
36:05
other events whenever contacted by federal investigators. According to interviews
36:10
with CBS News, that's because they had their narrative in
36:13
place from the jump. They knew what this was going
36:15
to be, and they called it from the very beginning
36:17
what they wanted it to be, a suicide, even though
36:21
there was never any real investigation. Investigators also decided not
36:25
to interview some of Epstein's visitors. Several sources told CBS
36:29
News the inmates spent the bulk of his daylight hours
36:32
with a large rotating cast of attorneys, including on the
36:35
day before his death. The younger lawyers were there not
36:39
only to provide counsel, but also to basically hold his
36:42
hand and babysit. According to one source, they kept Epstein company,
36:46
chatting with him about life, politics, literature, and any other
36:49
topic that came to his mind. You'd think if the
36:53
investigation was a priority, they'd want to take a run
36:55
at the younger people who were working for him, One
36:58
source told CBS News nothing. One lawyer who visited Epstein
37:03
nine days before his death was David Shown. He said
37:06
Epstein told him he was actively planning to fight the
37:08
criminal charges levied against him, and this is what We've
37:12
heard from so many people that Epstein planned on fighting
37:15
these charges, and this is why I've said that. In
37:18
my view, I don't have anything to base it on
37:20
other than anecdotal I don't think he committed suicide because
37:24
he was engaged in the idea of fighting the case.
37:26
Sean said. He hired me and to kill himself nine
37:30
days later wouldn't have made much sense. While many who
37:34
were close to Abstein have publicly questioned that he died
37:37
by suicide, Barrs said it was and remains the most
37:40
logical conclusion. The alternative would have been too complicated, barr
37:44
said in his August deposition. Yeah, too complicated. Huh. Let
37:51
me break it down. Nicholas Tartaglioni put in the cell.
37:54
Nicholas Tartaglioni assaults Jeffrey Epstein and tells them either you
37:57
kill yourself or we'll do it for you. Jeffrey Epstein
38:01
gets moved to a different cell, has time to think
38:03
about it, maybe gets a kite, maybe gets a message
38:06
from another inmate or Tartaglioni himself who knows, And from
38:10
there Epstein realizes that his options are limited, so instead
38:14
of waiting for the inevitable. Did he kill himself because
38:17
he was prompted to? You want to talk about the
38:20
most likely conclusions? Huh? This would have required coordination from
38:25
probably two dozen people, maybe within the prison. And all
38:28
these people were in different groups, barzaid, you know, the
38:31
people who were repairing the cameras, the people who you
38:33
know were responsible for opening and closing the door, the
38:37
people who are responsible for putting in a new cell mate,
38:39
things like that. So the idea here is to make
38:43
sure that there's enough blame to go around, but not
38:46
one single person to put the blame on, and that
38:50
gives them the plausible deniability they're always looking for, and
38:53
that's what this is here, plausible deniability. Does anyone really
38:57
believe this narrative, especially nowadays with all the information that's
39:00
coming out, I know I don't, and from the emails
39:03
that I get from you folks, I know you don't either.
39:06
And you know, sometimes I just sit back and think
39:09
about how this whole thing went down, Epstein's death, the investigation,
39:12
the silence that followed, and it just feels like one
39:15
big reminder that the rules don't mean a damn thing
39:18
when power is involved. Folks like us get crushed under
39:21
the system for the smallest mistake. But the people who
39:24
built that system, they walk through the fire untouched, even
39:28
when their fingerprints are all over the crime scene. It's
39:31
like there's two versions of justice in this country, one
39:34
for them, one for the rest of us. And Epstein's
39:37
so called suicide was the perfect example of that. You
39:40
can't tell me that a guy who had that much
39:42
dirt on the world's elite, sitting in a cell where
39:44
every inch should have been watched, somehow managed to pull
39:47
off the impossible while every safeguard magically felled at once.
39:51
That wasn't a coincidence, in my opinion. It's orchestration, the timing,
39:56
the silence, the way every institution from the Bureau of
39:59
Prisons to the DOJ closed ranks and said case closed.
40:03
You could practically hear the door slam shut on the truth.
40:06
And the worst part, nobody seemed surprised. That's how broken
40:10
things are. We expect corruption now, we expect lies. We
40:14
just hope that the lies are creative enough to make sense.
40:17
And this one wasn't even that. And when they tell
40:20
you to move on, well, you know that's when they're scared,
40:23
scared of what could come out if people really dug deep,
40:26
scared of what happens when the average Joe stops buying
40:29
their story, Because underneath all the press releases and political
40:34
double speak, there's a truth sitting there, ugly as hell
40:37
and impossible to ignore. They didn't just fail to protect Epstein.
40:41
They protected his secrets that he took with them, and
40:44
those secrets belonged to people so powerful, so insulated that
40:48
even his death became just another tool in the kid. So, yeah,
40:52
maybe Epstein's gone, But the system that made him, protected
40:54
him and then cleaned up after him, that's still here,
40:57
still humming along, still telling us to trust the price process.
41:00
But the process is a problem. The investigation wasn't a failure.
41:05
It was a performance, a stage play for the public,
41:08
designed to look like accountability while the real players vanished
41:11
behind the curtain. And we've all seen enough of this
41:14
show to know how it ends, with the truth buried,
41:16
the file sealed, and the same people sitting at the
41:19
top untouched. Look, at the end of the day, you
41:22
can't call it justice if it doesn't apply to the powerful.
41:26
Epstein's death wasn't the end of the case. It was
41:28
the erasure of one, and the longer that they tell
41:31
us to let it go, the more I know we're
41:33
right not to, because every unanswered question, every broken camera,
41:37
every lie that doesn't add up, it all points to
41:40
the same ugly truth. Justice wasn't served, it was silenced,
41:44
and until that changes, this country is just running on
41:46
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