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The South Carolina Witness: Expanding the Post and Courier Trump/Epstein Investigation · 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. A couple of days ago, we were talking
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  about a report from the Post and Courier about the
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  young lady, the Jane Doe from South Carolina who said
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  that she was abused by Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. Well,
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  today they have a follow up to that report about
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  FBI records and how they detail potential witnesses to the
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  event and how those details are being kept from the public.
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  So today we're just going to dive right in and
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  see what they have for us. Like I said, this
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  article was published by The Post and Courier the headline
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  FBI records detailed potential witnesses of sc Epstein victim, they
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  aren't public. This article was authored by Marilyn Thompson and
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  Mitchell Black. FBI agents prepared handwritten interview notes that contain
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  names of possible corroborating witnesses and other information detailing a
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  woman's accusations that Jeffrey Epstein lured her to his deviant
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  orbit when she was still a teen on Hilton Head
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  Island and sexually abused her. The Posting Courier reviewed thirty
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  pages of FBI agent notes, which have not been publicly released.
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  The notes made by agents in a series of twenty
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  nineteen interviews offer a few new details about her claim
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  that she traveled with Epstein to New York area in
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  the nineteen eighties. She alleged that she encountered Donald Trump
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  during a visit and was once forced into a sex act.
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  The White House has a seld her claim describing it
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  backed by no evidence. So if there is evidence of it,
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  I would say that the public needs to see it, right.
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  I mean, that is the point of the law that
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  was passed, after all, for these documents to be made public,
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  and considering that thirty pages are still buried, it certainly
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  makes people wonder and ask questions. The agent's unredacted notes
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  were not disclosed in the millions of Epstein documents released
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  so far by the US Department of Justice. They flesh
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  out some aspects of her claims that she crossed paths
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  with Epstein in the Low Country before he built a
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  global sex trafficking operation. Why is that so hard for
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  people to believe every place Epstein went he was abusing people.
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  I truly believe that one hundred percent. When you're a
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  guy like this, you can't turn that on and off.
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  That's just who you are. You're just a completely broken,
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  degenerate fuck bag. You know when they say that a
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  lemon comes off the line. Same thing with humans. Some
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  humans are just born fucked up. And Epstein one of
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  those humans. And remember, there certainly are a bunch of
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  women and girls that we have no idea about. The
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  Post and Courier compared the notes with official summaries known
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  as three O two's, that agents prepared after the interviews.
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  Some details in the handwritten notes never made it into
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  the prepared summaries, which were heavily redacted by the Justice
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  Department before their public release, as required by law. Of course,
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  they were because they didn't want it to embarrass Donald Trump,
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  to embarrass insert elite here. Meanwhile, all these revivers had
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  their names released. Nobody gives a shit. Where's Anna Paulina Luna?
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  Oh that's right, she's telling us about interdimensional demons. When
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  I tell you that these people are wholly unserious, this
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  is what I'm talking about. If people really cared people
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  like Comer, people like Anna Paulina A Luna, any of them,
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  they'd be demanding that all of this stuff was made public.
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  During one interview, for instance, an agent scribbled that the
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  woman provided the names of four young teen girls who,
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  by her account, attended a pool party on Hilton Head
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  when Epstein came by. This was during the time when
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  she alleged Epstein was sexually assaulting her and plying her
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  with drugs and alcohol. Details about the four friends were
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  not visible in the FBI's three h two reports and
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  may have been redacted in an effort to protect victim privacy.
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  Redact their names, not what they said. How are we
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  going to find out what's what if we don't know
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  what the witnesses say. And again, I'm not calling for
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  them to be outed. You redact their names, right, that's
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  the whole point of the law. But the government they
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  have other ideas, and they're going to redact whatever they
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  think is going to make it harder for us to
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  figure out what's going on, because that's always been the goal.
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  It's never been about transparency, it's never been about justice.
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  It's always been about the men of always getting more
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  while the children of never That means me and you
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  continue to get screwed. That's what it's all about. And
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  they'll go to great lengths to protect the people that
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  are part of their club. It's unclear whether the FBI
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  ever pursued leads offered by the alleged victim. One of
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  the women identified in the interview notes as a high
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  school friend told the Post and Courier that she was
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  never contacted by the FBI. Look that all tracks. They
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  didn't even contact Endyke and Cohn. You think they're going
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  to contact this girl? Zero chance? How much more evidence
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  do you need that there was never a real investigation here,
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  Just like I told you seven years ago. You don't
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  have to be some great investigator to figure that out.
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  Agent's notes from a fourth interview with the alleged victim
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  in twenty nineteen were not available for the Post and
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  Courier to review. The DOJ's handling of the notes and
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  other materials continued to be a point of focus as
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  President Trump ousted Attorney General Pam Bondi on April second
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  Deputy Attorney General Todd Baby Billy Blanche replaced her on
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  an interim basis. All that is is a swap because
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  Blanche is going to do whatever Trump wants them to do.
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  He's Trump's personal lawyer. This dude has never prosecuted anything
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  in his life. But sure, let's make him the ag.
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  It's like when you were younger, you know, you sit
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  around with your friends and you're like, if I became president,
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  so and so would be secretary of State, and it's
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  like your stupidest friend or whatever. That's basically what's happening here.
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  Who's the most loyal as opposed to who's the best
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  for the job, Because when we're talking about the Trump administration,
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  it's all about loyalty to Trump. It's not about loyalty
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  to the country. It's not about loyalty to the Constitution.
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  It's about loyalty to Trump. And if you don't have
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  that loyalty, forget it. You're out. Responding to The Post
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  and Courier's questions about its review of the FBI agent notes,
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  a Justice Department spokesperson issued a statement saying there are
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  no missing pages among the records released by the Department.
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  The DOJ has said that some records are considered duplicative
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  with what is available elsewhere and from members of Congress
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  to view in private. I don't care what Congress can view.
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  Are you crazy right now? That's not what the law says.
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  I don't trust Congress either have you not been paying attention?
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  We want to see it the American people, you know,
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  the people that pay the fucking bills. This production may
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  include fake or falsely submitted images, document or videos, as
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  everything that was sent to the FBI by the public
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  was included in the production that is responsive to the act.
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  The statement said that was done on purpose as well,
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  to make everybody look crazy. Oh yeah, let's add the
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  most salacious emails that were sent by obvious crazy people
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  to make the whole entire thing look like a bunch
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  of bs. And the people that bought that book, line
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  and sinker, you know, the Oh it's a hoax people,
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  Boy are you stupid? Imagine waking up every morning and
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  being that dumb. Life must be hard as fuck. Most
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  of the FBI notes are written in kurt of handwriting,
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  with random jottings as conversations unfolded. The scribblings have the
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  disorganized feel of a personal notebook, with items that may
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  only make sense to the writer. Well, look, I can't
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  even complain about that because my note taking. Forget it.
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  If like some archaeologists finds my notebook from college in
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  like three hundred years, they'll be like, what the fuck
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  was this dude doing what language is that? Because I
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  was using more shorthand than you could possibly imagine, and
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  that was in the pursuit of a political science degree.
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  I can only imagine FBI agents doing reports. They have
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  their own language, I'm guessing. FBI interviews are intended to
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  build narrative reconstructions of events and are not conducted under oath.
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  Agents do not usually tape interviews, although the agents ask
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  for permission to audio record the victim. In the fourth interview,
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  her attorney was not present. She advised she was not
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  comfortable being taped. Agents wrote a summary of the interview. Well,
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  you blame her. I wouldn't be comfortable either, dealing with
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  this kind of power. You're some girl who says you
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  were abused, and you're gonna go on record and say
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  the president was involved. Probably not a comfortable situation to
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  be in. And not everybody wants to rock the boat.
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  And unfortunately, some people think it's hopeless. And that's because, well,
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  look at what's happening. We always talk about precedent in
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  the courtroom, Well what about the precedent that this sets.
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  How many people are out there saying, you know what,
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  fuck this? I'm never coming forward. I don't want to
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  deal with this shit. I don't want to have Anna
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  Pauline a Luna call me a human trafficker because I
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  fell into the clutches of Jeffrey Epstein. And unfortunately, I
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  hate to say it, but in my opinion, it's all
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  by design. The notes include a few clarifying details about
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  the victims alleged trips with Epstein to visit Trump. In
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  the two her account reflects uncertainty about her travel with
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  Epstein off to the island, apparently referring to Hilton Head
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  at least once, when she was thirteen to fifteen years old,
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  he drove her or a flewr to either New York
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  or New Jersey. The report said she was introduced to
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  someone with money, money, money. It was Donald Trump. It
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  said that she had two additional interactions with Trump, but
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  when agents attempted to ask her questions, she asked that
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  the interview move on to a different subject for the
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  time being. The handwritten notes come across as slightly less
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  tentative about her travel with Epstein, which if true, could
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  constitute underage sex trafficking. Well, it is true, come on,
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  at least as far as Epstein bringing girls across date lines.
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  That's not even debatable. They suggest that Epstein both drove
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  and flew her to New York and New Jersey and
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  introduced her to Trump. She told agents that she overheard
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  them talking about business matters, including a casino, noting that
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  Trump did not like her from the get go. She
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  described the alleged assault that was later detailed in the
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  three to two report. The note taker jotted down two
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  more interactions with Trump. So I'm not going to sit
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  here and tell you that I know if this is
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  true or not. The big problem for me here is
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  that the FBI didn't really investigate this the way they should.
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  So how do we know what the truth is and
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  what's not the truth? And then you bury these documents,
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  you don't release them. What are we supposed to think?
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  The redacted three to two report details a nighttime pool
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  party with her friends, possibly at the Marriotte Hotel. A
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  large blacked out portion follows that statement. She said Epstein
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  showed her up alone to the party, and she left
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  with them. She said her friends might have seen them together.
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  Those identities appear to be redacted from the formal report.
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  The handwritten notes clearly identify the Marriotte at Hipyard Plantation
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  as a location, and includes the handwritten names of her
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  friends with a few notes about the relationships. One of
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  the name women told the Post and Courier that the
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  hotel pool was a hangout for her high school friends.
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  Students would sneak in after school by pretending to be
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  hotel guests. The woman said she had no memory of
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  any creepiness. The Post and Courier attempted to contact other
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  people listed in the FBI notes as being at the
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  alleged Marriott gathering to decline to comment. So, look, nobody
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  wants to comment. There's no cooperation here. So okay, again,
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  why was it buried? Why wasn't it all presented as
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  the law demands. That's a big problem. That's a cover up,
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  and it's a cover up that's being directed, in my opinion,
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  by the White House among those that the pool party
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  described by the alleged victim was a high school friend
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  to whom she confided details of her sexual encounters. At
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  the time of the interview. The alleged victim said her
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  friend had recently prodator to recall repressed memories by sending
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  her a much circulated photograph of Epstein standing close to Trump.
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  The friend also called the FBI tip line and offered
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  her account of what she said was the victim's involvement
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  with Epstein and Trump. So corroboration right there, one person
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  at least. It's not clear whether the FBI looked into
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  the alleged victim's account after she told agents in October
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  of twenty nineteen that she planned to sue the Epstein estate.
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  Well why not? Why wouldn't they look into it? Why
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  not kick off an investigation and see what this girl's
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  talking about, unless you're scared of what you're gonna find.
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  A federal lawsuit was filed to New York just before
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  Christmas that year with someone referred to as Jane Doe
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  for making similar allegations of sexual assaults by Epstein on
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  Hiltonhead in the mid nineteen eighties. A settlement was reached
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  in December of twenty twenty one, according to her attorneys.
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  Additional details in the notes raised new questions about Justice
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  departments withholding of documents. The Epstein Files Transparency Act, bipartisan
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  legislation signed by Trump late last year, required the DOJ
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  to produce records related to Epstein by December nineteenth, twenty
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  twenty five. The Department initially made public a fraction of
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  the documents and waited until January to publish a massive troth.
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  Missing from the trench were the interview summaries from the
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  former Hilton Head resident, in which he made allegations against
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  Trump and others. The Justice Department described their own mission
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  as a clerical error. Of course, it was always a
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  clerical error that falls to the side of the government
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  and the administration. You notice nobody's names ever leaked when
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  they're accused of the abuse. It's only the girls who
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  were abused who get their names leaked. I'm sure just
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  another coincidence, right, They're not targeting people. Trump's former personal
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  attorney set outrage about the unaccounted for records was overblown.
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  Come on, man, it's not a legal party with Epstein.
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  Everybody was doing it. Head on down to the island,
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  have yourself a blast, said Todd Baby Billy Blanche. There
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  was drama about missing files that were holding covering things up.
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  He said recently on a podcast. The evidence of the
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  missing files came from the Epstein files, so they're not
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  missing files. We went back and adjusted that right away.
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  Oh well, all is forgiven, mister Todd Baby Billy Blanche.
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  Some critics, like Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island,
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  have criticized the lack of transparency. Searches under the alleged
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  victim's case code showed that a law enforcement report and
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  a license record are not in the database. A photograph
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  originally believed to be missing was actually in the files.
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  The Justice Department on February fourteenth wrote a six page
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  letter to the House and Senate Judiciary Committee explaining that
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  it redacted material in the files after a legal evaluation,
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  and only when documents were judged to be duplicative or
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  protected by legal privileges such as confidential discussion between lawyers
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  and clients and protection of state secrets. Now what kind
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  of state secrets are going to be in the Epstein files?
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  I thought he was just a loan predator. I thought
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  he was just a guy that liked the abuse kids.
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  You bunch of jackasses. The agency has been accused of
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  covering up documents that might implicate Trump, a longtime friend
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  of Epstein who has referenced more than a thousand times
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  in the publicly released documents. The Justice Department's letter called
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  the President, one of many politically exposed persons in the files.
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  Poor Trump exposed in the files. Here's an idea. Don't
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  hang out with people like Jeffrey Epstein and you don't
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  have to worry about being exposed. Thanks for coming to
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  my ted talk. Officials have acknowledged some mistakes in the
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  hasty review of millions of documents, including not redacting vic
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  the names in released emails and photographs. When notified of
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  the errors, they said the department corrected them, but issues remain.
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  An FBI document with identifying details of the alleged victims
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  high school friend remains available for anyone to view because
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  they don't care. You think Todd Blanche cares about the survivors.
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  As he sat down and talked to the survivors the
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  way he did Maxwell. Remember what he said, Oh, we
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  want to give Maxwell a chance to go on the record.
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  She's a convicted child abuser. She's had her chance to
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  go on the record. She declined. The Post and Courier
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  is withholding the identity of the alleged victim and the
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  woman identified as her friends, in keeping with the newspapers
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  general policy of not revealing the names of sexual assault survivors.
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  Or alleged survivors. Bondi may soon need to answer for
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  the DOJ's handling of the Epstein files. She's scheduled to
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  testify April fourteenth before a Congressional committee about her depart
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  arment's compliant with the law. It's not completely clear if
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  Bondi will still testify, though Republican Nancy Mace said she
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  still wants her to answer questions under oath. My subpoena
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  still stands. When the Oversight Committee moved to subpoena Bondi,
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  I did it by name, not by or not as
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  the sitting Attorney General of the United States. Mace posted
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  on social media, Well, look, I hope that's the case,
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  but I have my doubts, and I think that him
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  firing her, Trump firing Pambondi is just another move, another
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  way to try and slow things down and gum things up.
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  But as far as these documents go, they should have
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  all been released, and the fact that they weren't is
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  against the law. I mean, I don't know how else
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  to put it. And if they're duplicative, fine release them anyway.
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  It shouldn't be a big deal, right. If they're duplicative,
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  they're out there already point us in that direction. Notice
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  he never does that. Notice he just says, oh, well,
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  this is just bs, it's overblown, okay, but we don't
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  believe you, Todd Blanche, just like I didn't believe Merrick Garland.
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  I didn't believe Bill Barr. I didn't believe you know,
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  Mark Philippe. I didn't believe Mukazy. The list goes on,
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  and that's because breaking news. None of these people are believable.
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  Oh they tell us one thing, but they do another.
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  And unfortunately, with Todd Blanche taking the helm here, all
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  we're gonna see is more of the same because Blanche,
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  like Bondi, is just an extension of Donald Trump. And
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  we all know that Donald Trump has no desire for
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  these files to be released. And it doesn't matter who's
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  in the position of Attorney General, because it's always meet
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  the new boss, same as the old boss. All the
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  information that goes with this episode can be found in
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  the description box.