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Mega Edition: Dan Bongino Talked A Big Game Only To Fold When It Was Time To Produce (4/28/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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Epstein Chronicles. As the dojay continues to get a reality
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check when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein, we're now learning
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that there's some internal division within the FBI itself, and
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according to reports, Deputy Director Dan Bongino might quit over
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what's going on when it comes to Epstein. And frankly,
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if the man had any honor, that's what he would do.
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How long did he tell his audience that there was
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all this other stuff going on with Epstein? And then
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when you're in a position to do something about it,
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you decide to lick the boots of the establishment instead.
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Just another fraud, just like the rest of these frauds.
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All these people out here are talking about they care
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about what happened with Epstein, They care about justice, they
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care about this, they care about that. Where have you
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been for the past six years? All of a sudden,
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everybody is an expert. All of a sudden, everybody knows
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everything about everything. I hate to be the bearer of
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bad news, but most of these people that are out
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here are piping up and talking about Epstein have no
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idea what they're talking about. And that includes Dan Bongino.
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Today's article is from the New York Post and the
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headline FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino ways quitting over Trump
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administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein client list. If he
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would have been paying attention to people that actually know
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about the story, he would have known that the client
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list was nothing more than misdirection. And if he would
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have done the research, if he would have put in
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the groundwork to actually understand the story before talking to
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his audience about it, then he would have known that.
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But instead, all these people gripped onto all this dumb
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shit and now they're disappointed when none of it comes
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to fruition, and not for nothing. But the FBI just
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told us that there's over a thousand victims. Don't you
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think that there should be a push to find out
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who those victims are and see if there are any
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chargeable crimes that still fit within the statute of limitation
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or are we just going to say fuck it, move on.
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We know what the DOJ wants to do, but that's
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not a trip any of us are interested in taking.
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In fact, I've never heard the cries for justice and
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for a transparency any louder, and that's a good thing.
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This article was authored by Josh Christiansen, Stephen Nelson, and
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Caitlin Doombos FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, but it heads
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with Attorney General Pam Bondi earlier this week over the
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Trump administration's handling of its Jeffrey Epstein investigation, including a
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purported review of the late pedophile so called client list
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that official say never existed. That's because the list never existed.
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The best lives have a little bit of truth sprinkled
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into them, don't they. The heated exchange prompted Bongino to
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take a personal day on Friday, and he is considering
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resigning after fewer than four months in his job, a
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source familiar with the matter told The Post, adding that
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Bongino's relationship with Bondi no longer appears salvageable. Look, there's
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a lot going on here. Are they setting Bondi up
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to be the fall woman? Very possible, And once Bondi's gone,
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they'll try and sweep it all under the rug. Oh,
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it's over and done with. This was a Pam Bondi move,
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and you know, there's really nothing here to see with
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Epstein anyway. But it's the way she handled it, that's
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what they're gonna do. I have no doubt that they're
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setting her up to be the fall woman here. And
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while I think Bondi is terrible at her job, it's
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not just her fault. Well, you don't think that her
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boss is. You don't think that Donald Trump himself could
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order all of this stuff to be released. He most
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certainly could one phone call. But no, Instead, let's all
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blame Pam Bondi. And I've seen this story before. This
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is the same thing they did with alex Acosta. The
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DOJ always needs a fall guy. That way they can say, look,
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this is over and done with the person responsible. They're gone.
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We're on the up and up. We do things right
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until the next time they're exposed doing shit wrong. I
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don't think Dan comes back if Pam stays, the person said,
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even though both parties had publicly stated an internal review
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of the Epstein file yielded no smoking gun information about
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his death, high powered associations, or sickening crimes. And I
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just have a hard time believing it. With everything that
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we know, everything we've seen, how can somebody get up
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here and try and gaslight us and tell us there's
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no information. What about the hard drives? What about the
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computers that were taken before he was rated in Palm Beach?
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Oh you know, after he was tipped off that he
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was about to be rated. Oh you didn't know that part, right, Well,
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that's because they don't want you to know. They don't
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want you to know about the reams of video. They
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don't want you to know about the video av specialists
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that came to the island and set everything up. They
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don't want to talk about that. Instead, they want to
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tell you that none of this ever happened, and that
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you're crazy if you think Jeffrey Epstein had high level
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ties to anybody. And folks, look, they have told us
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some doozies in the past, but this one, in my opinion,
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takes the cake. Nobody's buying it. And it doesn't matter
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what side of the aisle you're on unless you're somebody
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who is you know, boot licking like that lives a
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TikTok broad Has she ever said anything about Epstein before
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she got that white binder? Now she gets that white binder,
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and she's nowhere to be found. You want to talk
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about the sy op you're looking at it. And furthermore,
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if there was nothing there, why was that binder called
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Phase one? Helen Keller could see that this is a
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stage cover up, and why would they do that. Well,
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they have to protect the people that were employing Jeffrey Epstein.
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And unlike Tucker Carlson and these other morons, the truth
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is Epstein was employed by our government. Was he farmed
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out to the Masad? He was? Was he used by
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other foreign agencies he was. Did he have deep ties
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to the Saudi royal family? He did. But anybody telling
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you that Epstein was running these operations at the behest
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of a foreign intelligence group, they're lying to you. People
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like Candace Owens, Ian Carol, this Martyer made Cat. They're
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all pitch and bullshit. Oh sure, there's some truth to
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what they're saying, but their whole entire motivation to follow
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the story is to try and score points against Israel.
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And look, I'm not gonna sit here and tell you
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that the Israeli government is not up to no good.
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They most certainly are, and if they could get an
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operation going, they would. But let's not act like Jeffrey
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Epstein was anything but what he was. He was American
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Maid and then farmed out to other agencies. And the
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people that are hyper focused on the Masada angle, well
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there's a reason. Go and look at their history, Go
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and look what they talk about all the time. It's
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all they care about, the only topic they care about.
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But the truth is, it's much deeper than that. And
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the truth is also this, and people don't like to
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hear it, but this is the truth. The CIA is
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the big brother Masad. All these other agencies good at
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what they do. But if you think any of these
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agencies is running an operation in America without the CIA knowing,
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you are smoking some serious mushrooms. Either that or you're
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trying to run a narrative for whatever reason. But the
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truth is the truth. And if I thought that this
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was a Massad operation, I'd be telling you right now, Look,
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this is the Masad. They need to be brought to
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account because when I tell you, I don't give a
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fuck who goes down when it comes to this story.
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I don't give a fuck. I don't have any faves,
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I don't have any politicians that I worship. I don't
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care about none of that bullshit. A Justice Department official
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told the Post Friday evening that FBI Director Cash Pateel
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might follow Bongino out the door. I wouldn't be shocked,
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but like I was saying, this could very easily just
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be some kind of set up to get Pam Bondi
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as the fall person, like Alexecosta was, because what the
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DOJ wants more than anything is that plausible deniability. It
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wasn't us. We have no idea what's happening. We would
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never run somebody like Jeffrey Epstein as they're cutting a
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check to Whitey Bulger and Sammy the bol Gravano. Cash
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and Dan have always been aligned, and it's unclear what
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would happen in that situation, but you know, both of
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them have fought for transparency, and in a world where
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that's being stifled, it wouldn't be shocking to see them
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stand up for that. The official said, oh yeah, the
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two kings of transparency, huh, the FBI director and the
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deputy director and they can't release any information. What does
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that tell you? If you're paying attention, it should tell
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you that people who are much more powerful than Dan
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Bongino or Cash Betel, or Pam Bondi or hell, even
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President Trump are in control, and those are the people
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that pay the bills. And of course those people are
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found in the financial sector, and those people, those people
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are the real enemy. Those people stay in the shadows.
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They do all this stuff behind the scenes. They enable
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all this shit. They make sure all the people they
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want in power or in power, and then once they're there,
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they owe their careers to the person that put them there,
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so they have to play ball. I mean, look, how
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many people that work for banks are on every single
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commit when it comes to a president getting elected. People
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that work for the financial sector, hedge funds, etc. Part
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of the transition team. And it's both parties that do this.
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It's not just one side or the other. Both sides
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do this. The White House has been reluctant to dismiss
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cabinet officials like Bondi and Trump's second term, but somebody
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needs to get the president over that added another administration official.
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Matters came to a head after the Department of Justice
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concluded a probe into the circumstances surrounding Epstein's death at
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the Metropolitan Correctional Center on August tenth, twenty nineteen weeks
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after being charged with sex trafficking, dozens of girls, some
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as young as fourteen years old. And you want another
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tell as to how you should know that Jeffrey Epstein
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was working for powerful people. Did they hit him with Rico?
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Oh no they didn't. Right. Why no rico for Epstein,
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Rico for everybody else, but not Jeffrey Epstein. Right, And
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that's because if they hit them with RICO, it will
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lead directly back to them. They can't have that, can they.
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So no Rico for Jeffrey Epstein, and o Rico for
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Glenn Maxwell. Meanwhile R Kelly Diddy, Keith Ray, Neary, etc.
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They all get hit with rico, but not Jeffrey Epstein. Huh,
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tell me you're a CI without telling me you're a CI.
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That investigation included a pile of documents that Bondie told
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Fox News in February were on her desk at the
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Justice Department to be reviewed, appearing to confirm that those
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papers included the PERVS infamous client list. In February, I
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did an interview on Fox and it's been getting a
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lot of attention because I said, I was asked a
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question about the client list, and my response was, it's
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sitting on my desk to be reviewed, meaning the Epstein file,
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along with the JFK and MLK files as well. Bondi
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said during a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, the cleanup begins.
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You know exactly what you were saying, and you were
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just pushing BS. For whatever reason you were pushing BS,
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I won't even begin to wonder why you were trying
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to say that you had that list that never existed.
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But here we are. And I told people at the
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time that Pam Bondi was talking bullshit, and people didn't
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want to listen. And I can't tell you how many
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people took that whole entire BS list nonsense and ran
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with it like nobody ever talked about any list. We
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never heard about any list from anybody. Sure, we heard
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about the Black Book, the flight logs, we had the
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message pads, but a list what sort of compromount operation
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keeps say spreadsheet or a word document with all of
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their crimes listed on it. This is not an episode
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of twenty four. This is real life, and in real
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life that doesn't happen. Microsoft founder Bill Gates, former President
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Bill Clinton, and Prince Andrew Duke of York are just
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some of the most powerful businessmen and politicians that had
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been photographed visiting with Epstein in the past. I think
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it's a little more than that. No, considering Prince Andrew
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was credibly accused of actually abusing one of the girls,
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Virginia Roberts, probably should add that to your little article here.
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Trump partied with the financier years before his first run
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for public office in the nineties, but reportedly banded Epstein
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from mar A Lago in two thousand and seven following
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an incident with a club member teenage daughter. And Bradley Edwards,
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who was one of the lawyers, said that Donald Trump
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was one of the people that actually talked to him
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when he launched his investigation, so take that for whatever
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it's worth. Earlier this year, the DOJ released some records
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from its investigation that showed flight logs and a contact
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list Epstein Kepp before his arrest in twenty nineteen, most
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of which had already been made public during the twenty
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twenty one trial of his accomplice and now convicted Madam. Madam,
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you mean co conspirator, fellow child abuser, bipedal serpent, and
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general all around scumbag? Is that what you mean? Glenne Maxwell,
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right wing social media influencers were also welcome to the
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White House and handed binders titled Epstein Files, Phase One,
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in an apparent show of transparency by the administration, which
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was later widely mocked after no new details of the
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case were disclosed. Yeah, I mocked it right away. They
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didn't have one person up there that knew what they
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were talking about, not one person. But cool, give them
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all the binders. Maybe next time you have a meeting
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about physics, you can invite me and give me a binder,
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because I have no fucking idea what I'm talking about
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when it comes to physics, so I'd fit right in.
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There was no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmail prominent
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individuals as part of his actions. The memo noted, No,
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not at all, not at all, None of that ever happened.
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In fact, Jeffrey Epstein was just a stand up guy
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and he just had some proclivities. That's all. All of
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this is just a big mistake. Have you guys seen
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what else is going on? We fire charges against Callmi
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and Brennan pay attention to that. Well, I'll let other
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people pay attention to that, and I'll pay attention to this,
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asked Tuesday, whether Epstein was possibly an intelligence asset, which
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some commentators had put forward as an explanation for the
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terms of a slap on the wrist plead deal he's
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secured in two thousand and eight, following earlier sex charges
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involving miners, Bondi said to him, being an intelligence agent,
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I have no knowledge about that. We can get back
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to you on that. Oh please, folks, do you really
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think anybody out here is going to tell intelligence what
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to do? They're the ones leading the dance. Don't you
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remember what Schumer said back in the day, Intelligence will
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get you three ways to Sunday or whatever the fuck
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he said. He wasn't wrong. They will and everybody knows it.
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Former Miami US attorney Alex Acosta, the architect of that
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plea deal. Uh what? Acosta was not the architect of
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that plea deal. He was the guy that signed off
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on it. He was the guy that was in the
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middle of the negotiations. But his orders came from the
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very top, from Mukasey. Let's not forget the Mukasey has
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a great relationship with all of Epstein's people. They were
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having lunch with the heads of the DOJ and shit
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as they're negotiating the plea deal. Go and read the
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OIG report into the plea deal. It is absolutely absurd.
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And the fact that you're going to tell me that
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nobody should go to prison for that or nobody should
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lose their pension, that's just crazy. But then again, everything
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that they're trying to tell us about this story is crazy.
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Bondi also shot down speculation that a missing minute of
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the ten hour surveillance footage DJ released along with the
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memo to show no one else entered Epstein's Manhattan lockup
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was due to the age of the equipment still in
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use by the Federal prisons. What we learned from the
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Bureau of Prisons was every year, every night they redo
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that video. It's old from like nineteen ninety nine, so
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every night the video is reset and every night should
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have the same minute missing. She said. Nobody's buying that.
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And furthermore, the Bureau of pre gets more money than
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anybody but the military department, So what are you even
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talking about right now? You have the money fix it.
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So we're looking for that video to release that as well,
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showing that a minute is missing every night. In June,
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Bongino told Fox News. Nothing in the Epstein file indicated
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he died of any cause other than suicide. The evidence
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we have in our files clearly indicates that it was
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in fact a suicide. We do have video, the former
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Fox News host said. It's not the greatest video in
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the world. No, it's shitty video that's been manipulated, and
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we can prove that via the metadata. Nothing says transparency
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like telling us the video is raw, only for it
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not to be. Before entering government service, Bongino had suggested
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that there was more to the case than officials were telling. Well,
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that's because there is. But now that he's in a
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position to do something about it, ah, well, you know what,
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nothing going on here. Everything's on the up and up, folks.
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His black book is definitely going to be damning, he
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said in an appearance on Fox News shortly after Epstein
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was found dead. And I know that there are people
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out there who know things. Let's just leave it at that,
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and the Epstein story hasn't ended. In a twenty one
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episode of his podcast, Bongino said that he had been
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approached by an unimpeachable source who once flew on Epstein's
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Lolita Express with Clinton. He's very comfortable right away because
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the women on the plane look underage. The host recounted,
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he notices right away that these probably aren't the guy's daughters,
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and they're definitely not his daughter's friends. In a twenty
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twenty three episode, Bongino doubled down, saying the story was
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a big deal and lamb basting residents of the Washington
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Swamp who are not telling you the truth. So basically, Dan,
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you're just telling us about yourself because you're not showing
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any courage here. You're not stepping up to the plate.
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You're not taking any of these people down. So all
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that other stuff you were talking was nothing more more
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than a way to get clicks, a way to piggyback
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off the story and talk about bullshit, salacious bullshit, without
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ever nailing down any of the real facts. Just another
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grifter when all is said and done, that's all Bongino
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is too. President Trump has assembled a highly qualified and
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experienced law and order team dedicated to protecting Americans, holding
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criminals accountable, and delivering justice to victims. This work is
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being carried out seamlessly and with unity. Any attempt to
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sow division within this team is baseless and distracts from
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the real progress being made in restoring public safety and
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pursuing justice for all. White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary
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Harrison Fields told the Post, Wow, I didn't know we
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lived in North Korea, because that's a kind of statement
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I would expect from them. But here we are. So
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for all the people out there that thought we were
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going to get transparency here, and if you thought that
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Dan Bongino was going to be the one to bring it,
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you were sorely miss. Like I always say, meet the
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new boss, same as the old boss. 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 to another
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episode of the Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we got
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to talk about Dan Bongino some more because this dude
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has really fumbled the ball and he's one of these
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guys that ran around for years talking about the Epstein files,
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talking about accountability, and now that he's in a position
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to actually get something done, he's out here playing company man.
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He's out here protecting the agency and the powers that be. Yo,
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is there a bigger goofball walking this earth than Dan?
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Didn't find any Epstein evidence Bongino. I mean, seriously, this
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guy's the human equivalent of a wet paper towel, and
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I hate breaking out the verbal jiu jitsu on a
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fellow Paisano, but bro, you're an embarrassment of biblical proportions.
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You puffed your chest out bigger than a ster peacock,
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promising the world, talking about blowing the lid off the
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Epstein files and exposing the swamp. And what happened when
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the lights came on and the truth needed a spine?
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You folded like your spine was made out of marshmallows.
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And it still amazes me how fast you crumbled. You
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strutted onto the scene like you were the second coming
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of elliot Ness, only to immediately revert to the softest,
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most gelatinous version of yourself the moment responsibility taptoo on
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the shoulder. Somehow you managed to turn the biggest scandal
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of the sentry into a personal oopsie daisy, as if
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the whole thing were just a missing sock in the
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FBI's laundry pile. You could have lit a match and
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blown open the ugliest secrets of the ruling class, but
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instead you chose to be the damp. Match book left
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out in the rain. You spent months years running your mouth,
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beating your chest like King Kong with CTE, swearing up
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and down that once you got inside the machine, you
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would bring the thunder. Just wait until I get It'll
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look at those files, you said, day one releases. You see, yeah,
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day one releases, my ass. You showed up at the
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FBI with the even less backbone than the clown you replaced.
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I mean, how do you manage that? That's like being
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worse at quarterbacking than Nathan Peterman. It should not even
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be possible, Yet you somehow found a way to make
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impossible your brand. You marched in with the energy of
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a man about to crack the Da Vinci code, only
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to immediately morph into a confused intern looking for the
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nearest coffee machine. Where's the evidence? You asked, as if
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the entire planet hasn't known about this trafficking empire for decades.
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You built your whole career on criticizing this exact type
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of cowardice, then delivered a masterclass and how to embody it.
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If hypocrisy were a sport, you'd be a first ballot
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Hall of Famer. Great job, Dano, truly Bravo, a round
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of applause for the man, the myth, the marshmallow. You
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should get a medal, the Congressional Award for Olympic level capitulation.
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You are a true American patriot, and by patriot I
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mean a guy who waves a flag around and screams
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into a microphone on about tyranny and then immediately curls
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up like a frightened armadillo. The second real work needs doing.
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It's honestly breathtaking. This dude has perfected the art of
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tough guy act, the pounding on the desk routine, the
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full populish stick, but puts you in front of an
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actual systemic rot, real institutional filth, and you melt faster
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than soft serve. In July, this dude betrayed every promise,
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every rant, every fiery sound bite, and now he stands
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there waving the flag like it's supposed to distract us
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from the fact that you delivered the investigative equivalent of
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a participation trophy, or, as you like to call it,
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a dei higher. Those girls victimized by Jeffrey Epstein and
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his degenerate network, Nah, did not happen. Nothing to see here,
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No blackmail rings, no intelligence operations, no powerful co conspirators
22:50
running their sinister garbage plan in sight, just a quirky
22:54
billionaire with an egg shaped dick who occasionally took things
22:56
too far Right, then time to shut down the investigation.
23:00
Clows up shop pack it in, folks, the great Dan
23:02
Bongino is spoken. He found absolutely nothing in a case
23:07
that spanned decades, continents, and the highest reaches of global power,
23:11
So it must be true. Imagine being arrogant enough to
23:15
declare the single most well documented trafficking and blackmail operation
23:19
of modern history a big nothing burger. Imagine telling survivors
23:23
that their hellish experience were just footnotes in your personal
23:27
pr strategy. You didn't just fail to find evidence, You
23:31
failed to even look. You walked into a crime scene
23:35
with a blindfold on and then triumphantly announced that everything
23:38
seemed fine. Your level of denial is not just insulting,
23:42
it's pathological. And how about the unearthed confidence, the smug
23:46
grin the trust me bro swagger. This dude is one
23:49
of the biggest clowns in the history of Clowndom. Barnum
23:52
and Bailey would balance reverence ring them brothers would retire
23:56
their elephants out of respect. If Dan Bongino was any
24:00
more of a circus act, he would be fired out
24:02
of the cannon wearing clown shoes, and he would still
24:05
find a way to miss the landing. There's something almost
24:07
poetic about the combination of ego and emptiness radiating from
24:11
him like a malfunctioning sign. Every time he talks, it
24:15
sounds like a trailer for a movie that never actually
24:17
got made. His whole persona is helium and hollow bravado,
24:22
a carnival of noise without a single ounce of substance inside.
24:27
Here's the truth. Dan Bongino talks tough when the mic
24:29
is on and the cameras are rolling. He's a lion
24:32
when he's selling supplements and rage bait merch to the faithful.
24:36
But when it's time to stand ten toes down on business,
24:39
when it's time to walk into the fire and actually
24:41
confront the monster, the guy hides behind protocol, procedure and
24:45
preapproved government talking points. Suddenly, the hard charging warrior for
24:49
freedom transforms into a trembling golden retriever during a thunderstorm.
24:54
He becomes the guy who reads from a script and
24:57
calls a bravery, the kind who confuses comp alliance with professionalism,
25:02
the kind who tells the public to simmer down while
25:04
the wolves keep devouring whatever they please. His voice drops,
25:08
his shoulders slump, and suddenly this supposedly fearless warrior turns
25:12
into a man, quietly praying. No one notices. He's scared
25:16
of the very shadows he claimed he could banish, Deep
25:19
state bad, FBI corrupt, he screams, and then he gets there,
25:23
swipes his little clearance card, takes one look around that
25:25
becomes the pr department for the exact agency he's been
25:29
roasting for a decade, And honestly, it's almost impressive, like
25:33
watching a magician pull a rabbit out of a hat,
25:36
except the rabbit is a wet noodle and the hat's
25:38
filled with cowardice. There's a whiplash effect every time he
25:41
switches from rebel the company man. One moment he's railing
25:45
against the government's abuse, and the next he's handing out
25:48
talking points like he's auditioning for a role in their
25:51
holiday newsletter. The transformation is so jarring you can almost
25:55
hear the click when his spine attracts all that righteous
25:58
fury evaporates placed by a timid smile and a carefully
26:02
worded memo. The best part, he thinks nobody notices. He
26:06
thinks he's slick. He hops on his podcast, throws out
26:09
some vague trust the process nonsense, and expects everyone to
26:12
NodD along. Bro, you did not expose corruption. You became it.
26:16
You didn't drag sunlight into the shadows. You pulled the
26:19
curtain shut and swallowed the key. He must genuinely believe
26:23
the public has the memory of a goldfish. He thinks
26:26
that if he talks fast enough and yells loud enough,
26:28
the crowd will forget everything he promised and everything he
26:32
fail to deliver. But you're not stupid. You see the cracks,
26:36
You see the contradictions, you see through the performance, and
26:39
worse of all, for you, Dan, we're talking about it.
26:42
Look meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
26:45
Different name, different hairline, same exact mission, keep the truth
26:48
buried under mountains of political compost. It's a tell as
26:52
old as American bureaucracy itself, and yet somehow you manage
26:56
to make it even more depressing. You became the punchline
26:59
in your own cautionary tale. In fact, Dan is like
27:03
the sequel nobody wanted. You know how they make those
27:06
terrible straight to DVD movie follow ups that exist only
27:10
to embarrass the original cast. That's Dan Bongino. He's The
27:14
Tooth Fairy two starring Larry the Cable Guy. He's Home
27:17
Alone three with no mcaulay culkin and no soul. Nobody
27:21
asks for this version. Nobody wanted it, but here it
27:24
is anyway, cheap, clunky, and insulting to the material it
27:28
pretends to honor. And keep in mind that he marched
27:30
into those Epstein files like Captain America, and he's leaving
27:34
like a mall security guard telling teenagers to stop skateboarding.
27:37
The only thing missing was the segue and a pretzel necklace.
27:41
His whole heroic entrance dissolved into the soundtrack of a
27:45
shopping mall food court. And let's be very clear, cowardice
27:49
will always reveal itself. It leaks out of the pores,
27:52
It makes the voice crack, It makes a man blame
27:54
legal restrictions and ongoing investigations. Onen what he really means
27:59
is I sold the public look a fairy tale, and
28:01
now I'm hiding under my desk praying nobody notices I'm
28:04
a fraud. He hides behind jargon and shane a command nonsense,
28:08
thinking the public will mistake his fear for professionalism. But
28:11
cowardice has a smell, and it gets stronger every time
28:15
he opens his mouth. The whole point, the whole promise,
28:17
was accountability, justice answers. Instead, we got a rhetorical version
28:21
of someone shouting and shrugging and saying, well, nothing I
28:24
can do, while whistling in back and out of the
28:26
room like a cartoon character trying to escape responsibility. Imagine
28:31
being the guy who had the power to kick the
28:33
door open and instead politely asked if he could borrow
28:35
a key, then apologize for the inconvenience. Imagine having a
28:39
once in a generation chance to shine a light on
28:41
one of the darkest criminal enterprises in modern history and
28:44
deciding to pretend it's a myth, that's dan It's a
28:48
tragedy wrapped in a farce. A man who branded himself
28:52
as a truth seeker became a caretaker for the very
28:54
lies he promised to destroy. Instead of turning on the lights,
28:58
he dimmed them. Instead of explo rot, he swept it
29:01
under the judiciary rug and called it a day. No
29:05
wonder the powerful love him now. He went from watchdog
29:08
to lapdog so fast he probably sprang to him. They
29:11
pat him on the head and toss him a treat
29:13
every time he parrots the company line. He's the safest
29:17
kind of public figure now, loud enough to rile up
29:19
the audience, soft enough to never actually threaten the people
29:22
who matter. A mascot for the establishment he once claimed
29:26
to despise. So congratulations, Danny boy, you made your choice.
29:31
You could have been a warrior. Instead you became a
29:34
hall monitor with a whistle and a list of excuses.
29:36
And the saddest part is you probably think this is
29:39
what success looks like, but everyone watching knows the truth.
29:43
You stepped into the arena and immediately forfeited the match.
29:48
And like I always say, meet the new boss, same
29:50
as the old boss, different suit, sam Rod. The cycle
29:53
keeps spinning, and you chose to be one of the
29:56
gears rather than the wrench that could have jammed up
29:58
the whole machine. The only thing that this dude exposed
30:02
was himself. The only evidence he found was proof that
30:05
his spine left the building long before he did. You
30:09
promised illumination and delivered shadows. You promised truth and delivered
30:13
gas fumes. You promised a reckoning and delivered a shrug, unbelievable, embarrassing,
30:20
pete clownery. If there were rewards for political self owning,
30:24
you would be sweeping the entire ceremony. Ladies and gentlemen,
30:28
I present to you, Dan Bongino, the human snooze button,
30:31
a man who took the loudest scandal in modern history
30:34
and somehow managed to lull himself into a tranquil nap.
30:37
And in the end, the saddest truth about Dan Bongino
30:40
is not that he failed, but that he chose to.
30:42
He looked at the ugliest, most predatory criminal network of
30:45
our lifetime and decided to save place was to stand
30:48
behind the people who built it. He took the hopes
30:50
of survivors, the demands of a furious public, the weight
30:53
of his scandal that stretched from private islands to palace halls,
30:57
and treated all of it like a prop in his
30:59
personal theater of tough guy cosplay. When the moment called
31:02
for a spine, he brought stage directions. When the moment
31:05
called for defiance, he brought excuses, And when the moment
31:09
finally demanded a man instead of a microphone. He proved
31:12
beyond a doubt that he was only ever comfortable playing
31:15
hero in the comfort of his own echo chamber. History
31:18
will not remember him as a warrior, a whistleblower, or
31:21
a champion of truth. It will remember him as the
31:24
guy who stared into the mouth of a monster and
31:27
decided the smarter move was to compliment its teeth. All
31:32
of the information that goes with this episode can be
31:34
found in the description box. What's up, everyone, and welcome
31:38
to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. So Dan Bongino,
31:43
the guy that was going to come in and save
31:45
all of us. You remember that guy, right, the crusader,
31:49
the dude that was going to release the Epstein files
31:52
and was going to save all the children. Don't you
31:54
remember that guy? You know, the man who talked real
31:56
tough on his podcast all the time. Well, it turns
31:59
out that Dan is nothing more than a swamp er
32:02
out himself. And all that tough talk, all that bluster,
32:06
all that bs about holding people accountable, well right out
32:10
the window. Today we have an article from the Deli
32:13
Beast and the headline Dan Bongino scrambles to explain Epstein
32:17
File's redaction email. This article was authored by Tom Latcham.
32:22
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino is on the defensive after
32:26
the release of an email showing he'd been made aware
32:29
of the Trump administration sweeping redactions of Jeffrey Epstein files
32:33
on his second day on the job. Well, what about
32:37
Cash Betel telling us that it was a first day release.
32:39
Remember that bullshit? Remember him sitting on that Glenn Beck
32:42
show talking all that nonsense. Keep that in mind when
32:45
you hear this bullshit coming from Bongino and his boss,
32:48
Cash Pattel. Bongino, fifty, was appointed to the post in March,
32:53
having carved out a career as a MAGA friendly podcaster
32:57
who regularly demanded the government's full and underadacted release of
33:01
all documents relating to the late pedophile financier bro. This
33:05
would be akin to me taking a job with the
33:07
federal government and then reversing course on everything I've told
33:11
you for all these years. Why would you trust me
33:14
after that? So why does anyone trust Dan Bongino, Because
33:19
that's what he did. He spent all this time grifting,
33:22
making pretend he cared about the Epstein files, making pretend
33:25
he cared about the survivors when in reality, all he
33:28
cared about was engagement, like most of these people, And
33:33
at this point, it's like we have a reality TV
33:35
show going on in the White House, a bunch of
33:37
Internet personalities led by the biggest Internet personality of all,
33:41
Donald Trump, And honestly, with the whole ass administration, there's
33:46
not one adult in the room. And when you have
33:48
a bunch of yes men who live their life on
33:49
their knees worshiping somebody like Donald Trump, we're never going
33:53
to get anything done, nothing worthwhile when it comes to
33:56
Epstein anyway, especially because all these people are the ones
33:59
that are being protected. So you don't need to be
34:01
a genius to figure out that Dan Bongino bullshitted you,
34:05
just like the rest of the people in this administration.
34:08
But with the Trump administration having fought a month's long
34:11
campaign to keep the file secret, which included a frantic
34:14
scramble by the FBI last spring to make sweeping redactions,
34:18
Bongino has since changed his tune with minimal explanation. Well,
34:22
you don't deserve that. Now. If he was still doing
34:24
his podcast, you'd get some stupid ass explanation and people
34:28
would buy it because their confirmation Bias would tell them to.
34:32
But the truth is, Dan Bongino can't be trusted. And
34:35
I know some people don't want to hear that, but
34:37
the truth isn't always pleasant, bro. The truth is not
34:40
something that is always digestible. But the truth is what
34:44
the truth is. And my suggestion is that if the
34:46
truth bothers you, you should probably reevaluate your position, right
34:52
because if it's uncomfortable to learn the truth about somebody
34:55
like Dan Bongino, then boy, oh boy, wait until you
34:58
learn what he's been hiding. The former law enforcement officer
35:01
insisted in May, a month after the March and April
35:04
redaction sprint, that the administration was taking its time with
35:07
the material in order to protect Epstein's victims. He had
35:10
not publicly addressed the files since that time. And remember
35:14
the whole hubbub. Dan Booneno's gonna quit. Dan Bongjeno's a
35:17
man of honor. No, he's not, sorry, he's not. And look,
35:22
I hate breaking the balls of any fellow Paisano, but
35:25
everybody gets held to account here. If my own father
35:29
was found in those fucking files, you better believe I'd
35:31
hold him to account as well. Let me be very clear,
35:35
I have no faves, and anybody who was associated with
35:38
Jeffrey Epstein in any regard needs to answer for it.
35:42
Not that difficult, right, if you're innocent, step forward, Hey,
35:45
this is what I did, This is what I know,
35:47
this is who I saw. But no, everybody wants to
35:52
run from it. Everybody wants to hide from it, and
35:54
everybody wants to make the problem much bigger than it
35:56
already is. So shut the fuck up with all the
35:59
complaining about people that are looking for the truth, because
36:02
at this point there's only two teams, humanity and predator.
36:07
And unfortunately, it looks like Bongino has made his choice.
36:10
But internal FBI emails published by Bloomberg over the weekend
36:14
showed that he had been forwarded an email on March eighteenth,
36:17
the day after he joined the bureau, related to guidance
36:20
on the types of redactions to apply to the Epstein files.
36:24
Simple survivor names, that's it. And any kind of case
36:28
agent that might have worked undercover. That's cool too. Besides that,
36:32
no redactions. And if you're going to redact something and
36:34
call it national security, you better tell us what you're
36:36
talking about. They can't have it both ways, right, It
36:40
can't be a national security if Epstein wasn't working for
36:42
the government, ken it. I mean, how are you going
36:44
to explain to a court that a guy that was
36:47
molesting girls and children is also a national security threat?
36:51
What does that even mean? So they're going to have
36:53
to answer for that, that's for sure. After some question
37:00
what he said about his role in the redactions, Bongino
37:03
broke his month long silence on the matter late Sunday
37:06
to say the email was really just not that big
37:08
of a deal, folks. I entered on duty on March seventeenth.
37:12
The emails in the chain you see forwarded to me
37:14
at my request were sent before I began in my position.
37:18
Bongino wrote on X I wanted to review what have
37:22
been done before I entered on duty. It was a priority,
37:26
and as you can see, they responded immediately, I'm glad
37:29
that these emails are available for your review. Translation. God,
37:33
damn it, how did you get those emails? Because if
37:36
Danny Bongino wanted to talk about this, he talk about it.
37:40
If you wanted to make a big stink about it,
37:42
he'd do it, And if you wanted to be a
37:43
real man, he'd step down in protest. But nobody wants
37:47
to do that, right. Everybody wants to be on the
37:50
career trajectory. Everybody wants to hitch their cart to the
37:53
Trump train. Well, that's going to end up being a disaster,
37:56
and I think it's going to come back to bite
37:58
all of these people directly in the ass. You can't
38:01
have loyalty to a man who has no loyalty to
38:04
anybody but himself, because when all is said and done,
38:07
you're getting thrown right under the bus. Look what's going
38:10
on with those strikes down in Venezuela. They just threw
38:12
the admiral under the bus. Oh, Admiral so and so
38:15
is such a great guy. Yeah, let's out them on
38:17
social media. The whole thing is just foo bar bro.
38:20
Like I wake up every day and I say to myself,
38:23
what kind of bullshit am I gonna wake up to today?
38:26
You know, not to go too far off the subject here,
38:28
but these guys talk about Maha. They talk about how
38:32
they're gonna stop these drugs from coming into America, not
38:35
a single word about dealing with the addiction problem that's
38:38
ravaging our country. And for those of you who have
38:40
listened to the podcast for quite some time. You know,
38:43
that's something I talk about quite a bit. It's very
38:45
important to me. I've lost many friends and family members
38:49
to overdose. So this shit is real and blown up
38:53
a few boats in Venezuela. Ain't doing shit about it.
38:56
And I'll tell you what, I'm getting to the point
38:58
where I'm gonna have to start a whole ass of
38:59
other podcast to start talking about some of these other
39:02
topics because the narrative that they're pitching to us is
39:05
not fitting with what the reality on the ground is.
39:07
And as you're all aware, it's not just about Epstein either,
39:11
but about everything. Basically, he did not elaborate further on
39:14
the redactions or what is in the files. However, the
39:18
internal correspondence obtained by Bloomberg Foya Files raised his questions
39:22
about Bongino's role in the Special Redaction project as well
39:26
about the project itself. Well, there's no doubt that this
39:29
dude was heavily involved in all of it. Now, was
39:32
he involved in this part of it? I don't know.
39:35
He was hired the day before this email came, so
39:38
unless he was working before he got hired, I don't know.
39:42
But when we're talking about this administration, we're talking about
39:46
these people. I don't put anything past them, honestly. The
39:51
documents show the bureau scrambling over several months in the
39:54
first half of twenty twenty five to prepare the Epstein
39:57
related records for a potential release, up almost one million
40:01
dollars in overtime for staff as the Trump administration dithered
40:05
over what to make public and where do you think
40:08
that money comes from? That's right, you and me, And
40:12
now that it's about to be tax time, keep that
40:14
in mind as you're paying them an arm and a leg.
40:18
After promising to release all the Justice Departments Epstein files
40:22
during his campaign, Trump put Attorney General Pam Bondi in
40:25
charge of the matter after his return to the White
40:28
House in February. Bondy sixty further stoked anticipation of major
40:33
revelations to come by telling supporters Epstein's client list was
40:37
sitting at her desk, and I told you back then,
40:39
we had trouble because there has never been a list.
40:43
The closest thing we have to a list is the
40:45
message pads and the black book. Do you really think
40:49
that an intelligence operation is going to keep a bunch
40:52
of spreadsheets with a list of people. That's not how
40:56
it works, and that list was always misdirection and I've
41:00
told you guys that for years now, literally years, according
41:05
to Bloomberg. FBI Director Cash Pattel then ordered roughly one
41:08
thousand agents to the Bureau Central Records Complex in Winchester,
41:12
Virginia for crash redaction training on what was dubbed the
41:15
Epstein Transparency Project or Special Redaction Project. And let's not
41:20
cut corners. The whole last reason that they're not releasing
41:23
this stuff is because Donald Trump's name's in it. Now again,
41:26
let's be very clear for the morons in the back.
41:29
I'm not saying that Trump was diddling anybody. I don't
41:32
have that evidence, and as you all know, it's not
41:35
about what I know, it's about what I can prove.
41:38
So as far as someone's saying that Trump was involved
41:41
in the actual diddling, I haven't seen that evidence. What
41:44
I have seen, though, and what I'm seeing each and
41:46
every day, is a cover up coming directly from the
41:50
White House. And that is bad news as well. Even
41:53
if you aren't part of Jeffrey Epstein abusing people, well,
41:56
now you're covering it up. And I guess for some
41:59
people that's okay, but not for me. The whole entire
42:03
thing is disgusting and it makes me ill. Between March
42:07
seventeenth and March twenty second alone, the Bureau paid eight
42:10
hundred and fifty one thousand, three hundred and forty four
42:12
dollars in overtime. From January to July. Staff logged four thousand,
42:17
seven hundred and thirty seven overtime hours, more than seventy
42:20
percent of which occurred in March as agents work nights
42:23
and weekends. On May tenth, at this point, having apparently
42:28
been aware of the redaction process for almost two months,
42:31
Bongino wrote on X there are voluminous amounts of downloaded
42:35
child sexual abuse material that we are dealing with. There
42:38
are also victim statements that are entitled to specific protection.
42:42
We need to do this correctly. But I do understand
42:44
the public's desire to get the information out there. Well,
42:48
I guess you don't understand that desire anymore, though, right,
42:50
Danny boy, To hell with all the people who were abused,
42:53
to hell with everybody who was screwed, to hell with
42:55
everybody who was treated like nothing more than cattle. They
43:00
don't matter, right, because your boss Donnie Diddles says, no,
43:05
it's all so absurd, and honestly, it's hard to wrap
43:07
your mind around it. It's truly like we're living in
43:10
that movie Idiocracy. The Justice Department finally tried to put
43:15
the whole matter to rest on July seventh, when Bondi
43:18
issued a formal statement saying that they had found no
43:21
incriminating client list. That same day, the Department of Justice
43:24
and the FBI announced that no further files from the
43:27
Epstein investigation would be released, a move that came as
43:30
a shock to many of Trump's own supporters. And what's
43:34
wild does a lot of those people are making excuses like, oh,
43:38
well it's because of this that or the other thing,
43:40
or the Biden administration did this that or the other thing.
43:44
I don't want to hear that, and the survivors don't
43:47
want to hear that, and I promise you that voters
43:49
don't want to hear it either. You're in charge, now
43:51
fix it. While Bongino was not commented directly on the
43:57
case since early June, and only then to say he
44:00
believed Epstein's death and custody had been a suicide, he
44:03
was reportedly enraged by the DOJ's nothing to see her
44:06
announcement in July. I don't even believe that. Sorry, I
44:09
don't believe that at all, CNN reported at the time,
44:12
Bongino had to skip work, threatened to resign, and clash
44:16
with Bondi over the administration's reversal on releasing more Epstein files.
44:21
Fire them all. They should all be gone. Not one
44:24
of these people cares about you, That's for damn sure.
44:28
Though Bongino returned, his relationship with the White House and
44:31
the Justice Department were said to have been strained. Well,
44:34
he sure fell in line. Now has any Can you
44:37
imagine that conversation? Despite initial resistance, Trump seventy nine signed
44:42
the Epstein Files Transparency Act on November nineteenth, compelling the
44:46
DOJ to release the records within thirty days while allowing
44:50
redactions to protect ongoing probes and victims. So crazy, ongoing probes.
44:55
I thought everything was closed. That's what the memo said.
44:58
That's what started this whole thing. We have ongoing probes.
45:01
What does that even mean? Can you justify that? Can
45:05
you show us an indictment? Can you show us that
45:07
you're having interviews with people? What's the process? Because breaking news?
45:12
Nobody believes you bro none of us. A Manhattan judge
45:18
has since pushed the DOJ to clarify exactly what it
45:21
will unseal. Trump has denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein,
45:26
with whom he had a long and much publicized friendship.
45:29
The Daily Beast contacted the FBI, DJ and White House
45:33
for comment. The DOJ declined to comment. Of course they did.
45:37
They have nothing to say, nothing to see here. The
45:40
Epstein stuff is just overblown. It's a democratic hoax, and
45:44
it's time for everybody to move on. Well breaking news.
45:47
Nobody's moving on. We're not going anywhere, and the more
45:51
you push, the more we're gonna pull. So here's an idea.
45:55
Stop all the bullshit, stop all the propaganda, and release
46:00
the files. All of the information that goes with this
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