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Mega Edition: Jeffrey Epstein And His Relationship With Reid Hoffman And Sergey Bryn (9/7/26) · The Epstein Chronicles

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
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  Speaker 1: New emails are revealing that JP Morgan was working with
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein to try and lure Google co-founder Sergey Brin
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  Speaker 1: as a client. Now ask yourselves, why would JP Morgan
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  Speaker 1: need Jeffrey Epstein to be the middleman to get somebody
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  Speaker 1: like Sergey Brin on board? Don't you think that Sergey
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  Speaker 1: Brin and his bank account says everything you need to
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  Speaker 1: know about the dude if you're JP Morgan? So where
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  Speaker 1: the fuck does Jeffrey Epstein fit in? And how come
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  Speaker 1: this idiot pops up every single time we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: this reprehensible financial institution? Today's article is from the New
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  Speaker 1: York Post and the headline. Email show JP Morgan working
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  Speaker 1: with Jeffrey Epstein to lure Google co-founder Sergey Brin as
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  Speaker 1: a client. According to to court documents. And remember, all
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  Speaker 1: of this stuff is from court documents now. It's not
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  Speaker 1: some Yahoo on Twitter talking nonsense or your cousin Joe
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  Speaker 1: telling you about a Reddit post. This is stuff that
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  Speaker 1: has been said now in open court, and that carries
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  Speaker 1: a lot more weight with me than innuendo or rumor.
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  Speaker 1: The author of this article is Shannon Thaler. Newly revealed
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  Speaker 1: emails and shed fresh light on JP Morgan's cozy ties
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  Speaker 1: with Jeffrey Epstein, suggesting that top bankers at the Wall
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  Speaker 1: Street giant bent over backwards to accommodate the dead pedophile
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  Speaker 1: as he helped them line up lucrative clients, including Google
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  Speaker 1: and its co-founder, Sergey Brin. And it really all comes
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  Speaker 1: down to greed. How much is enough? You have all
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  Speaker 1: of this money anyway as JP Morgan, all of these
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  Speaker 1: high-profile clients, but it's never enough. we have to take
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  Speaker 1: on a scumbag pedophile as well because, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: have to continue to stuff our pockets. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: expensive to buy elections, right? The U.S. Virgin Islands filed
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  Speaker 1: explosive court papers on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court to
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  Speaker 1: bolster its allegation that Epstein played a key role as
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  Speaker 1: an investment advisor to the Silicon Valley search giant, Enbrin,
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  Speaker 1: whose personal portfolio of over $ 4 billion dollars was among
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  Speaker 1: the bank's largest. And what's so crazy to me is,
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  Speaker 1: you see how liberally they apply RICO to other people.
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  Speaker 1: How come RICO wasn't applied here? It fits all of
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  Speaker 1: the predicates, it checks all of the boxes, and everything
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  Speaker 1: lines up. But somehow, Ghislaine Maxwell and the rest of
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein's band of scumbags has been able to avoid
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  Speaker 1: getting caught up in a Rico case. This shit right
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  Speaker 1: here was exactly what this law was drawn up for.
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  Speaker 1: But somehow, someway, eh, we're going to avoid Rico in
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  Speaker 1: the Epstein case. We're not going to hit Maxwell with
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  Speaker 1: Rico either because, well, you remember what Nancy Pelosi's daughter said?
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  Speaker 1: Our faves and all. We can't have our faves caught
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  Speaker 1: up in this. God forbid people find out about Ms. Rumler.
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  Speaker 1: God forbid people find out about Bill Richardson or George Mitchell.
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  Speaker 1: God forbid people find out about Reid Hoffman. But hey,
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  Speaker 1: have you folks heard about Alex Acosta? In an email
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  Speaker 1: from 2006 that was unsealed on Tuesday, Mary Erdos, a
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  Speaker 1: star banker who is now the CEO of J.P. Morgan's
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  Speaker 1: asset and wealth management division, urged colleagues to set up
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  Speaker 1: a team in New York to rather than in San Francisco,
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  Speaker 1: where Google and Bryn are based, to manage the accounts
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  Speaker 1: according to the court documents. Erdos wrote in the email,
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  Speaker 1: which had the subject line, Google, this has nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with the abilities of the SF team. This is
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  Speaker 1: solely because our need to have a New York team
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  Speaker 1: cover a person, Jeffrey Epstein, as the advisor to the partners.
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  Speaker 1: That same day, Ann Borowich, then a managing director at J.P.
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  Speaker 1: Morgan's New Jersey private bank, shared a message with the
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  Speaker 1: subject line, big new business oppie, informing colleagues that a
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  Speaker 1: New York-based team had been picked to work with Jeffrey
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  Speaker 1: Epstein on business oppie associated with grats that are terminating
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  Speaker 1: four Google founders. The filing showed, And the Gratz hustle
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  Speaker 1: is real. That's how all of these sick, disgusting, rich
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  Speaker 1: billionaires keep all their dough. I have an episode in
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  Speaker 1: the catalog called The Gratz Hustle that discusses just how
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  Speaker 1: these billionaires use this system to keep all of their
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  Speaker 1: money while you're having your Etsy account examined by 87,000
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  Speaker 1: new IRS agents. Also that day, Borowich emailed several other
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  Speaker 1: JP Morgan employees, informing them, we are setting up a
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  Speaker 1: conference call. It is to get the necessary background on
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  Speaker 1: the potential investment management opportunity associated with Jeffrey Epstein to
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  Speaker 1: the trust set up on behalf of the Google founders' kids.
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  Speaker 1: It is unclear if Borowich was referring to Brin, though
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  Speaker 1: banker Robert A. Keller wrote in a memo when Brin
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  Speaker 1: became a JP Morgan client, We work very closely with
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  Speaker 1: the Sergey Brin family office and communicate with them at
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  Speaker 1: least one time per day. Brin, a 49-year-old father of three,
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  Speaker 1: is now number 11 on Forbes list with a net
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  Speaker 1: worth of $ 104. 2 billion. When you have $ 104. 2 billion, you
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  Speaker 1: don't get caught up in RICO cases. Well, not unless
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  Speaker 1: you cross intelligence. What did Chuck Schumer tell us? If
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  Speaker 1: you cross intelligence, they'll find a way to get you
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  Speaker 1: three ways till Sunday or whatever. That's reassuring coming from
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  Speaker 1: a senior senator, huh? Nothing like a out-of-control CIA and
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  Speaker 1: intelligence division. JP Morgan responded to the lawsuit's allegations today,
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  Speaker 1: saying rather than account for its own failures to investigate
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  Speaker 1: and monitor this criminal under its jurisdiction, USVI blames a
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  Speaker 1: bank that did not have USVI's authority to enforce any law.
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  Speaker 1: And the USVI is spot on with that. As much
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  Speaker 1: as I hate to give them any sort of ground,
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  Speaker 1: They're definitely spot on with that. They didn't have subpoena power. J.P.
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  Speaker 1: Morgan couldn't compel anyone to come to court and give testimony.
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  Speaker 1: But the United States Virgin Islands sure could. And they
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  Speaker 1: didn't do anything like that. Instead, they got into bed
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  Speaker 1: with Jeffrey Epstein, gave him all kinds of benefits and
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  Speaker 1: took his money. Any association with Epstein was a mistake.
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  Speaker 1: And in hindsight, we regret it. But we did not
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  Speaker 1: help him commit his heinous crimes. a JP Morgan spokesperson added.
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  Speaker 1: We would never have continued to do business with him
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  Speaker 1: if we believed he was engaged in an ongoing sex
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  Speaker 1: trafficking operation. Well, that doesn't cut it. We've seen the emails,
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  Speaker 1: JP Morgan. And for as much as we want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about USVI having responsibility to stop this dude, so
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  Speaker 1: did the financial sector. So did JP Morgan. And they
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  Speaker 1: all failed. Google and Brin didn't immediately respond to requests
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  Speaker 1: for comment. Another email exchange, including the bombshell documents, revealed
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  Speaker 1: that JP Morgan's current chief executive, Jamie Dimon, worked with
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  Speaker 1: a team of other executives, as well as Epstein, on
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  Speaker 1: the bank's acquisition of investment management firm, Highbridge. And another connection.
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  Speaker 1: Where do you think they got Highbridge from? Oh, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: Glenn Dubin. Where do we know Glenn Dubin from? Well,
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  Speaker 1: he's being credibly accused as one of the abusers of
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  Speaker 1: Virginia Roberts. but that's okay, we won't talk about him either, right?
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk more about Alex Acosta. Meanwhile, all these ties
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  Speaker 1: between Glenn Dubin, Jeffrey Epstein, JP Morgan, and the rest
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  Speaker 1: of these scuzzballs just continues to fly under the radar.
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  Speaker 1: The so-called Project Alpha group included Jeff Staley, who would
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  Speaker 1: later become CEO of UK banking giant Barclays before he
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  Speaker 1: was toppled by the Epstein scandal in 2021. Diamond, who
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  Speaker 1: hadn't yet taken over as the bank's chief executive, billionaire
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  Speaker 1: Highbridge co-founder Glenn Dubin, and Epstein, among others. Once JPMorgan
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  Speaker 1: completed its Highbridge purchase in 2004, Staley requested that an
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  Speaker 1: email be sent to Diamond and Dubin with Epstein blind copied,
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  Speaker 1: according to the court papers. Jamie Diamond had no idea, though.
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  Speaker 1: Everything was on the up and up, according to Jamie Diamond,
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  Speaker 1: and Jeffrey Epstein wasn't a scumbag. He asked that the
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  Speaker 1: email say, you've done an amazing job of bringing our
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  Speaker 1: business together and delivering numbers that will earn the envy
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  Speaker 1: of our industry. Thanks for the partnership. we are well
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  Speaker 1: on our way to resume our position as one of
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  Speaker 1: the most respected asset and wealth managers. Aw, isn't that cute?
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein helping JP Morgan get back on top. And
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  Speaker 1: I want you to keep this in mind next time
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  Speaker 1: you try to get a loan from JP Morgan and
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  Speaker 1: they try to bang you for a 15% finance rate.
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  Speaker 1: Though the U.S. Virgin Islands allege that Diamond and Epstein
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  Speaker 1: worked on this acquisition together, Diamond testified in a deposition
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  Speaker 1: in May that he had never had dealings with Epstein
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  Speaker 1: and didn't even know the sex trafficker was a J.P.
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  Speaker 1: Morgan client until his 2019 arrest. Oh, I believe that.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that about as much as I believe the
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  Speaker 1: stories of Bigfoot. Epstein, who committed suicide allegedly while awaiting
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  Speaker 1: trial in 2019, was a J.P. Morgan client from 1998
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  Speaker 1: to 2013. Diamond has called the bank's relationship with Epstein
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  Speaker 1: a terrible mistake, but says he was unaware of it
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  Speaker 1: at the time, instead pointing the finger at Staley, who
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  Speaker 1: was the CEO of J.P. Morgan's asset management division in 2004,
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  Speaker 1: when Diamond first joined the bank. Staley, however, has contradicted
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  Speaker 1: the claim. saying he and Diamond did, in fact, communicate
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  Speaker 1: about Epstein in 2006, when Epstein was first arrested, and
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  Speaker 1: again in 2008, when he pleaded guilty to soliciting and
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  Speaker 1: procuring a minor for prostitution. Staley and Diamond were colleagues
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  Speaker 1: at J.P. Morgan until 2009 when when Staley left to
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  Speaker 1: head up Barclays. Now, is anybody out there really believing
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  Speaker 1: one single damn word about Jamie Dimon and his relationship
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  Speaker 1: with Jeffrey Epstein? And he can keep denying this until St.
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  Speaker 1: Smithen's Day for all I care, but the facts are
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  Speaker 1: the facts. And the facts say that Jamie Dimon knew
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  Speaker 1: about Epstein and knew who he was. The recent filing
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  Speaker 1: is the latest in a back-and-forth legal battle between J.P.
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  Speaker 1: Morgan and the U.S. Virgin Islands, in which the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: territory is seeking at least $ 190 million to settle the
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  Speaker 1: suit that claims J.P. Morgan benefited from Epstein's infamous sex
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  Speaker 1: trafficking ring while ignoring his sordid misdeeds. Hello, pot. I'm kettle.
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  Speaker 1: You're black. That's basically what the USVI allegations are saying.
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  Speaker 1: The Virgin Islands Council at Motley Rice declined to comment. Well, folks,
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  Speaker 1: it feels like a broken record at this point how
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  Speaker 1: many times we have to go over people like Sergey Brin.
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  Speaker 1: But now that he's back in the conversation, we'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about him again. And we'll continue to talk about these
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  Speaker 1: dirtbags as they pop up in the ongoing conversation. All right, everybody,
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  Speaker 1: that's going to do it for this one. All of
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  Speaker 1: the information that goes with this episode can be found
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  Speaker 1: in the description box. And welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. So,
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  Speaker 1: Sergey Brin and his $ 4 billion in investments to J.P. Morgan, well,
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  Speaker 1: that was all allegedly facilitated by none other than Jeffrey Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: And it shouldn't shock anybody. Sergey Brin's name has been
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  Speaker 1: connected to Epstein for a very long time, and he's
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  Speaker 1: another one who hasn't given us a quality explanation for
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  Speaker 1: his relationship with Epstein. So... Let's dive right into this
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  Speaker 1: New York Post article and let's see what's going on. Headline,
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein helped JP Morgan land Google co-founder Sergey Brin
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  Speaker 1: and his $ 4 billion in investments as a client. This
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  Speaker 1: article was authored by Shannon Thaler. Jeffrey Epstein brought a
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  Speaker 1: slew of deep-pocketed clients to JP Morgan Chase, including Google
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  Speaker 1: co-founder Sergey Brin, who became one of the bank's biggest
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  Speaker 1: clients with investments worth more than $ 4 billion, according to
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  Speaker 1: court papers. Now, you wonder why J.P. Morgan didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to get rid of Epstein. Well, if he's bringing in
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  Speaker 1: these kind of clients for you, everybody's getting rich, and
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  Speaker 1: we all know that profits always come over people when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to the financial sector. And when you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about Epstein, it's even worse. This guy had little use
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  Speaker 1: for human beings. All he cared about was money, power,
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  Speaker 1: and fulfilling his disgusting sexual desires. That's all this dude
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  Speaker 1: cared about. A bombshell legal filing in the U.S. Southern
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  Speaker 1: District of New York late Monday revealed that Brin became
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  Speaker 1: a client of J.P. Morgan's San Francisco private bank in 2004,
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  Speaker 1: one year after Epstein introduced Brin to Jess Daly, a
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  Speaker 1: former executive at J.P. Morgan. Do you know how rich
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  Speaker 1: all of these people got? Directly on the back of
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein's criminal enterprise? And then you'll wonder why RICO
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  Speaker 1: was never initiated. And this tells you right here why
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  Speaker 1: it was never initiated. If they would have went after RICO,
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  Speaker 1: who would have funded your favorite politician's next political run?
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  Speaker 1: Certainly not the nickel and dimes regular people are giving them.
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  Speaker 1: It's people like Sergey Brin and Reid Hoffman. and the
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  Speaker 1: Koch brothers that are really in charge of who goes
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  Speaker 1: to Washington, D.C., and that's why I say all the
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  Speaker 1: time that the financial sector is the real bastion of power,
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  Speaker 1: and that's where all the real decisions are made. The
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  Speaker 1: overall Brin relationship is one of the largest in the
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  Speaker 1: private bank, of plus $ 4 billion, wrote banker Robert A.
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  Speaker 1: Keller in a memo who the documents claim was introduced
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  Speaker 1: to Epstein by Staley. Brin, who's also behind the single-family
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  Speaker 1: office Bayshore Global, also met with CEO of JPMorgan's Asset
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  Speaker 1: Wealth Management Division, Mary Erdos, plus other JPMorgan executives and
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  Speaker 1: members of Bayshore, the memo filed in court states. And
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  Speaker 1: Mary Erdos has been able to navigate through this, coming
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  Speaker 1: out pretty much unscathed. But I don't know how long
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  Speaker 1: that's going to last. She was a huge part in
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  Speaker 1: what was going on over at J.P. Morgan, and she
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  Speaker 1: certainly was somebody who knew Epstein and had a relationship
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  Speaker 1: with him. How far that relationship goes, that's to be determined.
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  Speaker 1: But there's no doubt that Mary Erdos was friendly with Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: Just look at the tenor of the emails that were
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  Speaker 1: being sent back and forth. We work very closely with
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  Speaker 1: Sergey Brin, family office, and communicate with them at least
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  Speaker 1: one time per day, Keller added on the memo. At
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  Speaker 1: the time, in 2004, Bryn was number 19 on Forbes'
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  Speaker 1: billionaire list. Onboarding documents included in the docket showed that
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  Speaker 1: at the time, Bryn's fortune passed the $ 30 billion mark.
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  Speaker 1: Now think about that for a minute. $ 30 billion, and
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  Speaker 1: you're palling around with Jeffrey Epstein. Why? What the hell
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  Speaker 1: are you doing hanging out with this weirdo? Don't tell
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  Speaker 1: me you didn't know. You went to his house. You
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  Speaker 1: saw the pictures. You saw the weird ass chess pieces.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to hear from any of these people
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  Speaker 1: that they had no idea who Epstein was. How many
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  Speaker 1: of you have walked into somebody's home and saw a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of pictures of young naked girls on the walls,
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  Speaker 1: all sorts of weird ass art, and just been like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, cool, no big deal. I'm guessing not many
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  Speaker 1: of you. You know why? Because we're not hanging out
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  Speaker 1: and breaking bread with the sick billionaire class who finds
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  Speaker 1: all of this shit normal. And why do I say that? Well,
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  Speaker 1: if they didn't find it normal, don't you think they
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  Speaker 1: would have said something about the shit Epstein was up to?
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  Speaker 1: You would expect that, right? But considering all of these
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  Speaker 1: people are fellow travelers with Epstein, well, we are where
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  Speaker 1: we are. Brin, a 49-year-old father of two, is now
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  Speaker 1: 11 on the Forbes list with a net worth of $ 99. 1 billion.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure every last cent of that was made fairly.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure that Sergey Brin never shit on anyone on
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  Speaker 1: his way up the tree to success. Just another misunderstood billionaire, right?
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  Speaker 1: Also in 2003, Epstein reportedly introduced Brin's fellow Google co-founder,
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  Speaker 1: Larry Page, to JP Morgan. The court documents showed, And
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  Speaker 1: Larry Page is another Stunad, another one of these rich-ass
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  Speaker 1: scoundrels who's hiding from a subpoena, can't even answer basic questions,
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  Speaker 1: and they'll hide behind their legions of security, their 500-foot
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  Speaker 1: walls surrounding their apocalypse bunkers. And then they'll have a
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  Speaker 1: bunch to say about the rest of us and how
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  Speaker 1: we live. And I don't know about you, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: sick and tired of all these billionaires acting like they
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  Speaker 1: know what regular people are going through on a regular basis.
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  Speaker 1: They do not. We don't have the same problems. I
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  Speaker 1: promise you that. An email correspondent cited in the filing
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  Speaker 1: revealed that J.P. Morgan referred to Epstein as the advisor
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  Speaker 1: to the Google founders. According to the filing, the message
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  Speaker 1: was sent by Epstein, and Borowitz, a former managing director
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  Speaker 1: at the bank, to Staley, referencing the potential need to
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  Speaker 1: have a New York team for Jeffrey Epstein as the
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  Speaker 1: advisor to the Google founders. So do you think JP
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  Speaker 1: Morgan was sending out this email for fun? Just for
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  Speaker 1: their health, they wanted to practice an email chain? Or
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  Speaker 1: do you think that Epstein was acting as an advisor
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  Speaker 1: for the Google founders? I know what I think, and
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  Speaker 1: I think that he was acting as an advisor for
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  Speaker 1: Brin and for Larry Page. That's what I think, and
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  Speaker 1: I feel like the evidence is on my side. We
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  Speaker 1: have not brought an investor onto the team yet because
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  Speaker 1: we wanted to see if you agreed that it should
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  Speaker 1: be Bob Bianc, she wrote, referencing another managing director. Since
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  Speaker 1: you know Jeffrey, which one would you pick? Borowitz asked Staley.
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  Speaker 1: What do you recommend as the best step? A meeting
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  Speaker 1: call with you? A meeting with Jeffrey? According to the
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  Speaker 1: court documents, Staley said, was introduced to Epstein by former
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  Speaker 1: JP Morgan head honcho, Sandy Warner, in or about the
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  Speaker 1: 2000 period. Warner told Staley, you should meet Epstein. He's
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  Speaker 1: one of the most connected people I know in New York.
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  Speaker 1: So JP Morgan has a problem here too. Not only
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  Speaker 1: do they have to contend with Jamie Dimon, possibly knowing
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  Speaker 1: about Epstein, but obviously their prior CEO not only knew
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  Speaker 1: about Epstein, but pushed Staley, into forming a relationship with
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  Speaker 1: him so that the bank would be in a position
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  Speaker 1: better suited to make some more money. So that's certainly
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  Speaker 1: going to be part of the reckoning for J.P. Morgan
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  Speaker 1: moving forward. Before referencing Brin and Page to J.P. Morgan,
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  Speaker 1: Epstein brought a slew of people in his high net
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  Speaker 1: worth network to the bank. including Bill Gates, the Sultan
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  Speaker 1: of Dubai, Prince Andrew, Hyatt Hotel heir Thomas Pritzker, and
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  Speaker 1: billionaire hedge fund founder Glenn Dubin. And for those of
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: you keeping score at home, three of those five have
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  Speaker 1: been directly accused of taking part in the abuse. Pritzker,
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  Speaker 1: Prince Andrew, and Glenn Dubin. By 2003, when Brennan Page
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  Speaker 1: reportedly joined the bank, Epstein was also bringing in over
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  Speaker 1: $ 8 million in revenue to the private bank. The court
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  Speaker 1: document said the figure was the top revenue and nearly
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  Speaker 1: double the amount of the next highest client. The filing
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: added So you see here why they didn't want to
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: get rid of them. I hate to keep reiterating that,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: but it's very important. It's all about money for these people.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: It's not about, you know, Epstein being a scumbag or
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: some drug trafficker being a scumbag. They don't care if
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: they can have a workaround and they can make it
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: look like that money is legitimate. They're going to take
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: them on as a client. And that's just the way
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: it goes in the financial sector. and no amount of
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: fines is ever going to fix that or change it.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: You know what will change it? Sending people to prison.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: That'll change it. All these soft-ass bankers going to prison? Yeah, right.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: They ain't built for it. So you start sending these
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: dudes to prison, and maybe the next one who has
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: one of these ideas thinks twice about it. No purchase necessary.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Voidware prohibited by law. 18 plus terms and conditions apply.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: See website for details. The fresh evidence is part of
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: the Virgin Islands lawsuit. claiming JP Morgan benefited from Epstein's
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: infamous sex trafficking ring while ignoring his sordid misdeeds when
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: the Isles government is seeking at least $ 190 million to
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: settle the suit. The sum includes $ 150 million in civil
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: fines and at least $ 40 million in penalties for maintaining
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: a 15-year relationship with Epstein. Both Brynn and Page have
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: been issued subpoenas as part of the ongoing high-profile suit
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Representatives for JP Morgan did not immediately respond to the
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: post request for comment. Now, if I was one of
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: the survivors, I would look at the numbers that the U.S.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Virgin Island is asking for from J.P. Morgan, and I'd
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: extrapolate those numbers to myself. And I'd use those same
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: numbers to ask for that amount from the U.S. Virgin
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Islands in a class action suit. Because there's no way
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: under this sun that anyone's going to convince me that
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: the U.S. Virgin Islands and the people who were running
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: the show down there at the time didn't know what
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: was going on and didn't benefit from Epstein's crimes. Brin
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: was subpoenaed in April. The U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: has asked legal representatives for Brin to turn over any
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: documents or information related to the bank and Epstein. The U.S.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Virgin Islands attempted to subpoena Page as part of the
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: lawsuit as well, but a court filing from May showed
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: that government officials couldn't find him to serve him the papers.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Must be nice, huh? Hiding on some island somewhere. The
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: 50-year-old tech mogul, who's worth $ 104. 3 billion, according to Forbes,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: remains largely out of the public eye. Although it's unclear
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: where he resides, legal documents obtained by Insider revealed Page
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: owns four islands and reportedly spent much of the pandemic
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: hiding out in Fiji. Imagine these guys, let me go
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: buy an island and then hide out from COVID. while
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: the rest of you die. Just like all the rich
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: people in New York, mind you. Don't forget all the
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: rich people in New York City who bounced up to
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: the Hamptons to leave the people in the city to
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: their fate. Oh, what, you thought I forgot? Three of
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Paige's islands are located in the Caribbean. Hanlolik, its neighboring
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Little Hanslolik, and Eustacia Island, while Tavaria lies west of
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: the main Fijian Island. Page and Brin co-founded Google in
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: 1998 based on research they conducted together while at Stanford
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: University as doctoral students. A restructuring of Google in 2015
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: made Alphabet the search giant's corporate parent. The duo held
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: top jobs at the organization. Page had been the chief
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: executive of Google and Brin had been the president of
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Google until 2019. when they stepped down and Sundar Pichai
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: took over as Alphabet CEO. Page remains a board member
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: and controlling shareholder for Alphabet. Brin, the second largest shareholder
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: behind Page, was reportedly hands-off since leaving his day-to-day role
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: in 2019. However, he's back in the trenches and working
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: with a group of researchers to build Google's long-awaited artificial
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: intelligence model, Gemini, according to the Wall Street Journal. So
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: he shouldn't be too hard to find, huh? But really,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: what does it matter? Even though they know who all
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: of these people are, what has happened to them? Have
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: any of them faced any sort of real repercussion? Of
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: course not. And until there are repercussions for people like this,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: until there's some teeth to the sanctions that they're hit with,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: we're going to keep seeing it happen over and over again.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Because they know that they're going to make billions and
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: billions of dollars. And then on the backside of that,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: the penalty is only going to be a very small number,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: from their point of view anyway, of, you know, $ 190,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: $ 200 million. And to them, that's just the cost of
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: doing business. Because the big picture is they're making that
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: times about $ 5, 000 on a daily basis. So do you
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: really think those penalties are going to work? It's like
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: when you were a kid and your parents would ground
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: you for like a day. Oh yeah, I really learned
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: my lesson, Mom. So until the day arrives where people
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: like this are treated the same way that you or
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: I would be treated, then we're going to have this
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: stupid carousel of misery continuing to go round and round
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: and round. All right, everybody, that's going to do it
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: for this one. All of the information that goes with
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: this episode can be found in the description box. What's up, everyone,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: and welcome to another episode of of the Epstein Chronicles.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: In this episode, we have a quick article from Business
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Insider talking about Reid Hoffman. And as soon as we
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: finish the article up, right after it, I'll have a
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: few closing statements about what I think about this article
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: and Reid Hoffman himself. So let's get right to it.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Like I said, this article was published by Business Insider
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: and the headline, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman says he learned
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: a lesson from a visit to Epstein's Island. Note to self,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Google before going. Yeah, we all believe that, buddy. This
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: article was authored by Alice Takotsky. LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: said he wishes he'd known a little more before agreeing
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: to spend the night on Jeffrey Epstein's Island. A little
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: bit different than just showing up to the island, right?
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Spending the night and you found nothing creepy about what
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: was going on, huh? Okay. On the December 1st episode
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: of Eric Newcomer's podcast, Hoffman said that he visited the
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: island as part of his fundraising work for the MIT
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Foundation and was told the visit would make Epstein more
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: likely to donate to MIT. Bro, you have so much money.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Why do you need Epstein to donate? And this is
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: the excuse they use. And I said I'd talk about
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: it afterwards, but this is ridiculous. So we have to
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: talk about it now, and then I'll give you my
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: closing monologue as well, because this is ridiculous. I mean,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: does this guy really think we're stupid? He was just
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: on this island. He didn't explore. He didn't go and
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: check anything out. He didn't hear anything. He didn't see anything.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: He knows nothing. Okay. Note to self. Google before going,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Hoffman said on the podcast. He said he stayed on
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: the island for one night and that there was a pool,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: a bunch of guest rooms, and a courtyard. And no women, huh?
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: No Nadia Marcinkova. No Sarah Kellan. No Virginia. No unnamed
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: girls from Eastern Europe. I call bullshit. I don't believe
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: that for a second. Hoffman has maintained that he only
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: interacted with Epstein, whose 2019 death while awaiting trial on
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: sex trafficking charges was ruled a suicide through his work
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: fundraising for the MIT Media Lab. On the newcomer podcast,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: he called Epstein a masterful networker and recalled the 2015
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: dinner he hosted for an MIT researcher in Palo Alto, California. Well,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: they were all hanging out together. And Silicon Valley might
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: be the worst of the worst. These people, Peter Thiel,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: the other guy, what's his name, Lucky Palmer. There's a
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: whole lot of these people that really give me the willies.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: And these are the new masters of the universe. And
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: we're all over here worrying about 1984 becoming a reality.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: But while we were worrying about that, these rotten bastards
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: flipped the script. And now it's like a brave new world.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Hoffman said that Joey Ito, former director of the MIT
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Media Lab, asked him if Epstein could attend the dinner,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: which was also attended by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Similar to his visit to the island,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Hoffman said he was later told that the financier had
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: said he was more likely to donate if he attended
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: the dinner. So again, it's all about the money. We're
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: talking about somebody who was already a registered sex offender
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: in 2015. So Reid Hoffman can save the bullshit. Everybody
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: knew what Jeffrey Epstein was and what he was up to.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: And I know it sounds like a broken record at
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: this point, but it has to be said again, I guess.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: He's kind of going through the network, trying to meet people,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: and so forth, Hoffman said on the podcast. Hoffman also
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: reiterated previous apologies for his involvement with Epstein. In 2019,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: a spokesperson for Zuckerberg, confirmed the dinner to Business Insider
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: and said it was the only time the Facebook co-founder
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: met Epstein. A spokesperson for Musk also confirmed the Tesla
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: CEO's attendance. And there's a lot of other meetings and
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: events that Elon Musk was at with Jeffrey Epstein. And
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: he still hasn't answered for any of that. In a
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: 2009 a 2019 email to Axios, Hoffman acknowledged multiple interactions
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: with Epstein, which he said were strictly for fundraising purposes,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: and said he had been told MIT had vetted and
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: approved the convicted sex offender's participation. He said in the
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: email he was deeply regretful of the involvement. I mean,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: that really strains credulity. You're one of the rich men
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: in the world and you don't Google who you're dealing with.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Nobody says to you, Hey, read, this guy's a little
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: bit odd, bro. He was busted for so-and-so. I don't
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: believe that for a second because I know that when
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: I've been invited on the podcast, people have reached out
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: to me and said, Hey, do you know about so-and-so
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: or blah, blah, blah. Or I've looked at, you know,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: their content or whatever and said to myself, yeah, that's
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: not for me. Not that difficult, right? You don't have
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: to put yourself in a situation where Where you're associating
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: with somebody you don't want to be associating with? Especially
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: when you have the kind of money that Reid Hoffman has.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Do they really need Jeffrey Epstein's donations? I went and
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: kind of made a, you know, very public apology because
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: it was like, okay, I realized this and I'd already
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: at that point had ramped down connection with them, right?
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: So like no meetings and all the rest of the
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: stuff under any context, Hoffman said on the podcast. And
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: I think he still would drop me an email every
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: so often and say, hey, can we get on the phone?
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: I say, oh, maybe sometime, which is, you know, code
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: for never, right? No, I don't know that. Never means never.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Maybe means sometime, and it means maybe. Don't try and
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: parse words and tell me what I know and what
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: I don't know, Reid Hoffman. Hoffman said the justice for
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: the late pedophile's survivors is important and urged the government
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: to release unredacted every single piece of intel that they
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: have about Epstein. In November, President Donald Trump signed a
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: bill that will release the Department of Justice files on
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Epstein after months of pressure from Congress, including some fellow Republicans.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: The department has until Saturday, December 19th, to comply with
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: the order. I have my doubts. I have my doubts
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: about that. But we'll wait and see. I don't want
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: to be one of those black pill people. So we'll
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: wait and see what happens on the 19th. But I
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: will tell you this. I have my doubts. Trump has
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: also ordered the DOJ to investigate Hoffman along with other
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: individuals he views as political enemies, including former President Bill
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Clinton and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers over their ties
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: to Epstein. Well, he has the right idea as far
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: as the people, but the motivation's all bad. And that's
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: how you end up getting a prosecution to be DOA.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: And maybe that's Trump's whole entire purpose, right? Talk all
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: this shit and make these cases impossible to prosecute. Hoffman,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: a billionaire and major Democratic donor, has previously said that
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: he had to hire security after Musk fueled conspiracy theories
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: about his relationship with Epstein. Alright, so that's the article.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Here's my opinion about all of it. Imagine being a
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: billionaire like Reid Hoffman and expecting people to take I
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: didn't know at face value. That might work for a
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: guy who lives off coupons, not someone embedded in the
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: most information-rich social class on Earth. Hoffman didn't claw his
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: way to the top of Silicon Valley by being oblivious.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: He made his fortune by understanding people, incentives, and networks.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: He built an empire on mapping relationships and leveraging proximity.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: So when he suddenly becomes incurious, the performance rings hollow.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: The richest men in the world don't lack information. They
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: outsource discomfort. And Epstein was discomfort incarnate. Reid Hoffman is
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: the textbook not-me billionaire, the kind who always has a
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: prefabricated excuse ready It's never denial outright, just soft deflection
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: wrapped in reasonableness. He speaks in calibrated ambiguity, the language
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: of people who fear specifics. Every statement feels engineered to
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: be technically true while practically useless. The goal isn't clarity,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: it's survivability. That's how power communicates when it doesn't want
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: to confess or confront. Epstein thrived exactly in this kind
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: of fog. Let's be explicit and responsible because the distinction matters.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: There's no evidence Reid Hoffman participated in abuse. The public
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: record does not accuse him of crimes. Saying that clearly
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: is not charity, it's accuracy. But accuracy doesn't mean absolution.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: No one ends their responsibility at not criminally charged. The
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Epstein story is not just about perpetrators, it's about enablers, shields,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: and silencers. It's about who tolerated what and when. That's
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: the conversation Hoffman can't dodge. Hoffman has acknowledged knowing Jeffrey Epstein.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: He acknowledged traveling to Epstein's Island. Those aren't rumors or
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: hostile interpretations. Those are admissions. Once those facts are on
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: the table, the conversation changes permanently. This is no longer
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: about whether they crossed paths. It's about how deliberate those
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: paths were. Little St. James was not a neutral venue
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: or a casual hangout. It was already infamous long before
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: the world pretended to notice. You don't visit that island
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: without hearing things unless you actively choose not to listen.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: And inevitably, the defense always circles back to timing because
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: timing is the last refuge of the cornered elite. I
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: didn't know then it's treated like an escape hatch, as
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: if Epstein's crimes manifested suddenly in a single news cycle.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Survivors were speaking years before journalists were brave enough to
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: amplify them. Law enforcement knew far more than it acted on.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Wealthy circles whisper earlier, not later. Claiming ignorance requires believing
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: that the wealthiest social tier was the least informed. That
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: is the opposite of how power works. Reid Hoffman's entire
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: professional identity is built on understanding networks. LinkedIn itself is
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: a monument to relational awareness. Context, proximity, and information flow
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: are the currency he monetized. That makes selective blindness incredibly
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: difficult to believe. You can't be hyperliterate in human connection
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: while socially illiterate in elite circles. Epstein didn't move invisibly
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: through high society. He was discussed, warned about, joked about,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: and quietly avoided by some. Choosing not to hear is
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: not the same as not knowing. Billionaires love to cite
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: busyness as an alibi. Too busy to pay attention. Too
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: busy to notice red flags. Too busy to ask follow-up questions.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Yet never too busy to accept invitations that benefit them.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: never too busy to board private jets or attend exclusive gatherings.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: Their time scarcity somehow only applies to moral curiosity. It's
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: not by accident. Epstein counted on that exact hierarchy of concern,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: and it served them well for decades. The island detail
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: does not go away, no matter how carefully it's contextualized.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: You don't accidentally end up on Little St. James. It's
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: not a layover destination or a happy coincidence. It requires invitation, transportation,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: and consent. Each step involves awareness. Each step carries implicit endorsement.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Pretending it was just another stop stretches credibility beyond repair.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Geography matters when crimes cluster around a location. And we
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: all know that Epstein curated his social circle with precision.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Everyone who visited was a signal to everyone else. Smart
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: people conferred legitimacy. Cautious people provided insulation. Well-known names discourage scrutiny.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: That wasn't random socializing. It was strategic placement. Epstein's access
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: depended on the presence of the powerful. He built a
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: moat out of reputation. People like Reid Hoffman were bricks
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: in that wall, whether they intended to be or not.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Intent doesn't erase effect. And the question has matured past
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: childish framing. It's no longer, did Reid Hoffman know Jeffrey Epstein?
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: That question has been answered. The meaningful question is depth
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: and duration. How often? How close? And under what circumstances?
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Relationships are patterns, not snapshots. Every continued association after new
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: information emerges is a decision. Silence after suspicion is also
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: a choice. Choices accumulate consequences whether acknowledged or not. Hoffman's
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: public statements rely heavily on narrow constructions. They're carefully worded,
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: legally cautious, and emotionally neutral. This is the tone of
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: someone answering the safest possible question. It avoids grappling with
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: uncomfortable implications. What did you hear? What did you dismiss?
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: What did you rationalize away? These are not legal questions,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: but they are historical ones, and history is less forgiving
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: than the courts. Elite culture specializes in plausible deniability. Everyone
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: knows just enough to maintain distance and just little enough
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: to deny responsibility. Epstein exploited that culture mercilessly. He didn't
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: need universal ignorance in He needed selective disbelief. He needed
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: powerful people who would not ask inconvenient questions, not because
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: they were evil, but because they were comfortable. Comfort is
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: the real accomplice in most large-scale abuses. And look, let's
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: be real. The tech elite love disruption until disruption threatens them.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, stability becomes sacred. Questions are
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: reframed as hysteria. Scrutiny becomes persecution. Patterns are dismissed as coincidence.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Epstein operated comfortably in that protective field. He depended on it.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: He was insulated by the reputations of others, and those
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: reputations did real work on his behalf. Look, no one's
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: demanding a confession or a scarlet letter. What's being demanded
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: is honesty without choreography. Stop hiding behind sterile phrasing, stop
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: pretending the air was clean, acknowledge discomfort existed and was ignored.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: That admission costs nothing now. Refusal, on the other hand,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: deepens the stain. Silence always compounds over time. Survivors understand
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  Speaker 1: this dynamic intimately. They were disbelieved not because evidence didn't exist,
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  Speaker 1: but because disbelief was easier. Powerful acquaintances may doubt respectable,
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  Speaker 1: respectability is a powerful shield And Epstein wore it like armor.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't manufacture it alone. It was lent to him repeatedly,
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  Speaker 1: often by people who told themselves they were staying neutral.
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  Speaker 1: When billionaires plead ignorance, what they're really asking for is exemption.
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  Speaker 1: Exemption from judgment. Exemption from moral memory. Exemption from follow-up questions.
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  Speaker 1: Wealth does not grant that privilege. Access does not erase responsibility.
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  Speaker 1: Silence is not neutral when it protects predators. History records
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  Speaker 1: silence carefully. Now, Reid Hoffman may regret proximity today. Regret
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  Speaker 1: is not reckoning. Reckoning requires detail and vulnerability. It requires timelines,
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  Speaker 1: not platitudes. It requires answers that do not flatter the speaker.
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  Speaker 1: Carefully sanded statements are not courage. Look, this is not
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  Speaker 1: about inventing crimes where evidence does not exist. It's about
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: refusing fantasies where facts clearly do. Reid Hoffman, new Jeffrey Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: Reid Hoffman visited his island. Those realities are not up
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  Speaker 1: for debate. What remains is the depth of that relationship
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  Speaker 1: and the choices made within it. History is going to
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: keep asking that question. And if they continue with their silence,
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: they'll keep answering it poorly. All of the information that
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  Speaker 1: goes with this episode can be found in the description box.
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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. Yesterday,
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: when we were talking about how Jeffrey Epstein tried to
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: get his tentacles into Donald Trump's campaign in 2016, we
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  Speaker 1: were also talking about a man named Reid Hoffman. Well, today,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: that's who we're going to talk about a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more at length, considering this dude visited Epstein's Island and
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  Speaker 1: then poured thousands of dollars into into the Democratic Senate race.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how many more examples do we need that
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  Speaker 1: both sides are absolutely corrupt? And the fact that a
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  Speaker 1: guy like Reid Hoffman, who was obviously close to Epstein,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: is still able to just slide around without any real
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: questions is bananas. And then you wonder why I say
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  Speaker 1: the whole entire political class is bought and paid for. Well,
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: here it is. A guy like Reid Hoffman has no
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  Speaker 1: business donating $ 700, 000 to Biden's reelection effort or to any
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  Speaker 1: of these Senate campaign races. You know, like Epstein himself
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: did with Stacey Plaskett. This article is authored by Jessica Chasmar.
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  Speaker 1: The Democrat tech billionaire who helped rehab Jeffrey Epstein's image
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  Speaker 1: and visited his island has poured thousands in donations into
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  Speaker 1: several vulnerable Senate races across the country. You know, you
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: talk about demons. People talk about the W.E.F. or all
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: this other nonsense that really doesn't affect our lives. You
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: know what really affects our lives? People like Reid Hoffman.
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  Speaker 1: People in the financial sector who are literally guiding the
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  Speaker 1: course of our future with their donations to these politicians.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think they just give this money up and
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  Speaker 1: then they're like, oh, you know what? I don't expect
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  Speaker 1: any favors for it. Or do you think that this
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  Speaker 1: money buys them entry into the senator's office? LinkedIn co-founder
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  Speaker 1: Reid Hoffman recently gave the maximum donations of $ 6, 600 each
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  Speaker 1: to the campaign's of Senator John Tester, Montana, Jackie Rosen, Nevada,
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  Speaker 1: and Bob Casey in Pennsylvania, according to Federal Election Commission records.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll be reaching out to Jackie Rosen later on
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  Speaker 1: today to see if she's going to return Jeffrey Epstein's
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: buddy's money. We'll see what she has to say. All
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  Speaker 1: three races are considered battlegrounds going into Election Day 2024.
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  Speaker 1: And now look, If he wants to donate money, fine.
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  Speaker 1: But the fact is, people need to be aware that
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  Speaker 1: Reid Hoffman was somebody that was certainly in Epstein's circle.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody who had been to the island, somebody who broke
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  Speaker 1: bread with Epstein, and somebody who was playing a part
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  Speaker 1: in Epstein's gigantic wheel. News of the donations came after
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal reported in May that Hoffman visited
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's private Caribbean island called Little St. James, part of
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  Speaker 1: the U.S. Virgin Islands, on at least one occasion in 2014.
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  Speaker 1: Hoffman and the now-deceased convicted pedophile were planning to return
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  Speaker 1: to the island in November of 2014, and then travel
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  Speaker 1: to Boston, the report said. So not just showing up
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  Speaker 1: for dinner. They're going to travel together. Yeah, let's go
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  Speaker 1: to the island. Then we'll go to Boston. Well, what
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  Speaker 1: were you guys doing? How many massages did you get,
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  Speaker 1: Reid Hoffman? It's unclear what the intent was for those
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: planned trips, but the report also revealed Hoffman was planning
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  Speaker 1: to stay at Epstein's luxury Manhattan townhouse in December of
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  Speaker 1: 2014 after a late arrival in New York City. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: isn't that nice? After Epstein was already a sexual offender, Mr.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: Big Shot Moneybags, who's dumping a bunch of dough into
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  Speaker 1: the Democratic Party, he thought it would be a good
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  Speaker 1: idea to go have a sleepover. And I'm sure that
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  Speaker 1: they were just discussing, you know, the local news. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure nothing was going on that was untowards. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: there were no massages being given. Hoffman also sent the
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  Speaker 1: maximum $ 6, 600 donation on June 14th to the campaign of
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  Speaker 1: California Democrat Will Rollins, who is again trying to grab
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  Speaker 1: a congressional seat after a narrow loss during the 2022 elections.
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  Speaker 1: Fox News Digital reported on Tuesday. Fox News Digital also
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: reported this week that the Biden Victory Fund, a joint
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  Speaker 1: fundraising committee authorized by the Biden campaign, received a whopping $ 699, 600
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  Speaker 1: donation from Hoffman on April 26, and a maximum donation
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  Speaker 1: of $ 6, 600 went directly to Biden's campaign. Yesterday, we were
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: talking about Glenn Dubin giving money to Vivek Ramaswamy, and
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: now on the flip side, we see the same people
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  Speaker 1: giving money to the Democrats. And you wonder why I
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  Speaker 1: say they're all in on it. And you wonder why
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  Speaker 1: I say you shouldn't be cheering for any of these
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  Speaker 1: politicians or certainly arguing with your loved ones about it
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  Speaker 1: because they don't care about you. They're both getting money
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  Speaker 1: from Epstein. None of them did anything about it. And
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: anybody who says any different is a liar. Show me
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  Speaker 1: the proof that you did something about it while you
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  Speaker 1: were in power. None of them did. Oh, they all
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: found a way to take money from them though, right?
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  Speaker 1: Hoffman recently made headlines after Biden attended a fundraiser the
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  Speaker 1: billionaire hosted on behalf of the Biden Victory Fund at
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  Speaker 1: the private residence of Shannon Hunt Scott and Kevin Scott
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  Speaker 1: in Los Gatos, California. Hoffman told the Journal in May
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  Speaker 1: it gnaws at him that his association with Epstein helped
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  Speaker 1: his reputation and thus delayed justice for his survivors. My
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: last interaction with Epstein was in 2015. Still, by agreeing
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  Speaker 1: to participate in any fundraising activity where Epstein was present,
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  Speaker 1: I helped to repair his reputation and perpetuate injustice, Hoffman
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  Speaker 1: said in 2019. For this, I am deeply regretful. And
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: you know the truth? The truth is this. Guys like
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  Speaker 1: Reid Hoffman, Leon Black, and the rest of them, they're
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: the reason we didn't see Rico here. all your favorite
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  Speaker 1: politicians that you love so much, they could have forced
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  Speaker 1: the issue. They could have made the DOJ play a ball.
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  Speaker 1: Did anybody do it? And if they did, they would
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: have found that all of these people that were paddling
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: around with egg dick himself, they all had financial dealings
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  Speaker 1: with them as well. So if Epstein was making his
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: money from ill-gotten gains and there was a RICO charge,
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: everybody who was involved with them financially would be hit
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  Speaker 1: with the same charges. Now we can't have that, can we?
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: who would pay the bills for the politicians if their
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: banker buddies got in trouble. The 2015 interaction was when
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  Speaker 1: he invited Epstein to a Silicon Valley dinner with tech
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  Speaker 1: industry leaders after he was already convicted of sexual crimes.
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  Speaker 1: In September that same year, Hoffman attended a state dinner
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  Speaker 1: hosted by then-Vice President Biden at the White House in
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  Speaker 1: honor of Chinese President Xi Jinping. Fox News Digital has
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: previously reported that Hoffman's money also goes into non-traditional groups
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  Speaker 1: that aren't mandated to reporting their funding and often operate
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  Speaker 1: in the shadows. He was forced to issue an apology
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  Speaker 1: in 2018 for funding a group that falsely tried to
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: give the impression that the Russian government was supporting Alabama
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  Speaker 1: Republican Roy Moore in a 2017 special Senate election. So
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: just your usual typical scumbag has no idea about what's
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  Speaker 1: going on really, but knows that he has a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money. And hell, why not try and get things
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  Speaker 1: shaded in the direction I want them shaded in? Meanwhile,
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: while he's interfering in our elections, he's also breaking bread
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  Speaker 1: with Jeffrey Epstein. Why the hell would President Biden take
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  Speaker 1: money from this guy? Does anybody plan on asking Junior
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  Speaker 1: Soprano Biden if he's going to give this money back?
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  Speaker 1: Or are we just going to shrug our shoulders and
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  Speaker 1: be like, ah, you know what? It's not Alex Acosta,
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  Speaker 1: so let's move on. Biden has benefited from Hoffman's lavish
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  Speaker 1: spending on campaign contributions, donating $ 1. 5 million to a super
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  Speaker 1: PAC that supported Biden's candidacy, in the 2020 elections, as
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: well as the maximum individual dollar amount allowed to Biden's campaign,
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  Speaker 1: according to FEC records. Dudes out here throwing money at
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: all kinds of politicians. And again, I ask you, do
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  Speaker 1: you think he's doing that because he's a kind man
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  Speaker 1: and just wants to give him some money? Or do
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: you think he's doing that because he wants something on
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: the back end from them? He expects something on the
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: flip side. whether that's regulations that help his companies or
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: whatever it is, please don't be naive and think that
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  Speaker 1: these people are just so politically motivated that they want
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  Speaker 1: to donate millions and millions of dollars. Once they start
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: donating that money, the people they're donating that money to
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  Speaker 1: understand exactly where the money's coming from. And now they
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: understand that that person, whether it's Reid Hoffman or whoever else, well,
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  Speaker 1: they need access to you now or that money's going
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  Speaker 1: to dry up. And if you don't have that kind
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: of money, you don't have that kind of backing, you
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  Speaker 1: are not going to win office in America because it's
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  Speaker 1: all a fucking scam these days, folks. It's all a scam.
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  Speaker 1: It's not about your neighbor going to D.C. to argue
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  Speaker 1: what's best for the community. It's about some lawyer or
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: some doctor going to D.C. so they can increase their
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: wealth and get richer. So please pass me by when
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: you're gaslighting and talking about how any of these politicians,
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  Speaker 1: R or D, care about us. because I do not
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  Speaker 1: believe it. And you know what the proof of that is?
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  Speaker 1: My 43 years on this earth watching them move. Such
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: spending can come with certain perks, such as access. According
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  Speaker 1: to White House visitor logs, Hoffman visited the White House
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  Speaker 1: five times last year. Remember, Epstein visited Bill Clinton over
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  Speaker 1: 17 times while he was in the White House. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure that was just because Clinton loved Epstein's company, right?
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  Speaker 1: Had nothing to do with what Jeffy Boy was bringing
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  Speaker 1: to the table. One visit appears to have been for
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: the state dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron. The other
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  Speaker 1: four trips were for meetings... with Madeline Strasser, who at
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: the time was an advisor to the White House chief
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: of staff, Ron Klain, Kimberly Lang, who at the time
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: was the executive assistant to Biden's national security advisor, and
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Finkelstein, a special assistant to Biden and chief of
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: staff to the president's senior advisor. Hoffman and the campaigns
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  Speaker 1: for Tester, Rosen, and Casey did not respond to Fox
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  Speaker 1: News' digital requests for comment. Oh, of course they didn't.
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  Speaker 1: But if it was Alex Acosta, the legacy media would
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: be abuzz. The bad news for them, meaning the legacy
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: media and these people who are trying to craft narratives,
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: is we're not going to play ball. We're going to
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: follow the evidence and we're going to follow the truth.
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  Speaker 1: And the truth is, none of these scumbags on either
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  Speaker 1: side of the aisle give one single damn about you.
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  Speaker 1: How much more evidence do you need? All right, folks,
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  Speaker 1: that's going to do it for this one. All of
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: the information that goes with this episode can be found
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: in the description box.