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No Pardon for Maxwell? Todd Blanche Faces Senate Questions Over Epstein Justice (5/20/26) · The Epstein Chronicles

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. Todd Blanche made an appearance both for the
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  Senate yesterday and of course he had some questions thrown
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  at him that had to do with Jeffrey Epstein, and
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  according to Todd Baby Billy Blanche, he won't be recommending
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  that Gallainne Maxwell gets a pardon. The only problem with
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  that is, well, besides that he's a liar, is that
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  his boss is the one who makes that decision. So
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  it has nothing to do with Todd Blanche. If Donald
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  Trump wants to pardon Gallan Maxwell, that's what he's gonna do.
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  So forgive me if I don't take any comfort in
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  Todd Blanche telling us that's not gonna happen. Today's article
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  was published by the Guardian and the headline Todd Blanche
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  says he would not recommend a pardon for Gallaine Maxwell.
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  This article was authored by Anna Betts. Todd Blanche, the
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  acting US Attorney General, pulled lawmakers on Tuesday that he
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  would not recommend a pardon for Glenn Maxwell, the longtime
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  associate of Jeffrey Epstein who's serving a twenty year prison
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  sentence for sex trafficking crimes. Well, isn't that noble of you?
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  What a great guy, Todd, blanchees not going to recommend
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  a pardon for a child molester. Hey, Todd, why'd you
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  move her? Why don't we start there? Glenn Maxwell should
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  have never been moved from Tallahassee to Texas. Still no answers.
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  Blanche comments came during a Senate hearing on Tuesday, where
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  he was testifying before the Appropriation Subcommittee over budget requests
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  for the Justice Department. During one exchange, Chris Van Holland,
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  a Democrat from Maryland, asked Blanche whether the Justice Department,
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  and he is the acting Attorney General, could commit to
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  not recommending a pardon for Maxwell. Yes, I can commit
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  to that, of course. Blanche, who's a former personal lawyer
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  for Trump, responded, what was the matter. He's just saying
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  whatever he thinks people want to hear. If Donald Trump
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  wants to pardon Glan Maxwell, that's what's gonna happen. Now. Look,
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  I'm not gonna tell you that that's definitely for sure
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  gonna go down. I don't know. And if you would
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  have asked me a year ago, I would have said
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  no way. But now I'll bets are off, and that's
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  because the Epstein situation has made Trump and the Trump
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  administration even more unpredictable than ever. The statement comes as
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  Maxwell exhausted a series of appeals of her conviction, with
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  the US Supreme Court in October declining to hear her petition.
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  Why would they want to hear it? We all saw
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  the trial, we all saw the evidence. Did Glenn Maxwell
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  really think she was gonna be able to bullshit her
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  way out of the conviction? Not gonna happen, not with
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  a court now, maybe with Donald Trump and his buddies,
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  but now with the court, zero chance. Earlier this year,
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  Maxwell appeared before the House Oversight and Reform Committee, but
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  invoked her Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer the
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  panel's questions. Her attorney told lawmakers that she would only
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  speak if granted clemency. Granted clemency, what about just burying
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  her under the jail, you know, until her sentence is over.
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  There got to be a basement, right, put her there.
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  No chick fil a, no plan with puppies, just darkness.
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  I'm done with these people, especially people that have already
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  been convicted. And in April, reports emerged that members of
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  the committee were divided over whether Trump should consider pardoning
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  Maxwell in exchange for her cooperation in the Panels Epstein investigation. Well,
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  he doesn't have to worry about Thomas Massey anymore or
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  Marjorie Taylor Green. So it looks like the GOP they'll
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  be able to run roughshod. But that also means the
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  GEO he owns this Epstein issue now, and I promise
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  you this is going to have lasting effects that outlast
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  Donald Trump. So all these people out here that are
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  running their fat fucking yaps carrying water for the administration,
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  just remember this administration isn't forever, but your shame when
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  it comes to Epstein. That most certainly is. Last year,
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  the Trump administration faced growing pressure to release more documents
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  related to the Epstein investigation. It dispatched Blanche, who was
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  Deputy Attorney General at the time, to interview Maxwell about
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  the Epstein case. The interview, conducted over two days in July,
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  was followed by the Justice Department releasing the transcripts and
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  audio recordings shortly after that meeting. In August, Maxwell was
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  transferred from low security prison in Tallahassee, Florida, to a
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  minimum security camp in Texas, where most prisoners are serving
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  time for non violent offenses and white collar crime. At
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  the time, experts described the move as unprecedented. Do you
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  think they would have given l Choppo that kind of deal?
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  What about El Mio? Probably not huh. But Glenn Maxwell,
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  let's get her moved asap. Come on, her crimes weren't
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  that bad. They're only crimes against children. No big deal.
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  Since then, reports of service that Maxwell is much happier
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  at the Texas facility than she was at her previous prison,
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  and there have been allegations that she's receiving favorable treatment.
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  Of course, Todd Blanche denied that too. Favorable treatment. What
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  do you mean, Glenn Maxwell, She's in jail, let's just
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  move on. During Tuesday's hearing, Blanche denied that Trump personally
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  sent them to interview Maxwell and claimed he didn't know
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  whether she was receiving better treatment at her new facility.
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  Oh bullshit. Who do you think controls the b that's right,
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  the DOJ. Stop the nonsense. The possibility of clemency for Maxwell,
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  however unlikely, has long outraged survivors and their advocates, and
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  I think that most Americans share that same exact sentiment.
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  Everybody knows that what's going on is absolutely fucked. The
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  problem is there's about five other situations happening at the
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  same time that are equally as fucked. Most importantly, what's
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  going on in Iran, which is an absolute disaster and
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  look as important as the Epstein story is. When average
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  people can't put gas in their car, can't afford to
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  go to work, can't afford to keep the lights on,
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  see inflation blasting up over four seeing mortgages go to
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  six point seven eight percent, they know there's a problem
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  and there's a lot of other things for the average
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  person to worry about, and that's why the Trump administration
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  has flooded the zone, confuse people, office gate and hopefully
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  bury what's going on with Epstein, and unfortunately their strategy
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  has proven to be pretty effective. Earlier this month, Spencer Covin,
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  chief legal officer and litigation director at Cold Law, which
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  has represented numerous Epstein survivors, told The Guardian that any
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  talk of clemency for Maxwell in exchange for testimony turns
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  justice on its head. It risks rewarding the very person
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  who helped enable the abuse, and not only that took
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  part in it. We have one person in prison because
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  of this, and these disgusting, disgusting people are talking about
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  granting her clemency. I wonder how many of those people
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  have used the hush fund to defend their own allegations.
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  A representative for Maxwell did not immediately respond to a
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  request for comment about Blanche's statement. During the hearing on Tuesday,
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  Van Holland also told Blanche that he'd spoken with several
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  survivors of Epstein's abuse, who told them that they were
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  extremely frustrated that Blanche keeps calling for people to come
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  forward with more evidence, but you have not met with
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  them to hear their stories. If I connect you with
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  these survivors, will you meet with them? Van Holland asked Blanche.
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  Why would he have to be connected. Shouldn't Todd Blanche,
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  the most powerful lawman in the world, be doing this already.
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  Blanche responded, absolutely, and what you just said is false.
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  I have met with them. I've met with many many
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  of the lawyers for the survivors of victims, as did
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  Attorney General Bondie. So whoever told you that unfortunately gave
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  you bad information? Yeah, I don't believe that. Sorry, I
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  don't believe Todd Blanche has been proactive. His whole job
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  has been to mitigate this. In response, a group of
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  seventeen Epstein's survivors released a statement on Tuesday saying Blanche
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  has not met with any of us as survivors. We
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  previously sought a meeting with former Attorney General Bondie and
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  Department of Justice officials, but no meeting occurred. They said,
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  we should not have to be this persistent to engage
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  with the DOJ, the department responsible for handling the Epstein files,
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  protecting their privacy and answering for years of secrecy and failure. Unfortunately,
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  that's just the case. The dj has no desire to
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  get to the bottom of what happened. The whole entire
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  goal is to keep it hidden, and they're willing to
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  go to great lengths to do that. But I don't
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  know if this strategy they're using is going to work,
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  especially down in places where there's a split voter base.
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  Now Kentucky. They might be onto something because people in Kentucky,
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  well let's just say it, they're going to vote for
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  whoever the Republican candidate is anyway. But in some of
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  these other places where the incumbent got voted out. That
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  might give the Democrats an inroad to flip in that seat.
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  So it's going to be very interesting to watch all
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  of that unfold. In the statement, they added that given
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  Blanche comments again asking DOJ to meet directly with survivors
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  and their counsel, not to ask survivors to start over,
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  but to hear their concerns, explain how these failures occurred,
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  and provide clear answers about the release, redaction and withholding
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  of Epstein related records going forward. Well, as much as
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  I'd like to believe Todd Blanche in his nonsense, I don't,
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  and I don't believe that Todd Blanche speaks for President
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  Trump when it comes to a pardon for Glenn Maxwell.
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  So his guarantees that he's not going to recommend that
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  Donald Trump do that they mean less than nothing, and
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  considering his actions go against everything he says, I think
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  it's going to be a hard sell to the American
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  people that Todd Blanche is the arbiter of truth and
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  that he's looking for justice for the Epstein survivors. And
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  as you can tell from the response by the Epstein survivors,
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  they're not buying it either. All the information that goes
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  with this episode can be found in the description box.