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Mega Edition: The United States Government And The Self Inflicted Epstein Problem (5/23/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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Epstein Chronicles. If you listen to the DOJ and the
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Trump administration, they'll tell you that they're the most transparent
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administration and DOJ in the history of the country, and
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that as far as Jeffrey Epstein goes, there's nothing left
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to see here and it's time to just move on.
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And in fact, the whole entire thing is nothing but
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a hoax. But at the same time, the DOJ and
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the administration is not only with holding files that are
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related to President Trump, they're deleting files that have already
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been released that are related to President Trump. And if
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you're wondering why people are calling it a cover up,
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this is why the DOJ and the administration. They're not
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doing themselves any favors. Every time you turn around, it
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looks like they're advancing their cover up a little bit
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further and laughing at us the whole entire time. So
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in this episode, we're going to dive into an article
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from NPR discussing how these files have been withheld and
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some of them removed. Headline Justice Department withheld and removed
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some Epstein files related to Trump. This article was authored
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by Stephen Fowler. The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein
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files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor,
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an NPR investigation finds. It also removed some documents from
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the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mentioned Trump. Now, look,
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I've said from the jump that we haven't seen any
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real evidence here anything that would hold up in court
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that point us to Bill Clinton or Donald Trump actually
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engaging in abuse. Now, there have been some allegations against
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Trump that have been made, and frankly, I don't trust
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the FBI when they say they investigated, because how can
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you at this point. But that said, it's about what
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we could prove in court, and certainly there's nothing here
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that we've seen so far that we could use in
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court and say, hey, look so and so was doing
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this at this time, at this place to this person.
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But there's certainly a bunch of allegations, and there is
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no way that those allegations should be hidden, especially if
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it's a court case, a court document, something that was
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you know, set under oath, or if it was a
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statement given to the police or the FBI. Certainly something
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that should be looked at. Now, does that mean I
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believe everything that comes in most certainly not. I've told
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you from the beginning, not the fall for side quests,
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but the DOJ and Donald Trump himself, they're not doing
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themselves any favors when they hide documents, when they pull
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things down, all you do is further the suspicion, right,
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because the biggest problem for Trump right now is that
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this is an act of cover up. And how many
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times have we seen people go down for the cover
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up instead of the crime. So that's certainly something that
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Donald Trump needs to keep in mind and everybody in
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the administration honestly, because if you think that this is
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going away and that questions aren't going to be asked
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of people that we're in the middle of this, during
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this cover up, you're crazy. This is only just beginning.
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And I know that Donald Trump and the administration and
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all the stands want it to be over and want
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us to move on, but we're not going to. Some
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files have not been made public despite a law mandating
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their release. These include what appears to be more than
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fifty pages of FBI interviews and notes from conversations with
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a woman who accused Trump a sexual abuse decades ago
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when she was a minor. Well, according to the law,
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that should be released. Her name should be redacted, and
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it should be released. But the DOJ thinks they can
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do whatever they want. Oh well, just you know, go
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in here and we'll get rid of Trump's name every
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single place we possibly can. Did they think they were
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going to get away with that? No, they knew they wouldn't.
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They didn't care. That's what it comes down to. And
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I think that's what makes me so mad. These mfforts
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are literally looking us in the face and given us
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the double middle finger. MPR reviewed multiple sets of unique
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serial numbers appearing before and after the pages in question
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stamped onto the documents in the Epstein database, FBI case records, emails,
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and discovery document logs in the latest tranch of documents
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published at the end of January. MPR's investigation found dozens
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of pages that appear to be cataloged by the Justice
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Department but not shared publicly. And they'll have some explanation, right, Oh,
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it's national security. Oh we couldn't tell you about this
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or that. But that's not what the law says. And
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at some point the people who decided to do this,
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are going to be held accountable. The Justice Department declined
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to answer NPR's questions on the record about these specific files,
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what's in them and why they're not published? Oh, why
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would they Why would they give you any kind of
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inside book, especially in the middle of a cover up.
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The last thing they want to do is talk about it.
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Other file scrub from public view pertaining to a separate
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woman who was a key witness for the prosecution in
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the criminal trial of Epstein's co conspirator, Glenn Maxwell, who
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is serving a twenty year prison sentence for sex trafficking.
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Maxwell is seeking clemency from Trump. What I thought would
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never happen probably will now, with the way Trump is
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going and how there is some support for his nonsense
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amongst his most ardent supporters, I wouldn't be shocked to
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see Trump release Glenn Maxwell, followed directly by a PR
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campaign by the very same people who were given those
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white binders. That's the kind of life we're living, that's
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the kind of reality that we're living in. And these
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people are shameless. How many of those people that got
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those binders give a goddamn about any of this. How
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many of them have ever talked to any of the survivors,
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have read court documents, have done anything that would warrant
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them being given those binders in the first place. And
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I told you at the time it was a sy op.
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I knew it was the beginning of the end. And
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those will be the people that come out the loudest,
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the strongest, and with the most passion in their voices
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to defend Donald Trump. If he pardons Glenn Maxwell, and
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I wouldn't even be shocked to see Glen Maxwell hit
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the circuit and get on the podcast Benny Johnson's new
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co host Glenn Maxwell. It would be fitting right, Or
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maybe Glean Maxwell can head out with Nick Shirley on
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his next investigation. And I'm only half kidding when I
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say that some of those documents were briefly taken down
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and put back online last week, while others remain hidden.
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According dan PR's comparison of initial data set from January
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thirtieth with document metadata of those files currently on the
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Justice Department's website does not name victims of sexual abuse.
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Well that's a good idea. Maybe the DOJ should take
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some notes from MPR. When asked for comment about the
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missing pages and the accusations against the president. A White
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House spokeswoman told MPR that Trump has done more for
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Epstein victims than anyone before him. Yo, this is just
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too much. What exactly has Donald Trump done? I mean,
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he sent out Luna to drop a hand grenade in
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the middle of everything and call all the survivors traffickers.
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And she still hasn't clarified her statement yet. She's out
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here talking all kinds of crazy about this. That the
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other thing, she has no idea what she's talking about.
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Then again, we shouldn't expect anything from somebody who thinks
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that there is quote unquote interdimensional beings that are aliens,
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literally what she believes. But sure she's gonna get us
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to the Promised Land when it comes to Epstein and
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this investigation. It's truly bizarre. This lady has no idea
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what she's even talking about, and she's out here framing
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everybody as a human trafficker. And she made those comments
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not on the congressional floor. So she opens herself up
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to a lawsuit if the survivors want a sewer, and
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they'll tell you what. If I was a survivor, I'd
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think about it. Because her commentary has led to a
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bunch of morons running with it and saying a bunch
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of reckless bullshit, just as President Trump has said he's
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been totally exonerated on anything relating to Epstein, White House
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spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told NPR in a statement, YO, if
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you believe that you're dumb as the day is long,
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all Trump has done is implicate himself in the cover up.
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Is Abigail Jackson? Okay? Did she fall and hit her
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head before giving this interview? Was she hanging out in
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the sauna with Hillbilly Vanilli? I mean Kid Rock and
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RFK rocking some jeans and taking a dip. Because I
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don't know where you come up this kind of ludicrous
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statement unless you're suffering from CTE. And by releasing thousands
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of pages of documents, cooperating with the House Oversight Committee
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subpoena request, signing the Epstein Files Transparency Act, and calling
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for more investigations into Epstein's Democrat friends, President Trump has
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done more for Epstein's victims than anyone before him. Meanwhile,
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Democrats like Aqim Jeffries and Stacey Plaskett have yet to
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explain why they were soliciting money and meetings from Epstein
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after he was a convicted ZEX defender. Well, she's not
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wrong about that. Stacy Plaskett needs to answer some questions.
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I mean, there's no doubt that Stacy Plaskett and Jeffrey
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Epstein were very close and that Jeffrey Epstein was giving
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her a ton of money. And that's just reality, folks.
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So it has to be uniform, right, if we're going
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to go after one person, everybody, every single person that
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was involved, every person that enabled this, every co conspirator,
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and everybody covering it up, all those people have to
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be and I assure you nobody has been exonerated. The
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White House has previously appointed to a statement from the
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Justice Department that says Epstein files contain untrue and sensationalist
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claims about the President. Well, yeah, I'm sure there are some,
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no doubt about it. Donald Trump isn't you know, Satan himself,
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And this isn't all about Donald Trump. But the cover
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up portion is he's the one behind the sticks, right,
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He's in control of this whole cover up, And in
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my opinion, that's gonna be Donald Trump's undoing when all
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is said and done, and there's a real investigation into this,
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there is no doubt that it's gonna find that this
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has been covered up. But make no mistake, this isn't
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just Trump's cover up. This goes all the way back
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to Clinton. Clinton knew what Jeffrey Epstein was. I don't
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care what he says now, we can't prove that, but
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he knew. Maria Farmer told everybody in ninety six. So
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don't tell me they didn't know. They knew, they didn't care.
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That's what it comes down to, and that's my biggest problem.
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The federal government has never done the right thing here.
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They've never stepped up, they've never investigated, and they've never
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held anyone accountable. So nobody, including President Trump, is exonerated.
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In a letter to members of Congress on February fourteenth,
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first reported by Politico, Attorney General Pambondi and Deputy Attorney
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General Todd Blanche insists that no records were withheld or
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redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity,
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including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary,
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which is a lie. Like they just continue to lie
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to us at this huge clip and there's no repercussions.
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Nobody can do anything, nobody can stop them, and they
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just have unchecked power, I guess, And I know people
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don't want to hear that shit, but it's true. Not
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only are they breaking the law, they're laughing at us.
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In the last two weeks, as lawmakers have begun to
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view unredacted copies of the Epstein files, members of both
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parties have criticized the way the Trump administration has handled
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the release of the files. They have also continued to
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accuse the Justice Department of violating the law and operating
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without transparency in redacting information. And I think all of
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that's true. I think all of that's true. And the
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fact that they keep hiding it and they keep obfuscating
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the actual truth just adds more credence to the fact that,
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in my opinion, this is nothing but a giant cover up.
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According to the newly released files, the FBI internally circulated
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Epstein related allegations I mentioned Trump in late July and
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early August of twenty twenty five. The list, collected from
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the FBI's National Threat Operation Center included numerous salacious allegations.
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Agents mark most of the accusations as unverifiable. Or not credible.
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And look, I'm sure the vast majority were not verifiable
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or credible. I'm sure of it. But why are you
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redacting the information? Why aren't you releasing it to the
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American public. That's the question. That's what the law called for,
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not for you to hide shit, not for you to obfuscate,
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and not for you to tell us what we can
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and can't see. But one lead was sent to the
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FBI's Washington office with the purpose of setting up an
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interview with the accuser. The lead was included in an
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internal PowerPoint slide deck detailing prominent names in the Epstein
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and Maxwell investigation last fall. The woman who directly named
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Trump in her abuse allegation claimed that around nineteen eighty three,
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when she was around thirteen, Epstein introduced her to Trump,
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who subsequently forced her head down to his exposed penis,
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which she subsequently bit. In a response, Trump punched her
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in the head and kicked her out. Now, look, I
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have no idea if any of that's true, no clue.
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But what I will tell you is this, if it's
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part of the files, we should have seen it. There's
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no excuse for keeping that out. Out of more than
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three million pages the files released by the Justice Department
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in recent months. This specific allegation against Trump only appears
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in copies of the FBI list of claims and the
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DOJ slide show, But a review of FBI case file
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logs and discovery documents turned over to Maxwell and her
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attorneys in the criminal case against her zero point to
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one place the claim could have come from and how
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serious investigators took it. The FBI interviewed this Trump and
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Epstein accuser four times. That is, according to an FBI
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serial report and a list of non testifying witness material
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in the Maxwell case that were also released under the
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Epstein Files Transparency Act. Only the first interview, conducted July
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twenty fourth, twenty nineteen, is in the public database, and
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that interview doesn't name Trump. Of fifteen documents listed in
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a log of the Maxwell discovery material for the first accuser,
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only seven or in the Epstein Files database. Those missing
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also include notes that a company three of the interviews.
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The discrepancy in the file for the Trump accuser was
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first reported by independent journalist Roger Sallenberger. According Dan Prre's
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review of three different sets of serial numbers stamped onto
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the files, there appear to be fifty three pages of
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interview documents and notes missing from the public Epstein database.
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Oh I wonder why. I bet you if those documents
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named Bill Clinton, Oh, we'd have them right. But since
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they named Donald Trump, forget it. You can't even see it.
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In the first interview document, the woman discussed ways Epstein
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abused her as a girl, and in identifying him to investigators,
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showed a crop photo of the disgraced financier. Her attorney
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said it was cropped because she was concerned about implicating
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additional individuals, and specifically any that were well known, due
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to fear of retaliation. Well, yeah, that's been something that's
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been on the table. How many of these women were
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retaliated against a whole lot? How many of their lives
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ruined a whole lot? The FBI agents noted it was
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a widely distributed photograph of Epstein with Trump. A woman
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whose biographical details and descriptions of Epstein's abuse found in
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the FBI interview also line up with details from a
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victim lawsuit. In the December twenty nineteen filing Jane do
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four does not mention Trump, and the woman voluntarily dismissed
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her claims against Epstein's estate. In December of twenty twenty one,
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attorneys for this accuser declined to comment. So, look, is
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it verifiable? No? Is it something that could have happened? Maybe,
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But I'd say that this is one of those side quests.
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There's not enough here, certainly not enough for us to
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dig our teeth into, at least from the perspective of
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what the law allows. But as far as the cover up,
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I think it proves it. At the very least, it
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gives a lot more ammunition. You have all these documents
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that are not good for Trump, and they just magically disappear.
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They just end up not in the file case. I mean,
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come on, it's obvious that this is a cover up. Now,
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with that said, there's a lot of salacious information in
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here that is not verifiable and probably just not true.
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But that's all part of the sy op. And I
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told you that from the beginning you have to be
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able to discern what's real and what might be fantasy.
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And my suggestion is lock into the stuff that we
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can prove, or the stuff where there's evidence that leads
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to a certain destination, and then from there the walls
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will fall in because people will start talking, people will
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start rolling, and before you know it, you're getting to
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the meet in the potatoes. But there's no doubt that
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a lot of this is added as side quest missions
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to confuse people and make people think that everything's just
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a bunch of bs, and it's been very effective. There's
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a lot of people that point to these kinds of
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allegations in the Drop as evidence that everything inside this
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drop is bunk, which is wild because as outlandish as
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this allegation might sound, we don't know how it ended up.
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And that's because, well, there's a cover up. So if
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people have questions and people don't believe the official narrative,
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then that's cool too. I get it. And that's also
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on the DOJ. They created that nonsense when they tried
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to confuse people by dumping all this stuff together and
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not giving any kind of context about what's what. And
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they know that it causes confusion, and that was the
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whole point, right to confuse everybody and make it seem
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like this is just absolutely asinine, that this is all
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just made up, and like Trump said, it's a gigantic hoax.
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But I think they've done the opposite, and I think
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the vast majority of Americans have reached their tipping point.
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It's one thing to lie to us about, you know, politics,
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It's another thing to steal from us on a regular basis,
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like every politician does. But this is a step too far.
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Hurting children, hurting women, trafficking people, god knows what else,
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and then covering it up. That's a step too far,
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and I don't think the people are going to accept it.
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Elsewhere in the release files, someone in the FBI wrote
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on July twenty second, twenty twenty five, before the list
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and slide presentation were compiled, that Trump's name was in
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the larger case files and that one identified victim claimed
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abuse by Trump but ultimately refused to cooperate. Well, I
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wonder why is it that she wasn't telling the truth
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or or was she intimidated. Well, that's out of the
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realm of possibility dealing with these people. The other woman
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who's mentioned a Trump made the DOJ's presentation appears in
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maxwell discovery for files released last month in what's known
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as Testifying Witness thirty five hundred material list. The first
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interview of six with the FBI conducted between September twenty
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nineteen and September twenty twenty one, the second woman detailed
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how Epstein and Maxwell's abuse began while she was around
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thirteen years old attending the Interlocan Center for the Arts,
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and described how at one point Epstein took her to
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Trump's mar Alago club to meet him. Epstein told Trump,
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this is a good one, huh, the interviewer report reads.
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In a twenty twenty lawsuit against Epstein's estate in Maxwell,
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the second woman added that both men chuckled and she
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felt uncomfortable, but at the time was too young to
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understand why. So her testimony was used to put Maxwell
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in prison. My guess is she's a reliable witness. Do
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with that as you will. The interview was removed from
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the DOJ's public files sometime after initial publication on January three, thirtieth,
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and was republished February nineteenth, according to document metadata. The
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Justice Department told MPR the only reason any fil that
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has been removed is because it has been flagged by
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a victim or their council for additional review. Multiple FBI
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interviews with other people refer to the second women's meeting
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with Trump while she was a miner and being abused
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by Epstein. One interview with the fleeting mention of Trump
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was removed from the public database and subsequently restored last week,
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while another interview with the woman's mother is still offline.
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In that conversation, the mother recalled hearing that a Prince
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and Donald Trump visited at Epstein's house, which made her
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think that if they are there, then how could Epstein
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be a criminal? According to MPR's copy of the file
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that was first published, that was part of it. Epstein
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wanted to build that respectability, build that nexus around them,
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so nobody suspected anything. Right, send your kids to Epstein,
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no big deal, and unfortunately a lot of people fell
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for it. The possible omission of files that mentioned these
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women particular allegations against the president come as the Justice
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Department has warned about other documents it is published in
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full that include what it calls untrue and sensationalist claims
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about Trump. So there were only sensationalist claims about Donald Trump,
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nobody else, okay, good to know. At the same time,
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the Justice Department has removed and re uploaded thousands of
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pages in recent weeks to fix in properly redacted victim names.
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That includes documents related to the allegation from these two women,
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who separately say they were around thirteen years old when
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Epstein first abused them. Robert Lassman, who represents the woman
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who testified against Maxwell, sharply criticized the Justice Department's handling
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of the Epstein files. This whole thing is ridiculous, he
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told MPR. The DOJ was ordered to release information to
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the public to be tras transparent about Epstein and Maxwell's
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criminal enterprise network. Instead, they released the names of courageous
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victims who fought hard for decades to remain anonymous and
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out of the limelight. Whether the disclosures were inadvertent or not.
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They had one job to do here and they didn't
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do it. I think that really sums it up. They
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had one job to do and they didn't do it.
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And now they want to cry that this is just
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a big nothing burger, that nobody has anything to see here,
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that we should just move on. No way, not going
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to happen. A DOJ spokesperson told NPR that the department
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is working around the clock to address concerns from victims
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and handle additional redactions of personally identifiable information that has
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been flagged in view of the congressional deadline, all reasonable
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efforts have been made to review and redact personal information
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pertaining to victims other private individuals, and protect sensitive material
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from disclosure. The statement read that said, because of the
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volume of information involved, this website may nevertheless contain information
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that inadvertently includes non public, personally identifiable information or other
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sensitive content, to include matters of a sexual nature. Look,
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I don't believe anything the DJ is telling us about
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this situation, and I fully believe that we're watching maybe
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one of the biggest cover ups in American history. And
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the wildest part is we're watching it in real time.
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And not only that, but they're doing it in such
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a brazen manner that it certainly doesn't look like they're
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going to deviate from this course anytime soon. In fact,
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it looks like they're gonna double down. So like usual,
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we'll keep an eye on this one as well as
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that swim through all the muck continues. All of the
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information that goes with this episode can be found in
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the description box. What's up, everyone, and welcome to another
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episode of the Epstein Chronicles. Whenever the name Jeffrey Epstein
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gets brought up, the federal government is quick to have
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an explanation for what Jeffrey Epstein actually was and what
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he was up to. The only problem with that is
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that the official narrative, their official explanations, very rarely, if ever,
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are true. And the more information that comes out via
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the files and people coming forward, the more obvious it
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is to anybody paying attention. And as I was making
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my way through the files, I stumbled upon a very
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interesting document that memorialized the analysis of a pen register
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and trap and trace on one of Epstein's telephone numbers.
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And according to this warrant, according to this analysis, Jeffrey
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Epstein and numbers associated with him were in touch with
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a lot of people in organized crime. And of course
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we know that Jeffrey Epstein moving money and bundling money,
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and we know that people in the world of organized
26:05
crime always need somebody like that to help them out.
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So was Epstein also bundling money for various transnational criminal groups?
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Very possible, very very possible, because remember, when you're somebody
26:18
like Epstein, you're operating in a world filled with scumbags,
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So it makes sense that you're associating and doing business
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with other scumbags. So yesterday evening when I saw this
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article from CBS. It caught my attention, mainly because it
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connects to this trap trace analysis that I was looking at.
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And when you start putting it all together, it certainly
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looks like this story that we're about to read from
26:43
CBS has some legs. So let's dive into the article
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from CBS and let's see what they have for US headline.
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Newly earthed dea document from Epstein files raises question did
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Epstein facilitate drug trafficking? This article was author by Daniel Rutnik,
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Pat Milton, and Kara Tabitschnik. Jeffrey Epstein was the subject
27:08
of a previously undisclosed US Drug Enforcement Agency investigation, a
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five year plus probe targeting him and fourteen other individuals
27:17
for suspicious money transfers possibly linked to illegal narcotics. A
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newly uncovered document in the Department of Justice Epstein files reveals,
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Now you take that with what we know about him
27:30
being active in Afghanistan, and it makes me wonder if
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he had anything to do with those poppy fields, you know,
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the ones that we defended and protected so vigilantly and
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so diligently while we were in Afghanistan. Yeah, those poppy fields.
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I mean, we know that Prince Andrew was passing sensitive
27:48
information about Afghanistan to Jeffrey Epstein. So what was the purpose.
27:52
What kind of interest could a man like Jeffrey Epstein
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have in a place like Afghanistan. Can't be too many, right,
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I mean, it's not like Afghanistan has some incredible financial
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sector that all these guys have to get in on.
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So what would motivate Epstein to want to be in Afghanistan? Unless,
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of course he was their moving arms, which is very
28:12
possible as well. DEA reporting indicates the above individuals are
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involved in illegitimate wire transfers which are tied to illicit
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drug and or prostitution activity is occurring in the US,
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Virgin Islands and New York City. The twenty fifteen document says, well,
28:33
I wonder why nothing happened. Could it possibly be that
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Jeffrey Epstein's protected? I mean, who would have ever guessed,
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who would have ever jumped to that conclusion? Oh that's right.
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Anybody who's saying, anybody who's following along, Because let me
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tell you, if the DEA has you under investigation for
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five years, chances are you did something wrong and they're
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going to tell you. But of course Jeffrey Epps, well,
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no problems for him. One phone call and it's all good.
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The sixty nine page memo is marked law Enforcement Sensitive
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and remains heavily redacted, concealing the names of the fourteen
29:13
other targets and much of the substantative detail surrounding the investigation. Now, look,
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I'm not gonna tell you that Jeffrey Epstein was out
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here selling packs down in Battery Park. That's not what
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they're talking about. He was financing something, being involved as
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a money guy, put money up for this to happen
29:35
or that to happen, and then benefiting on the back end.
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That's how it works. It's just like any other investment.
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Puts up some money, the job gets done, and he
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gets paid. Now, obviously that's a simplified way of thinking
29:50
about it, but that gives you a basic idea of
29:53
how a money man is involved in drug trafficking. Then,
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of course we always have to consider that he was
29:59
bundling money and he was coloring it up and laundering
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it for insert criminal organization here. That's very possible too.
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And this is what I mean when I tell you
30:08
that Jeffrey Epstein had his fingers in many pies. There's
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a lot of stuff that we haven't even begun to
30:16
figure out yet. And when you have somebody with this
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kind of money, this kind of power, this kind of
30:22
vast reach, it's inevitable that they're going to be involved
30:26
in a lot of bad things. The document appears to
30:32
stem from a request made by the DEA to an
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Organized Crime Drug Enforcement task Force Fusion Center in Virginia
30:39
seeking information from other agencies related to Epstein and the
30:42
other targets as part of an active case. How quick
30:46
do you think is handler popped up and said, YO,
30:49
leave this dude alone. Under no circumstances are you to
30:53
charge Jeffrey Epstein in any kind of drug case. And
30:59
that's how they do it. And for a guy like
31:03
Jeffrey Epstein, knowing he has that kind of protection, it
31:05
leads to all kinds of horrible things. The task Force
31:09
is a Reagan era creation to combat a surge in
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cocaine trafficking, and the Fusion Center was opened in two
31:15
thousand and nine as a clearinghouse for intelligence sharing between
31:19
federal law enforcement agencies. Every time you turn around, there
31:23
is another clue another hint about Jeffrey Epstein being some
31:27
sort of asset. I'm sure that mandelssh and Prince Andrew
31:32
just passed him that information for fun, right, had nothing
31:35
to do with Jeffrey Epstein collecting that information to benefit
31:38
from it or for insert other person to benefit from it. Right.
31:42
And then you look at all these investigations that Jeffrey
31:45
Epstein was part of, and you look at the fact
31:47
that he was never charged in any of these cases,
31:50
and you have to ask yourself, what the hell's really
31:52
going on here? And how comes somebody like Jeffrey Epstein
31:55
was able to operate in plain sight even with this
31:59
cloud hanging over them for so long. Do you know
32:02
how quick your ass would be swooped up if you
32:04
were a part of this ordeal, if you were involved
32:07
in some DEA phone trace or whatever, forget it, you
32:11
would be getting a colonoscopy like you couldn't believe. For
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the DEA to open a case, there would have to
32:16
be a drug nexus, a law enforcement source told CBS News,
32:20
adding that the request to the Fusion Center indicated the
32:23
matter was part of a significant investigation rather than a
32:27
routine information inquiry, so there was probably some kind of serious,
32:32
you know, criminal organization that was under the microscope, and
32:37
Epstein was probably bundling money for them and got caught up.
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That seems to be the likeliest scenario here. The document
32:45
includes a DEA case number and lists the case opening
32:48
date is December seventeenth, twenty ten, in New York. It
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notes that the matter is judicial pending, indicating that the
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investigation remained active at the time the memo was drafted.
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Years later. One law enforcement source told CBS News that
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the designation suggests investigators may have been awaiting court approval
33:08
for search warrants or other legal action. Yeah, that never
33:11
came because Epstein's handler, whoever that is or was, probably
33:16
stepped in and said, look, no way, this guy's working
33:19
on X, Y and Z for the government right now,
33:22
and we can't have you guys getting in the way. Sorry,
33:24
find somebody else to arrest. We don't care if he
33:27
did old kids, we don't care if he's involved with
33:29
drug organizations. The means certainly justifies the ends, and that's
33:34
the way they go about their business, even if that
33:36
means nurturing and protecting a man like Jeffrey Epstein. Another
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law enforcement source said it likely meant an arrest of
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someone associated with the case had been made. CBS News
33:50
cannot confirm that because the names of other targets were
33:52
redacted from the document. Why why are other names redacted?
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There's no survivors here, there's no nothing here that should
34:00
be redacted. Is it national security? I doubt it. So
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why do you have the names redacted? Oh, that's right.
34:07
You don't want people to be able to trace this
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and follow the money because if they do that, you
34:13
know where it ends up, and so do the people
34:15
in Langley. And that's why you see all this pushback,
34:18
and that's why you see this being the issue that
34:20
it is. A different case launched in twenty eighteen by
34:25
the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New
34:27
York ultimately landed Epstein in a Lower Manhattan federal jail
34:32
after he was arrested in July twenty nineteen on charges
34:36
of sex trafficking. Sources involved in that case told CBS
34:40
News the prosecutors were not aware of the earlier DEA investigation,
34:45
of course, not that information was segregated from the regular system.
34:49
And why would that occur? Well, because Jeffrey Epstein was
34:52
an asset, pretty simple. Epstein was awaiting trial in the
34:58
sex trafficking case when he died behind bars in August
35:00
of twenty nineteen. His death was ruled a suicide. The
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DEA document also reveals the existence of other previously unknown
35:11
investigations with some link to Epstein. Those include an ICE
35:16
investigation in West Palm Beach opened in two thousand and
35:19
six and closed in two thousand and eight, an ICE
35:21
investigation in Las Vegas opened in two thousand and nine
35:25
and listed as pending as of one twenty seven, twenty ten.
35:30
An ICE investigation in Paris opened in June of twenty
35:33
thirteen and closed months later titled Operation Angel Watch, and
35:37
an FBI investigation opened in two thousand and six that
35:41
still remained active in twenty fifteen. The ICE stuff has
35:46
to do with their immigration bullshit, all those fake immigration
35:50
scams they were running. That's what they were being looked
35:52
at for. I mean, how obvious is it now? And
35:58
when I tell you that Epstein was up to all
35:59
kinds wild shit, this is what I mean. It wasn't
36:02
just sex trafficking, and he was getting help. Somebody in
36:05
those immigration offices was helping Jeffrey Epstein out, The question
36:08
is who. The document also lists prior law enforcement contact
36:14
and identifies bank accounts linked to Epstein, including accounts in Switzerland, France,
36:20
the Cayman Islands, and New York. It details approximately fifty
36:24
million in suspicious wire transfers from twenty ten to twenty fifteen.
36:30
Although the names of the individuals linked to those transactions
36:33
are redacted, the DOJ appears to have accidentally neglected to
36:38
redact the name of a Polish fashion model who was
36:42
identified in connection to approximately two million in transfers and
36:46
named as a target in the investigation. Yeah, Adriana Ross.
36:50
They don't ever hear, but that's who it is. One
36:53
of the corps for a baby. All these people out
36:57
here are talking about, Oh, these women who helped Epstein,
36:59
no shit, where you've been. And furthermore, roughly forty three
37:04
percent of human traffickers or female who do you think
37:07
ropes in the vast majority of these girls. Emails between
37:14
that woman at Epstein were included in the release, indicating
37:18
that they had a personal relationship. CBS News is not
37:21
identifying the woman at the request of her attorney, who
37:24
said she was a survivor of Epstein's her attorney did
37:28
not reply to inquiries about whether she was aware she
37:31
was a dea target. Now, look, anyone who's trying to
37:35
call the core four victims is crazy. The only one
37:40
you could possibly say that about is Nail marson Kova,
37:43
and that's because she was sold allegedly at Epstein when
37:46
she was fourteen. But the other girls, the other women,
37:49
they came in with eyes open, they knew what was up,
37:53
and still to this day, none of them have come forward.
37:58
The memo also lists several biitsusinesses associated with Epstein that
38:02
have come under scrutiny in the past. One of those
38:04
companies was redacted. The other two are SLK Designs and Hyperionaire.
38:13
Hyperionaire was used by Epstein as a holding company for
38:15
his aircraft, and SLK Designs was run by two women
38:19
who were included in epstein so called sweetheart non prosecution
38:23
agreement with a federal government and and as potential co
38:26
conspirators potential huh okay sure potential. Records show those companies
38:33
were formed and controlled by Epstein's attorney, Darren endyke huh
38:37
or have you heard that name before? Interesting, isn't it.
38:41
CBS News has reached out to an attorney foreign Dyke
38:45
and has not received a response. In a prior statement,
38:48
his attorney, Daniel Wiener, told CBS News the lawyer did
38:52
not socialize with mister Epstein and rejected as categorically false
38:56
any suggestion that he knowingly facilitated or assisted mister Epstein
39:01
in his sexual abuse or trafficking of women, or that
39:04
they were aware of mister Epstein's actions while they provided
39:07
legal and accounting services to mister Epstein. He added that
39:11
no judge or court found Epstein's attorney's committed any wrongdoing
39:15
of any kind. Well, that's because there's never been a
39:18
real investigation, stupid. There is plenty of evidence that Darren
39:21
Indyke is dick deep in all of this, including structuring.
39:26
So let's just cut the bullshit, okay, And if there's
39:30
ever a real investigation, you can guarantee that you're a client,
39:34
mister Indike will be a target. Senator Ron Wyden, a
39:40
Democrat from Oregon who's been pursuing the Epstein investigation as
39:44
a ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, told CBS
39:48
News that following the money is key to learning more
39:50
about Epstein's crimes. It appears Epstein was involved in criminal
39:54
activity that went way beyond pedophilia and sex trafficking, which
39:58
makes it even more outrageous that pound Bondi is sitting
40:01
on several million on release files. Wyden said neither the
40:05
DEA or the DOJ responded to request by CBS News
40:09
for more information or comment. Well, look, I think it's
40:13
rather obvious folks, Epstein most certainly was being protected, and
40:17
the more evidence that comes out, the harder it's going
40:20
to be to deny that. For the federal government. Now,
40:24
they're going to continue to do so, but I don't
40:26
think it's going to be effective. And I think the
40:28
further this moves, the more information that comes out, the
40:31
more people are going to be convinced that not only
40:34
was the DOJ and the federal government lying to them
40:37
about Epstein, but when caught and called out, they doubled
40:41
down and tried to cover it up. Because at some
40:44
point even people who were like, oh, this is all
40:46
just a coincidence, are going to say to themselves, how
40:49
can it all just be a giant coincidence? Because I
40:52
think at this point it's obvious that there was something
40:55
deeper and darker going on, and at the very least
40:58
some people in the government. We're aware of what Jeffrey
41:01
Epstein was, and they continued to utilize him as an asset,
41:06
and that's why they're fighting tooth and neel to keep
41:08
all this private. They don't want anybody to know that
41:11
they were actually running this dude, that he was an asset,
41:14
that they were using him, and all the while protecting
41:16
them while he was abusing kids, laundering money, and god
41:20
knows what else. But unfortunately for them, I think that
41:24
the pieces are starting to fall into place, and you're
41:27
starting to get a better picture of what went on
41:30
here and why they're so hell bent on making sure
41:34
that nobody knows the truth. And the more documentation like
41:37
this that I see, the more I'm convinced that we're
41:39
being lied to and that there's a cover up happening
41:42
in real time. So, like usual, we're going to keep
41:46
pounding away, and over the next couple of days, I'm
41:49
going to add that trap trace document that I stumbled across,
41:53
so all of you can get a look at it
41:55
as well. And it's very interesting. I mean, we're talking
41:57
about all kinds of criminal work organizations that are being
42:01
talked about in this trapped trace, so it's going to
42:03
be interesting to see how this one plays out, and
42:06
like usual, we'll be here every step of the way.
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