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Judge Sullivan Receives Epstein Files After DOJ Runs Out the Clock (7/31/26) · 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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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. Over the past few weeks, we've been talking
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  Speaker 1: about the battle between Katy Fang and the Department of
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  Speaker 1: Justice over some unredacted Epstein files that she claims should
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  Speaker 1: have been made public and after failing to get the
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  Speaker 1: information she was looking for using the freedom of information process,
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  Speaker 1: she decided to escalate things and file a lawsuit. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the judge ruled in her favor, and after that ruling,
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  Speaker 1: the DOJ, led by Todd Baby Billy Blanche, has been
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  Speaker 1: slow walking the process for as long as humanly possible.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately for Todd Blanche, Judge Emmitt Sullivan is not the
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  Speaker 1: one and after ruling in favor of Katy Fang, he
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  Speaker 1: expected the DOJ to comply, and, of course, in typical
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  Speaker 1: Todd Blanche DOJ fashion, they tried to have a workaround.
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  Speaker 1: They tried to avoid handing over the information that was
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  Speaker 1: ordered to be handed over, But after a lot of
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  Speaker 1: pressure from the court, those documents have now been handed
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  Speaker 1: over to Judge Emmett Sullivan. So today we have an
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  Speaker 1: article from AlterNet and the headline Blanche surrenders unredacted Epstein
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  Speaker 1: files within minutes of judge's deadline. This article was authored
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  Speaker 1: by Adam Lynch, President Donald Trump's interim ag Todd Baby Billy.
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  Speaker 1: Blanche appears to have given up the ghost on hiding
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  Speaker 1: information that could potentially out cohorts of convicted Jeffrey Epstein. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that would be nice, Huh. Isn't that the whole entire goal.
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  Speaker 1: I thought the whole entire point was for some transparency,
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  Speaker 1: so we could see what happened, who was involved, who
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  Speaker 1: made the decisions. Have we gotten any of that information? Instead,
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  Speaker 1: we keep getting the run around without even getting a
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  Speaker 1: reach around. Reporter Kady Fang recently grabbed a huge win
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  Speaker 1: against Blanche and his crusade to keep the Epstein files
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  Speaker 1: under wraps. After months of stalling by the Trump administration
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  Speaker 1: and ignoring the letter of the new law demanding the
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  Speaker 1: release of the sex traffickers files, US District Judge M. G.
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  Speaker 1: Sullivan demanded insight on Trump's longtime friendship. Sullivan sided with
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  Speaker 1: the former MS NOW show host Fang in her lawsuit
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  Speaker 1: demanding the Trump administration adhere to the Epstein Transparency Act.
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  Speaker 1: That seems a bit out of pocket. No, I thought
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  Speaker 1: that this administration was the most transparent administration in the
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  Speaker 1: history of America, isn't that what we were told? Well,
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  Speaker 1: this administration is the most transparent administration you're ever gonna see. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: back here in reality, they're fighting tooth and nail to
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  Speaker 1: defend the network of a human trafficking child molesture. And look,
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  Speaker 1: I know the DOJ has been in bed with some
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  Speaker 1: very bad people in the past, but this is a
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  Speaker 1: step too far. If you want to get into bed
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  Speaker 1: with some kind the mafia guy, cool, and you're going
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  Speaker 1: after other mafia dudes, great, you motherfuckers. Let this dude
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  Speaker 1: do what he did for all these years. Let all
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  Speaker 1: these people get hurt. And now you're acting like you
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  Speaker 1: had nothing to do with it, like nobody knew what
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  Speaker 1: Epstein was, like, nobody was running him. Come on, it's
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  Speaker 1: rather obvious that Jeffrey Epstein was being protected. The only
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  Speaker 1: question at this point is by who, And unfortunately, I
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  Speaker 1: doubt we're ever gonna know, because if you think that
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  Speaker 1: the files that the DOJ has are the only Epstein
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  Speaker 1: files in existence, you're going to be in for a
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  Speaker 1: big surprise because the DOJ and the FBI, well they
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  Speaker 1: have the crumbs, but Langley and the Cia, they have
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  Speaker 1: the cake. Fang predicted on Wednesday that Blanche, Trump's former
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  Speaker 1: personal defense attorney, would try to get an appeal to
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  Speaker 1: install the release of the redacted information, but she acknowledged
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  Speaker 1: that this would be very difficult because Judge Sullivan had
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  Speaker 1: already denied on two occasions to get a stay or
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  Speaker 1: a delay, and having to conly like, why would the
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  Speaker 1: DOJ need to stay? Why would they need another pause?
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  Speaker 1: Don't they have everything they need? Don't they know what
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  Speaker 1: they have in their possession? Didn't they spend hours going
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  Speaker 1: through it? Isn't that what they told us? Oh, we
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  Speaker 1: pulled the lawyers from all different divisions and everybody went
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  Speaker 1: through it. And these other three million documents, well they're unresponsive,
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  Speaker 1: they're duplicative, and around and around we go. And I
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  Speaker 1: know that there's like a big stink in the Senate
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  Speaker 1: right now about getting mister Blanche confirmed. But I think
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  Speaker 1: when all the said and done, he's going to get
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  Speaker 1: that confirmation, even if that means that Trump pulls it
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  Speaker 1: back for a minute, waits for Tillis and Cornyn to
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  Speaker 1: finish their term, and then goes ahead with what he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to do. When he gets some senators in there
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  Speaker 1: that are willing to play ball, because we all know
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  Speaker 1: that that's what's coming. The reason that Trump went after
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  Speaker 1: the people he went after is because they weren't down
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  Speaker 1: with his agenda. So we had to purge the party
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  Speaker 1: of non believers. And that's exactly what he did. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, whoever or else comes in is probably gonna
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  Speaker 1: play ball. But instead Blanche handed over the unredacted information
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  Speaker 1: to Sullivan to review, possibly for release to the public.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's nice, huh. Imagine doing what the judge tells you,
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  Speaker 1: like the rest of us would have to. Imagine if
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  Speaker 1: the judge gave you an order right after you did
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  Speaker 1: something wrong or you were, you know, in some kind
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  Speaker 1: of legal dispute, and you decided just to do whatever
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  Speaker 1: you wanted instead. How do you think the court would react.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think they just shrugged their shoulders and be like, ah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we did the best we could. Ah shucks,
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  Speaker 1: I guess we should just move on. Or do you
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  Speaker 1: think they'd make your ass comply one way or the other,
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  Speaker 1: whether that's you come in under your own compulsion or
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  Speaker 1: they drag you in kicking and screaming. But I assure
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  Speaker 1: you you're gonna have to answer for your bullshit, Jeffrey
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  Speaker 1: Epstein and his friends, Well, I guess not defending Todd. Blanche,
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  Speaker 1: in his official capacity as Acting Attorney General of the
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  Speaker 1: United States, respectfully submits the notice of compliance with the
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  Speaker 1: Order of this Court dated July twenty fifth, twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: requiring defendants submit certain documentation to the Court for an
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  Speaker 1: in camera review. And I think that should be the
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  Speaker 1: bare minimum. Let the judge look at it, let him
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  Speaker 1: see what's going on, what's up, what it contains, and
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  Speaker 1: if it's something that the public should see. And my
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  Speaker 1: guess is the public should see it. When I tell you,
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  Speaker 1: I want full transparency, that's what I mean. Not partial,
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  Speaker 1: not some not maybe full transparency. Besides the names of
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  Speaker 1: people who were harmed, everybody else should be named. And
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  Speaker 1: if that brings you shame, good, why the fuck were
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  Speaker 1: you hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: Blanche and critics on social media also noted that Blanche
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  Speaker 1: submitted hard copied documents to the court's chambers be a
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  Speaker 1: hand deliver at two twenty eight pm on July thirtieth,
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  Speaker 1: within close proximity to the day's deadline. Of course, drag
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  Speaker 1: it out all the way to the end and hope
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  Speaker 1: for the best. That's always been the goal. And I've
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  Speaker 1: been telling you that from the very beginning over a
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  Speaker 1: year now. For the people that just showed up anyway,
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  Speaker 1: for those of you who have been here for a while,
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  Speaker 1: well I've been telling you that for seven years. But
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  Speaker 1: the truth remains. All they want to do is run
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  Speaker 1: the clock out. That's always been the goal, no matter
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  Speaker 1: the administration, no matter the DOJ or who's in charge
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  Speaker 1: of it, that's the goal. This is mutually assured destruction. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: for all the old school type of politicians, maybe not
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  Speaker 1: the new school ones, maybe like these new Democrats that
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  Speaker 1: have shown up, you know, DSA or whatever. They don't
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  Speaker 1: have any ties to Ebstein and they're willing to watch
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing burn. But up until recently, these politicians
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  Speaker 1: and these people in power, they all knew that they
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  Speaker 1: had friends that would be affected by this, so they
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  Speaker 1: weren't going to bring it up. I mean, look, we
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  Speaker 1: have Catherine Rumler. She was an advisor to Joe Biden,
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  Speaker 1: and not only that, but she was a house counsel
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  Speaker 1: to Barack Obama. So let's not act like this is
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  Speaker 1: a one Way Street. The problem is so deep and
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  Speaker 1: the rot is so corrosive that it's affected the whole
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  Speaker 1: entire political understructure, whether that's on the right or the left.
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  Speaker 1: The corruption and the rot runs deep. Ms NOW Senior
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  Speaker 1: legal reporter Lisa Rubin noted on X that of the
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  Speaker 1: ten documents at issue, the DOJ does not identify their
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  Speaker 1: adapted information as pertaining to a victim or a law
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  Speaker 1: enforcement personnel. Instead, it says it's just P two or
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  Speaker 1: a personally identifiable information, which is wholly unacceptable unless it
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  Speaker 1: has something to do with survivors, sorry, and the whole
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  Speaker 1: law enforcement personnel. How are we supposed to hold anybody
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  Speaker 1: accountable if we don't know who's working on these cases?
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  Speaker 1: Like how many of these FBI agents went on to
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  Speaker 1: do other things and fuck those other things up? My
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  Speaker 1: guess is a lot. How many of these jerk off
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  Speaker 1: CIA agents running around on the end had something to
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  Speaker 1: do with Epstein. My guess is at least some of them.
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  Speaker 1: So the whole entire point of the EFTA was so
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  Speaker 1: that we could find out what happened, who was involved,
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  Speaker 1: who made decisions, who signed this, who signed that, But
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  Speaker 1: of course we got none of that, and now the
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  Speaker 1: DOJ wants us to believe that there's somebody we can trust,
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  Speaker 1: that we can trust their investigation methods, that we can
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  Speaker 1: trust what they're telling us, But we don't. So once
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  Speaker 1: again I'll call for it. It's time for a special counsel.
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  Speaker 1: Trump's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein spends decades, with the two
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  Speaker 1: meeting in the nineteen eighties at Mar A Lago and
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  Speaker 1: socializing frequently in New York and Palm Beach. Multiple women
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  Speaker 1: have described wit as sing Trump and Epstein together at
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  Speaker 1: parties and events during the nineties. Oh, there's no doubt
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  Speaker 1: they were closed. The question is just how close were
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  Speaker 1: they and what, if anything, did Donald Trump know. After
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  Speaker 1: epstein Means two thousand and eight conviction, Trump publicly distanced himself,
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  Speaker 1: claiming he barely knew him. However, Trump's DOJ has resisted
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  Speaker 1: transparency regarding their relationship and potential knowledge of Epstein's crimes.
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  Speaker 1: The forced release of Epstein documents could expose communications, financial records,
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  Speaker 1: or witness accounts implicating Trump or his associates. Legal experts
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  Speaker 1: argue the Epstein Transparency Act mandates public disclosure, and Judge
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  Speaker 1: Sullivan's rulings suggests courts will ultimately compel release regardless of
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  Speaker 1: administration resistance, potentially revealing uncomfortable details about Trump's decade long
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  Speaker 1: association not just Trump, a whole lot of people. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: Trump's not just protecting his own reputation here, He's protecting
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  Speaker 1: the reputation of other well to do people, people that
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  Speaker 1: might be donors, people that might be friends, people that
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  Speaker 1: might have, you know, compromand on Trump or somebody in
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  Speaker 1: the administration. And that's what they're trying to protect. And
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  Speaker 1: they're also trying to protect the institutions because if they
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  Speaker 1: let everybody know the truth about what happened with the
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  Speaker 1: DOJ over the years. In Jeffrey Epstein, I think people
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  Speaker 1: would be in the streets. That's how bad it is,
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  Speaker 1: That's how disgusting it is, and that's how heavy these
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  Speaker 1: implications are. And that's why the administration and the DOJ
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  Speaker 1: is willing to fight tooth and nail to make sure
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  Speaker 1: you never see this stuff. Unfortunately for them, We're going
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  Speaker 1: to keep pressing, and when I say we, I mean
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  Speaker 1: all of us, because at some point, enough is enough,
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully Judge Sullivan's ruling will light a fire under
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  Speaker 1: these dudes and make them do the right thing. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll see what he turns over and we'll see what
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  Speaker 1: Judge Sullivan releases to the public, if anything, and like usual,
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  Speaker 1: when we have some more information, we'll get it added
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