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Why the Epstein Scandal Should Haunt Todd Blanche’s AG Nomination (Part 2) (7/9/26) · The Epstein Chronicles

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're going to pick up
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  where we left off talking about why Todd Blanche is
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  the wrong man for the Attorney General's job. What makes
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  Blanche's handling so egregious is not just the legal posture.
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  It's the moral posture. It's the posture of a government
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  that still is not learned a damned thing from the
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  rage surrounding the case. It's the posture of officials who
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  seem more offended by demands for transparency than by the
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  decades of failure that made those demands necessary. It's the
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  posture of a justice department that wants credit for caring
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  about survivors while continuing to behave like the full truth
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  is too dangerous for public consumption, dangerous to whom that's
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  the question. Dangerous to survivors, or dangerous to powerful people
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  who have spent years praying the file cabinet stay shut,
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  dangerous to the public, or dangerous to the institutions that
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  would rather endure suspicion forever than face exposure once. Every
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  time Blanches DOJ resists, delays, or limits disclosure, that question
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  gets louder and look, that question matters because this is
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  bigger than Jeffrey Epstein alone. He was in some creep
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  operating out of a basement with no friends and no infrastructure.
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  Bro is a social climber with money, access and protection.
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  He had lawyers who knew how to squeeze the system.
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  He had bankers who looked the other way until in
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  looking the other way became impossible. He had politicians willing
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  to take meetings, donors willing to mingle, academics willing to
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  catch those checks, and institutions willing to bask in the
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  glow of his money. He had homes, islands, planes, staff, schedulers, assistants, fixers,
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  and entire environment that made his bitch ass crimes possible.
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  That's why all these files matter. That's why the names matter,
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  That's why the communications matter. And that is why the
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  government's continued secrecy is so poisonous, because every hidden page
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  sends a message. It tells survivors and the rest of
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  us even now after all of this, somebody else matters more.
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  It tells the public that there are facts that are
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  not allowed to be known because the wrong people might
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  be damaged by them. It tells every future predator with money,
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  that the system can be bent, delayed, negotiated, and smothered
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  if you have the right lawyers and the right friends.
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  It tells every ordinary American, you and me that justice
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  is just a slogan until it clides with power. And
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  when Todd Blanche presides over that posture, he can't call
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  himself a neutral steward of the law. He becomes part
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  of the message. He becomes part of the insult. He
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  becomes part of the reason people no longer believe a
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  word that comes out of that building. And this seems
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  to be the part that DC just never seems to understand,
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  or maybe it understands perfectly, and they just don't care.
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  People are not angry because they're conspiracy addled morons. They're
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  angry because the official story has earned disbelief. They're angry
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  because the government keeps behaving in ways that make suspicion rational.
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  They're angry because the same agencies that demand trust have
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  spent decades making trust impossible. They're angry because the Epstein
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  case explodes something hideous about elite America, and every institution
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  connected to it has tried to manage the blast radius.
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  Instead of telling us the truth, folks, that's not paranoia,
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  that's simple pattern recognition, and Blanche's handling of this matter
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  fits the pattern so neatly that it practically glows in
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  the dark. So no, he should not be rewarded, He
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  shouldn't be elevated. He should not be treated like some
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  sober institutionalists ready to restore dignity to the Department of Justice.
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  Restore dignity from what planet? The DOJ does restore dignity
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  by hiding behind legal technicalities in the Epstein matter. It
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  restores dignity by opening the files, naming those failures, protecting
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  the victims, exposing the enablers, and admitting where the government
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  itself failed. It restores dignity by proving that the powerful
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  do not get a special lane. It restores dignity by
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  showing that court orders are not suggestions. It restores dignity
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  by making the public believe, maybe for five damn minutes,
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  that the law is not just a weapon pointed downward.
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  Blanche has done none of that. Instead, he's become another
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  chapter in the long exhausting book of official evasion. The
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  names change, the suits change, the letterhead changes, the excuses
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  get polished, but the result remains the same. Epstein's dead,
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  Maxwell's in prison. Some settlements have been paid, some hearings
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  have been held, some documents have dripped out, some officials
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  have made speeches, and yet the deepest questions remain buried
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  under layers of institutional self protection. Who was protected, who
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  is ignored, who was warned, who intervened, who looked away?
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  Who had the power to act and chose not to
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  the public keeps asking and the government keeps acting like
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  answering would be a greater crime than the original failure itself.
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  And that is why Blanche should be investigated, not installed,
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  and not some toothless internal review written in the dead
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  language of bureaucracy, not with a whitewash memo that concludes
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  everyone acted appropriately based on the information available at the time.
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  The country has had enough of that garbage. There should
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  be real investigations into the handling of Epstein related records
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  under his authority. There should be sworn testimony. There should
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  be document preservation orders. There should be timelines. There should
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  be names attached to decisions. There should be consequences. If
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  court orders were treated like obstacles instead of obligations. It
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  should apply, especially to those who willed power. If a
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  citizen ignores a lawful demand, the government knows exactly how
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  to respond. If some ordinary person with no connections destroys evidence,
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  delays production, conceals records, or plays games with a court,
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  the hammer comes down fast. But when the issue is
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  the government itself, suddenly everyone gets very patient, very nuanced,
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  very careful, and very allergic to consequences. And that double standard,
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  my friends, is poison. It's killing public faith in the
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  justice system. And Todd Blanche, whether he likes it or not,
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  is now the face of that poison in the Epstein matter.
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  And the obscene thing is that the survivors have already
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  paid the highest price. They were failed when Epstein was
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  first allowed to operate. They were failed when his crimes
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  were minimized. They were failed when the non prosecution agreement
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  was cut behind their backs. They were failed when powerful
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  people around them were not subjected to the full merciless
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  scrutiny that a real trafficking investigation demands. They were failed
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  when evidence vanished, records stay sealed, and the public was
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  handed to half truth. And now years later, they're forced
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  to watch the same government that failed them posture as
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  a careful guardian of justice. Yo. There is a specialized
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  cruelty in that there is a deep, grinding cruelty in
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  making survivors beg for truth from the very institutions that
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  help bury it. And Blanche's nomination or possible elevation should
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  be viewed through that lens. Not through the lens of party,
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  not through the lens of resume, Not through the lens
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  of who likes them, who work with them, who praises
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  his legal mind, or who thinks he looks good on paper.
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  Through the lens of the women and girls who were
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  told again and again that the system would handle it,
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  only to watch the system handle them instead, through the
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  lens of a public that has been lied to, managed
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  and condescended for years. Through the lens of a justice
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  department that still cannot seem to tell the truth about
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  its own failures without being dragged by litigation and public rage.
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  In that lens, Blanche does not look like a reformer.
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  He looks like a continuation, And in my opinion, continuation
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  is unacceptable. The Epstein matter demands rupture. It demands someone
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  willing to break the habits of secrecy that have protected
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  powerful people for far too long. It demands an attorney
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  general who would rather anger every billionaire, banker, prince, professor, politician, fixer,
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  and former official connected to Epstein, then insult the public
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  one more time. It demands someone who understands that institutional
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  reputation is not worth the truth. It demands someone who
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  does not flinch when the names get ugly. It demands
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  someone who sees survivors as human beings, not public relations props.
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  It demands someone willing to burn down the culture of
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  a lead immunity, and Todd Blanche has not shown us
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  that he is that person. Instead, what we're seeing is
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  the same disgusting ritual. The powerful make a mess, the
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  institutions hide the mess. The public demands answers, the lawyers
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  slow it down. The official site process, the committee's posture,
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  the headlines fade, the survivors are expected to keep bleeding politely,
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  and then one of the men standing near the center
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  of the latest obstruction gets treated like he belongs at
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  the top of the Justice Department. It's almost too perfect
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  as a symbol of American decay, not because it's shocking,
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  but because it's not shocking at all. And for me,
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  that's the worst of it. We have become so used
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  to this kind of insult that people delivering it barely
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  bother to hide their smirks. Todd Blanche should not be
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  leading the Department of Justice. He should not be anywhere
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  near the levers of power in an Epstein related investigation.
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  He should be compelled to explain why the continues to
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  fight transparency in a case where secrecy has already done
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  catastrophic damage. He should be questioned about every decision, every delay,
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  every withheld document, every redaction, and every excuse offered to
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  the courts and the public. He should be held to
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  the same standard that the Department of Justice would impose
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  on any powerless citizen standing in the way of a
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  lawful process. Anything less is another confession that America has
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  one system for the connected and another one for everyone else,
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  and for a lot of people. I think that that's
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  the heart of the outrage. This is why people are furious,
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  and that's why rewarding Blanche now would not just be
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  bad judgment, it would be a national disgrace. Look, at
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  some point, the country has to stop pretending these people
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  are simply making mistakes. Mistakes happen once, maybe twice. What
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  has happened in the Epstein matter is a pattern, and
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  patterns reveal intent or at a minimum, institutional priorities. And
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  the priority has never been the full truth. The priority
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  has been damage control. The priority has been protecting the department,
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  protecting the names, protecting the network, protecting the reputations, protecting
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  the comfortable lie that this was all handled as well
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  as it could have been. Todd Blanche's handling of this
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  matter belongs inside that pattern, and if a man who
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  helps preserve that pattern can be elevated to Attorney General,
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  then the message from Washington is brutally clear. The cover
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  up culture is not being punished, it's being promoted. All
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