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From Wikileaks Warrior to Epstein Email Evasion: The Art of Steve Bannon’s Hypocrisy · 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. Well, isn't this a heartwarming hallmark moment? It's
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truly inspirational. Honestly, Steve Bannon, the self anointed guardian angela truth,
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justice and whatever the hell he thinks patriotism smells like
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after three days in the same unwashed flannel at a
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motel six bathroom singh bath, suddenly doesn't want to talk
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about emails. The man who practically built a miniature media empire,
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rummaging through the WikiLeaks inbox like a hyped up raccoon,
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tearing into a Golden Corral dumpster, shrieking about Podesta's rosatto
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recipe like it was the seventh chapter of Revelations, now
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wants everybody to be cool and stop asking uncomfortable questions
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about the Epstein Trump emails. Now he wants restraint, Now
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he wants nuance. Now he wants everyone to act like adults. Huh,
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how strange? What a coincidence? I wonder what changed? Solar
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flares astrological turbulence. Did Jesus himself descend from the clouds
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to grant Steve ahle No, no, no, come on, let's
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not be ridiculous, my guess, and this is just a
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wild tinfoil had conspiracy theory, so please hold on to
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your pearls. Is that, maybe, just maybe it has something
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to do with the fact that this walking shernoble disaster
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of a human being was being coached by Jeffrey Epstein
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all the way up until twenty eighteen. Crazy right, absolutely insane.
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Who could have predicted that the man screaming the loudest
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about adrenochrome, satanic pizza tunnels, reptilian pedophile cabals, and baby
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blood cocktails was secretly taking strategic notes from a convicted
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sex trafficker and intelligence cutout who ran a global compromount
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operation completely unimaginable. Never saw that plot twist coming, And
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now suddenly our warrior poet of the populace, right, the
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crusader who rode into battle on a flaming chariot of
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conspiracy theories, is clutching his pearls and hyperventilating at the
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mere suggestion that we apply the same exact enthusiastic microscope
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he weaponized against his pitical enemies. The same Steve Bannon
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who delivered breathless monologues that sounded like he was broadcasting
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live from a burning tent at the gates of Hell itself.
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Now pretending Epstein emailing on political strategy notes is quote
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no big deal. He's acting like the guy who gets
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caught with the severed head in his freezer and says, Wow,
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everybody just needs to chill. This is being blown way
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out of proportion. But don't worry, folks. This is an hypocrisy. No,
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this is performance art. This is a character study in
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the theater of fraud. This is a man who can
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look directly into the camera, talk about baby blood smoothies
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and ritual satanic sacrifice with his chest out, and then
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rewrite history when Epstein's name pops up in his inbox.
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And the best part, he thinks we're dumb enough to
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swallow it. He truly believes the public is made of
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unmedicated toddlers who can't connect the dots unless they're printed
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in crayon. News flash, you don't get to scream where
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are the emails every day for eight straight years like
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a malfunctioning car alarm, and then suddenly decide emails don't
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matter when they're pointed at your forehead like a loaded shotgun.
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You don't get to demand congressional hearings on Hillary Clinton's inbox,
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demand journalists be imprisoned, demand investigations into risotto recipes, and
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then play amnesia victim when someone politely suggests that you
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Steve Epstein's little helper, Bannon might need to clarify a
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few things under oath. So here we are. The chickens
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have come home to roost, and they are pissed, and
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they're carrying subpoenas in their beaks. And if Steve Bannon
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thinks he's going to gaslight his way out of this
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one with that sweaty faced, nicotine stained Carnival Barker routine,
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he might want to ask his old mentor Epstein for advice.
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Oh wait, that's going to be difficult. Gravity already handled
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that appointment. Man, Let's roll the tape. Today's article is
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from The Guardian and the headline Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve
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Bannon during the twenty eighteen pro Trump media campaign. This
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article was authored by Jason Wilson. The convicted sex offender.
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Jeffrey Epstein apparently served as a behind the scenes advisor
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to the former Trump official mega influencer Steve Bannon during
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in August twenty eighteen media campaign to defend Trump and
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his agenda and to promote Bannon's media ventures. All that
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talk this dude did, all that nonsensical bullshit talk this
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man did about Pizzagate and all the other nonsense. Meanwhile,
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at the same time, he's sitting here playing touch ass
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with Jeffrey Epstein via email and who knows what else.
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Text messages released by the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday
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detail is six day exchange between the men from the
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seventeenth to the twenty third of August, and show Epstein
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coaching Bannon on television appearances and political messaging. Yo, you
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have to be one of the dumbest people on earth
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to go to Jeffrey Epstein to try and get some help.
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And we're not talking about Jeffrey Epstein before he was
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arrested the first time. We're talking about after when everybody
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knew what he was. Steve Bannon, all the Trump's allies,
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they were out on the campaign trail talking all kinds
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of shit. Oh yeah, we're going to release this. We're
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going to release that only for us to find out now,
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well for the rest of the world to find out
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now that behind the scenes Steve Bannon is literally getting
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campaign advice and political advice from Jeffrey Epstein, Like, how
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did people square this circle? How can you support somebody
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like this, somebody that lied to you for all these
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years about Adreno chrome and Tom Hanks on an island
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and people in Guantanamo Bay and the storm's coming and
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all that other bullshit Q nonsense. One of the biggest
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tenants of that whole, entire shit show was that there
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was kids being trafficked right that people were hurting children,
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that there was this cabal. Well here it is right here,
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in black and white, and unfortunately, your boy Steve Bannon
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was dick deep in it. And I don't mean somebody
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that got caught up. I mean somebody that willfully put
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themselves into the web of Jeffrey Epstein. So no, I'm
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not going to be preached to by people like Steve Bannon.
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I'm not gonna let Steve Bannon control the narrative when
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it comes to Jeff Epstein. And if he has so
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much to say about the topic, why doesn't he make
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an appearance in front of Congress and go under oath
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and talk about everything he knows him and his buddy
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Michael Wolf. They'll make a beautiful pair, won't they. One
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side of the conversation is sent from an I message
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account associated with Epstein's email address, and while the name
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of Epstein's correspondent is redacted in the documents as released,
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contextual clues, including references to Fox News appearances in his
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August twenty seventeen firing from the White House and his
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work on the documentary Trump at War, make it clear
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the other participant is Bannon. You know, the hypocrisy is
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just too much for me. Here's an idea. Have something
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you stand for, and then stand for it, no matter
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who gets caught up. I said from the very beginning
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of this, I have no faves. I really don't care.
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I'm not somebody that is looking to be popular. I'm
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not looking to promote my podcast. I'm not on social media. Really,
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I don't care about any of it. What I care
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about is passing this message on to you folks, and
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then what you do if it is up to you.
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I'm not some big shot journalist. I'm just a regular
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guy who's pissed off, just a regular guy who saw
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something was wrong and had to speak out. And if
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other people agree or other people have the same opinions. Great.
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If not, well, that's cool too. I am not here
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to convince anybody of shit. I'm here to open doors,
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and once the door's open, what people decide to do
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after that is up to them. This story isn't about
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content creators, it's not about Steve Bannon. It's not about
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anybody but the survivors. That's what it should be centered on.
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But more times than not, people don't even talk about
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the survivors and it's their story. It's not known whether
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the release material is excerpted from a longer conversation. Bannon
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did not reply at a multiple requests for a comment
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from The Guardian. What Elon Mus said earlier this year
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that Bannon is in the Epstein files, Bannon told the
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Independent he wanted a special investigator to look into all
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the open documents, and at this point, would that be
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a bad idea? I think that's a good idea. Get
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somebody that's not connected to any of this, have them
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be the special investigator and give them subpoena power, all
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the power that's needed to bring people to justice. We
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obviously can't count on the DOJ. And if that doesn't work,
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then we need to use some kind of sovereign immunity
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and have a state investigation initiated in a place like
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New York or New Mexico or anywhere else where. Jeffrey
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Epstein was up to his bullshit because I hate to
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break the news to everybody, but there's no cavalry coming
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to save any of us. We're on our own. The
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Exchange offer a detailed picture of Bannon's efforts to continue
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supporting Trump a year after his acrimonious departure from the
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White House, and shows Epstein's close involvement in crafting messages
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on tax cuts, immigration, and even security clearance revocations. Boy,
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isn't that nice to know? Huh, that's comforting. That is
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real comforting Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Eppsteor commiserating, and that's
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becoming policy. Well, I wish I could tell you that
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that wasn't real, but it is. And like I've been
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telling you from the very beginning, the same people that
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are making our laws, the same people that are running
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our banks, the same people that are controlling our lives,
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are the same people that were enjoying Jeffrey Epstein's largest
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the same people that were breaking bread with them the
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same people that were using them for whatever they were
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using them for, and in turn they were getting used
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as well, because every single one of these relationships was
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parasitical in nature. They also show the two men's responses
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to breaking scandals. When news broke on August twenty third
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that National Inquirer publisher David Pecker had received immunity in
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the Michael Cohen case, Bantan texted huge event huge followed
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by more women payoffs coming. I mean, if you're not guilty,
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why are all these dudes paying women off? I know,
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I'm like Scrooge McDuck with my money. I'm not paying
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you shit, not once single dollar. If I'm innocent, In fact,
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I'll go broke defending my name, because that's never gonna
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go away. What you think Prince Andrew's you know, descendants
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thirty years from now aren't gonna know you as a
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piece of shit. Oh they're gonna know, folks, They're gonna know.
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So if you were innocent, wouldn't you want to defend
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your legacy. Wouldn't you want to stand up in front
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of the court, in front of everybody and say that's
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not me, that's not who I am. How dare you
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say that I know I would. The messages begin with
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Epstein offering immediate feedback on a live media appearance by Bannon.
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The venue is not identified in the chat records, but
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YouTube archives indicate that on August seventeenth, Bannon was interviewed
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on MSNBC by Aery Melber. How did it go, Epstein asked.
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As the interview concluded, Epstein appeared to be watching the
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broadcast live, telling Bannon, I took off early so I
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could land in time to watch all good. Bannon responded,
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they went for an hour instead of thirty minutes, showing
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the entire hour over multiple platforms. Epstein shot back at
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a boy, Oh yeah, Steve Bannon's going to tell you
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that he was, you know, working undercover to take down
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Jeffrey Epstein. I was just trying to get Apple research.
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Have another drink, bro obvious, drunken fool. I'm tired of
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all these people, every last one of them, All these
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big mouths that run around point in fingers that everybody
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else when they themselves are up to no good. The
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hypocrisy is too much to deal with. The pair then
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engaged in banter, with Epstein writing you look so clean
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cut next to him, I thought I turned on the
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figure skating channel by accident. Bannon responded, my come hither. Look,
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Epstein replied, that was better than the usual cum hitler. Look. Oh,
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look at how que two friends bantering. And if you're
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just working with somebody, this isn't the kind of conversation
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you have, right, So Bannon will say this is a
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working relationship. We weren't friendly. No, you were friendly, and
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you know exactly what he was. So spare me the
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bullshit about the kids and how you care about them
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and about the cabal. You have no more credibility, mister Bannon.
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In fact, in my opinion, you're no better than another
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Epstein enabler. That's all you are. Bannon, who has been
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credited with a central role in the resurgence of far
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right populism around the world, responded ouch when Bannon mentioned
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that he had prepared carefully for the appearance, saying you
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wanted to be clean, not sloppy for what he called
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soy boy network. Epstein responded, closer to toy boy. Everything
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is a sexual innuendo with Epstein always, so everybody talking
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about they had no idea what he was what he
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was up to. I don't buy it. I never have
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and I never will. This man talk like this all
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the time. And if you have a friend and they
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talk like this all the time, you know what they are, right,
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You know you have a homie who's always talking about, Oh,
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I'm going to find girls this at the other thing.
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Chances are that's who they are. And when it comes
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to Jeffrey Epstein, we know exactly what he is, what
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he was, and what he always was. And the sad
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truth is all these people that were around them they
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knew too. Epstein then offered more considered feedback on his
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performance and appearance, writing last ten Minutes more than Real You,
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which he followed with some detailed advice on staging your
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eye is the best, so important for you to watch
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the play, reel over the shoulder for him, three fourths
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for you, lighting hot for you, Chairs too restrictive for you.
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How does Epstein know any of this? What do you see?
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Some kind of interview guru dude to his dumbest shit,
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and anybody who's reaching out to him for advice life advice,
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You're dumber. Epstein took an active role in developing talking
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points for abandons media appearances at that time, particularly about
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economic policy. The messages show Epstein crafting detailed responses to
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criticism of Trump's tax cuts. Well, isn't that nice working
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for the president via proxy? Is he? I know people
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don't want to hear it, but they're going to have to.
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I'm sorry. Them's the brakes, Just like I talked about
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the Wiki League's emails, because there was some disturbing ass
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shit in those two and the left they tried to
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play those down. Oh this isn't real. These have been doctored. No,
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they weren't. All those emails were real. And all that
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degeneracy they were talking about, that's real too, just like
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these emails are real. So there's people out here that
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want to play partisan bullshit, and then there's very few
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of us that just want to get to the bottom
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of it. And I'm one of those people. I just
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want to get to the bottom of it. I'm not
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here to protect any of these people. I don't care
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about any of them. We can discuss the response to
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the tax cut criticism the eighty three percent to rich
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as misleading by miles cash back pension funds up, Epstein wrote,
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adding corporations or not. People giving corporations breaks is perceived
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as giving it to someone else. Wage inflation can't be
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the first focus. The additional money in the system first
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goes to hiring new people. Only afterwards can wages rise.
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What exactly made Jeffrey Epstein some expert, had no legal training?
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Wasn't somebody that was, you know, in the mix? But
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yet time and time again, influential man goes to him
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for advice. That's not normal, None of it's normal. And finally,
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after all these years, people are starting to take notice
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of just how fed up all this really is. Epstein
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also complained to Bannon about people turning on him amid
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a developing scandal about his previous activities and his apparently
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favorable treatment by federal prosecutors. On August twenty second, he wrote, FYI,
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there's a guy totally nuts out of jail after twenty
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years that has been sending letters to me to all
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agencies stalking wants a billion dollars, no real threat, just
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one more pain, he added Stephen Hoffenberg. He bought the
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New York Deli News for one dollar, et cetera. And Hoffenberg,
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of course, is somebody I've spoken to personally. Before he
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passed away, him and I had many conversations. And the
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fact is, according to Steve Hoffenberg, Jeffrey Epstein was the
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architect of the Ponzi scheme, but it was Steve Hoffenberg
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who took the fall. And that's because Epstein was folded
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into intelligence right was protected. Steve Hoffenberg was imprisoned in
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nineteen ninety eight for his role in a five hundred
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million dollars Ponzi scheme, one of the largest in US history.
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According to Hoffenberg's reported claims and legal filings, Epstein was
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also involved in the scheme. In August twenty twenty two,
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Hoffenberg was found dead in his Connecticut apartment at the
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age of seventy seven. The messages revealed discussions between Bannin
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and Epstein about Mago world figures, including Teel and Anthony Scaramucci,
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the short lived Trump communications director. On August eighteenth, Epstein
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wrote message on back Wednesday Teel coming three days later,
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he laid out a set of priorities for Bannin, one
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Peter Tiel in town for the mooch. Scaramuci, still in
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contact with Ivanka, has reached out to me and asked
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how we can re engage with you. I've only met
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him once. Odd, well, isn't that nice? Mister Scaramuchi's out
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here running his mouth too. What did you know, buddy?
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How many times did you meet Epstein? What were you
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up to? The messages captured two men's reactions to major
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developments in the Michael Cohen case. When news broke on
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August twenty third, twenty eighteen, that National Inquirer publisher David
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Pecker had received immunity, both recognized its significance immediately. Epstein
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texted Pecker, immunity one more job. Bannon responded, huge, event, huge,
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He added, more women payoffs are coming elsewhere. The pair
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appeared to try to conceal their own collaboration from wider scrutiny.
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On August twenty third, Epstein wrote, by the way, I'm
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in New York tonight through Saturday. If you want to
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visit under the cover of darkness or breakfast tomorrow if
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you'd like. Bannon replied, do you have access? That's not
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the front door. They have twenty four to seven surveillance
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on you. Epstein responded, I'm happy to come see you
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if better, adding separate from the process, says server that
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left yesterday or the early morning doorman next door, any
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idea of who? Bannon responded, don't know, but real folks
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costing a lot of coin. Epstein continued, can meet you
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at three oh one to E sixty six if you prefer,
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I will send an apartment number. Epstein owned the apartments
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on E. Sixty sixth Street in Manhattan. Him and his
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brother own that apartment building, and that's where a lot
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of their nonsense was taking place. They'd bring these girls
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in from South America, they'd bring them in from wherever,
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and then they'd end up having these girls who thought
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that they were going to be models end up getting abused.
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Bannon responded, I don't like the regency as it's totally wired.
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In a string of messages, Epstein tried to accommodate Bannon's
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apparent desire for secrecy, writing there is also a rear
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entrance on sixty seven if you prefer super secure, and
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someone can meet you and take you in. Bannon, apparently satisfied, responded,
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just at a time. I'll be in after four point thirty.
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So for me, I'm left with this picture Steve Bannon,
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sweat beating like bullets on a rotisserie ham pacing back
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and forth backstage, trying to figure out how the hell
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he's going to spin this one. The man who turned
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to email leaks into a national sport, who treated wiki
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leaks like it was the holy gospel of modern patriotism,
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now mumbling under his breath like a teenager caught with
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a backpack full of fireworks. Suddenly the great champion of
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transparency has discovered the sacred value of privacy. Suddenly the
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guy who demanded the public's right to know every syllable
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type by his political enemies is waving his arms like
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an air traffic controller, screaming stop the presses. Funny how
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life works. When the boomerang finally comes screaming back at
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skull cracking velocity, he can ramped about adrino chrome, pizzagate,
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satanic ping pong tables, and quote unquote spirit cooking until
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his lungs collapse. But the second we start talking about
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Epstein coaching him like a political little league dad, the
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man chokes harder than Prince Andrew, explaining sweating. Suddenly Steve
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Bannon missed your eternal outrage, becomes a shy librarian whispering
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about context and nuance. And how maybe we shouldn't jump
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to conclusions. Oh yeah, Steve, Since when this is the
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same guy who could turn a typo in an email
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subject line into a six hour conspiracy marathon with sound
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effects and graphics and a goddamn chalkboard. But now that
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the emails involve him, now that the rot is under
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his fingernails, now that the corruption implicates his movement, Suddenly
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we're expected to be calm, reasonable adults. Suddenly we're supposed
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to treat this like a misunderstanding instead of what it is. Evidence, direct, unfiltered, radioactive,
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and spare us the bullshit that Steve wants to pretend
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that these documents, these communications with Jeffrey Epstein, the man
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who trafficked children for the powerful, are just another Tuesday,
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nothing to see here, Move along, Yeah, not happening. You
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demanded congressional hearings for rosato recipes. You demanded investigations over
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pasta sauce. You wanted indictments over emojis. So guess what.
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The subpoena printer is warmed up, the ink is full,
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and your name is already on one of the pages.
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Because this isn't about left or right, or red or blue,
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This is about the truth finally snapping the rubber band
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back in the other direction, and it's going to sting
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like hell. So Steve, pick out a tie, practice your
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hand on the Bible, pose, and try to get some
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sleep tonight because eventually the questions are for you. All
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