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Kash Me Outside: Kash Patel And His Crash Out During His Epstein Testimony · 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. Listen, there's a certain kind of theater that
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  plays out in Washington. When we've all seen so many times,
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  it should almost feel routine, but somehow it never seems
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  to lose its sting. Politicians thunder on the campaign trail,
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  waving their fists and promising that they'll tear down the
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  corrupt and defend the innocent. They wrap themselves in the
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  mantle of justice as though it were a costume pulled
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  from a trunk ready to be discarded. When the scene changes,
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  the rhetoric is loud, the indignation rehearsed, and the applause
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  lines carefully crafted to land us right. And yet when
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  the stage shifts to the halls of power, when words
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  are sworn into the record and actual accountability hangs in
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  the balance, the volume drops. The bravado vanishes, and in
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  its place comes a slick, calculated retreat into evasions and hedges.
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  You know and I know that it's the classic bait
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  and switch, the oldest trick in the Beltwagh playbook. Out
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  on the trail. Outrage is free to sell. Outrage is currency.
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  Outrage gets the cameras rolling, but under the harsh fluorescent
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  lights of the Senate Chamber, outrage suddenly morphs into denial,
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  as though the same facts that were once so damning
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  are now somehow irrelevant or unproven. The very testimony that
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  was paraded as evidence of corruption is suddenly deemed unworthy,
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  not credible, unfit to shake the halls of power. And
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  in that whiplash inducing pivot, you see the game for
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  what it is, because make no mistake, this is not
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  about discovering new evidence or reevaluating the facts. The facts
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  have always been there, staring anyone with eyes straight in
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  the face. This is about convenience. Outrage is convenient when
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  it fills stadiums or fires up a base, when it
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  makes the politician sound like a warrior for truth. But
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  when that same outrage threatens to rattle the foundations of
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  the very institutions at grant them the power, suddenly the
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  mass slips and the outrage gets downgraded into dismissive talking points.
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  It's a performance that's designed to protect, not expose. It
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  doesn't matter how many survivors spoke, how many documents have surfaced,
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  how many times the truth clawed its way into the
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  public record. The script says, to feign moral clarity when
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  it costs nothing, and to retreat into empty legalisms when
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  it costs everything. And in that switch, in that very hypocrisy,
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  the truth about priorities become undeniable. So when you hear
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  the words, when you watch the performance, you can't help
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  but ask yourself, was any of it ever about justice?
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  Or was it always just another act in the long
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  running play to shield the powerful from consequence. The more
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  you see it, the clearer the answer becomes. And that
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  right there is the backdrop to what unfolded here, a
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  moment when the act fell apart, the mass slipped, and
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  the hypococracy practically shouted its own name from the Senate record.
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  So let your boy get this straight. Cash Valhalla Patel,
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  who spent the better part of the campaign trail thundering
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  about Jeffrey Epstein's crimes like he was auditioning for a
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  true crime podcast, is going to now sit in front
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  of the Senate and Congress and deadpan that there were
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  no credible evidence Epstein traffic girls to anyone. Ha Haul bravo, Cash,
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  truly Shakespearean in the art of hypocrisy. One minute Epstein
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  is the boogeyman you used to rile up the base.
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  The next minute, he's just a misunderstood financier with a
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  taste for massages. The gall is breathtaking. This is the
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  same dude who wants practically shouted from the rooftops that
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  Epstein's operation was the embodiment of elite corruption. He preamed
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  about it on podcasts, fundraisers and campaign stops, clutching his
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  pearls about how the American people had been betrayed, But
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  face with the record where words actually matter, he suddenly
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  decides that survivors are not credible. That's not just a
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  flip flop. We're talking about a full Olympic level backflip
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  into a pool of sewage. Imagine how the survivors must
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  feel listening to this dude, the guy that milked their
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  trauma for political capital, dangling their pain as evidence of
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  swamp corruption, and then, when given the chance to stand
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  up for them, he chose to kick them in the teeth.
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  It's almost as if their testimony only matters when it
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  can be weaponized for applause lines, not when it threatens
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  actual institutions of power. And let's not forget that Bettel
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  used Epstein as shorthand for everything wrong with Washington, New York, Hollywood,
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  pick a target. He had Epstein's name on his lips.
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  Epstein was his prop, his rhetorical punching bag, his boogeyman
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  of choice. And now now Bettel is suddenly the arbiter
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  of credibility, dismissing sworn testimony as though it's gossip overheard
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  in a nel salon Homie, give me a break. Chasm
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  almost writes itself Cash battel, defender of truth and scourge
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  of the elites, until, of course, defending truth means standing
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  behind women who actually testified about being trafficked. At that point,
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  Cash folds like a cheap hand of cards in Las
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  Vegas at two AM and three hundred milligrams of edibles. Suddenly,
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  the man who never missed an opportunity to moralize about
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  Epstein on the stump is just another government mouthpiece pretending
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  the record doesn't exist. What happened to all that righteous indignation? Cash?
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  Where did all the fire go? Was it misplaced in
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  some senate cloak room before your testimony? Or was it
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  always a stick a way to rile up crowds while
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  never actually intending to confront the real machinery that enabled
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  Epstein's crimes. You know the answer is obvious. It was
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  theater all along. And here's the thing, My mockery is
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  almost too kind for this. Pateel's hypocrisy isn't just embarrassing,
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  it's disgusting. He turned Epstein into a campaign prop and
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  then turned his back on survivors the second his word
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  might inconvenience the powerful. He's like the dude that rails
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  against pornography in public, but behind the scenes he's out
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  here acting like Chuck Rhodes. And the survivors, I can
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  promise you they're shaking their heads. They've listened to Betel's
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  fiery stump speeches where he condemned Epstein as a monster,
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  and they might have thought, finally someone gets it. Instead, well,
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  they get the same old baitens, which we got by
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  another operator whose loyalty lies not with them but with
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  protecting the system. And considering all that we've seen, he
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  didn't just fail them, He used them. Cash didn't even
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  bother to deny that there was evidence. He said there
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  was no credible evidence. That weasel phrase is a lawyer's trick.
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  It's not about the absence of facts. It's about branding
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  facts inconvenient to your narrative as unreliable translation. The testimony
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  of women who survived Epstein's trafficking ring doesn't count because
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  it doesn't fit the script anymore. But let's be real.
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  If Bateell truly believed Epstein never traffic girls to anyone,
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  then why did he spend so long beloviating about Epstein's
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  network in the first place. Did he not read the depositions,
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  Did he not see the settlements JP Morgan and Deutsche
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  Bank paid out? Did he miss Maxwell's conviction? Or does
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  he think that all of that just happened in a vacuum.
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  Maybe Epstein traffic girls only to the air molecules floating
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  around Little Saint James, and it's like being on an
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  acid trip on the campaign trail. Epstein proves the corruption
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  of the elites in front of Congress survivors. Oh sorry,
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  not credible? Yoh? Which is it? Cash? Either Epstein was
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  a monstrous trafficker who catered to the powerful, or he
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  was just some lonely guy with a massage fetish. You
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  can't have it both ways. And here's where the sarcasm sharpens.
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  Cash Bettel is not stupid. He knows exactly what Epstein
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  was and what survivors testified to. He knows the record
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  is full of corroboration. But in the arena where accountability
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  lives Congress, in the Senate, he chose to discard truth
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  for spin. He chose to discard survivors for expedients. He
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  chose the cover up over the victims. Let's pause and
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  appreciate the irony of a man who wants promise to
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  drain the swamp now acting as a swamp creature's defense attorney.
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  If Betel had shown up in a pinstriped suit with
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  epstein legal defense embroidered on his lapel, the performance couldn't
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  have been more obvious. My man wasn't speaking to Congress.
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  He was speaking to the powerful man trembling at the
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  thought of what those unsealed documents might show and for
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  what to look like, the royal soldier, the man who
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  can be trusted to tow the line and bury inconvenient truths.
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  This shit is the oldest game in town. Pretend survivor
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  testimony doesn't exist, label it as not credible, and hope
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  the public drugs and move on. Spoiler, the survivors aren't
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  moving on, and neither are we. And look, wish this
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  mockery didn't right itself, but it does. Cash. You built
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  your brand on epstein outrage, and now you're back pedaling
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  so fast you might as well enter the Tour de
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  France and reverse. How long before you start telling us
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  Epstein was just a misunderstood philanthropist who liked to fly
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  friends around on his private jet for charity work. What
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  Betel's testimony really revealed is this. His indignation was never
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  about the survivors. It was never about justice. It was
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  always about utility Epstein. The talking point was useful Epstein,
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  The scandal with consequences, well, that shit's dangerous. Ptel isn't
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  brave enough to confront the latter, so he hides behind
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  the farce of no credible evidence. The congressional hearing exposed
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  the truth, but not in the way Patel hoped. It
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  showed that Cash Patel is no warrior for justice, no
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  defender of truth. He's a man willing to use the
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  pain of survivors when it serves them and discard them
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  when it threatens them. He is hypocrisy and car it.
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  So let's mock this shit for what it is, a
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  performance of cowardice. Cash Betel wants the loudest voice condemning Epstein,
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  now's the quietest shill for his enablers. Survivors are left
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  once again as a powerful circle the wagons, while the
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  Lord of Valhalla plays his part in the cover up
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  chorus history. You won't forget this pivot, Cash, The hypocrisy
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  is too glaring, the betrayal too loud. You went from
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  crowing about Epstein's crimes to sneering at survivor testimony. And
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  when the record's written, and you better believe it will be,
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  your name's going to sit where it belongs among those
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  who chose cover up overtruth. All of the information that
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  goes with this episode can be found in the description box.