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Sarah Kellen, Three New Names, and the Expanding Epstein Inquiry (5/22/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. On Thursday May twenty first, twenty twenty six,
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  Sarah Kelln Vickers appeared before Congress to talk about Jeffrey Epstein,
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  and according to reports that we're getting from people that
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  were there, she is given the most substantative testimony so far,
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  and according to reports, she gave the committee three names
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  that the committee wasn't familiar with. Now, with that said,
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  I still have my doubts. We're talking about a woman
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  here who had every chance in the world to light
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  Jeffrey Epstein up and all of the revisionist history all
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  of a sudden about Sarah Kelln Vickers and her fearing
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  Jeffrey Epstein is pretty convenient now, But at the time
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  it was happening, when everybody was clamoring for Sarah Kelln
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  Vickers to come forward and provide evidence, she didn't do it.
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  But now that the spotlight has turned to her and
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  she knows that she's been mentioned so many times in
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  the court documents, well she sure has a lot to
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  say now, doesn't she. And just like that, Sarah Kelln
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  Vickers has turned herself from one of the co conspirators
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  and part of the Core four into a victim and listen,
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  I'm not going to try and pretend to you that
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  this isn't nuanced, that it's not complicated. It is. And
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  if Sarah Kelln Vickers would have come forward right away,
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  then it would be a different conversation. But instead she
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  went on to become a millionaire married to a NASCAR driver,
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  while Epstein's survivors were clawing for people to listen to
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  them and to believe them. But Sarah Kelln Vickers couldn't
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  be bothered to come out then, right because she wasn't
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  expected to because nobody was demanding it. And now that
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  it's been demanded, now that she's been forced to do it,
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  we're supposed to cheer and act like she's some kind
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  of big victim all of a sudden, Not on this podcast.
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  Today's article was published by ms now and the headline
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  Sarah Kellen gave most substantative testimony yet in Epstein probe.
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  Comer says, well, as you all know, whatever comer says,
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  I don't believe. Not exactly what I would call a
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  paragon of truth. This article was authored by Ebony Davis
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  House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer said former Jeffrey Epstein
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  aide Sarah Kellen provided the most substantative testimony to date.
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  After Kellen spent hours Thursday answering questions about the convicted
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  sex offenders in her circle and the alleged abuse network
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  during a closed door deposition. You mean the abuse she
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  was part of. How many girls did she lead into
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  the belly of the beast? And where was all this
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  compassion back then? Where was all this compassion in twenty
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  twenty one? Where was all this compassion in twenty nineteen.
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  So look, if people want to buy into what Kellen
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  is selling here, that's cool. Like usual, I'm not trying
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  to convince anybody of anything. I'm giving you my opinion
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  the way I see it and the way it looks
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  to me. Does that mean that's you know, the be
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  all and all? Of course not. But after all these
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  years and all the evidence and testimony we've heard about
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  Sarah Kellen's role, the only way that she should escape
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  any kind of real scrutiny, in my opinion, is if
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  she has actionable intelligence that she can serve up that
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  leads to the arrest and conviction of other people that
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  were involved. You see, I don't look at this as
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  a single loan predator type of situation. In my opinion,
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  this is rico. So I look at all of these
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  people as part of the organization, so they all share
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  a blame. And if it's good for my family and
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  my friends, it's certainly good enough for Jeffrey Epstein, because
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  I promise you every single person that's associated with a
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  mafia family that gets taken down, everybody's going to prison.
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  Oh well, I just answered phones, Oh yeah, you're part
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  of it. Prison. Well, I was just getting the mail. Prison.
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  I just received money from my uncle Joe. Well, your
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  funds are frozen. Now your account's frozen, and every dollar
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  you ever make is going to be on your scrutiny.
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  That's how it works in the real world, unless, of course,
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  you're Jeffrey Epstein. Of all the people we've interviewed thus far,
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  this was by far the most substantative, productive interview that
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  we've had. She was very brave coming forward. Oh yeah,
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  very brave when she's being compelled to do so. I
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  can't imagine how difficult it was for her to go
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  into detail about the abuse that she endured at the
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  hands of Epstein and Maxwell Cormer toll reporters after the deposition,
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  later adding I believe she was a victim. Now, oh,
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  they're setting it up. This is all about Glenn Maxwell.
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  They're going to start calling Glan Maxwell a victim soon.
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  That's my opinion. Kellen's latest figure to appear before the
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  House Oversight Committee as lawmakers ramp up their investigation following
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  the release of more than three million pages of Epstein
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  related files earlier this year. Oh yeah, ramping up the investigation?
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  Is it ramping up the cover story for Donnie Diddles.
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  During her testimony, Kelln denied she was an accomplice in
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  Epstein's sex trafficking operation and instead betrayed herself as one
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  of his victims, amid renewed scrutiny of the late financiers
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  in her circle. All of a sudden, big victim and
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  the people who are torus to the story are just
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  going to go along with it. And they don't do
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  that for no reason. When it comes to Jeffrey Epstein
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  in this story, there's always some other bullshit wrapped in
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  and here, in my opinion, it's about softening the ground
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  for Maxwell to be called a victim. Too. That's what
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  Comer's doing, and it's wild, as held to me, that
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  people are just going along with it. Kellen, who worked
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  for Epstein's personal assistant for years, told Lawmaker she was
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  abused by Epstein and had been manipulated, controlled, and groomed
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  from a young age. According to prepared remarks obtained by
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  ms NOW, I worked for and was sexually and psychologically
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  abused by Jeffrey Epstein for over a decade, Kellen said.
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  She said Epstein initially hired her as an unpaid assistant
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  before coercing her into sex and that she said she
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  believed and during the abuse was necessary to keep her job. Look,
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  I'm not going to sit here and tell you that
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  Kellen wasn't abused by Epstein. She probably and most likely was,
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  But she had ample opportunity to put that son of
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  a bitch on blast, and instead what did she do?
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  Went and removed computers, helped the cover up go forward,
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  kept bringing girls into the belly of the beast, and
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  then for her whole entire woe is me? Sob story?
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  Did she leave the part out where she was a
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  millionaire married to a NASCAR driver, live in the life
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  of Riley. You know who wasn't living the life of Riley.
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  These girls who were abused, girls like Carolyn who took
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  their own lives, girls like Virginia who took her own life.
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  So please save the now. If you want to call
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  Sarah Kellen Vickers at this point a cooperating witness, cool,
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  I'm down with that, But putting her in the same
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  category as girls that were at Palm Beach High School
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  that were getting abused. After Sarah Kellen Vickers herself led
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  them to Jeffrey Epstein's house, that is a bridge too
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  far for me. Kellen, who referred to herself as a
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  literal indentured slave. Oh Jesus really to Epstein, said you
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  were constantly for low pay and described herself as trapped
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  financially and emotionally. I know some of you were wondering
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  why I did not leave. I had nowhere else to go.
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  I had no money, no family, no education, and no
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  sense that I deserved any better. She said, that's a lie.
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  She had parents. She stopped talking to her parents when
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  she got with Jeffrey Epstein. Have we forgotten the article
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  that her parents put out the interview with Delimel, Like,
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  I know there's a lot of people that are new
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  to the topic, but not me. And you're not going
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  to slip this bullshit by me. I'm sorry, And just
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  because you're abused doesn't give you the right to abuse others.
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  She also alleged the abuse continued even while Epstein was
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  serving his Florida jail sentence, saying he contacted her from
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  jail and demanded sexually explicit video calls. Well, I don't
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  doubt that we know that Jeffrey Epstein was up to
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  no good when he was out on bell, when he
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  was out on probation. And look, Kellen's not the biggest,
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  you know, criminal, the biggest villain in the story. She's
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  just part of it. And I think that if Sarah
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  Kellen Vickers is looking for redemption, then she's gonna have
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  to come a lot more correct. And I think that
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  if she's looking for redemption, she's going to have to
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  do more than just try and frame herself as a victim.
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  She's going to have to take responsibility for what she did.
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  And while I haven't seen the transcript yet, I have
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  my doubts that she's doing that. Kellen is long face
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  public scrutiny because she was identified as one of four
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  alleged co conspirators granted immunity in Epstein's controversial two thousand
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  and seven plea deal with federal prosecutors in Florida. But
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  Kellen testified Thursday that federal prosecutors labeled her a potential
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  co conspirator in Epstein's deal without ever interviewing her or
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  contacting her until twenty nineteen. They don't have to contact
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  you to label you a co conspirator? Are you kidding me?
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  Right now? Oh? Yeah, Hey, you know what, Vinnie the Chin,
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  we want to let you know that you're a co
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  conspirator with Vinnie Gorgeous? Like what do they think everybody
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  is stupid? Do they think everybody has no idea how
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  a criminal operation works. Victims and court filings over the
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  years accused Kellen of scheduling massages and recruiting girls for Epstein.
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  Kellen also provided lawmakers with three previously unknown names of
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  individuals allegedly tied to Epstein's abuse network on Thursday, well,
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  according to Comer, though he declined to identify them publicly. Look,
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  that's what I'm talking about. If she has actionable information
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  that leads to convictions, that leads to arrests, then let's
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  play ball. I've said that from the jump. My biggest
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  problem with the Core four is their silence. They should
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  have come forward a lot earlier, and they should have
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  stepped up. Then I would have had some empathy like
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  I do for Nadia, not for these people that sat
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  on the sidelines, that enriched themselves, that had all these
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  great years where they could have come forward and stop
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  Jeffrey Epstein. But no, she chose not to do it.
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  So I choose not to grant her the empathy she's
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  looking for. And my opinion might be tainted a bit
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  due to the conversations I've had with people about Sarah
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  Kellen and her alleged role in what Epstein was doing.
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  One very positive thing today is she gave us three
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  names of people that were involved in the abuse. Comer said, Wait,
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  I thought that there were no other names. I thought
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  nobody was involved. Isn't that what cash Ptel and all
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  of the MAGA influencers on Twitter told us, Oh, come on,
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  there's a big hoax. There's no names here. Everything's just
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  a big joke. It's not immediately clear when the committee
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  is expected to release the transcript of the deposition and
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  when they do, obviously we'll get it added to the catalog.
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  Kellen urged lawmakers not to require additional Epstein survivors to
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  publicly relive their abuse through congressional interviews or testimony. I
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  hope and pray that I am the only sexual abuse
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  survivor that has to come before you in this manner,
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  Kellen said. Nobody else who has been through the hell
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  that Jeffrey Epstein put us through should ever have to
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  endure the pain of recounting it again publicly. That seems weird,
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  though't You want people to know what happened so we
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  can stop it from happening again. Sure, let's everybody just
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  sit on the sidelines. Some Democrats expressed for after the deposition,
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  including Rajah Krishna Morthy of Illinois, who said Kellen was
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  unwilling to answer certain questions. We need more questions, and
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  probably we're gonna have to do it under oath again
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  in a compelled setting, maybe maybe with the subpoena, because
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  certain questions were not answered by the witness. And that's
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  my guess. This is some kind of rehab tour leading
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  up to Maxwell getting pardoned. And I hate being so cynical.
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  About things. But sorry, I'm sorry. I'm not gonna be
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  fucking gas lit. I'm not gonna be dog walked, and
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  we're certainly not going to rewrite history here. The committee
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  has interviewed several figures ti to Epstein in recent months.
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  Witnesses question so far include former President Bill Clinton, former
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  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, longtime attorney Darren Endyke, accountant
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  Richard Kahn, and a former prison guard connected to Epstein's
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  attention before his twenty nineteen death in federal custody. So,
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  first it was Tovin Noel and yeah, well now we
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  think it was definitely a suicide. You know, she told
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  us so. And then we flipped the script to Sarah
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  Kelln Vickers and all of a sudden, well she's a
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  big victim too. Two things can be true at once.
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  I have no doubt and I do not dispute that
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  Epstein abused Sarah Kelln Vickers. He abused everybody. My problem
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  is she never came forward, she never stepped up, and
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  she never tried to stop them. And we're not talking
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  about some girl who was, you know, a drug addict,
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  somebody nobody will listen to. Her husband was Brian Vickers,
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  a NASCAR driver. If Kellen Vickers felt so passionately about
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  what Epstein was doing, she could have went to her
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  husband and they could have set something up called the
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  right people, got the right lawyers, protected themselves, and been
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  ready to go. But she didn't do that, did she.
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  But now that the story's blown up again and she's
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  in the spotlight, all of a sudden, she wants to
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  come forward and tell her a side of the story.
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  Well cool, I'm glad you told your side of the story.
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  I'm glad that you've decided to finally speak up, But
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  my question remains the same. If you knew all of this,
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  then why wait until now. All the information that goes
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