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The Gap Between Marsha Blackburn’s Epstein Rhetoric and Her Actions (8/14/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. For the past couple of years, Marshall Blackburn
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  Speaker 1: has talked a big game when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: talking about how she wants transparency, talking about financial records,
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  Speaker 1: talking about getting information from the irs, and look, all
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  Speaker 1: of that would be great if she was willing to
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  Speaker 1: follow through with any of it. But one thing that
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  Speaker 1: we have learned over the past year is that people
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  Speaker 1: like Senator Blackburn are not serious when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: transparency and justice in the realm of Epstein. And Miss
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  Speaker 1: Blackburn and many of her associates had a lot to
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  Speaker 1: say about Epstein previously, but now all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: Oh it's a big hoax. Oh well, I don't mean
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  Speaker 1: those records, just the other ones, just from the people
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  Speaker 1: I don't like. And that's what it comes down to.
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  Speaker 1: Marshall Blackburn was interested in the story and interested in
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  Speaker 1: promoting transparency in truth when she thought there would Pino
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  Speaker 1: slap back on her faves. But now that there is,
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  Speaker 1: it's a different conversation, right, and everybody should just, you know,
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  Speaker 1: move on. Today's article is from the Nashville Banter and
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  Speaker 1: the headline Senator accuses Blackburn of declining to support subpoenas
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  Speaker 1: over epstein financials. This article was authored by Sarah Grace Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: A new report by Senate Democrats claims that Senator Marshall
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  Speaker 1: Blackburn refused to help subpoena financial records related to Jeffrey Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder why. I wonder who passed word down from
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  Speaker 1: a pie, because we all know the administration wants nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do with transparency either. And remember Blackburn had a
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  Speaker 1: chance to stop Todd Blanche from becoming the Attorney General,
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  Speaker 1: and she sure had no problem signing off on that. Huh.
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  Speaker 1: The report by Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, released last week,
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  Speaker 1: suggested that major banks including j AP, Morgan Chase, Bank
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  Speaker 1: of America, and Deutsche Bank failed to report concerns about
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's financial transactions from as far back as two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and two until after the millionaire financier Pedophile was arrested
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  Speaker 1: on sex trafficking charges in twenty nineteen. Well, we know
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  Speaker 1: that for sure. And if you're looking for a boogeyman,
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  Speaker 1: as I've told you from the very beginning, just take
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  Speaker 1: a look at the financial sector. It's littered with evil people.
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  Speaker 1: And I truly mean that, and I don't mean evil
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  Speaker 1: in the sense that you hear online, right, Oh, this
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  Speaker 1: person's a demon. I mean truly evil, someone that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: give a goddamn about anything but their own wealth and
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  Speaker 1: their own power. And that's the whole entire financial sector.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that Jeffrey Epstein was just a window
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  Speaker 1: into their overall conduct. What do you think Epstein's the
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  Speaker 1: only scumbag that these people are in bed with. I
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  Speaker 1: said from the start, if you want to get to
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of Jeffrey Epstein's cover up, you have to
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  Speaker 1: follow the money, Widen said in a statement accompanying the report.
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  Speaker 1: And I have that report too, and now that we're
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  Speaker 1: done with the new Mexico report, we're going to dive
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  Speaker 1: into that because it's important. And while I certainly have
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  Speaker 1: my doubts about mister Widen and his motivations, he's not
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  Speaker 1: wrong when he says we have to follow the money,
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  Speaker 1: and if you want to get to the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: all of this, that's what you do. Follow that money,
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  Speaker 1: and eventually you're gonna hit pay dirt if you do
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  Speaker 1: a real investigation and you really follow through and use
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  Speaker 1: all the tools available to the federal government. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to find what you're looking for. This report's already made
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  Speaker 1: roadmap for prosecutors, investigators, and members of Congress to finally
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  Speaker 1: start holding the Epstein class accountable, he continued. In the report, Blackburn,
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee's senior senator and the Republican nominee for governor, is
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  Speaker 1: accused of ignoring efforts by Senate Democrats to subpoena the banks,
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  Speaker 1: despite our public calls for transparency in the Epstein case
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  Speaker 1: and punitive justice for sex offenders. All part of the hustle.
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  Speaker 1: It was all fun in games when it wouldn't blow
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  Speaker 1: back on our friends, But now that it's blowing back
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  Speaker 1: on our friends and donors and donors of the president
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  Speaker 1: and the president's friends, it's a big problem. And now
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  Speaker 1: it's just a Democrat hoax, right, which is hilarious because
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  Speaker 1: for years this was a creation of the right wing.
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  Speaker 1: So whoever it's damaging politically, that side wants to call
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  Speaker 1: it a hoax. And if you're wondering why I give
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  Speaker 1: double middle fingers to both sides of the aisle, this
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  Speaker 1: is it. There's not one single person in Congress or
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  Speaker 1: the Senate that represents me. Okay. Now, if you feel differently,
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  Speaker 1: that's totally fine. But me personally, I'm not represented by
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  Speaker 1: any of these people. Widen, a ranking member and former
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  Speaker 1: chair of the Senate Finance Committee, says he repeatedly went
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  Speaker 1: to blackburn staff from twenty twenty four to twenty to
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  Speaker 1: ask for her help as a Republican committee member to
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  Speaker 1: subpoena Epstein bank records, as Blackburn had long been an
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  Speaker 1: outspoken proponent of increased transparency with relation to Jeffrey Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: but her office declined, Well, I wonder why. I wonder
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  Speaker 1: why she declined. Did somebody reach out to her from
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  Speaker 1: the administration. Did somebody say to or look, don't do this.
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  Speaker 1: If you do, the President's going to pull his support
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  Speaker 1: and you're going to end up like Marjorie Taylor Green
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  Speaker 1: and Thomas Massey. Because that was the message that he
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  Speaker 1: was sending. Right, got to sacrifice somebody, somebody has to
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  Speaker 1: get clipped. We have to send a message to the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the troops that there can't be any discontentment
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  Speaker 1: amongst the ranks. And if there is well off with
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  Speaker 1: your political head and the way that all of these
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  Speaker 1: bitch ass senators and congressmen have fallen into line. I
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  Speaker 1: would say that message has been received. The next year,
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  Speaker 1: black Burne posted on social media claiming her efforts to
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  Speaker 1: crack the Epstein trafficking ring wide open had been stonewalled
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  Speaker 1: by Democrats at every turn, despite allegedly opting out of
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  Speaker 1: helping Widen with the Finance Committee investigation. Doesn't shock me,
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  Speaker 1: just another big mouth, all talk, no walk. That day,
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  Speaker 1: Blackburn also wrote a letter to newly appointed FBI Director
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  Speaker 1: Cash Betel, calling it paramount that the FBI provide full
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  Speaker 1: transparency to the American people and immediately release the complete,
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  Speaker 1: unredacted records. In this case. Specifically, Blackburn called for the
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  Speaker 1: release of flight logs from Epstein's private helicopter and plane
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  Speaker 1: records containing names of associates, including the infamous Little Black
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  Speaker 1: Book maintained by Glenn Maxwell, footage from Epstein's Florida home,
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  Speaker 1: and any other documents, records, or memoranda related to the
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein and Glene Maxwell matters until she got the
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  Speaker 1: marching orders not to do that. Oh well, we've got
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  Speaker 1: enough the big job on their hands. The President has
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  Speaker 1: done more for the survivors than anybody else. This is
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  Speaker 1: the bullshit that they keep giving us. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know about you, but I've had my phil not one
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  Speaker 1: more bite. The same day, she wrote to the IRS
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  Speaker 1: asking the agency to release any materials that reveal the
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  Speaker 1: names of individuals and entities that held any type of
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  Speaker 1: financial relationship with Jeffrey Epstein or Glene Maxwell. Well, that
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  Speaker 1: would be nice. Did she follow up? Did she follow through?
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  Speaker 1: Did she ever get that report? Of course she didn't
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  Speaker 1: because she doesn't care. According to the report, Blackburn also
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  Speaker 1: ignored her request from Widen in December to co sponsor
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  Speaker 1: the produced Epstein Treasury Records Act, which would have required
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  Speaker 1: the Treasury Department to share Epstein financial records with the Committee.
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  Speaker 1: The bill currently has ten sponsors, all of whom are Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: Why would the Republicans not want to see that? Why
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't they want that information, unless, of course they're trying
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  Speaker 1: to cover it up. And look, we all know that
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  Speaker 1: the orders are coming from on high. The current administration
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  Speaker 1: is calling all the plays. And when you have a
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  Speaker 1: quarterback like that, you can't call an audible. You have
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  Speaker 1: to do what you have to do. And all these
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  Speaker 1: senators and congress people that are playing ball talk about cowards.
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  Speaker 1: Literally the biggest cowards may be in the history of
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  Speaker 1: American Congress. And that's saying something, folks. If Blackburn's elected governor,
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  Speaker 1: she'll leave the Senate office in January and ostensibly have
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  Speaker 1: no further role in the investigation into or records fight
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  Speaker 1: surrounding Epstein and Maxwell. Still, the report paints a different
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  Speaker 1: picture than Blackburn's public comments on Epstein and some campaign promises.
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  Speaker 1: While breaking news, folks, you ready, Marshall Blackburn's a liar.
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  Speaker 1: I know I'm breaking serious news here. Fuck Walter Cronkite.
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  Speaker 1: Does anybody actually believe that Marshall Blackburn is not a liar?
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  Speaker 1: Does anyone actually believe that Ron Wyden is not a liar?
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  Speaker 1: During your campaign for governor, Blackburn has said that she'll
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  Speaker 1: be tough on crime, specifically calling for sex offenders to
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  Speaker 1: be executed. When asked if she would continue executions if
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  Speaker 1: elected in a questionnaire by the Banner, Yo, I can
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  Speaker 1: get down with that. I don't feel like you can
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  Speaker 1: be redeemed if you hurt a child. Sorry, there's no
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  Speaker 1: redeeming that. You're a sick fuck and you were broken
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  Speaker 1: right from the factory. You're a lemon, and there's nothing
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  Speaker 1: we can do to rehabilitate somebody like that. And that's why,
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  Speaker 1: in my opinion, there's only one remedy for people who
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  Speaker 1: do that kind of thing, and that remedy is helicopters volcanoes. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: as soon as the criminal sentence to death has exhausted
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  Speaker 1: all of his or her appeals, the state should execute them.
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  Speaker 1: Blackburn and said as governor, I'll work closely to bring
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  Speaker 1: back the electric chair so the victims' families can get
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  Speaker 1: the closure that they deserve. If you rape or molest
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  Speaker 1: our babies in Tennessee, you should get the death sentence. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I can't disagree with that. Blackburn also told The Banner
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  Speaker 1: last week that she would stay in the Senate Office
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  Speaker 1: until sworn in as governor, which would set her up
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  Speaker 1: to appoint her own replacement in the Senate. Neither Blackburn's
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  Speaker 1: campaign nor Senate office staff responded to questions from The
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  Speaker 1: Banner about Wyden's report, the subpoenas, Blackburn's comments on Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: or her relationship to President Donald Trump, who has referenced
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  Speaker 1: repeatedly in the release files. And it's always the same story. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I care so much. I want transparency. I want to
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  Speaker 1: hold people accountable. But when they get the chance to
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  Speaker 1: put all that talk into action, all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: things are nuanced. All of a sudden, there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of gray area. Well, Senator Blackburn, there is no gray
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  Speaker 1: area either. You're on the side of transparence the injustice
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  Speaker 1: where you're just another epstein enabler. All the information that
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