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Survivors in Limbo: How DOJ Contradictions Are Delaying Justice in the Epstein Case (4/23/26) · 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. One of the biggest issues with the DOJ
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right now, amongst many issues, is the fact that they
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have a lot of mixed messages when it comes to
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Jeffrey Epstein. The right hand never seems to know what
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the left hand is doing, and the narrative just jumps
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around like a record skipping on a regular basis. One day,
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there's no investigations to be had. The next day, Todd
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Blanche wants to hear from the survivors and get to
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the truth, only to flip around and tell us, well,
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it's time to move on. And then they wonder why
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people are confused. They wonder why people have questions about
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what the DJ is up to and if the DJ
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is doing their job correctly or if they're engaging in
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a cover up. And even if you want to give
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the administration in Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt,
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I think it's obvious that there is a cover up underway,
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and that cover up is being overseen by Donald Trump
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and this DOJ, and I think that the mixed messaging
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is just one of the signals. So today we have
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an article from the Guardian and the headline Trump's DOJ's
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mixed messages vote ill for Epstein victims, experts, fear, and
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I just had a narrative episode about this recently, discussing
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just how damaging this mixed messaging is. It really throws
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a wrench into things, right, it's certainly the fly in
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the ointment, and it confuses people. And the only reason
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that you're looking to confuse people if you're the DOJ,
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is because you're covering it up. This article was authored
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by Victoria B. Kempests. In the day since Pambondi's exit
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from Donald Trump's Justice Department, Jeffrey Epstein's survivors and transparency
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advocates have been confronted by mixed messaging, prompting questions of
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how weather a full accounting of his crimes would ever
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be revealed. Well, that would be hard, consider there was
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never a real investigation to begin with, so good luck.
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Legal veterans told The Guardian that authority's decisions, such as
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Bondie's failure to appear for a congressional subpoena about our
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handling of Epstein investigative files, pretend poorly for accountability. Well,
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no shit, did you know that the sky was blue.
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No shit. It pretends poorly for accountability. There hasn't been
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accountability since the very beginning of this and the only
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way there's ever going to be real accountability is if
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we force it as the populace. But unfortunately a lot
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of people don't want to hold these incumbents responsible for
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their bullshit, and they just keep sending them back to DC.
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Why I'll never know, but here we are moreover her replacements.
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Comments about the status of Epstein investigations has been perceived
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by some as an effort to acknowledge prior missteps without
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presenting definitive solutions. Don't fall for it. Todd Blanche was
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the architect of the whole entire Glaine Maxwell fiasco. This
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man had no business being the Attorney General acting or not.
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In fact, if anybody should get up there in front
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of Congress and be put under oath, Blanche is one
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of them, because I think that he's the one that
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engineered the whole entire fiasco with Glenn Maxwell, and he
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needs to answer for it, and he needs to answer
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under oath. I mean, we're talking about someone who committed
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crimes against children being moved from a medium security prison
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to a prison camp literally unheard of, and we don't
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have any questions about that. Nobody's going bananas about that.
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Probably a good thing to get to the bottom of.
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Bondi's not appearance at our scheduled congressional deposition did not
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come as a surprise. Of course, it wasn't a surprise.
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It was a calculated move by Donald Trump fire Bondi
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and then have all of his little useful idiots on
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that commission come out and say that nobody needs to
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hear from her. That was always the goal, that was
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always the plan. And for somebody that supposedly is playing
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four D chess, seems like I see right through all
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of his bullshit, doesn't it. Every time he's making a move.
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It's obvious what's going on. Trump's Department of Justice, now
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helmed temporarily by his former criminal defense attorney Todd Blanche
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had told the House Oversight Committee that Bondi would not
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appear for the fourteenth of April hearing. Committee members said
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they were told this non appearance was because Bondi is
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no longer Attorney General and was subpoenaed in her capacity
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as attorney general. Had no problem bringing Bill Barr up.
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Huh sure, put that dude on the spot now they
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should have right. I have no problem with it. Bill
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Barr's scumbag and he lied to He's part of the
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cover up. But to attempt to tell the American people
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that Pam Bondi shouldn't be spoken with by Congress because
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she's no longer the Attorney General, you can cap that
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shit right now. Nobody wants to hear it, a committee
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spokesperson said. Since Pam Bondi is no longer Attorney General,
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Chairman Comer will speak with Republican members and the Department
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of Justice about the status of the deposition subpoena and
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confer on the next steps. Coward shit, Like I told you,
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James Comer part of the cover up to all these people.
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Nobody's ever going to be held accountable for it. But
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they're all part of it, and I don't think they
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understand the kind of harm they're doing. Now. Sure, MAGA
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might be, you know, rallying around Donald Trump, and they're
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gonna do whatever Donald Trump wants them to do, but
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they make up what thirty percent of the Republican Party
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or whatever hardcore MAGA, how do you plan on winning
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elections with thirty percent of the populace. Good luck. So
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it's all fun and games now. But when the election
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comes rolling around and people start holding folks accountable, I
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don't think it's going to be as fun anymore. And
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I doubt they're going to have all these little snarky
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ass comments when the shoe is on the other foot.
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Robert Garcia, the ranking Democrat on the committee, vowed that
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his colleagues would take action after Bondi fail to appear.
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Pam Bondi is evading a lawful congressional subpoena by failing
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to appear before the House Overside Committee for a deposition
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about the Epstein files and the White House cover up,
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he said in a statement. She must appear before the committee,
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and if she continues to ignore the law oversighte Democrats
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will move forward with contempt proceedings immediately. Good job they should.
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She is in contempt, Like why is this so difficult
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for people to understand? And all the people that are
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rallying around Bondi, what happens when it's the other guy?
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You know, when the Democrat Attorney general fucks up because
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you know that's coming, and then he's protected by the
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same precedent that you're giving here. You're going to cry
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to Holy Heaven. Oh it's not fair. Everything's against us.
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The media just shut up. You're making your own bed
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right now. And it's embarrassing, absolutely embarrassing. In fact, at
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this point they shouldn't even call it the Republican Party anymore.
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Are there any conservatives left? I don't see any. He added.
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We will fight until there is true accountability and justice. Well,
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those are great words, but I don't believe Robert Garcia either.
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Another guy that pitches a lot of bullshit and then
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never backs it up. Adding to the confusion is the
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committee's insistence that Bondi will eventually appear. An Oversight Committee
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spokesperson said in a statement, ranking member Garcia is a hypocrite.
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The Clintons defied lawful subpoenas for seven months, and he
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said nothing and never wrote a letter to the chairman.
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When the Oversight Committee moved to hold them in contempt
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in Congress, he voted no. Last week, the Department of
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Justice indicated that Pam Bondy would not appear for the
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fourteen April deposition because she's no longer Attorney General. We're
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working to reschedule the Deposition ranking member Garcia's outrage is
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purely performative. Yeah, kind of like you guys not going
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to talk to Wexner. That wasn't performative. I know that
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he's feeding a lot of money into the GOP, but
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that's neither here nor there, or is it. You would
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think that people that are so worried about getting to
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the bottom of things would want to know what less
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Wexner has to say, But I guess not. I guess
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I'm wrong. Whether this push for transparency and justice will
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yield anything in the way of actionable information remains ever unclear,
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as the Epstein investigation remains mired in political logjams. Despite
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broad public support for accountability. Blanche's recent comments have only
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added to the confusion, prompting questions about what's next in
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the saga. Blanche planned on Wednesday that the DOJ would
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back additional inquiries into Abstein, saying at the Semaphore World
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Economy Conference that he would support congressional hearings with the victims.
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We have said repeatedly from day one that if there
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is any victim that wants to come forward and talk
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about what they know, whether it's something that happened by
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mister Epstein, who's dead or another individual or individuals. That's
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what the FBI does, he said, Okay, I'd like to
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file a report that the FBI is covering this all up.
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Who do I speak to? Oh, that's right, nobody, the
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inspector General. Yeah, we can count on him. Maybe I
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can go to Congress. Oh yeah, we can count on them.
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So stubble the bullshit, please, special investigator, special counsel or bust.
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I don't want to hear anything else. I have never
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said that we're moving on, insisted Blanche, who this summer
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interviewed Epstein's accomplice Glenn Maxwell, in a sit down that
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was widely derided for questions that many felt were easy,
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except in relation to Trump's political opponents. There's a lot
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of people in this country that correctly feel that we
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did not get closure with Jeffrey Epstein. I couldn't agree
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with that more. Yeah, your actions tell us something different,
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Todd Baby Billy Blanche just another liar, just another deceiver,
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just another person running game. But game recognizes game stupid.
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And I'm not some jerk off from the suburbs. You're
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not gonna hustle me with your nonsense. And you're not
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gonna throw me off the scent. Two weeks prior to
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these comments, however, Blanche downplayed the controversy surrounding the DJ's
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handling of the files. While the Epstein Files Transparency Act
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mandated that the Justice Department released all investigative documents by
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December nineteenth, authority has repeatedly missed this deadline, and questions
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remained about whether documents purportedly withheld under lawful exemptions should
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actually be disclosed. And remember, it's not a crime. The
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party with mister Epstein another thing, Blanche said. Spencer Couvin
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of Gold Law, who also represented numerous Epstein victims, addressed
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Bondie's absence and Blanche's recent statements. These developments only underscore
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how fragile accountability becomes when those empower blurred the lines
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of advocacy and obligation. Couvin said, if the court finds
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willful non compliance, contempt isn't just appropriate, it's necessary to
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preserve the integrity of the process. As for mister Blanche,
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trust is earned through transparency and action, not titles or affiliation.
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Right now, for the victims, this feels less like progress
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and more like a standstill. Justice delayed yet again with
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too many questions and not enough answers. Anne olivieris a
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long time woman's rights attorney who founded the law firm McAllister.
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Olivarius said the Bondie subpoena doesn't evaporate because Pam Bondi
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was fired. She added, Bondy oversaw the handling or mishandling
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of these files and was the Attorney General when survivors
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identifying details were exposed. She owes Congress her testimony, and
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she owes these women an explanation if she refuses, contempt
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is entirely appropriate. Olivieris also said there's no reason to
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believe that Todd Blanche will be in a substantially different
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position than Bondi. The role of ag is now akin
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to a courier at a medieval court. Whatever power he
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wields must be to please the king. Todd Blanche has
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sent contradictory signals at extraordinary speed, and it's starting to
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feel like intentional strategic ambiguity, speaking the language of transparency
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while engineering its limits. What did I tell you about confusion?
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Way before any of this was cracking off, I warned
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everybody not the fall for it. They want to inundate
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you with information, they want to confuse you, and they
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want to cause chaos. Stay focused and stwnpoint. Olivier's pointed
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to the politics surrounding Epstein in relation to Trump, who
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was among Epstein's many rich and powerful associates. Trump said
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he and Epstein had falling out prior to Epstein's conviction
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on state level prostitution counts in Florida. The Epstein controversy
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is shadowed Trump's presidency for more than a year. Trump
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vowed on the campaign trail that he would release the files,
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ramping up his far right fan base who believed the
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Epstein was part of an elite global cabal that traffic girls.
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Was he not? Was that not true? Oh? It was right.
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So maybe just maybe instead of trying to deride people
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as far right, maybe you just stop with the language
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for a little while. How about that, Victoria might be
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a good idea, considering that a lot of people that
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have been interested in this story are anything but far
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right people. There's a lot of people that understand the
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injustice that occurred here, and I don't care what your
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political stripes are. There's people that actually have a moral
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code and when that code's broken, and when shit like
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this happens, it doesn't matter what party the person belongs to.
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All that matters is justice. Trump's Justice Department backtracked on
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releasing files prior to the efta's passage, however, prompting extensive criticism.
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A July DOJ memo claiming that there was no client
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list and that there was no evidence that could predicate
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an investigation against uncharged third parties ultimately set the stage
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for congressional action. I expect a defensive approach that follows
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what the law strictly requires, not what Justice demands. Olivieris
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said of DOJ's future treatment of the files, however, he
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blanched will not be operating in a vacuum, and congressional
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oversight will be critical. Bipartisan pressure is real and growing,
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and the House Oversight Committee plan to call co conspirators
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to testify is significant here. I don't buy it. Sorry,
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I don't buy it. The fact that they're backtracking on
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the BONDI subpoena tells us everything we need to know
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about the GOP. Members of the committee. Nima Rockmani, founder
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of the West Coast Trial Lawyers and a former federal
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prosecutor said he did not expect much would change at
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the Justice Department under Blanche. Blanche doesn't look like he's
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going to move the needle, Rockmanni said, noting that he's
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done a lot of talking for Bondie on this. At
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this point, Rockmanni said lawmakers are likely the best bet
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in getting accountability by using courts to enforce legal demands.
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I think it's really a job for Congress, Rockmanny said.
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I really think the House Oversight Committee should file a lawsuit,
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get a district judge involved, have him or her review
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the documents and camera outside the presence of the public
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to see what is being withheld on the basis of
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responsiveness or privilege is appropriate, he said, of the files withheld,
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That's what a judge is there to do. We really
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need Congress to challenge the DOJ, and I don't see
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that happening yet. And that's the biggest problem. These windbags
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have done a lot of talking, they've done no walking.
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Ask for comment about Blanche's plans on future handling of
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the Epstein files, Justice Department spokesperson said his comments speak
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for themselves. Oh, they will certainly do so. That means
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he's not going to do anything. Got it. As for comment,
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the White House said, just as President Trump has said,
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he's been totally exonerated on anything relating to Epstein, and
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by releasing thousands of pages of documents, cooperating with the
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House Oversight Committee subpoena request, signing the Epstein File Transparency Act,
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and calling for more investigations into Epstein's Democrat friends, President
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Trump has done more for Epstein victims than anyone before him. Yeah, bro,
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and Paul Pott was great for Cambodia, it added, the
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DOJ repeatedly being clear they encourage any victim of Jeffrey
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Epstein who wished to speak to contact the FBI, and
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any survivor who has information on an abuser is encouraged
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to contact federal law enforcement. Yeah, because that's worked out
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so well in the past, and there's so much confidence
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that the FEDS are going to do their job and
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make sure everything turns out right this time, because remember,
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they're the most transparent administration in the history of the country.
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