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The Transparency Mandate: Why the Epstein Files Are Still Raising Questions · 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. One of the wildest positions that somebody can
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  take is to not want these files to be released,
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  especially when the people who want to stop it consistently
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  yelled and screamed about locking people up for the last
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  eight ten years. But now all of a sudden, we
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  have actual disgusting individuals who need to be locked up,
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  and we should pump the brakes. The files shouldn't be released.
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  We should worry about people's reputations, which is crazy as well,
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  considering they've had all these years to come forward and
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  explain themselves and they never did. In fact, they all
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  lied about it. And now that they're getting called out,
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  you have people out here talking about reputational abuse, talking
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  about dragging people through the mud, and it's telling all
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  these people that are worried about these scumbags and their reputations,
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  they don't have anything to say about this, no words
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  of sympathy. In fact, instead they try to set them
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  up and call them traffickers themselves. So you see what's
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  going on here. They're trying to flip the narrative, they're
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  trying to steal the narrative. And they're all dancing to
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  the tune that's being played by Donald Trump. But in
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  my opinion, if you have nothing to hide, then you'd
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  want all these files to see the light of day.
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  And on the flip side of that, if you're carrying
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  on the way the Trump administration is carrying on, the
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  question is what are you hiding? Today? We have an
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  article from The Hill and the headline release the rest
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  of the Epstein files. Now, this article was authored by
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  William S. Becker. More than fifty years ago, whistleblower Daniel
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  Ellsberg released thousands of pages of top secret information that
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  revealed how successive American presidents lied to the American people
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  about the Vietnam War. Tens of thousands of US vis
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  men died unnecessarily because of the cover up. Don't think
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  that this is the first cover up, folks, and most
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  certainly is not. But we've been able to pull some
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  threads here and we've been able to disrupt it. Now,
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  we haven't made it go away, but I think we've
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  done a great job at disrupting what they planned. And
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  as they adjust on the fly, they're making mistakes. Although
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  the Pentagon papers revealed a much different type of tragedy.
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  The Epstein files will end with a similar result. One
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  way or another. The truth will come out, I really
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  hope so. I think we all deserve the truth, right,
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  We all deserve to know what's going on, how our
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  tax dollars are being spent, what sort of scumbags the
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  government is in bed with. These are all things that
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  are important to the American people, and the fact that
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  they try to cover this up continuously is going to
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  blow up in their faces when all of this finally
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  comes out. It's going to be so bad, and it's
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  going to cause so much reputational harm to these institutions
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  that I don't think there's going to be any recovery
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  from it. The Pentagon Papers were a study of Vietnam
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  War ordered by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. They consisted
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  of forty seven volumes, three thousand pages of analysis, and
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  four thousand government documents. To hold them close, the task
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  force that conducted the study made only fifteen copies. Ellsberg
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  was a contractor who worked on the study. In nineteen
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  seventy one, he put himself in legal jeopardy by giving
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  a copy to Marcus Raskin, the late father of Representative
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  Jamie Raskin. Raskin, who worked at the National Security Council,
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  linked Elsberg up with The New York Times, which published
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  the study on its first page. Look, whistleblowers are heroes, man.
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  We need more of them. And if you notice, that's
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  why they're trying to get rid of the protection for
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  the whistleblowers in such an aggressive manner. They don't want
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  these people ratting them out. In my opinion, people like
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  this heroes. The American people deserve to know what their
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  government is doing. It revealed that President Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower,
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  John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson had systematically led to
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  Congress and the American people about the war's progress. They
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  knew it was unwinnable, but allowed it to continue. Although
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  President Richard Nixon's Vietnam policy were not a part of
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  the study, he continued the pattern tens of thousands of
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  US servicemen died needlessly. Vietnam was the biggest joke in
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  the history of jokes, and the fact that we were
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  even there is such a stain on our country. The
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  Pentagon Papers caused lasting damage to American people's trust in
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  the federal go government. That trust is being damaged again
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  now by the Epstein Papers, the millions of documents withheld
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  from Congress and the American people by the US Department
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  of Justice. They may contain information about the sex trafficking
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  of young women and even miners by powerful people in
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  the orbit of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Blaine Maxwell.
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  Not may they do now, not to the level that
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  some people will have you believe. And I've told you
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  that for a very long time, Epstein wasn't running a
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  traditional trafficking service like Heidi Fleiss. The girls were part
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  of the sweetener for the people he was trying to cajole.
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  So it wasn't like he was, you know, setting people
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  up on back Page or Craigslist. That's not what he
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  was doing. And when I say there's layers to this,
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  that's what I'm talking about. Last November, with nearly unanimous
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  bipartisan approval, Congress passed and President Trump signed, the Epstein
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  Files Transparency Act requires a Justice Department to publicly release
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  all unclassified material related to these allegations. However, the Department
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  subsequently ignored the laws deadline, releasing only three million documents
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  that did not fully comply with the law's instructions, and
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  what was the penalty. Nothing? They could just do whatever
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  they want. Must be nice to be the DOJ that
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  puts Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche
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  and FBI Director Cash Pattel and direct violation of the law.
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  They're preventing justice for dozens of women and girls, thousands,
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  by the way, some as young as fourteen, who were
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  allegedly trafficked, raped, or brutalized. The Justice departments failure to
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  investigate thoroughly and prosecute span several presidencies, both Republican and Democratic.
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  I think people need to focus on that more. This
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  is the whole system failure here, folks. The whole engine broke.
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  We're not just talking about, you know, the brake system
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  going down or the transmission. The whole ass engine blew up,
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  and then we just drove around with a blown ass
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  engine like it was no big deal. Well, I assure you,
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  it's a big deal, and now we want answers. Raskin,
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  who has seen many of the files, reports that Trump's
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  name appears more than a million times. Because the president's
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  personal history is already riddled with allegations of inappropriate and
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  unwanted sexual conduct with women. The Justice Department's behavior leaves
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  doubts as to whether the remaining files would totally exonerate
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  him of wrongdoing. In Epstein's orbit, as he claims, if
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  that is truly the case, he could remove any doubt
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  by ordering the Department's release of all of them. And
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  that's exactly what I've said from the jump, and all
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  the excuses that are put forward by Trump's supporters or
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  all moot. If he has nothing to hide and he'll
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  be exonerated, why not release all the files. That's it,
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  That's all. And I know I said it once, and
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  I'll say it a million more times. If it was me,
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  I'd demand that every files released, and then anybody who
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  said anything crazy about me, I'd sue them. Oh I
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  molested you, I hurt you. Okay, let's go to court.
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  I'll see you a discovery. We haven't seen much of that,
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  have we. Congress's credibility is on the line now. It
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  must assert its oversight responsibility and review the documents to
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  determine whether there are legitimate reasons to withhold them from
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  the public. The Justice Department's behavior already constitutes grounds for
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  impeaching Bondie Blanche and Patel. We shouldn't assume that impeachment
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  and conviction would be futile with Congress under Republican control.
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  What member of Congress wants his legacy or her legacy
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  tarnished by helping to cover up sex crimes at the
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  highest levels of society. You know, I used to think
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  the same thing, But they've done a pretty good job
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  trying to frame this as a hoax, and you see
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  the pivot. They're even attacking the girls who were abused.
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  So if you're coming from that angle that place, do
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  you really think they're going to vote for impeaching Bondie
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  Blanche and Patel. I have my doubts. Look, I don't
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  trust any of these people, Republican or Democrat, but the
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  way the Republicans are conducting themselves right now is absolutely disgusting,
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  especially considering the Republicans were on top of the hill
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  yelling about Epstein for years, but now that their guy
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  is in the crosshairs, that he's mentioned a bunch of times,
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  it's all a hoax. Talk about losing credibility and losing
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  it fast with the entire House of Representatives and the
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  third of the Senate facing reelection in eight months, who
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  is willing to go on record as a co conspirator
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  in the Justice Department's cover up. Well, a lot of
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  people look at that Wayne Mullen, whatever his name is,
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  the idiot that just took over for NOME, or the
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  moron who didn't vote for this, or the idiots who
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  get up there in Congress and don't ask questions about
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  the survivors and ask Pam Bondy about the TAO. You
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  really think those people care. Their loyalty isn't even a
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  party or a country. Their loyalty is to Donald Trump.
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  And I have a hard time believing that these people
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  are gonna break ranks and do the right thing now. Obviously,
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  I would love to be surprised, and I would love
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  to come here and eat crow and say to you, look,
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  I was completely wrong. Congress. They really care about this,
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  and they're gonna pursue it to the ends of the earth.
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  I have a funny feeling I'll never be coming here
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  and saying that who wants to be on record that
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  rich and powerful men are above the law while children
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  are unprotected from the vice list of crimes and who
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  wants to show that the Republican Party is loyal to
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  or afraid of predators. We've seen Trump resort to dangerous
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  behavior to distract the country when he feels cornered. Reckless
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  wars appear to be among them. It's time for the
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  government to prove it will demand justice without fear or favor.
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  We shouldn't have to rely on another Elsberg to make
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  that happen. And look, I agree one thousand percent. Now's
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  the time. No more screwing around. We're talking about decades here,
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  and as far as I'm concerned, anybody that's still standing
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  in the way of this release is complicit. All the
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