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The House Judiciary Democrats’ 53 Page Trump/Epstein Report (Part 7) (10/28/26) · 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. In this episode we're diving right back in
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  Speaker 1: to that Democratic report on Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: The cover-up. Donald Trump's many brazen lies about his relationship
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  Speaker 1: to Jeffrey Epstein and DOJ's relentless cover-up for Trump and
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  Speaker 1: other probable accomplices and co-conspirators. The evidence that Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: knew about Jeffrey Epstein's crimes and even participated in them
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  Speaker 1: is further bolstered by the fact that when questioned about
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  Speaker 1: his relationship with Epstein have come up, Donald Trump has
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  Speaker 1: unequivocally and repeatedly lied in response. In 2019, after Epstein's
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  Speaker 1: alleged suicide, Donald Trump minimized his relationship with the notorious
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  Speaker 1: child sex trafficker, falsely claiming, Well, I knew him like
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  Speaker 1: everybody else in Palm Beach knew him. I had a
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  Speaker 1: falling out with him a long time ago. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think I've spoken to him for 15 years. I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a fan. I was not a fan of his. That
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  Speaker 1: same year, Trump further denied knowledge of Epstein's crimes, stating,
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump was no casual acquaintance of Jeffrey Epstein's, who
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  Speaker 1: knew him by reputation or happenstance, just like everybody in
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  Speaker 1: Palm Beach knew him. By all accounts, Trump and Epstein
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  Speaker 1: were inseparable for much of the 90s. They called each
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  Speaker 1: other several times a week, they partied together constantly, either
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  Speaker 1: at Mar-a-Lago or or at Epstein's New York townhouse. Epstein
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  Speaker 1: attended beauty pageants hosted by Trump and attended Donald Trump's
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  Speaker 1: 1993 wedding to Marla Maples. In 1997 and 1999, Epstein
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  Speaker 1: and Trump were photographed together at Victoria's Secret events run
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  Speaker 1: by alleged Epstein co-conspirator Les Wexner. Epstein's leaked address book
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  Speaker 1: contained 14 numbers for Donald Trump, including Trump's direct line,
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  Speaker 1: as well as Melania's. There are also many pictures of
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump Melania Epstein and Glenn Maxwell socializing together. Trump
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  Speaker 1: himself has described their close friendship in exuberant and suggestive terms.
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  Speaker 1: In a 2002 New York Magazine profile, Trump said, I've
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  Speaker 1: known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun to be with. It's even said that he
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  Speaker 1: likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many
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  Speaker 1: of them are on the younger side. Just a year
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  Speaker 1: later in 2003, Donald Trump signed a birthday book for
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  Speaker 1: Epstein with a note, that not only celebrated their friendship,
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  Speaker 1: but again alluded to their common interests. Donald Trump's note,
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  Speaker 1: contained within an image of a nude young woman, is
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  Speaker 1: included in the friend section of the book. In it,
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  Speaker 1: Trump wrote that a pal is a wonderful thing. We
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  Speaker 1: have certain things in common, Jeffrey. Enigmas never age. And finally,
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  Speaker 1: and may every day be another wonderful secret. While Epstein
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  Speaker 1: and Trump had a falling out over a real estate deal,
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  Speaker 1: it appears possible that Epstein resumed contact with Trump, or
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  Speaker 1: at least his close advisors, after Donald Trump won the
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  Speaker 1: presidency in 2016. On or around November 13, 2016, immediately
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  Speaker 1: after Donald Trump's election, Epstein wrote to tell multiple acquaintances
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  Speaker 1: that he was attending meetings at Epstein Tower and seeing
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  Speaker 1: Trump people, despite it being a Sunday, the same Sunday
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  Speaker 1: when Donald Trump was at Trump Tower conducting cabinet interviews
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  Speaker 1: and was holed up with his transition team. For his part,
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  Speaker 1: Epstein told author Michael Wolff in 2017 that he had
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  Speaker 1: been Trump's closest friend for 10 years before their falling out.
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  Speaker 1: One woman who socialized with the pair in New York
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  Speaker 1: described the darkly competitive nature of their friendship. It was
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  Speaker 1: like a pissing contest. Who had the most women? Even
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  Speaker 1: before Donald Trump's rise to political power, their relationship came
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  Speaker 1: under intense suspicion. In a 2010 deposition, Epstein was asked
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  Speaker 1: if he ever socialized with Donald Trump with girls under
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  Speaker 1: 18 years of age. Epstein invoked his constitutional right not
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  Speaker 1: to answer, stating, though I'd like to answer that question,
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  Speaker 1: at least today, I'm going to have to assert my 5th, 6th,
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  Speaker 1: and 14th Amendment rights. Trump is fond of repeating the
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  Speaker 1: assertion that he kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago Club for
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  Speaker 1: being a creep. This claim is plainly intended to distance
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  Speaker 1: Trump from Epstein, is demonstrably false and contradicted by Trump himself.
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  Speaker 1: Members of the House Judiciary Committee, including ranking member Raskin,
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  Speaker 1: who first found this evidence, and the House Oversight Committee
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  Speaker 1: reviewed a heavily redacted 2009 document in DOJ's possession summarizing
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  Speaker 1: a conversation that Donald Trump, his Mar-a-Lago manager, and his
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  Speaker 1: lawyers had with an attorney for survivors suing Epstein in 2009.
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  Speaker 1: This conversation apparently substituted for Donald Trump being subpoenaed for
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  Speaker 1: a civil deposition relating to Epstein's sex trafficking operation. The
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  Speaker 1: unredacted conversation shows that Donald Trump stated unequivocally that Epstein
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  Speaker 1: was never asked to leave Mar-a-Lago. In the same document,
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's lawyers also reported that Burt Lemke, the manager of
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  Speaker 1: Mar-a-Lago at the time in question, also confirmed that Epstein
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  Speaker 1: was never asked to leave Mar-a-Lago. This document remains under
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  Speaker 1: redaction in the DOJ database in clear violation of federal law.
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  Speaker 1: It's recreated in an unredacted form below. The email spoke
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  Speaker 1: to Alan Garten, Trump's attorney, redacted Garten arranged a 20-minute
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  Speaker 1: phone conference with Trump and Brad in lieu of a depot.
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  Speaker 1: Following was discussed. J.E. ever expelled from Mar-a-Lago? No, he
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  Speaker 1: was not a member, may have been a guest, never
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  Speaker 1: asked to leave. Mark Epstein said Trump on Epstein's plane.
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  Speaker 1: Is that true? I've been on a lot of planes.
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  Speaker 1: May have been on his plane. No young girls. On
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  Speaker 1: the plane. What do you know about the allegations against J.E.?
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  Speaker 1: Only what I read in the paper. Trump over at J.E.
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  Speaker 1: 's house. I may have been there with my wife.
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  Speaker 1: Any young girls there? No. May have been children. Of guests.
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  Speaker 1: But that's it. Trump specifically asked Garten to advise us
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  Speaker 1: on the interview. Brad had also previously talked to the
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  Speaker 1: manager of Mar-a-Lago, Burt Lemke. Lemke confirmed J.E. never asked
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  Speaker 1: to leave Mar-a-Lago. One item in the redacted document fairly
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  Speaker 1: jumps off the page. The email sent by Epstein's lawyers
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  Speaker 1: states that Trump specifically asked Garten, Trump's lawyer, to advise us,
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  Speaker 1: Trump's team, of the interview. In other words, Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: asked that his account of his relationship with Epstein, which
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's lawyers were not initially privy to, be passed on
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  Speaker 1: to Epstein. That request and his phrasing raises significant red
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  Speaker 1: flags that Donald Trump wanted to make sure Epstein was
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  Speaker 1: matching his false narrative. There are two possibilities here, and
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  Speaker 1: both are deeply incriminating. Perhaps Trump was telling the truth
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  Speaker 1: and that Epstein was never asked to leave. In that case,
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  Speaker 1: Trump had been lying for years about kicking Epstein out
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  Speaker 1: of Mar-a-Lago. But perhaps Trump did in fact kick Epstein
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  Speaker 1: out of Mar-a-Lago. In that case, he lied to Survivors
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  Speaker 1: Council to protect Epstein. Perhaps because of this admission that
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  Speaker 1: he never kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago, Over the next
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  Speaker 1: decade and a half, Donald Trump has been unable to
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  Speaker 1: maintain any kind of consistent story about how and why
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  Speaker 1: his relationship with Epstein soured. In 2025, he stated that
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  Speaker 1: he kicked Epstein out of his club because he took
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  Speaker 1: people that worked for him. And late survivor Virginia Roberts
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  Speaker 1: was one of those people. According to Trump, Epstein stole her,
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  Speaker 1: and by the way, she had no complaints about us,
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  Speaker 1: as you know, none whatsoever. Yet Trump and Epstein remained
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  Speaker 1: close friends for several years after Epstein purportedly stole Roberts
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  Speaker 1: in 2000. Not only did Trump and Epstein's friendship remain
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  Speaker 1: strong in 2000, but roughly two years later, Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: was still praising Epstein as a terrific guy and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of fun to be with. The year after that interview,
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  Speaker 1: in 2003, Donald Trump penned his now infamous birthday note
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  Speaker 1: to Epstein. in the Friends section of the book, in
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  Speaker 1: which Trump wrote that a pal is a wonderful thing
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  Speaker 1: to have. In short, Epstein and Trump remained close friends
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  Speaker 1: for at least three years after Epstein recruited Roberts from Mar-a-Lago.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump had emphatically stated that he knew nothing of
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's criminal activities related to minors. Recently released files, however,
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  Speaker 1: show that Trump indeed knew about Epstein's crimes and lied
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  Speaker 1: when he denied it. In 2018, Epstein sent an email
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  Speaker 1: to reporter Michael Wolff that said, of course Trump knew
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  Speaker 1: about the girls, as he asked Elaine to stop. The
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  Speaker 1: Palm Beach chief of police also informed FBI that Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump called him in 2006 saying, thank goodness you're stopping him.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone has known he's been doing this. These statements demonstrate
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  Speaker 1: that Donald Trump clearly knew. about Epstein's crimes in 2006
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  Speaker 1: and then lied about it more than a decade later
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  Speaker 1: in 2019 when public scrutiny of Epstein's operation intensified. The
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  Speaker 1: president's defenders have used the 2006 call to claim that Trump,
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  Speaker 1: far from being a co-conspirator, attempted to alert law enforcement
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  Speaker 1: to Epstein's crimes. Redacted passages in the 2009 document summarizing
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  Speaker 1: a meeting between Donald Trump, his Mar-a-Lago manager, his lawyers,
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  Speaker 1: and an attorney for the survivors, disprove this theory. During
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  Speaker 1: that call, Donald Trump was asked what he knew about
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  Speaker 1: the allegations against J.E., replied, only what I've read in
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  Speaker 1: the paper. At this time, Epstein, who had received a
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  Speaker 1: sweetheart plea deal roughly two years earlier, was facing civil
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  Speaker 1: lawsuits brought by four different survivors who had been harmed
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  Speaker 1: by his conduct. Trump could have shared his professed knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of Epstein's crimes and revealed the facts everyone has known
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  Speaker 1: about Epstein's child trafficking, but Trump chose not to. In
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  Speaker 1: other words, Trump professed to know about and detest Epstein's
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  Speaker 1: crimes when talking to law enforcement officials who might be
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  Speaker 1: inclined to investigate Trump, but then three years later backtracked
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  Speaker 1: when presented with an actual opportunity to ensure that Epstein
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  Speaker 1: would face accountability in the legal system. In January 2024,
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  Speaker 1: Trump took to social media to say that he was
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  Speaker 1: never on Epstein's plane, now widely known as the Lolita Express.
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  Speaker 1: This denial was completely false. The Epstein files reveal that
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump is listed on the jet's flight logs and
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  Speaker 1: that he flew on the jet at least eight different
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  Speaker 1: times during the 90s. On at least one flight, Trump, Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: and a 20-year-old woman were the only passengers. An assistant
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  Speaker 1: United States attorney in the Southern District of New York
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  Speaker 1: commented that on at least two occasions, Trump and Epstein
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  Speaker 1: traveled with potential witnesses in Ghislaine Maxwell's trial. Notably, Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump was far less definitive about never having been on
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's plane when questioned by lawyers in 2009. In that
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  Speaker 1: account redacted in the Epstein files, the lawyer asks, Mark
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  Speaker 1: Epstein said Trump on Epstein's plane, is that true? Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump replied, I've been on a lot of planes, may
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  Speaker 1: have been on his plane, no young girls on the plane. This,
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  Speaker 1: of course, was also misleading or an outright lie. Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump could not have reasonably forgotten traveling on the plane
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  Speaker 1: multiple times. And there were certainly at least young women
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  Speaker 1: on the plane with him. All right, folks, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to wrap up right here. And in the next episode,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to pick up where we left off. All
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  Speaker 1: the information that goes with this episode can be found
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