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Judge Rules Search Warrants Used Against Prince Andrew Were Unlawful (10/9/26) · 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. So yesterday, over in the UK, the High
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  Speaker 1: Court in London decided that the search warrants that were
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  Speaker 1: issued for Prince Andrew initially were issued improperly. So that
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  Speaker 1: means all of the evidence that was seized from Prince
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  Speaker 1: Andrew is null and void. Now this comes after a
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  Speaker 1: ruling that was made by the High Court in London
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  Speaker 1: And both sides, Prince Andrew and the Thames Valley Police,
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  Speaker 1: agreed to get rid of the warrant before this hearing
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  Speaker 1: even began. Now, of course, the cynic in me says,
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  Speaker 1: is this all part of the plan? Did they issue
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  Speaker 1: these warrants on purpose the way they did so that
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  Speaker 1: later on down the road, Prince Andrew could go to
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  Speaker 1: the High Court in London and get the help he
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  Speaker 1: needs to quash them? Again, that's the cynic in me.
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  Speaker 1: Does that mean that that's what happened? Of course not.
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  Speaker 1: And more than likely, what happened here is that the
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  Speaker 1: police jumped the gun. But unfortunately, when we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: this topic, and we're talking about Jeffrey Epstein and all
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  Speaker 1: of his friends, we really can't rule anything out of
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  Speaker 1: the realm of possibility. We've seen it all. So would
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  Speaker 1: it really be that shocking to see that the UK
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  Speaker 1: isn't on the cover-up? Wouldn't be that shocking to me.
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  Speaker 1: So before we dive down that rabbit hole, why don't
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  Speaker 1: we dive into this article from the New York Post
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  Speaker 1: and see what's what. Headline, Judge says search warrants used
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  Speaker 1: to seize property from former Prince Andrew were unlawful. This
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  Speaker 1: article was authored by the Associated Press. Police who searched
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  Speaker 1: the properties of the former Prince Andrew and seized his
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  Speaker 1: property in the investigation into his links to the late
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  Speaker 1: sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have agreed the search warrants were unlawful,
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  Speaker 1: a London judge said on Thursday. Yo, how does something
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  Speaker 1: like that even happen? You didn't do your due diligence
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  Speaker 1: before raiding this dude's house? You didn't have every lawyer
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  Speaker 1: in the whole place take a look at what's going
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  Speaker 1: on and make sure that everything's valid? That everything's going
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  Speaker 1: to stand up in court? I mean, that's what a
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  Speaker 1: real investigation would have done, right? A serious investigation. You
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  Speaker 1: have to make sure that everything's going to withstand the
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  Speaker 1: onslaught of challenges that are certainly going to come from
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  Speaker 1: a guy like Andrew. So if you don't have all
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  Speaker 1: your ducks in a row, you're asking for big trouble.
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  Speaker 1: Justice Nicholas Hillard said that the Thames Valley Police... had
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  Speaker 1: made a significant error in applying for the warrants when
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  Speaker 1: they searched the properties of the former prince, now known
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  Speaker 1: as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. So what were the errors? What were
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  Speaker 1: the mistakes? And look, I understand that the UK has
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  Speaker 1: a different legal system than the United States, but how
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  Speaker 1: come we don't know what was improper? Are we going
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  Speaker 1: to get that information at some point? Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested
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  Speaker 1: on February 19th on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
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  Speaker 1: and police searched two of his homes. His lawyers asked
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  Speaker 1: the high court to invalidate the warrants under which those
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  Speaker 1: searches were conducted. Hilliard said the parties had agreed to
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  Speaker 1: invalidate the warrants before the hearing on Thursday. Thames Valley
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  Speaker 1: Police said it had accepted the fact that the warrants
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  Speaker 1: must be quashed because the initial court's decision to issue
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  Speaker 1: them was incorrect. Talk about a shitshow. You guys can't
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  Speaker 1: even conduct a basic investigation without When you have all
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  Speaker 1: this evidence right there in front of you, you can't
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  Speaker 1: get a real warrant. You have to do whatever it
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  Speaker 1: is you did and now set everything back. And this
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  Speaker 1: is what I'm talking about. This is the kind of
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  Speaker 1: police work that we've seen time and time again when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to Jeffrey Epstein and his friends. Whenever we're
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  Speaker 1: dealing with people like this, all of a sudden there's
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  Speaker 1: loopholes and technicalities galore. I mean, do you think that
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  Speaker 1: the high court's stepping in and quashing warrants for everybody?
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  Speaker 1: I highly doubt it. Legal proceedings are currently ongoing to
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  Speaker 1: decide how material seized during the searches will be managed
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  Speaker 1: and whether we can lawfully retain it in support of
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  Speaker 1: our ongoing investigation, the department said in a statement. And look,
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  Speaker 1: this certainly is just a prelim move. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: more going on behind the scenes and it is a
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  Speaker 1: larger battle. But we're not going to make pretend and
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  Speaker 1: sugarcoat things that this isn't a setback. It most certainly is.
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  Speaker 1: You had this dude dead to rights. You had him
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  Speaker 1: in the crosshairs. And you screw it up by getting
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  Speaker 1: a bad warrant. And for the people that have been
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  Speaker 1: listening to this podcast for any amount of time, you
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  Speaker 1: know how I feel about that. I don't care if
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  Speaker 1: somebody's guilty as the day is long. If the government
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  Speaker 1: cuts corners to get them over the finish line to
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  Speaker 1: get that conviction, then I'm not a fan of that conviction.
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  Speaker 1: Because the government has so much power that they can
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  Speaker 1: ruin our lives quickly. So there needs to be accountability.
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  Speaker 1: And they need to do things the right way. and
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  Speaker 1: they need to respect everybody's constitutional rights. Now, of course,
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  Speaker 1: over in England, a little different, right? But they have
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  Speaker 1: their own set of rules, they have their own charters,
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  Speaker 1: they have their own, you know, guidelines. And if you're
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  Speaker 1: going to go after somebody like Prince Andrew, you better
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  Speaker 1: have all your goddamn ducks in a row. Mountbatten-Windsor was
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  Speaker 1: not in court for the hearing. Mark Stevens, of the
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  Speaker 1: Howard Kennedy Law Firm in London, described the hearing as
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  Speaker 1: a prelim skirmish. in the broader legal battle. It's the
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  Speaker 1: first step of Prince Andrew and his lawyers saying, actually,
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  Speaker 1: this is tainted evidence. It was obtained inappropriately, Stephen said. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: it should be excluded from any criminal trial. Now listen,
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  Speaker 1: the caveat to all of that is, if they get
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  Speaker 1: the information from America, that would change everything. That would
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  Speaker 1: give them the basis they're looking for. And they wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have to worry about it being quote-unquote improperly seized. Because
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  Speaker 1: they'd be getting it from America from the DOJ, not
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  Speaker 1: from Andrew's accounts. So that's certainly significant, and it's something
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  Speaker 1: to keep an eye on. King Charles III stripped Mountbatten-Windsor
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  Speaker 1: of his princely title last year as he sought to
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  Speaker 1: shield the rest of the royal family from the continuing
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  Speaker 1: fallout from his younger brother's links to Epstein. While Mountbatten-Windsor
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  Speaker 1: 66 continues to receive a stipend from the king's private funds,
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  Speaker 1: Buckingham Palace has made it clear that those funds may
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  Speaker 1: not be used to fund his effort to challenge the
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  Speaker 1: search warrants. Well, that gets a bit murky, right? How
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  Speaker 1: do you know where the money's coming from? How do
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  Speaker 1: you know where the money's moving to? And how do
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  Speaker 1: you know where he's sourcing it? So I guess I'll
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  Speaker 1: leave that up to the king, but I have my
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  Speaker 1: doubts that they're going to be able to manage that situation.
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  Speaker 1: The police investigation initially focused on allegations that Mountbatten-Windsor shared
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  Speaker 1: sensitive information with Epstein when the former prince was a
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  Speaker 1: UK trade envoy. But police later said they could also
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  Speaker 1: consider other matters. So just to keep in mind, this
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  Speaker 1: only has to do with what was seized from Prince
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  Speaker 1: Andrew already. It has nothing to do with the future.
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  Speaker 1: So if they pull other warrants or they get other evidence,
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  Speaker 1: different story. Police questioned Mountbatten-Windsor for 11 hours before releasing
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  Speaker 1: him under investigation, meaning that he was neither charged nor exonerated.
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  Speaker 1: It was the first time in nearly four centuries that
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  Speaker 1: a senior British royal was placed under arrest. And that's
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  Speaker 1: a problem unto itself. You mean to tell me, in
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  Speaker 1: four fucking centuries, no British royal has done anything worthy
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  Speaker 1: of being arrested? Or is it that they've been protected?
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  Speaker 1: You know, kind of like Andrew. And it's why I'm
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  Speaker 1: such a cynic, especially when we're talking about the royal family.
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  Speaker 1: They'll do whatever they can to try and protect that image.
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  Speaker 1: So are they working behind the scenes? To pull on
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  Speaker 1: some legal strings to get Andrew out of this mess? Well,
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  Speaker 1: we don't have any evidence of that, but I won't
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  Speaker 1: discount it. We'll have to wait and see. The allegations
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  Speaker 1: against Mountbatten-Windsor came to light when the U.S. Justice Department
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  Speaker 1: released millions of pages of documents from its investigation into
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  Speaker 1: sex trafficking by Epstein and his connections to a network
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  Speaker 1: of wealthy, powerful men around the world. Well, I think
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  Speaker 1: that people knew prior to that what Epstein and Andrew
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  Speaker 1: were up to together, but a lot of people just
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to admit it. Remember what ABC did with
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  Speaker 1: Amy Robach? Instead of running Virginia's story, instead of telling
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  Speaker 1: the people, that means you, what was going on, they
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  Speaker 1: chose to protect their access to the royal family. That
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  Speaker 1: was more important than doing their job. That was more
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  Speaker 1: important than letting everybody out there know what kind of
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  Speaker 1: monster Epstein really was. And listen, I know that sounds crazy, right?
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  Speaker 1: That sounds like some Candace Owens type shit, but it
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  Speaker 1: really happened. And it's the same kind of stuff that's
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  Speaker 1: been happening when it comes to Epstein for years and
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  Speaker 1: years and years. And it's still happening to this day.
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  Speaker 1: There's still people out there that refuse to accept what
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  Speaker 1: Epstein really was. Mountbatten-Windsor's ties to Epstein have been a
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  Speaker 1: source of embarrassment to the royal family for more than
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  Speaker 1: a decade. Lawmakers questioned the relationship as far back as 2011.
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  Speaker 1: when the then prince was forced to give up his
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  Speaker 1: globetrotting role as the UK special trade envoy. Eight years later,
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  Speaker 1: he failed to explain his continuing ties to Epstein in
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  Speaker 1: a disastrous interview with the BBC, ending his career as
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  Speaker 1: a working member of the royal family. Like, what does
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  Speaker 1: that even mean? Working member of the royal family? Show
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  Speaker 1: up to a few parades and wave? Go get some
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  Speaker 1: free food? Hang out with Jeffrey Epstein and call it
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  Speaker 1: a day? Like, what does that mean? a working member
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  Speaker 1: of the royal family. These motherfuckers ain't ever worked a
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  Speaker 1: day in their life. Can you imagine a member of
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  Speaker 1: the royal family punching in for a real shift? I
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  Speaker 1: know some of you out there are construction workers, you know,
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  Speaker 1: iron workers, whatever. Imagine one of these soft ass sons
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  Speaker 1: of bitches punching in next to you, showing up with
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  Speaker 1: a thermos and a lunchbox. Zero chance, right? They don't
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  Speaker 1: know what real work is. They're so detached from reality
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  Speaker 1: that it's not even funny. And I know the vast
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  Speaker 1: majority of you out there have done menial labor at
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  Speaker 1: some point in your life. Maybe not now, right? I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure a lot of you have, you know, progressed and
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  Speaker 1: you're sitting in a corporate office, whatever it might be.
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  Speaker 1: But people like this They never worked a real day
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  Speaker 1: in their life. They've never come home sweaty, disgusting, smelling,
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  Speaker 1: tired as shit, and then have to deal with all
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  Speaker 1: the other responsibilities you have. They've been given everything, forever,
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  Speaker 1: and that continues on with Prince Andrew. Oh sure, he's
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  Speaker 1: been embarrassed, right? He's no longer a working royal. But
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  Speaker 1: so what? Bro's still sitting in a house that the
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  Speaker 1: vast majority of us would never ever be able to afford.
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  Speaker 1: Still living that luxurious life, doing whatever he wants. So sure,
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  Speaker 1: there's been some embarrassment for Andrew. But besides that, what
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  Speaker 1: kind of penalty has he really received? Nothing. And it
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  Speaker 1: looks like, according to the High Court in England, that
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  Speaker 1: that shit'll go on. So, like usual, we'll keep it grinding.
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  Speaker 1: And when we have some more information to share, we'll
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