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The New Mexico Reckoning: Local Survivors Emerge From Epstein’s Shadow (4/27/26) · 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 most frustrating things when it
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  comes to the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein in his crimes
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  is the lack of interest that was shown in New Mexico.
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  And back then, I told you that there were girls
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  that were abused in New Mexico who were local, and unfortunately,
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  none of those girls or women had come forward in
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  a public manner. Well, now that this new probe has
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  been launched in New Mexico, local survivors are now coming forward.
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  And I think that one of the main reasons that
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  these women stayed quiet was that the state of New Mexico,
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  at least at the time, was basically wrapped around Jeffrey
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  Epstein's little finger. I mean, look at all the powerful
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  people that were in his circle from the state of
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  New Mexico, from Bill Richardson to the Kings to others.
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  And when you have that kind of power, that kind
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  of pull, it's very different for a girl who's vulnerable,
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  or say an indigenous girl to go to the authorities
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  and say, you know what, Jeffrey Epstein and his friends
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  abuse me. Nobody's going to listen to you, at least
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  not back then. But now the tide has turned and
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  people are paying attention, and with this new committee that
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  has been launched in New Mexico, hopefully more girls and
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  women who were abused come forward. And I find it
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  pretty ironic that this story is breaking today because yesterday
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  when I was over at my parents' house, we were
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  talking about New Mexico a little bit, me and my dad,
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  and one of the things we've always said is that
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  if Epstein was abusing girls in New York high school girls,
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  high school girls in Florida, high school girls down in
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  the Virgin Islands, what makes anyone think that he wasn't
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  going to abuse local high school girls in New Mexico
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  as well, especially indigenous girls. And we all know that
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  Jeffrey Epstein and his buddies like girls from South America.
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  So I don't think it's too big of alip to
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  put two and two together. In fact, I think it's
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  the most likely scenario. And then, of course we get
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  to all of the missing and unaccounted for Indigenous girls
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  in the state of New Mexico and it becomes terrifying. Now, look,
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  I'm not going to sit here and tell you that
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  Jeffrey Epstein and his buddies were responsible for that. I
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  don't know, is it a possibility? Most certainly. Is One
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  thing that I've learned when it comes to this story
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  is I don't discount anything until we have the evidence.
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  I mean, how many times have things turned on a
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  dime here? And unfortunately we're working behind the eight ball, right.
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  We don't have all the information, we don't have all
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  the evidence, so we have to piece things together the
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  best we can. But I always thought that there were
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  more people that were abused in New Mexico, people that
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  were local than we ever heard of. And when I
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  was down there in New Mexico talking to sources, I
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  heard the same thing. And now that this story is
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  breaking here on Roy, it's pretty damn interesting. So that said,
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  why don't we dive into this article and see what
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  Reuters has for us headline? As New Mexico probes Epstein,
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  local survivors come forward. This article was authored by Erica
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  Stapleton and Andrew Hay. Authorities in New Mexico are trying
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  to determine how many local women and girls were abused
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  by the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein at his isolated
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  Zoro Ranch compound. I'm saying in the dozens. Unfortunately, that's
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  my estimation, and I'm basing that on what I heard
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  from people that lived near the ranch and had access
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  to it. These are people that have heard stories, talk
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  to people, you know, and they gave me this information secondhand.
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  I'm not going to sit here and tell you I
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  talked with somebody locally who said that they were abused
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  by Jeffrey Epstein. But I did speak to people locally
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  who said they know people that were abused. Now, whether
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  you choose to believe them or not, that's a whole
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  different story, right, But that's what I heard. That's what
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  I was told face to face. And considering that these
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  sources have been spot on about everything else, I had
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  no doubt that they were right about this too. And
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  now we're hearing that over a dozen women sought support
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  in twenty nineteen in New Mexico due to being abused
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  by Jeffrey Epstein. And remember the state thought it was
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  a good idea to shut the investigation down. Yeah, let's
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  just punt over to the FEDS because they've done such
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  a great job in the past. Several individuals have said
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  that they were flown to the ranch and abused by
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  Epstein and disassociates. To date, only one former Santa Fe
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  massage therapist, Rachel Benavetez, was known to be from New Mexico.
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  New Mexico Representative Marianna Anaya, who co sponsored the state's
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  Truth Commission probe into Epstein, told Reuters that the group
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  had been in contact with a number of New Mexico
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  residents who say that they were abused at the ranch.
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  And it's going to keep coming. I'm telling you right now,
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  once you see a crack in the dam, that water
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  starts busting through, and I think that we've only begun
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  to scratch the surface in New Mexico, and that goes
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  for all of us, me included. There's a lot more
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  to be uncovered there, and it might necessitate another trip
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  for me out to New Mexico. I feel like there's
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  a lot of fertile ground here, a lot of information
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  that still has not been uncovered, and a lot of
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  information that could really help the story forward. And having
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  these survivors speak out is going to put a turbocharge
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  in it because people now are going to start digging. Previously,
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  nobody really cared about New Mexico. When it comes to Epstein,
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  they're all focused on the island, all focused on you know,
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  New York, but mainly the island, right. But I think
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  the real atrocities, the real madness, the real sickness, was
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  occurring at this ranch, and I think that there was
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  some wild shit happening here. When it comes to science,
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  I can confirm that we've been reached out to by
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  local alleged victims, Anaya told Reuters in a text message.
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  And I think it's just gonna keep going. I think
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  we're gonna hear from more women, and they're gonna have
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  very similar stories. They were recruited maybe out of local
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  high school or event whatever, and they were brought into
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  the orbit of Jeffrey Epstein and they were groomed and abused.
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  It was the first time that the Commission has acknowledged
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  contact with local people who say that they were abused
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  at the ranch during the quarter century Epstein owned the property.
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  That ranch should have been raided the day Jeffrey Epstein
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  was arrested, all of his properties at the same time,
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  just like they would have for John Gotti or Diddy.
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  So again that brings us to the question what makes
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  Epstein so special in the mind of the government, well
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  besides the fact that he was an asset for them.
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  The state reopened its investigation into alleged child sex trafficking
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  at the ranch in February, citing the US Department of
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  Justice release of millions of files on Epstein. They included
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  an email from a person claiming to be a former
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  ranch employee who alleged that Epstein buried the bodies of
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  two girls in hills outside the property. And look, again,
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  very possible, especially if we're talking about Indigenous girls. What
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  you don't think Epstein and his buddies know the deal,
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  They most certainly do. There are so many missing Indigenous
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  girls in New Mexico they had to start a database
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  for it. And if you think those girls are just,
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  you know, waking up one day and deciding to leave home,
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  you're crazy. Now some of them may be, but the
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  vast majority something stinks in New Mexico. Epstein and his
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  associates are accused of grooming local teenage girls at his
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  New York and Pombei residences. According to core testimony from
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  criminal trials, Maria Jose Rodriguez Cadiz, who had so laate
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  sexual Assault Services in Santa Fe, the only such support
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  center in the region, told Reuters in an interview that
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  in twenty nineteen, the year Epstein was arrested and then
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  found deadness jail cell, around forty five people approached the
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  center to seek information, therapy, and other services in relation
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  to alleged sexual abuse at the ranch. So we were
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  like five years ahead of this story, but unfortunately nobody
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  was listening. I was telling people this years ago, and
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  then after my trip to New Mexico, I knew that
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  things were a lot worse in that state than we
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  were being told. She estimated that between a quarter and
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  the half of those contacts were from women who said
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  they had been abused at the ranch, although she added
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  that the center did not keep detailed records. Dozens of
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  people who were in need of information or direct services
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  were a lie to the Epstein sex ring were a
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  coming forward. Rodriguez Cadi said she attributed the increased contact
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  in twenty nineteen to news of Epstein's arrest, as well
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  as the increased visibility of the Me too movement against
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  powerful perpetrators of sexual abuse. You mean the me too
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  movement that largely ignored what was going on. With Epstein.
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  I don't recall any of those pink hat people showing
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  up for the Glenn Maxwell trial. Epstein's survivors were largely abandoned,
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  and it was only a few voices that were, you know,
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  speaking up in the dark, going against the grain and
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  alerting people that something was seriously wrong. And the loudest
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  voices were the survivors themselves. But let's not act like
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  me too showed up and helped out. They didn't. In fact,
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  this was largely ignored. She said that one of the
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  women who approached the center in twenty nineteen filed police
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  complaints at the time. The center is co housed with
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  Santa Fe Police Department Special Victims Unit, so police reports
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  were filed and nothing was done. Once again, nothing was done.
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  Not a word about Zoro Ranch when it comes to
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  the federal conversation, not a word about what went on there,
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  and certainly not a word about the girls who were
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  hurt there. And I think a lot of people are
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  going to be shocked when they find out just how
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  pervasive the abuse was at Zoro Ranch. Nationally, about twenty
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  four percent of rapes and sexual assaults were reported to
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  police in twenty twenty four, the most recent year for
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  which full details exist. According to the US Department of Justice,
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  that's just deplorable. Only twenty four percent of rapes and
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  sexual assaults were reported, and that's because people think nothing
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  will happen. Nobody's gonna believe me. Why would they believe me?
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  And in my opinion, it's a sad indictment on our society. Now, look,
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  I'm not going to sit here and tell you that
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  people don't lie. They do do people make false allegations,
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  most certainly, But when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein, when
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  it comes to what he was up to, I would
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  say the reverse is opposite. And the vast majority of
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  people that have come forward have told the truth. And
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  I think now that the veil is being pulled down
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  in New Mexico, people are going to find out just
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  how ugly that truth is. All Right, folks, that's going
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  to do it for this one. All the information that
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