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Seven Years of Questions After Jeffrey Epstein’s Death · The Epstein Chronicles

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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. Seven fucking years since Jeffrey Epstein was found
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  Speaker 1: dead inside of a federal jail cell in Manhattan. And somehow,
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  Speaker 1: after all this time, the people who were supposed to
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  Speaker 1: provide answers still expect us to accept a story held
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  Speaker 1: together with missing footage, institutional incompetence, bureaucratic finger-pointing, unanswered questions,
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  Speaker 1: sealed records, redactions, and the same tired assurances that everything
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  Speaker 1: important has already been explained. No, absolutely fucking not. August 10th,
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  Speaker 1: 2019 was supposed to be the beginning of a reckoning.
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  Speaker 1: Epstein had finally been arrested again. This time, there was
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  Speaker 1: no sweetheart non-prosecution agreement waiting to save him. There was
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  Speaker 1: no quiet deal in Florida. There was no work release
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  Speaker 1: arrangement that turned a jail sentence into something resembling an inconvenience.
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  Speaker 1: His bitch ass was sitting in federal custody facing sex
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  Speaker 1: trafficking charges And for the first time in years, the
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  Speaker 1: possibility existed that Jeffrey Epstein might actually have to stand
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  Speaker 1: in a courtroom while prosecutors publicly unpacked the machinery surrounding him.
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  Speaker 1: Then he died. And nearly everything changed. The criminal case
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  Speaker 1: against Epstein disappeared with him. The possibility of putting him
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  Speaker 1: under oath disappeared. The possibility of forcing him to explain
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  Speaker 1: the money, the properties, the recruiters, the employees, the flights,
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  Speaker 1: the financial relationships, the political relationships. the social relationships, and
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  Speaker 1: the people orbiting his world disappeared. The man at the
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  Speaker 1: center of one of the most notorious sex trafficking scandals
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  Speaker 1: in modern American history was suddenly unavailable for questioning forever.
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  Speaker 1: And from that moment forward, the public was essentially told,
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  Speaker 1: trust us. Trust us? You had one of the most
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  Speaker 1: high-profile prisoners on planet Earth sitting inside a federal detention center,
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  Speaker 1: and somehow the safeguard surrounding him collapsed. At exactly the moment,
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  Speaker 1: those safeguards mattered most. Guards failed to perform required checks.
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  Speaker 1: Records were falsified. Staffing was a disaster. Surveillance became an issue.
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  Speaker 1: Procedures broke down. Supervisory failures stacked on top of operational failures.
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  Speaker 1: The Justice Department's own Inspector General would later document an
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  Speaker 1: astonishing catalog of negligence and misconduct surrounding the conditions that
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  Speaker 1: allowed Epstein to be left unmonitored for hours. And then
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  Speaker 1: Washington looked America straight in the face and acted surprised
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  Speaker 1: when people had questions. What the fuck did you expect?
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  Speaker 1: You can't build a mountain of institutional failure and then
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  Speaker 1: ridicule people for noticing the mountain. You can't spend decades
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  Speaker 1: showing the public that Epstein received extraordinary treatment from powerful
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  Speaker 1: institutions and then suddenly demand unquestioning faith when the most
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  Speaker 1: consequential moment of the entire case arrives. Remember who we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about. This wasn't some anonymous defendant waiting arraignment on
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  Speaker 1: a minor charge. Jeffrey Epstein had spent decades collecting powerful people. Presidents, princes, billionaires, financiers, lawyers, academics,
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  Speaker 1: political figures, celebrities, executives. People whose telephone calls got returned.
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  Speaker 1: People whose names opened doors. People who could hire armies
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  Speaker 1: of attorneys and public relations professionals before breakfast. And Epstein
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  Speaker 1: didn't just know powerful people. Power was the fucking architecture
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  Speaker 1: of his entire existence. His wealth gave him access. His
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  Speaker 1: access gave him legitimacy. His legitimacy brought him more powerful relationships.
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  Speaker 1: Those relationships brought him more protection, more opportunities, more introductions,
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  Speaker 1: more insulation from the normal consequences that would have crushed
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  Speaker 1: an ordinary person long before 2019. And that's why his
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  Speaker 1: death mattered so much. Because the Epstein story was never
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  Speaker 1: simply about Jeffrey Epstein. It was the story of the
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  Speaker 1: ecosystem that allowed Epstein to exist. And seven years later,
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  Speaker 1: that ecosystem remains the question. Who enabled him? Who financed him?
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  Speaker 1: Who facilitated him? Who recruited for him? Who protected him?
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  Speaker 1: Who ignored warning signs? Who looked the other way? Who
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  Speaker 1: benefited from his relationships? Who knew what and when did
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  Speaker 1: they know it? Those questions aren't conspiracy theories. Those are
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  Speaker 1: the fucking questions investigators are supposed to ask when confronted
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  Speaker 1: with an operation that's stretched across states, countries, properties, financial institutions, corporations, employees, recruiters, pilots, assistants, lawyers, associates,
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  Speaker 1: and some of the most influential social circles in the world. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: what have we gotten? Fragments. Documents dumped years later. Names
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  Speaker 1: blacked out. Names unsealed. Depositions, civil lawsuits, bank settlements, congressional inquiries,
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  Speaker 1: government reports, contradictory statements, endless arguments over what constitutes a
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  Speaker 1: client list, endless semantic games about what the government supposedly
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  Speaker 1: possesses or does not possess, endless attempts to reduce a
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  Speaker 1: sprawling criminal network into the smallest possible frame. And every
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  Speaker 1: time the public starts asking the bigger question, somebody appears
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  Speaker 1: with a smaller answer. That's the game. Shrink the question.
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein abused girls, yes. Gwaine Maxwell helped him, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Epstein died by suicide. The medical examiner ruled that he did.
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  Speaker 1: Case closed. Not even fucking close. Because those answers do
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  Speaker 1: not explain the system. They don't explain how a registered
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  Speaker 1: sex offender walked back into elite society after his Florida
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  Speaker 1: conviction like he had gotten a parking ticket. They don't
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  Speaker 1: explain why prestigious institutions continued accepting his money. They don't
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  Speaker 1: explain why wealthy and influential people continued visiting him. They
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  Speaker 1: don't explain why financial institutions continue doing business with him
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  Speaker 1: despite glaring reputational risk. They don't explain the extraordinary prosecutorial
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  Speaker 1: deal that protected potential co-conspirators in Florida. They don't explain
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  Speaker 1: why so many people surrounding Epstein were never dragged into
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  Speaker 1: interrogation rooms and asked the basic questions that ordinary suspects
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  Speaker 1: and witnesses face every single day. And they sure as
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  Speaker 1: hell didn't explain why seven years after Epstein's death, the
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  Speaker 1: American public is still digging through records, trying to reconstruct
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  Speaker 1: a story the federal government had enormous investigative resources to
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  Speaker 1: uncover itself. And that's what makes this seven-year anniversary so
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  Speaker 1: fucking infuriating. The passage of time has not made the
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  Speaker 1: questions disappear. It's made the failure to answer them more obscene.
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  Speaker 1: Seven years is enough time to investigate bank records. Seven
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  Speaker 1: years is enough time to trace financial transactions. Seven years
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  Speaker 1: is enough time to interview witnesses. Seven years is enough
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  Speaker 1: time to examine immigration records. Seven years is enough time
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  Speaker 1: to analyze corporate structures. Seven years is enough time to
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  Speaker 1: map travel. Seven years is enough time to investigate recruiters.
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  Speaker 1: Seven years is enough time to determine who facilitated what.
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  Speaker 1: Seven years is enough time to follow the fucking money.
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  Speaker 1: And if some of those things were done, then show us.
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  Speaker 1: Explain it. Lay out that investigative record. Tell the public
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  Speaker 1: what was examined, who was questioned, what evidence was developed,
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  Speaker 1: what allegations were substantiated, what allegations were rejected, and why
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  Speaker 1: prosecutors made the decisions that they made. That's how trust works.
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  Speaker 1: Trust isn't a press release. Trust is not a government
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  Speaker 1: official standing behind a podium telling everyone to stop asking questions.
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  Speaker 1: Trust is earned through transparency. And that is precisely what's
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  Speaker 1: been missing from the Epstein story from the beginning. The
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  Speaker 1: public remembers the sweetheart deal. The survivors remember it even better.
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  Speaker 1: They remember watching a man accused of exploiting vulnerable girls
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  Speaker 1: receive treatment unavailable to virtually anyone without wealth, influence, and
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  Speaker 1: elite legal representation. They remember being denied the accountability they deserved.
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  Speaker 1: They remember years in which Epstein moved through the world
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  Speaker 1: while his victims carried the damage. And then in 2019,
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  Speaker 1: when it finally appeared that the machinery of justice might
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  Speaker 1: grind into motion, Epstein was dead before the trial ever began.
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  Speaker 1: So spare us the lectures about skepticism. Skepticism didn't appear
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  Speaker 1: out of nowhere. Institutions created it. Secrecy created it. Contradictions
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  Speaker 1: created it. Failure created it. Redactions created it. Decades of
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  Speaker 1: preferential treatment created it. And every unanswered question added another
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  Speaker 1: brick to the wall. That doesn't mean that every theory
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  Speaker 1: circulating on the internet is true. Of course it doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: Some claims are unsupported. Some are exaggerated. Some are complete bullshit.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the part the government officials and institutional defenders
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  Speaker 1: repeatedly fail to understand. You don't defeat misinformation by withholding information.
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  Speaker 1: You defeat it with evidence. You defeat it with transparency.
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  Speaker 1: You defeat it by opening the record and demonstrating exactly
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  Speaker 1: what happened. When government institutions instead retreat behind secrecy, they
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  Speaker 1: create the perfect environment for suspicion to metastasize. And then
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  Speaker 1: they blame the public for being suspicious. That's gaslighting. We're
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  Speaker 1: told not to speculate about Epstein's death while simultaneously being
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  Speaker 1: asked to accept a detention scenario so catastrophically mismanaged that
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  Speaker 1: it sounds unbelievable precisely because it was unbelievable. We're told
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  Speaker 1: the important questions have been answered, while survivors continue asking questions.
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  Speaker 1: We're told there's nothing larger to uncover, while civil litigation
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  Speaker 1: continues exposing relationships, transactions, institutional failures, and previously unknown details
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  Speaker 1: years after Epstein's death. We're told to move on. Move
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  Speaker 1: on to what? Another scandal? Another promise of transparency? Another
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  Speaker 1: round of politicians pretending they suddenly discovered Jeffrey Epstein existed yesterday?
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  Speaker 1: Some of us have been here the entire fucking time.
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  Speaker 1: We watch the documents. We watch the lawsuits. We watch
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  Speaker 1: the depositions. We watch the names emerge. We watch powerful
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  Speaker 1: institutions distance themselves from We watch powerful people suddenly struggle
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  Speaker 1: to remember relationships that once had been perfectly convenient. We
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  Speaker 1: watch reputations get sanitized. We watch responsibility get compartmentalized. And
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  Speaker 1: most importantly, we watch survivors spend years screaming into a
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  Speaker 1: system that repeatedly demonstrated that protecting institutional credibility was easier
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  Speaker 1: than providing complete accountability. So today is not simply the
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  Speaker 1: anniversary of Jeffrey Epstein's death. It's the anniversary of unfinished business.
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  Speaker 1: It's the anniversary of institutional failure. It's the anniversary of
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  Speaker 1: questions that were never properly answered. It's the anniversary of
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  Speaker 1: a justice system that managed to imprison Jeffrey Epstein, but
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  Speaker 1: failed to deliver him to the jury. And it's an
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  Speaker 1: anniversary of something Washington still seems incapable of understanding. We remember.
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  Speaker 1: We remember the deal. We remember the victims. We remember
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  Speaker 1: the powerful friends. We remember the missing accountability. We remember
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  Speaker 1: the failures inside that jail. We remember the questions surrounding
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  Speaker 1: the investigation. We remember every time someone told us there
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  Speaker 1: was nothing else worth seeing. And after seven years, our
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  Speaker 1: answer remains exactly the same. We don't fucking believe you.
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  Speaker 1: Not because disbelief is entertaining. Not because conspiracy is fashionable.
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  Speaker 1: Not because we desperately need some cinematic explanation for what happened.
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  Speaker 1: Show us the evidence. Show us the investigative work. Show
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  Speaker 1: us who was questioned. Show us what money was followed.
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  Speaker 1: Show us which allegations were investigated. Show us why certain
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  Speaker 1: people were charged and others weren't. Show us how a
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  Speaker 1: criminal operation that functioned for years around one of the
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  Speaker 1: most connected men in America somehow produced such a remarkably
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  Speaker 1: small universe of criminal accountability. Stop asking us for trust. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: produce receipts. Seven years ago, Jeffrey Epstein died in that
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  Speaker 1: jail cell. Seven years later, his survivors are still waiting
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  Speaker 1: for the full truth. The public is still waiting for
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  Speaker 1: the full truth. And those of us who have followed
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  Speaker 1: this case year after year are still standing here looking
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  Speaker 1: at the same institutions that told us they had everything
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  Speaker 1: under control. You didn't. You clearly fucking didn't. And until
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  Speaker 1: the unanswered questions are confronted with evidence instead of slogans,
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  Speaker 1: until transparency replaces damage control, And until accountability reaches beyond
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  Speaker 1: the easiest names to prosecute, this story is not over.
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  Speaker 1: Not today. Not tomorrow. Not because seven years has passed.
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  Speaker 1: Not because officials are tired of hearing about it. And certainly,
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  Speaker 1: not because somebody in Washington decided the public should finally
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  Speaker 1: shut up and move along. Seven years of questions. Seven
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  Speaker 1: years of excuses. Seven years of institutional ass covering. Seven
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  Speaker 1: years of being told what we could see with our
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  Speaker 1: own eyes was somehow... Not worth questioning. And seven years later,
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  Speaker 1: here we still are, watching, reading, digging, remembering, and saying
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  Speaker 1: the same thing we said when this whole rotten fucking
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  Speaker 1: structure began revealing itself. We still don't believe you. All
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