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Howard Lutnick Goes Against The Narrative And Calls Epstein "The Greatest Blackmailer" (4/26/26) · 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. So Howard Lutnick has just given an interview,
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  and in that interview, he was talking about Jeffrey Epstein,
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  who happened to be his next door neighbor. And according
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  to the interview he gave on podforth one, he says
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  that Jeffrey Epstein is the greatest black mailer ever. And
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  according to Howard Lutnik, him and his wife went to
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  Epstein's one time and never went back again because how
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  creepy it was. And in an episode coming up, after
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  we set the tone here with this article, I'm going
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  to talk to you a little bit more about my
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  experience working for Howard Lutnik. That's right, folks, I worked
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  for Canner Fitzgerald. A lot of you know that. Some
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  of you might not know that, but I worked for
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  their gaming division in Las Vegas and the name of
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  that division was Canner Gaming at first, and then the
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  name was changed to CG Gaming. The boss, Howard let Nick,
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  his chief here in town Liamidas And for those of
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  you who don't know, the company ended up getting smacked
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  with the biggest fine ever given out by the Gaming Commission.
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  So We're going to talk more about that story in
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  an episode coming up later today, but first we're going
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  to set the table and talk about what Howard Lutnik
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  had to say when it comes to his ex neighbor
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  Jeffrey Epstein. This article was published by The New York
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  Post headline Howard Lutnick calls X neighbor Jeffrey Epstein greatest
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  blackmailer ever in podforst one interview. This article was authored
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  by Josh Christiansen. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, in a notable
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  break with the Department of Justice, claim late pedophile Jeffrey
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  Epstein was the greatest blackmailer ever and may have traded
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  the fed's video of his rich and well connected associates
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  getting massages from young women in exchange for a controversial
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  two thousand and eight plea deal. Say what now, Howard
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  Lutnick coming out out and smitten some truth. Certainly not
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  my experience working for the guy, but here we are.
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  And I think it's significant to note that Lutnik is
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  one of Trump's biggest confidants, So him coming out and
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  saying this is pretty wild. Honestly, it goes directly in
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  the face of what we've been told by the DOJ,
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  by Trump himself, so I wonder what the play is
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  here now. Of course, you know, I'm very cynical when
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  it comes to all of this, so I always think
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  there's some kind of play in motion. So we'll have
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  to wait to see the other shoe drop. But there's
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  no doubt that he's off the reservation when it comes
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  to this kind of commentary. The question is is it
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  by design? The sixty four year old Cabinet secretary set
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  Epstein himself showed off his notorious massage room while giving
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  Lutnik and his wife a tour of the infamous seventy
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  first Street townhouse after the couple moved in next door
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  to the sinse disgraced financier in two thousand and five. Like,
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  imagine living next to Epstein and not knowing what's going on,
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  or pretending you don't know. He knows, and that's why
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  he's coming out and saying this. You know, Epstein's predation
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  was so in your face and so brazen that anybody
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  who was around him for any period of time can't
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  really run around and talk about, Oh, I had no
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  idea what was going on. At the very least you
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  had to suspect that dude was up to no good,
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  and if not, it's probably because you were willfully ignoring it.
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  I say to him, massage tables in the middle of
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  your house. How often do you have a massage, Lutnick recalled,
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  And he says every day. And then he gets like
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  weirdly close to me, and he says, and the right
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  kind of massage, as in, hey, mister Lutnik, want to
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  come over and get a little tuggy tug tug, basically
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  what Epstein's saying. And if you think that it was
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  only how are Lutnik that he was talking to like this,
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  You're crazy. This is how these people talk. We all
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  saw the birthday book. We saw the messages. So don't
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  sit here and think that they are talk looking differently,
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  especially when they're in private. Now, when they're in public,
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  they're gonna have their best face on. Right. They're all
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  great people. They're all fantastic pillars of the community, the
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  real Salt and Earth type. The second the door closes,
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  the mask comes off, and the beast the merges. Lunnix
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  said that he and his wife quickly excuse themselves and
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  left Epstein's home and in the six to eight steps
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  it takes to get from his house to my house.
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  My wife and I decided that I will never be
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  in the room with that disgusting person ever again. Well,
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  I don't know if that's true or not. But throughout
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  all the history and all the research, Lutnick's name hasn't
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  popped up in any of these you know, adventures that
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  Epstein was on. Now, were they hanging out at Epstein's
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  house or was Epstein over at his house? I don't know.
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  I mean, they're neighbors, but just because their neighbors doesn't
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  mean they're friends. I know I have neighbors that I
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  wouldn't associate with, not because they're you know, child molesters,
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  but because we're just different people. Right Besides the casual
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  wave and nod, hello, how you doing, we have nothing
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  in common, no reason for me to be going to
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  their little party or barbecue or whatever. When asked by
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  the Vine, whether Epstein's rich and powerful associates, including the
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  likes of Prince Andrew and Microsoft founder of Bill Gates,
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  could hang around him and not see what you saw,
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  or did they see it and ignore it, Lutnik responded,
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  they participated. They get a massage. That was his m
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  O was get a massage, get a massage. And what
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  happened in the massage room I assume was on video.
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  The Commerce Secretary went on, this guy was the greatest
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  blackmailer ever, blackmailed people, that's how he made money. And
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  this isn't some regular person telling you this, This isn't
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  me telling you this. This is Trump's Commerce Secretary, Jeffrey
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  Epstein's neighbor, a guy that knows what's up. And as
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  much as I'm not a big fan of Howard Lutnick,
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  he's telling the truth here. All these people were definitely
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  in that massage room, get massages, and god knows what else.
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  And if you think it wasn't recorded, if you think
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  there's no video, you have not been paying attention. A
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  spokesperson for Bill Gates told The Post in a statement,
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  this is absolutely false. Gates met with Epstein to discuss
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  philanthropy and nothing else. Well, why hasn't Bill Gates suit anybody?
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  A lot of people have had a lot to say
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  about Bill Gates when it comes to Epstein, and he
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  hasn't said shit. Why not sue somebody? If you're so
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  innocent and look normal people like me and you. It's
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  a whole different story, right, we want to get into
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  a lawsuit, it's gonna cost a bunch of dough. A
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  guy like Bill Gates got more money than he knows
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  what to do with. So if this is all a
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  bunch of bs and everybody is lying on you, and
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  everybody's telling falsehoods, why doesn't your bitch ass sue somebody?
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  Lutnick added, I assume way back when they traded those
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  videos in exchange for him getting that eighteen month sentence
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  which allowed him to have visits to be out of jail.
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  I mean, he's a serial sex offend. How could he
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  get eighteen months and be able to go to his
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  office during the day and his visitors and stuff. There
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  must have been a trade. So my assumption, I have
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  no knowledge, but my assumption is there was a trade
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  for the videos because there were people on those videos.
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  He also claimed. So is Howard Lutnick a conspiracy theorist
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  because he's saying the same exact thing I've been saying
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  that the videos exist. Now, I won't say who's on
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  those videos because I don't know. I'm not gonna sit
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  here and make pretend I have a list of people
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  that I can give you who were on the video,
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  or who were in the house or whatever. I don't know.
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  All I know is what's been reported and what's been
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  told to us by the survivors. But anyone who thinks
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  they weren't recording in there, they weren't using these videos
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  to make dossier's, you're crazy. The DOJ and the FBI
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  released a memo July six claiming a systematic review had
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  found that Epstein held no client list of rich and
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  powerful associates. Well, that was all part of the hustle.
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  There was never a list. The same thing I've told
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  you for years now, don't get bogged down with all
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  the bs. Whenever you hear something catching fire in the media,
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  always ask yourself why why are they talking about it now?
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  Why they're bringing it up? And the list was always
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  a distraction. The memo also stated that there was no
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  credible evidence found that Epstein black mel prominent individuals as
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  part of his actions, and no evidence that could predicate
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  an investigation against uncharged third parties, despite Epstein having harmed
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  over one thousand victims, Like, how can anyone believe it? Like, honestly,
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  how can anyone believe it. I mean they use the
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  same game plan, the same blueprint, every time they want
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  to cover something up. I mean, look at the octopus murders.
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  Look at what happened with the promise software. It goes
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  on and on and on. Epstein, sixty six, was found
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  dead in his Manhattan lock up on August tenth, twenty nineteen,
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  while awaiting federal trial on sex trafficking charges. More than
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  a decade prior, he had been forced in two thousand
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  and eight to register as a sex offender and plead
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  guilty to a Florida charges of soliciting prostitution and soliciting
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  a minor for sex as part of an agreement that'saw
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  him served no more than thirteen months confinement, most of
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  it on work release. So you know, like when you
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  were younger and your parents tried to ground you and
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  you were so fucking annoying they let you go outside.
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  Basically what happened here. Mister billionaire child diddler throws a fit,
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  so they give him what he wants. Epstein quietly paid
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  girls hundreds of dollars to give him massages in his
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  Florida home, though none who spoke with law enforcement said
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  there were video recordings made of the encounters. According to
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  a twenty twenty DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility report on
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  the prosecution, that's because those encounters were for Epstein's own proclivities,
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  his own desires, his own degeneracy. The other girls, those
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  were the girls that were being farmed out, the girls
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  from Eastern Europe, the girls from South America, etc. Don't
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  let them conflate the issue. The South Florida US Attorney's Office,
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  headed up then by Alex Acosta, had reached a non
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  prosecution agreement with Epstein due to evidentiary issues, in order
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  to force the financier a cop to stay charges. Acosta
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  has since expressed remorse about how its terms were not followed.
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  Oh yeah, mister Acosta, another great guy, not the man
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  who's responsible for this, but certainly the man who acted
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  as the patsy and certainly a willing participant. So yeah,
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  Acosta being slammed, he deserves all of it. But let's
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  not forget he wasn't the one who gave the final
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  lo k for that deal that came from Muchesi, that
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  came from Phelipe. The Palm Beach State Attorney's originally proposed
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  resolution no jail time for sex offender registration was unacceptable
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  to mister Acosta and his team, said attorney Jeffrey Neeman,
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  who represent he entered the ex Miami prosecutor before a
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  House panel grilling earlier this month. Mister Acosta took responsibility
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  for approving the final resolution, admitting that relying on the
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  state system was a mistake. Nieman added, saying Epstein's sentencing
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  and sex Offenderal Registry sent a message to the community
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  that Epstein's conduct was unacceptable. I mean, how can you
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  say that with a straight face? Now, I know you're
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  a lawyer and all that, but really two years ago,
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  a photo allegedly taken by Epstein showing himself with Gates
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  at the Microsoft founder's Seattle office in March twenty fifteen,
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  six years after he registered as a sex offender and
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  went to prison, Gates met Epstein for the first time
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  face to face at dinner in the latter's Manhattan townhouse
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  in January twenty eleven. According to The New York Times,
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  President Trump enjoyed a close association with Epstein in the
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  nineties and early two thousands, but revealed earlier this year
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  he had booted Epstein from his Mara a Lago club
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  after finding out that the pervert was recruiting messus is
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  from the SPA to work for his letcherus ends. Hold up, messuses,
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  Virginia was a SPA girl, not even of age. You
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  have to be eighteen to be a massus breaking news.
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  Virginia was not eighteen, so she was not a massuse.
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  Call it what it is. A little girl taken from
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  a job that people get in high school. Right, I'm
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  gonna be a SPA attendant. I'm gonna go and be
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  a caddy. I'm gonna go and work, et cetera, et cetera.
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  But for Glenn Maxwell and for this disgusting fuck Jeffrey Epstein,
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  that became a fertile hunting ground so they can go
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  and find, as Glenn Maxwell put it, new Biles. People
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  were taken out of the SPA hired by him Trump
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  tole reporters aboard Air Force one July twenty ninth. When
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  I heard about it, I told him, I said, listen,
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  we don't want you taking our people, whether it was
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  a SPA or not SPA, I don't want him taking people.
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  And he was fine, And then not too long after
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  that he did it again, and I said out of here. Well,
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  we all know that there's multiple versions of that story too,
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  So who the hell knows what's true and what's not.
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  What we do know is that the two did have
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  a relationship, that the two were friendly, and that the
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  two did have a falling out. What we don't have
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  are the details, right, We don't have all of the
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  inside information about what Epstein and Trump were up to,
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  if they were up to anything together. But what we
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  do know for sure, and what I can tell you concretely,
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  is that what's going on now is a cover up.
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  So the question once again becomes who are you protecting
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  and why. All of the information that goes with this
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