Latest / The Vault: The Epstein Files / Mega Edition: What We Learned From Jeffrey Epstein's Calendar (10/7/26)
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- 0:02Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
- 0:07Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal has a new article out talking
- 0:10Speaker 1: about Jeffrey Epstein's private calendar and some of the names
- 0:14Speaker 1: that were found within that calendar. Well, a lot of
- 0:18Speaker 1: these names are shocking to people who have not been
- 0:21Speaker 1: following along with the story. But those of us who
- 0:24Speaker 1: have been following along for all of these years, none
- 0:27Speaker 1: of these names are new to us. We have heard
- 0:29Speaker 1: these names before. We've discussed their role in Jeffrey Epstein's
- 0:33Speaker 1: operation before. And now finally, after years, it looks like
- 0:37Speaker 1: the legacy media is getting around to discussing the same stuff.
- 0:41Speaker 1: So let's get into this article from the Wall Street
- 0:44Speaker 1: Journal and let's see what they're talking about. Headline, Epstein's
- 0:49Speaker 1: private calendar. reveals prominent names, including CIA chief, Goldman's top lawyer. Well, shocking, huh?
- 0:56Speaker 1: People in the financial sector and people in intelligence hanging
- 1:00Speaker 1: out with Epstein. I mean, I am absolutely shocked, folks.
- 1:04Speaker 1: Who the hell could have seen any of this coming?
- 1:06Speaker 1: This article was authored by Khadija Safdar and David Benoit.
- 1:13Speaker 1: The nation's spy chief, a longtime college president, and top
- 1:17Speaker 1: women in finance. The circle of people who associated with
- 1:20Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein years after he was a convicted sex offender
- 1:24Speaker 1: is wider than previously reported, according to a trove of
- 1:27Speaker 1: documents that include his schedules. No, it's been reported, just
- 1:32Speaker 1: not in the legacy media. There have been plenty of
- 1:35Speaker 1: people talking about all of this for a very, very
- 1:38Speaker 1: long time. And now that it's in the Wall Street Journal,
- 1:41Speaker 1: maybe some folks who weren't willing to listen before are
- 1:44Speaker 1: going to be willing to listen now. William Burns, director
- 1:49Speaker 1: of the Central Intelligence Agency since 2021, that means currently, folks,
- 1:54Speaker 1: had three meetings scheduled with Epstein in 2014 when he
- 1:59Speaker 1: was deputy secretary of state. The documents show they first
- 2:03Speaker 1: met in Washington and then Mr. Burns visited Epstein's townhouse
- 2:07Speaker 1: in Manhattan. So why is the top spy in the world,
- 2:10Speaker 1: the top guy in the CIA? hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein.
- 2:14Speaker 1: And while we're at it, can somebody ask Junior Soprano Biden,
- 2:18Speaker 1: during one of his brief moments of lucidity, why he
- 2:21Speaker 1: would hire Jeffrey Epstein's buddy to run the CIA? I
- 2:24Speaker 1: think that's a pretty logical question that should be asked, no?
- 2:27Speaker 1: And also, is there going to be this big uproar
- 2:30Speaker 1: for Burns to resign, like we saw with other people,
- 2:33Speaker 1: like with Alex Acosta? You would think that if there's
- 2:36Speaker 1: some consistency in the legacy media, that's what they'd be
- 2:39Speaker 1: calling for, but they won't. They're not going to do it.
- 2:42Speaker 1: And it's all about politics, folks. Because if it wasn't,
- 2:45Speaker 1: you'd hear about Bill Richardson. You'd hear about George Mitchell.
- 2:49Speaker 1: You'd hear about Bill Clinton more. You'd hear about all
- 2:52Speaker 1: of these people that were in positions of power around
- 2:55Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein that are still power brokers to this day.
- 2:59Speaker 1: But you don't hear any of that, right? All of
- 3:02Speaker 1: the talk is about Alexander Acosta. And while Alexander Acosta
- 3:06Speaker 1: certainly deserves his share of the blame... He certainly wasn't
- 3:09Speaker 1: the maestro or the architect that put all of this
- 3:12Speaker 1: into motion. Meanwhile, you have all of these powerful people
- 3:16Speaker 1: that are hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein and then still
- 3:18Speaker 1: find themselves and their way right back into government. Bill
- 3:22Speaker 1: Richardson working with Brittany Griner. You have William Burns, who
- 3:27Speaker 1: is the CIA director. You had Eric Landers, who was
- 3:31Speaker 1: a science advisor. All of these people that have ties
- 3:35Speaker 1: to Epstein... And I don't see anybody who was yipping
- 3:39Speaker 1: and hawing for five, six years previously going crazy about
- 3:43Speaker 1: this stuff. And that's because it doesn't fit their political narrative, right?
- 3:47Speaker 1: The last thing they want to do is have Joe
- 3:49Speaker 1: Biden exposed as somebody who's hiring Jeffrey Epstein's friends. And watch,
- 3:53Speaker 1: nothing will come from this. All of the same people
- 3:56Speaker 1: that were going crazy over Acosta, they'll be quiet about this.
- 3:59Speaker 1: Mark my words. The nation's spy chief, a longtime college president, and...
- 4:06Speaker 1: Top women in finance. The circle of people who associated
- 4:09Speaker 1: with Jeffrey Epstein years after he was a convicted sex
- 4:12Speaker 1: offender is wider than previously reported, according to a trove
- 4:16Speaker 1: of documents that include his schedules. William Burns, director of
- 4:20Speaker 1: the Central Intelligence Agency since 2021, had three meetings scheduled
- 4:25Speaker 1: with Epstein in 2014 when he was deputy secretary of state.
- 4:29Speaker 1: The documents show. They first met in Washington, and then Mr.
- 4:33Speaker 1: Burns visited Epstein's townhouse in Manhattan. I'm sure they were
- 4:37Speaker 1: just talking about the weather, and I'm sure that Jeffrey
- 4:40Speaker 1: Epstein was never an asset of the U.S. government and
- 4:42Speaker 1: never worked for the CIA. Kathleen Rumler, a White House
- 4:47Speaker 1: counsel under President Barack Obama, had dozens of meetings with
- 4:51Speaker 1: Epstein in the years after her White House service and
- 4:55Speaker 1: before she became a top lawyer at Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
- 4:58Speaker 1: in 2020. You see what's going on here, right, folks?
- 5:02Speaker 1: Another financial sector scoundrel working for a president, working with
- 5:07Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein. And where's the outrage? Again, you have Barack
- 5:11Speaker 1: Obama's lawyer here. working and hanging out with Epstein dozens
- 5:16Speaker 1: and dozens and dozens of times, and there's no rage,
- 5:19Speaker 1: there's no Miami Herald, big gigantic article about it. I
- 5:23Speaker 1: want the same level of coverage that we saw with Acosta.
- 5:26Speaker 1: That's the kind of coverage that something like this deserves.
- 5:29Speaker 1: But we're not going to see that coverage because it
- 5:32Speaker 1: destroys the narrative of these clowns in the legacy media.
- 5:37Speaker 1: He also planned for her to join a 2015 trip
- 5:39Speaker 1: to Paris and the 2017 visit to Epstein's private island
- 5:44Speaker 1: in the Caribbean. Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College,
- 5:48Speaker 1: invited Epstein, who brought a group of young female guests,
- 5:51Speaker 1: to the campus. Noam Chomsky, a professor, author, and political activist,
- 5:57Speaker 1: was scheduled to fly with Epstein to have dinner at
- 5:59Speaker 1: Epstein's Manhattan townhouse in 2015. Chomsky, another degenerate. and also
- 6:06Speaker 1: completely overrated as a political analyst in my opinion as well.
- 6:11Speaker 1: None of their names appear in Epstein's now public black
- 6:13Speaker 1: book of contacts or in the public flight logs of
- 6:16Speaker 1: passengers who traveled on his private jet. The documents show
- 6:20Speaker 1: that Epstein arranged multiple meetings with each of them after
- 6:24Speaker 1: he had served jail time in 2008 for a sex
- 6:27Speaker 1: crime involving a teenage girl, and was a registered sex offender.
- 6:31Speaker 1: So what's the excuse? Why are you hanging out with
- 6:34Speaker 1: a dude who's already a registered sex offender and not
- 6:37Speaker 1: just that, but a registered sex offender with a teenager?
- 6:41Speaker 1: So you're going to go and hang out with this
- 6:42Speaker 1: dude and go eat his food and hang out at
- 6:44Speaker 1: his house and get a quote-unquote massage and then think
- 6:48Speaker 1: nobody's going to have any questions about that? And furthermore,
- 6:51Speaker 1: Nobody's going to have any questions about the current head
- 6:54Speaker 1: of the CIA who was palling around with Jeffrey Epstein.
- 6:57Speaker 1: That's not something that should be discussed in every outlet,
- 7:00Speaker 1: especially considering all of the rumors about Jeffrey Epstein's ties
- 7:04Speaker 1: to intelligence. And I know there's a lot of people
- 7:07Speaker 1: out there that want to believe it's the Mossad here,
- 7:09Speaker 1: but I have a hard time believing that. Now, they
- 7:12Speaker 1: might have been part of the operation, but if you
- 7:14Speaker 1: think the Mossad is up to anything, in the United
- 7:17Speaker 1: States without the CIA knowing, you are out to lunch.
- 7:21Speaker 1: The CIA knows all. These dudes are not messing around.
- 7:25Speaker 1: And a guy like William Burns going over to Epstein's house,
- 7:28Speaker 1: that's big news, folks. And that's something that should be
- 7:32Speaker 1: talked about a little bit more and perhaps even talked
- 7:34Speaker 1: about in Congress or in the Senate. You want to
- 7:37Speaker 1: have hearings? Well, let's have some motherfucking hearings. Let's see
- 7:41Speaker 1: how quick all of your favorite politicians will be to
- 7:43Speaker 1: jump on that horse. The documents don't reveal the purpose
- 7:47Speaker 1: of most of the meetings. The Wall Street Journal couldn't
- 7:50Speaker 1: verify whether every scheduled meeting took place. Most of the
- 7:54Speaker 1: people told the journal they visited Epstein for reasons related
- 7:58Speaker 1: to his wealth and connections. Several said they thought that
- 8:02Speaker 1: he had served his time and rehabilitated himself. Mr. Botstein
- 8:06Speaker 1: said he was trying to get Epstein to donate to
- 8:08Speaker 1: his school. Mr. Chomsky said he and Epstein discussed political
- 8:13Speaker 1: and academic topics. Yeah, because Jeffrey Epstein was such an academic.
- 8:17Speaker 1: Go get stuffed, Noam Chomsky, you douche. Mr. Burns met
- 8:22Speaker 1: with Epstein about a decade ago as he was preparing
- 8:25Speaker 1: to leave government service, said CIA spokeswoman Tammy Kupperman Thorpe.
- 8:31Speaker 1: The director did not know anything about him other than
- 8:34Speaker 1: that he was introduced as an expert in the financial
- 8:37Speaker 1: services sector, and offer general advice on transition to the
- 8:41Speaker 1: private sector, she said. They had no relationship. So you
- 8:44Speaker 1: mean the guy who's running the CIA now couldn't even
- 8:47Speaker 1: be bothered to go do a basic Google search to
- 8:50Speaker 1: see who Jeffrey Epstein was, huh? You want me to
- 8:53Speaker 1: buy that? And if that's the case, he needs to
- 8:55Speaker 1: be removed right now? as the director of the CIA.
- 8:59Speaker 1: Because if you can't even vet who you're going into
- 9:02Speaker 1: a meeting with, you have no business running the spy
- 9:05Speaker 1: agency that is running the world. If you can't engage
- 9:08Speaker 1: in some basic vetting, you shouldn't even be running an
- 9:11Speaker 1: ice cream shop. Miss Rumler had a professional relationship with
- 9:17Speaker 1: Epstein in connection with her role at the law firm
- 9:20Speaker 1: Latham & Watkins LLP and didn't travel with them, a
- 9:23Speaker 1: Goldman Sachs spokesman said. Epstein introduced her To potential legal clients,
- 9:28Speaker 1: such as Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates, the spokesman said,
- 9:33Speaker 1: I regret ever knowing Jeffrey Epstein. Ms. Rumler said, oh,
- 9:36Speaker 1: I bet you do. A spokeswoman for Latham & Watkins
- 9:39Speaker 1: said Epstein wasn't a client of the firm. And while...
- 9:43Speaker 1: this is not a good look for the law firm
- 9:46Speaker 1: or for Rumler. It's way worse when the head of
- 9:48Speaker 1: the CIA was at Jeffrey Epstein's house. You mean to
- 9:51Speaker 1: tell me that's okay? How is that okay with anybody
- 9:54Speaker 1: out there? In 2006, Epstein was publicly accused of sexually
- 9:59Speaker 1: abusing girls in Florida who were as young as 14
- 10:02Speaker 1: years old. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and police investigated,
- 10:07Speaker 1: and Epstein reached a deal with prosecutors in 2008. He
- 10:11Speaker 1: avoided federal charges and pleaded guilty to soliciting and procuring
- 10:15Speaker 1: a minor for prostitution. He registered as a sex offender
- 10:19Speaker 1: and served about 13 months in a work release program.
- 10:22Speaker 1: But the head of the CIA didn't know this, folks, okay?
- 10:25Speaker 1: Your head of the CIA, the guy Joe, Junior Soprano
- 10:29Speaker 1: Biden selected to run the CIA, had no idea that
- 10:32Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein was a sex offender or a molester. Epstein's
- 10:37Speaker 1: case generated waves of media coverage at the time, with
- 10:40Speaker 1: publications in the U.S. and abroad reporting on the accusations
- 10:44Speaker 1: from underage girls and young women. In 2006, several politicians
- 10:50Speaker 1: returned donations from Epstein. Some associates moved to distance themselves
- 10:54Speaker 1: from him. His biggest known client, retail billionaire Leslie Wexner,
- 10:59Speaker 1: later said he cut ties in 2007. His bank, JPMorgan
- 11:03Speaker 1: Chase & Company, later said it closed its accounts in 2013,
- 11:07Speaker 1: though some bankers continued to meet with him for years after.
- 11:12Speaker 1: In 2015, Virginia Roberts publicly accused Epstein of sexually abusing
- 11:17Speaker 1: and trafficking her when she was a teen and forcing
- 11:20Speaker 1: her to have sex with influential people, including Prince Andrew.
- 11:24Speaker 1: And Bill Richardson, let's not forget him, or George Mitchell.
- 11:28Speaker 1: Why do they always leave those two guys out? Could
- 11:30Speaker 1: it possibly be because of their prominence in politics? Hmm, possible.
- 11:36Speaker 1: Despite the negative press, Epstein's days were filled from morning
- 11:40Speaker 1: to night with meetings with prominent people. The documents show
- 11:44Speaker 1: there were dinners at New York restaurants, meetings at luxury hotels,
- 11:48Speaker 1: and gatherings in the offices of prominent law firms. Many
- 11:52Speaker 1: appointments were held at Epstein's townhouse in Manhattan, the same
- 11:56Speaker 1: place where a lot of these girls were abused. Prosecutors
- 12:00Speaker 1: alleged in 2019 that the townhouse is where Epstein sexually
- 12:04Speaker 1: abused female victims for years, many underage, and that he
- 12:09Speaker 1: paid some of them to recruit their friends to engage
- 12:12Speaker 1: in sexual activity. After the Miami Herald reported that dozens
- 12:16Speaker 1: of women said they were abused, prosecutors charged Epstein in
- 12:21Speaker 1: 2019 with a sex trafficking conspiracy. Funny, right? A conspiracy
- 12:26Speaker 1: means more than one person engaging in these crimes. So
- 12:29Speaker 1: where are the other arrests? Epstein couldn't be engaged in
- 12:33Speaker 1: a conspiracy by himself, right? So that would mean that
- 12:36Speaker 1: there were other people actively working with him. And it
- 12:39Speaker 1: wasn't just Ghislaine Maxwell. After the Miami Herald reported that
- 12:44Speaker 1: dozens of women said they were abused, prosecutors charged Epstein
- 12:49Speaker 1: in 2019 with a sex trafficking conspiracy. He died that
- 12:53Speaker 1: year in a New York jail while awaiting trial in
- 12:56Speaker 1: what the city's medical examiner said. was a suicide. Mr. Burns,
- 13:01Speaker 1: 67 years old, a career diplomat and former ambassador to Russia,
- 13:06Speaker 1: had meetings with Epstein in 2014 when Burns was deputy
- 13:11Speaker 1: secretary of state. A lunch was planned that August at
- 13:14Speaker 1: the office of law firms Steptoe and Johnson in Washington.
- 13:18Speaker 1: Epstein scheduled two evening appointments that September, with Mr. Burns
- 13:23Speaker 1: at his townhouse, the documents show. After one of the
- 13:26Speaker 1: scheduled meetings, Epstein planned for his driver to take Mr.
- 13:30Speaker 1: Burns to the airport. Mr. Burns recalls being introduced in
- 13:34Speaker 1: Washington by a mutual friend and meeting Epstein once briefly
- 13:38Speaker 1: in New York, said Ms. Thorpe. The director does not
- 13:41Speaker 1: recall any further contact, including receiving a ride to the airport,
- 13:45Speaker 1: she said. Oh, no, I'm sure none of that happened.
- 13:48Speaker 1: I'm sure he never met Epstein, and all of this
- 13:50Speaker 1: is just a big mistake. The following month, October 2014, Mr.
- 13:55Speaker 1: Burns stepped down from his role at the State Department
- 13:58Speaker 1: to serve as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
- 14:03Speaker 1: a think tank. He ran the Carnegie Endowment until he
- 14:06Speaker 1: was nominated in early 2021 by President Biden to serve
- 14:11Speaker 1: as CIA director. So again, where's the outrage? Where are
- 14:15Speaker 1: all of the critical articles about Joe Biden selecting somebody
- 14:20Speaker 1: that was palling around with Jeffrey Epstein to run the CIA?
- 14:24Speaker 1: You would think that these articles would be everywhere littering
- 14:27Speaker 1: the media, but they're not. Just like the articles exposing
- 14:31Speaker 1: Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton's deep ties to Jeffrey Epstein
- 14:35Speaker 1: are far and few between. And you would think with
- 14:38Speaker 1: all of those ties that you can actually trace between
- 14:41Speaker 1: the Clintons and Jeffrey Epstein, that this would be a
- 14:45Speaker 1: bigger story, but it's not. Instead, the Clintons continuously get
- 14:49Speaker 1: a pass. They're invited onto the Bill Maher show. They're
- 14:52Speaker 1: brought out on the campaign trail. and all of the
- 14:55Speaker 1: rest of it. So they're never going to get called
- 14:56Speaker 1: out on the carpet for their bullshit, and I highly
- 14:59Speaker 1: doubt Mr. Burns will either. Alright folks, that's going to
- 15:03Speaker 1: wrap up part one of this article, and in the
- 15:05Speaker 1: next episode, we'll finish it off. All of the information
- 15:09Speaker 1: that goes with the episode can be found in the
- 15:11Speaker 1: description box. What's up everyone, and welcome back to the
- 15:19Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're going to pick up
- 15:23Speaker 1: where we left off with the Wall Street Journal article
- 15:26Speaker 1: talking about Jeffrey Epstein's calendar. So let's get right back
- 15:31Speaker 1: to it. Headline, Epstein's private calendar reveals prominent names, including
- 15:36Speaker 1: CIA chief and Goldman's top lawyer. This article was authored
- 15:41Speaker 1: by Khadija Safdar and David Benoit. The documents show that
- 15:47Speaker 1: Epstein appeared to know some of his guests well. He
- 15:51Speaker 1: asked for avocado sushi rolls to be on hand when
- 15:54Speaker 1: meeting with Ms. Rumler, according to the documents. He visited
- 15:58Speaker 1: apartments she was considering buying. In October 2014, Epstein knew
- 16:03Speaker 1: her travel plans and told an assistant to look into
- 16:06Speaker 1: her flight. See if there is a first class seat,
- 16:08Speaker 1: he wrote. If so, upgrade her. But no, she doesn't
- 16:12Speaker 1: know anything about Epstein, and she wasn't palling around with him.
- 16:15Speaker 1: They weren't close. He just knew the exact kind of
- 16:17Speaker 1: food she liked, and had his assistant call to get
- 16:20Speaker 1: her upgraded to first class, because that's what you do
- 16:23Speaker 1: for strangers, right? In 2014, Epstein called Ms. Rumler within
- 16:28Speaker 1: weeks of her leaving the Obama White House. Epstein planned
- 16:31Speaker 1: a lunch in 2014. at his townhouse, followed by a
- 16:36Speaker 1: series of meetings to introduce her to a wider circle
- 16:39Speaker 1: of his acquaintances. Is anyone going to ask Ms. Rumler
- 16:43Speaker 1: about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein? Is there going to
- 16:46Speaker 1: be any reporters waiting outside of her house or anything
- 16:49Speaker 1: like that? Of course there won't be, because it's not
- 16:51Speaker 1: about reporting the news, no matter what it is. It's
- 16:54Speaker 1: about crafting narratives. That's what it's all about for these
- 16:58Speaker 1: political activists that run around masquerading as journalists. Ms. Rumler
- 17:03Speaker 1: first met Epstein after he called her to ask if
- 17:06Speaker 1: she would be interested in representing Mr. Gates and the
- 17:10Speaker 1: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Goldman Sachs spokesman said.
- 17:14Speaker 1: So again, the Bill Gates connection. If he wasn't that
- 17:17Speaker 1: close to Bill Gates, if he wasn't somebody that was
- 17:20Speaker 1: tight with Bill Gates, then why would he be recommending
- 17:23Speaker 1: lawyers for the Bill Gates Foundation? Why would he be
- 17:26Speaker 1: hanging out with Bill Gates so many times? And why
- 17:29Speaker 1: would Bill Gates' own wife be... telling Bill Gates that
- 17:33Speaker 1: chilling with Jeffrey Epstein is a bad idea. If they
- 17:37Speaker 1: were only hanging out for business once or twice, why
- 17:40Speaker 1: would all of these other things be occurring? Well, the
- 17:43Speaker 1: answer is they were a lot closer than Bill Gates
- 17:46Speaker 1: lets on. They were very, very close. They hung out
- 17:50Speaker 1: quite a bit. And as far as what they were
- 17:52Speaker 1: doing when they were hanging out, your guess is as
- 17:55Speaker 1: good as mine. I have no idea. I wasn't there.
- 17:58Speaker 1: I have no tangible proof that Bill Gates took part
- 18:02Speaker 1: in any kind of abuse or anything like that. But
- 18:04Speaker 1: we for sure know he enabled Jeffrey Epstein. At the
- 18:07Speaker 1: very least, he enabled Jeffrey Epstein. A spokeswoman for Mr.
- 18:12Speaker 1: Gates said Epstein never worked for Mr. Gates, misrepresented their relationship,
- 18:17Speaker 1: and that Mr. Gates regrets ever meeting with him. You
- 18:21Speaker 1: see the running line here? It's always the same. Oh,
- 18:24Speaker 1: I regret meeting with Jeffrey Epstein. No, you don't. You
- 18:26Speaker 1: regret getting caught. Epstein and his staff discussed whether Ms. Rumler,
- 18:31Speaker 1: now 52, would be uncomfortable with the presence of young
- 18:35Speaker 1: women who worked as assistants and staffers at the townhouse.
- 18:39Speaker 1: The documents show women emailed Epstein on two occasions to
- 18:43Speaker 1: ask if they should avoid the home while Ms. Rumler
- 18:46Speaker 1: was there. Epstein told one of the women, He didn't
- 18:49Speaker 1: want her around. And another, that it wasn't a problem.
- 18:53Speaker 1: The documents show, Ms. Rumler didn't see anything that would
- 18:57Speaker 1: lead her to be concerned at the townhouse and didn't
- 19:00Speaker 1: express any concern. The Goldman spokesman said, Oh, I'm sure.
- 19:04Speaker 1: I'm sure everything was... hunky-dory and normal at Jeffrey Epstein's townhouse. Meanwhile,
- 19:10Speaker 1: we've heard about the chess pieces that he had made
- 19:13Speaker 1: in the likeness of staff and girls that were all naked.
- 19:16Speaker 1: We know about the pictures on the walls. We know
- 19:18Speaker 1: about the picture of Bill Clinton in a dress. But
- 19:21Speaker 1: everything at this townhouse was just very normal, folks. Yeah,
- 19:25Speaker 1: normal if you're a sick, degenerate bastard, maybe. Several people
- 19:30Speaker 1: who visited Epstein during this time period said they noticed
- 19:33Speaker 1: young women at his townhouse. One of the visitors, Helen Fisher,
- 19:37Speaker 1: an anthropologist who studies romantic love and detachment, had lunch
- 19:41Speaker 1: with Epstein in January 2016 to discuss her work. Dr.
- 19:46Speaker 1: Fisher says that after the lunch, Epstein invited her to
- 19:50Speaker 1: speak with his staff and then infilled, I would say,
- 19:54Speaker 1: six women. She said, all of them good looking and
- 19:57Speaker 1: all of them young. Well, that's how Epstein rolled. Once
- 20:00Speaker 1: you got to be a certain age, that was it.
- 20:02Speaker 1: You were done. He wanted nothing else to do with
- 20:04Speaker 1: you as far as his abuse goes. He reserved that
- 20:08Speaker 1: for little girls. Dr. Fisher said Epstein never funded her work.
- 20:13Speaker 1: They weren't friends and they didn't stay in touch. I
- 20:15Speaker 1: didn't have anything to do with Jeffrey Epstein, she said,
- 20:18Speaker 1: but I remembered it because of his spectacular house and
- 20:22Speaker 1: because of the six young women. Over the next few years, Ms. Rumler,
- 20:26Speaker 1: then a partner specializing in white-collar defense at Latham & Watkins,
- 20:31Speaker 1: had more than three dozen appointments with Epstein, including for
- 20:35Speaker 1: lunches and dinners. I'm sure that they were just talking
- 20:38Speaker 1: about the weather. And I'm sure that Ms. Rumler was
- 20:41Speaker 1: just there out of the capacity of a professional. I'm
- 20:44Speaker 1: sure it had nothing to do with them having a
- 20:46Speaker 1: private relationship. In the normal course, Epstein also invited her
- 20:50Speaker 1: to meetings and social gatherings. introduced her to other business
- 20:54Speaker 1: contacts and made referrals. The Goldman spokesman said it was
- 20:58Speaker 1: the same kind of contacts and engagements she had with
- 21:02Speaker 1: other contacts and clients. That's what they always say, right?
- 21:05Speaker 1: They always try and cover it like that. Oh, it
- 21:07Speaker 1: was just her normal duty. Epstein was a client and
- 21:10Speaker 1: they were meeting for business purposes. And I don't know
- 21:13Speaker 1: about you, but that same old tired ass excuse is
- 21:16Speaker 1: getting real old. In 2015, she was scheduled to fly
- 21:21Speaker 1: with Epstein to Paris, and in 2017, he planned to
- 21:25Speaker 1: stop in St. Lucia to take her to his island
- 21:28Speaker 1: home in the U.S. Virgin Islands for the day, according
- 21:31Speaker 1: to the documents. Ms. Rumler never visited his island and
- 21:35Speaker 1: never accepted an invitation or an opportunity to fly with
- 21:39Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein anywhere, the Goldman spokesman said. Why can't Ms.
- 21:43Speaker 1: Rumler answer for herself? Why do you need a spokesman
- 21:46Speaker 1: to tell us this? Aren't you a lawyer? Aren't you
- 21:48Speaker 1: some kind of big shot Mrs. Barack Obama lawyer? In
- 21:54Speaker 1: addition to her current role as General Counsel at Goldman Sachs, Ms.
- 21:58Speaker 1: Rumler is co-chair of its Reputational Risk Committee, which monitors
- 22:03Speaker 1: business and client decisions for potential damage to the bank's image. Boy,
- 22:08Speaker 1: that's ironic, huh? Talk about letting a fox into the
- 22:12Speaker 1: hen house. This lady's palling around with Mr. Scumbag No. 1,
- 22:16Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, she's the co-chair of the
- 22:19Speaker 1: Reputational Risk Committee? I mean, don't they see the irony here?
- 22:23Speaker 1: Epstein also connected Ms. Rumler with Ariane de Rothschild, who
- 22:28Speaker 1: is now chief executive of the Swiss private bank Edmund
- 22:31Speaker 1: de Rothschild Group. The bank hired Ms. Rumler's law firm,
- 22:35Speaker 1: Latham & Watkins, after the introduction, to help with U.S.
- 22:39Speaker 1: regulatory matters, according to the bank and the Goldman spokesperson. Ms.
- 22:44Speaker 1: de Rothschild, who married into the famous banking family, had
- 22:47Speaker 1: more than a dozen meetings with Epstein. He sought her
- 22:50Speaker 1: help with staffing and furnishings, as well as discussed business
- 22:54Speaker 1: deals with her. According to the documents, I'm sure that's
- 22:58Speaker 1: exactly what they discussed, and I'm sure it was nothing else.
- 23:01Speaker 1: I'm sure they just kept it all to business. In
- 23:03Speaker 1: September 2013, Epstein asked Ms. de Rothschild in an email
- 23:08Speaker 1: for help finding a new assistant. Female, multilingual, organized. I'll
- 23:13Speaker 1: ask around. Ms. Dorothchild emailed back. She bought nearly $ 1
- 23:18Speaker 1: million worth of auction items on Epstein's behalf in 2014
- 23:22Speaker 1: and 2015, the documents show. Ms. Dorothchild was named chairwoman
- 23:29Speaker 1: of the bank in January 2015. That October, She and
- 23:33Speaker 1: Epstein negotiated a $ 25 million contract for Epstein's Southern Trust
- 23:38Speaker 1: Company to provide risk analysis and the application and use
- 23:43Speaker 1: of certain algorithms for the bank, according to a proposal
- 23:46Speaker 1: reviewed by the journal. So in other words, there was
- 23:49Speaker 1: all kinds of theft going on here. Whose pockets got greased?
- 23:52Speaker 1: Whose pockets got fat? And where did all that money go?
- 23:56Speaker 1: My guess is it was pillaged, sent offshore, and nobody
- 23:59Speaker 1: will ever be able to trace it. In 2019, after
- 24:03Speaker 1: Epstein was arrested, the bank said that Ms. Dorothchild never
- 24:06Speaker 1: met with Epstein and it had no business links with him.
- 24:09Speaker 1: Lies atop of lies atop of more lies. The bank
- 24:14Speaker 1: acknowledged to the journal that its earlier statement wasn't accurate.
- 24:18Speaker 1: It said Ms. de Rothschild met with Epstein as part
- 24:21Speaker 1: of her normal duties at the bank between 2013 and 2019.
- 24:25Speaker 1: And Epstein introduced the bank to U.S. finance leaders, recommended
- 24:31Speaker 1: law firms, and provided tax and risk consulting. Of course
- 24:35Speaker 1: he did. In other words, he wasn't doing shit. What
- 24:38Speaker 1: was he really doing? That's always the question that I have.
- 24:41Speaker 1: What was Epstein really doing? What was he really providing you?
- 24:45Speaker 1: What services were you really using, Miss de Rothschild? In
- 24:51Speaker 1: parallel to that, Epstein solicited her personally on a couple
- 24:54Speaker 1: of occasions for advice and services on estate management, the
- 24:58Speaker 1: bank said. Mr. Rothschild had no knowledge of any legal
- 25:02Speaker 1: proceedings against Epstein and was unaware of any questions regarding
- 25:07Speaker 1: his personal conduct, the bank said. After learning of his behavior,
- 25:10Speaker 1: the bank said, she feels for and supports the victims. Again,
- 25:15Speaker 1: the bullshit. You didn't have Google back then. You didn't
- 25:18Speaker 1: have a working TV. All of the smartest people in
- 25:21Speaker 1: the room had no idea who Jeffrey Epstein was, huh?
- 25:24Speaker 1: That's what they want you to believe, folks. That is
- 25:26Speaker 1: exactly what they want you to believe. The question is,
- 25:30Speaker 1: do you? One of Epstein's scheduled meetings with Ms. Dorothchild
- 25:35Speaker 1: in January 2014 included another of his regular guests, Joshua
- 25:40Speaker 1: Cooper Ramo, then co-chief executive of Henry Kissinger's corporate consulting firm.
- 25:46Speaker 1: Epstein scheduled more than a dozen meetings from 2013 to
- 25:49Speaker 1: 2017 with Mr. Romo, who at the time served on
- 25:54Speaker 1: the boards of Starbucks and FedEx. The documents show Epstein
- 25:59Speaker 1: had special snacks on hand because he believed Mr. Romo
- 26:02Speaker 1: was vegetarian, the documents indicate. So Jeffrey Epstein did basic
- 26:07Speaker 1: research on his guests, but the guests didn't do basic
- 26:10Speaker 1: research on their host? That's what you want me to believe? Well,
- 26:13Speaker 1: guess what? I do not. Many of Mr. Ramo's appointments
- 26:17Speaker 1: with Epstein were in the evenings, typically after 5 p.m.
- 26:21Speaker 1: at the townhouse. Mr. Ramo also was invited to a
- 26:24Speaker 1: breakfast at the townhouse in September 2013 with former Israeli
- 26:29Speaker 1: Prime Minister Ehud Barak, another regular guest, the documents show.
- 26:34Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he certainly was. Ehud Barak and Jeffrey Epstein, boys,
- 26:39Speaker 1: they go way back. And now, do you think it's
- 26:41Speaker 1: any coincidence that his daughter, Daphne Brock, gets all of
- 26:45Speaker 1: these exclusives with Ghislaine Maxwell? Yeah, I'm sure that's just
- 26:49Speaker 1: all a coincidence as well. Mr. Romo, who still sits
- 26:53Speaker 1: on the board of FedEx and recently stepped down from
- 26:55Speaker 1: the Starbucks board, didn't respond to requests for comment. A
- 26:59Speaker 1: spokeswoman for Mr. Kissinger said he wasn't aware that Mr.
- 27:02Speaker 1: Romo was meeting with Epstein. Mr. Barack also met with
- 27:06Speaker 1: Epstein in 2015 with Mr. Chomsky, now 94, a linguistics
- 27:11Speaker 1: professor and political activist who has been critical of capitalism
- 27:16Speaker 1: and U.S. foreign policy. Mr. Chomsky said Epstein arranged the
- 27:21Speaker 1: meeting with Mr. Barack for them to discuss Israel's policies
- 27:25Speaker 1: with regard to Palestinian issues and the international arena. Mr.
- 27:30Speaker 1: Brock said he often met with Epstein on trips to
- 27:33Speaker 1: New York and was introduced to people such as Mr.
- 27:35Speaker 1: Rommel and Mr. Chomsky to discuss geopolitics or other topics.
- 27:41Speaker 1: He often brought other interesting persons from art or culture,
- 27:45Speaker 1: law or science, finance, diplomacy, or philanthropy. Mr. Brock said,
- 27:51Speaker 1: I'm sure that's all that was going on. There were
- 27:53Speaker 1: no massages given, right? Nobody got any of those? Oh, okay.
- 27:56Speaker 1: I guess so. Epstein arranged several meetings, in 2015 and
- 28:02Speaker 1: 2016 with Mr. Chomsky while he was a professor at MIT.
- 28:07Speaker 1: When asked about his relationship with Epstein, Mr. Chomsky replied
- 28:11Speaker 1: in an email, first response is that it's none of
- 28:14Speaker 1: your business or anyone's. Second is that I knew him
- 28:18Speaker 1: and we met occasionally. Oh, Noam Chomsky, you're such a
- 28:21Speaker 1: tough guy. You're such a contrarian. What a douche. Way
- 28:25Speaker 1: overrated as a political commentator as well. Now run home
- 28:29Speaker 1: and tell that. In March 2015, Epstein scheduled a gathering
- 28:35Speaker 1: with Mr. Chomsky and Harvard University professor Martin Nowak and
- 28:40Speaker 1: other academics, according to the documents. Mr. Chomsky said they
- 28:45Speaker 1: had several meetings at Mr. Nowak's Research Institute to discuss
- 28:49Speaker 1: neuroscience and other topics. Two months later, Epstein planned to
- 28:53Speaker 1: fly with Mr. Chomsky and his wife, to have dinner
- 28:56Speaker 1: with them and movie director Woody Allen and his wife
- 29:00Speaker 1: Soon-Yi Previn, the documents show. If there was a flight,
- 29:04Speaker 1: which I doubt, it would have been from Boston to
- 29:07Speaker 1: New York 30 minutes, Mr. Chomsky said. I'm unaware of
- 29:10Speaker 1: the principle that requires that I inform you about an
- 29:13Speaker 1: evening spent with a guest artist. You see how closed
- 29:16Speaker 1: he is, how guarded he is about his relationship with Epstein,
- 29:20Speaker 1: and this is how most of them are. Chomsky, like
- 29:23Speaker 1: the rest of them, is a piece of shit. Point blank, period.
- 29:27Speaker 1: Epstein donated at least $ 850, 000 to MIT between 2002 and 2017,
- 29:29Speaker 1: and more than $ 9. 1 million to Harvard from 1998 to 2008.
- 29:39Speaker 1: The schools have said, in 2021, Harvard said it was
- 29:43Speaker 1: sanctioning Mr. Novak for violating university policies in his dealings
- 29:47Speaker 1: with Epstein and was shutting a research center he ran
- 29:51Speaker 1: that Epstein had funded. MIT said it was inappropriate to
- 29:55Speaker 1: accept Epstein's gifts and that it later donated $ 850, 000 to
- 30:01Speaker 1: nonprofits supporting survivors of sexual abuse. In a 2020 interview
- 30:07Speaker 1: with the Dunk Tank podcast, Mr. Chomsky said that people
- 30:11Speaker 1: he considered worse than Epstein had donated to MIT. He
- 30:15Speaker 1: didn't mention any of his meetings with Epstein. Yeah, worse
- 30:18Speaker 1: than Epstein, huh, Noam Chomsky? Like who? Someone who made
- 30:21Speaker 1: a couple of bucks You vile scumbag. Mr. Chomsky told
- 30:25Speaker 1: the Journal that at the time of his meetings, what
- 30:28Speaker 1: was known about Jeffrey Epstein was that he had been
- 30:30Speaker 1: convicted of a crime and served his sentence. According to
- 30:34Speaker 1: the U.S. laws and norms, that yields a clean slate. No,
- 30:37Speaker 1: it doesn't. Where? Maybe in your world. If you're convicted
- 30:41Speaker 1: of molesting girls and raping people and all this other
- 30:43Speaker 1: vile shit, no, you're not forgiven. It's not like you
- 30:46Speaker 1: didn't pay your taxes. It's not like you had a
- 30:49Speaker 1: car accident. And for Chomsky to pitch it like that,
- 30:52Speaker 1: it just shows you the sort of character that this
- 30:55Speaker 1: clown possesses. MIT said lawyers investigating its ties to Epstein
- 31:00Speaker 1: didn't find that Chomsky met with Epstein on its campus
- 31:03Speaker 1: or received funding from him. Harvard declined to comment beyond
- 31:07Speaker 1: the report it published in its Epstein's Ties in 2020. Mr.
- 31:11Speaker 1: Novak has said he regretted his role in fostering a
- 31:14Speaker 1: connection between Epstein and Harvard. He didn't respond to requests
- 31:18Speaker 1: for comment. Mr. Botstein, 76, president of Bard College since 1975,
- 31:25Speaker 1: had about two dozen meetings scheduled with Epstein over about
- 31:28Speaker 1: four years, which were mostly visits to the townhouse. I
- 31:33Speaker 1: was an unsuccessful fundraiser and actually the object of a
- 31:38Speaker 1: little bit of sadism on his part in dangling philanthropic support,
- 31:42Speaker 1: said Mr. Botstein. That was my relationship with him. Mr.
- 31:46Speaker 1: Botstein said that he first visited Epstein's townhouse in 2012
- 31:50Speaker 1: to thank him for unsolicited donations to Bard's high schools.
- 31:55Speaker 1: Then he returned over several years in an attempt to
- 31:58Speaker 1: get more donations. In 2015, Epstein donated 66 laptops the
- 32:02Speaker 1: documents show. And as long as Epstein was able to
- 32:07Speaker 1: provide these scumbags with something, it was okay what he did. Oh,
- 32:10Speaker 1: you have some laptops for me? Cool. I don't care
- 32:12Speaker 1: if you molested anybody. We can still be friends. And
- 32:15Speaker 1: now that they get exposed? Oh, it's a whole different story. Oh,
- 32:18Speaker 1: I didn't really know him. I had no idea what
- 32:21Speaker 1: he was doing. Stop it. You're lying. You knew exactly
- 32:24Speaker 1: what he was doing, and you knew exactly who he was.
- 32:28Speaker 1: We looked him up, and he was a convicted felon
- 32:30Speaker 1: for a sex crime, he said. Bard has a large
- 32:33Speaker 1: program providing education to prisoners. He said, we believe in rehabilitation.
- 32:39Speaker 1: How'd that work out? He got out and continued to rape.
- 32:42Speaker 1: He got out and continued to molest. So was he
- 32:44Speaker 1: really rehabilitated? Or did you and Bard College enable Jeffrey
- 32:49Speaker 1: Epstein to abuse more women? I'll let you toss that
- 32:53Speaker 1: one around in your head for a little while there, Mr. Botstein. Mr. Botstein,
- 32:58Speaker 1: also the longtime music director for the American Symphony Orchestra,
- 33:02Speaker 1: invited Epstein to an opera at Bard in 2013, then
- 33:06Speaker 1: a concert at the college in 2016. The documents indicate
- 33:11Speaker 1: Epstein planned each time to bring some of his young
- 33:14Speaker 1: female assistants and arrive by helicopter. Mr. Botstein said he
- 33:18Speaker 1: was expecting Epstein to support classical music causes and that
- 33:22Speaker 1: the school took precautions when he visited because on his
- 33:26Speaker 1: previous record, We had security ready, he said. He did
- 33:29Speaker 1: not have any free access to anybody. Oh, well, you
- 33:33Speaker 1: did the right thing then, sir. Said nobody ever. The
- 33:36Speaker 1: right thing is not having him on your campus at all.
- 33:41Speaker 1: At Epstein's home, Mr. Botstein was led to a dining
- 33:44Speaker 1: room where they discussed classical music and other causes, he said.
- 33:49Speaker 1: He presented himself as a billionaire, a really, really rich person,
- 33:52Speaker 1: he said. I found him odd and arrogant. And what
- 33:55Speaker 1: I finally came to believe, which is why we stopped
- 33:58Speaker 1: contact with him, is that he was simply stringing us along.
- 34:01Speaker 1: And you notice it's not because he was a sick bastard.
- 34:04Speaker 1: It's because he wasn't giving them any money. That's why
- 34:06Speaker 1: they stopped talking to him. Despite all his meetings, Mr.
- 34:10Speaker 1: Botstein said, Epstein never made another donation to Bard. It
- 34:14Speaker 1: was a blessing in disguise, he said, that we never
- 34:17Speaker 1: got any more money. All right, folks, that's going to
- 34:20Speaker 1: do it for this one. All of the information that
- 34:22Speaker 1: goes with the episode can be found... In the description box.
- 34:27Speaker 1: Spice it. What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the
- 34:30Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. The Wall Street Journal has released part two
- 34:35Speaker 1: of their story that we had covered a couple of
- 34:38Speaker 1: days ago, talking about Jeffrey Epstein's private calendar and some
- 34:43Speaker 1: of the scoundrels that were hanging out with him after
- 34:47Speaker 1: he had already been convicted. Well, all of these people,
- 34:50Speaker 1: if you've been listening to the podcast anyway, are not
- 34:53Speaker 1: new names to you. Every single one of these people
- 34:56Speaker 1: has been discussed and talked about on this podcast throughout
- 34:59Speaker 1: the years. So it's nice to see the legacy media
- 35:03Speaker 1: catching up finally and airing out some of these people.
- 35:06Speaker 1: Because I got to tell you, it's about time. How
- 35:09Speaker 1: long are people like Larry Summers, guys like Woody Allen,
- 35:14Speaker 1: and the rest of them going to get away with
- 35:16Speaker 1: the fact that they were paddling around with Jeffrey Epstein?
- 35:19Speaker 1: 100% without a doubt. And some of them, according to
- 35:23Speaker 1: reports and accusations, were doing a lot more than just
- 35:26Speaker 1: palling around with Jeffrey Epstein. So let's dive into this
- 35:29Speaker 1: article from the Wall Street Journal and let's see what
- 35:33Speaker 1: they have for us in part two. Headline, Jeffrey Epstein
- 35:37Speaker 1: documents part two, dinners with Lauren Summers and movie screenings
- 35:41Speaker 1: with Woody Allen. This article was authored by Khadija Safdar
- 35:46Speaker 1: and David Benoit. Lauren Summers wanted $ 1 million dollars to
- 35:51Speaker 1: fund an online poetry project his wife was developing. The
- 35:55Speaker 1: former treasury secretary and one-time Harvard University president turned to
- 36:00Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein. I'm sure he did. We all know that
- 36:03Speaker 1: Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein were pals, right? So why
- 36:06Speaker 1: wouldn't Larry Summers, another pal of Bill Clinton's, be part
- 36:10Speaker 1: of the mix? And that's why I find it laughable
- 36:12Speaker 1: when people are out here going absolutely bananas about a
- 36:16Speaker 1: guy like Alexander Acosta, who was obviously a middleman, But yet,
- 36:21Speaker 1: at the same time, they have nothing to say about
- 36:23Speaker 1: the obvious connections with the Clintons and with Jeffrey Epstein.
- 36:28Speaker 1: Ghislaine Maxwell at Chelsea's wedding. Hillary Clinton getting Alexander De Rossi,
- 36:34Speaker 1: who is Ghislaine Maxwell's nephew, a job at the State Department.
- 36:38Speaker 1: all the money ponied up for the Clinton Global Initiative,
- 36:41Speaker 1: all the trips to Zorro Ranch, the picture of Bill
- 36:43Speaker 1: Clinton getting a massage in an airport from a trafficked victim,
- 36:48Speaker 1: you would think that the legacy media would be all
- 36:50Speaker 1: over this. But they're not. So ask yourselves, why aren't
- 36:54Speaker 1: they more interested in what Bill Clinton was doing with
- 36:57Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein? I need small-scale philanthropy advice. My life will
- 37:02Speaker 1: be better if I raise $ 1 million for Lisa. Mr.
- 37:05Speaker 1: Summers said in an email to Epstein, In April of 2014,
- 37:09Speaker 1: referring to his wife, Elisa, knew a Harvard professor. Mostly,
- 37:14Speaker 1: it will go to make a PBS series and for
- 37:17Speaker 1: teacher training. Ideas? Of course, let's call the cash cow,
- 37:21Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein, who's going to use these ill-gotten gains to
- 37:25Speaker 1: fund our projects. So basically, all of these projects that
- 37:28Speaker 1: he was funding, all this money that he was turning
- 37:31Speaker 1: over to these people... all came from ill-gotten gains. Do
- 37:34Speaker 1: you really think this guy was making his money legally?
- 37:37Speaker 1: Come on, we all know better than that. Epstein replied
- 37:41Speaker 1: that they could meet in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mr. Summers invited
- 37:45Speaker 1: him to dinner, according to a trove of documents reviewed
- 37:48Speaker 1: by the Wall Street Journal. Two days later, they made
- 37:52Speaker 1: plans to meet at The Fireplace, a cozy restaurant in
- 37:55Speaker 1: nearby Brookline, one of several meetings the two men scheduled
- 37:59Speaker 1: that year. In 2016, a non-profit linked to Epstein donated $ 110, 000
- 38:05Speaker 1: to Miss News non-profit, which develops video content about poetry
- 38:10Speaker 1: according to tax records. You couldn't find anybody else to
- 38:13Speaker 1: donate to your wife's poetry project besides Jeffrey Epstein? And then,
- 38:18Speaker 1: now that it's aired out and the rest of the
- 38:20Speaker 1: world knows what all of us knew already, it'll be
- 38:23Speaker 1: the same old tired-ass excuse. I had no idea what
- 38:26Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein was or what he was doing. And I've
- 38:29Speaker 1: had my fill of that shit, I'll tell you what.
- 38:31Speaker 1: All of these knuckleheads that were benefiting from their relationship
- 38:34Speaker 1: with this guy for all of these years now have
- 38:37Speaker 1: some nerve to try and get up there and tell
- 38:40Speaker 1: us they had no idea who he was. Oh, I
- 38:42Speaker 1: didn't know he was arrested or that he was messing
- 38:45Speaker 1: around with minors. How don't you know that? You're the
- 38:48Speaker 1: head of the CIA. It was your operation. Don't tell
- 38:51Speaker 1: me you don't know who Epstein was, Mr. Burns. The
- 38:55Speaker 1: documents reviewed by the journal, which include thousands of pages
- 38:58Speaker 1: of emails and schedules from 2013 to 2017, provide new
- 39:04Speaker 1: details about the nature and frequency of Epstein's contacts with
- 39:07Speaker 1: an array of powerful people, long after he was a
- 39:10Speaker 1: registered sex offender. He had pleaded guilty in 2008 to
- 39:15Speaker 1: soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution. Mr. Summers deeply
- 39:19Speaker 1: regrets being in contact with Epstein after his conviction, and
- 39:24Speaker 1: Miss News nonprofit regrets accepting funding from Epstein, said a
- 39:28Speaker 1: spokeswoman for the couple. Miss News nonprofit later made a
- 39:31Speaker 1: contribution exceeding the amount received to a group working against
- 39:35Speaker 1: sex trafficking, the spokeswoman said, like that makes it all better. great,
- 39:40Speaker 1: you donated money to a group that works against human trafficking.
- 39:44Speaker 1: Does that make better the fact that your husband was
- 39:47Speaker 1: palling around and enabling Jeffrey Epstein? No, it does not.
- 39:51Speaker 1: So I don't even want to hear the nonsense about, oh, well,
- 39:54Speaker 1: we donated the money after we accepted it. Well, why'd
- 39:58Speaker 1: you accept it in the first place? Many of the
- 40:01Speaker 1: people or institutions named in the documents were previously known
- 40:05Speaker 1: to have associated with Epstein. Some of the documents show
- 40:08Speaker 1: that their disclosures about contacts with Epstein were incomplete. Other
- 40:13Speaker 1: documents provide new details about how often or where the
- 40:17Speaker 1: people met with Epstein and the kinds of favors he
- 40:20Speaker 1: did for them. The documents don't reveal purpose of most
- 40:24Speaker 1: of the meetings. The journal couldn't verify whether every scheduled
- 40:27Speaker 1: meeting took place. Many of the people told the journal
- 40:30Speaker 1: they met with Epstein for reasons related to his wealth
- 40:34Speaker 1: and connections. Like that excuses it. Like Epstein was the
- 40:37Speaker 1: only rich guy in New York. New York is littered
- 40:40Speaker 1: with rich douchebags. So why are you going to Jeffrey
- 40:43Speaker 1: Epstein for funding when you already have more money than
- 40:46Speaker 1: you know what to do with? Does anyone really believe
- 40:48Speaker 1: that Bill Gates was looking for donations from Jeffrey Epstein?
- 40:52Speaker 1: I mean, come on. Among the new details, Mr. Hoffman
- 40:57Speaker 1: said he met with Epstein to raise funds for MIT
- 41:01Speaker 1: and that he regrets interacting with Epstein after his conviction. Mr.
- 41:05Speaker 1: Allen's spokeswoman said the filmmaker went with his wife to
- 41:08Speaker 1: a group social events at Epstein's townhouse. Mr. Black declined
- 41:12Speaker 1: to comment. He stepped down after an Apollo investigation found
- 41:16Speaker 1: he paid Epstein for planning and tax estate advice. And
- 41:20Speaker 1: as far as Reid Hoffman goes, how much money did
- 41:23Speaker 1: Reid Hoffman donate to President Biden? Oh, yeah, that's right.
- 41:27Speaker 1: A whole hell of a lot. Mr. Barack said he
- 41:30Speaker 1: often visited Epstein when he traveled to New York. He
- 41:33Speaker 1: said he met interesting people at Epstein's townhouse, where they
- 41:37Speaker 1: would discuss politics and other topics. In retrospect, Epstein seems
- 41:41Speaker 1: to be a terrible version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,
- 41:45Speaker 1: but at the time seemed to be an intelligent person,
- 41:48Speaker 1: socially well-connected, and a wide area of interest, from science
- 41:53Speaker 1: to geopolitics, Mr. Barack said. He said that he never
- 41:57Speaker 1: participated in any parties or activities with girls or women. Well,
- 42:02Speaker 1: there sure were women at Epstein's townhouse while Mr. Barak
- 42:06Speaker 1: was there visiting. We have photo documented proof of that.
- 42:10Speaker 1: And we also know that Epstein funded the company Carbine
- 42:13Speaker 1: 911 that was founded or run or whatever by Ehud Barak.
- 42:18Speaker 1: And there's no doubt about the friendship he had with Epstein.
- 42:22Speaker 1: The documents show that the disgraced financier pedophile kept a
- 42:25Speaker 1: busy schedule, filling his days with meetings with politicians, executives,
- 42:30Speaker 1: and celebrities, including at his New York townhouse and his
- 42:34Speaker 1: residence in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Prosecutors alleged in 2019
- 42:39Speaker 1: that Epstein had abused girls and had run a sex
- 42:42Speaker 1: trafficking ring. He died that year in jail, awaiting trial
- 42:46Speaker 1: in what the New York City medical examiner said was
- 42:49Speaker 1: a suicide. Allegedly. Barnaby Marsh, then an executive at the
- 42:53Speaker 1: large charitable fund John Templeton Foundation, met with Epstein roughly
- 42:58Speaker 1: two dozen times, often for breakfast at the townhouse, the
- 43:02Speaker 1: documents show. He was previously known to have met with Epstein,
- 43:05Speaker 1: but not to that extent. Mr. Marsh, who advises wealthy
- 43:09Speaker 1: people on philanthropy, said he went to Epstein's townhouse for
- 43:13Speaker 1: gatherings because it was full of billionaires and academics who
- 43:17Speaker 1: had many of the same interests in charitable giving. Mr.
- 43:21Speaker 1: Marsh said Epstein openly discussed his jail time. So openly
- 43:24Speaker 1: discussing his jail time and all of these billionaires, millionaires
- 43:28Speaker 1: and the rest of them were hanging out there, lapping
- 43:31Speaker 1: it up, loving it. And the only reason any of
- 43:34Speaker 1: them regret even one minute of it is because they've
- 43:37Speaker 1: been exposed for the scoundrels they are. So many of
- 43:41Speaker 1: these billionaires knew him. Mr. Marsh said nobody ever said
- 43:44Speaker 1: watch out for him. He said Epstein. convened people, including
- 43:48Speaker 1: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, to try to solve problems facing
- 43:52Speaker 1: rich donors, such as how to make large gifts. Epstein
- 43:56Speaker 1: told Mr. Marsh that Epstein was managing money for Mr. Gates. Mr.
- 44:00Speaker 1: Marsh said, what that means is tax evasion. How do
- 44:03Speaker 1: I hide this money so I don't have to pay
- 44:05Speaker 1: the same taxes that the rest of you do, even
- 44:08Speaker 1: though I have enough money that me and my family
- 44:10Speaker 1: for a million generations won't be able to spend? I
- 44:15Speaker 1: had high hopes that he would follow the paths of
- 44:17Speaker 1: others who use their second chance to make a positive
- 44:20Speaker 1: impact in the world, Mr. Marsh said. In the end,
- 44:23Speaker 1: he disappointed me. Breaking news, Mr. Marsh, okay? People like
- 44:27Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein don't get rehabilitated. When you're abusing children, when
- 44:32Speaker 1: you're raping women, that doesn't just go away. That's who
- 44:36Speaker 1: you are. That's ingrained into you. You're wired wrong. You
- 44:39Speaker 1: came off the line at the factory fucked up. That's
- 44:43Speaker 1: what it means, okay? So there's no rehabilitating somebody like
- 44:46Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein. But all of these smartest people in the room, well,
- 44:50Speaker 1: they'll tell you something different. Epstein misrepresented his relationship with Mr.
- 44:55Speaker 1: Gates and didn't manage money for him, said a spokeswoman
- 44:59Speaker 1: for Mr. Gates. Mr. Gates has said they met for
- 45:02Speaker 1: philanthropic reasons. Imagine being Bill Gates and grifting to a
- 45:06Speaker 1: guy like Epstein, showing up cup in hand, asking for
- 45:09Speaker 1: a couple of bucks. I don't buy it. That's the
- 45:12Speaker 1: only rich person you knew. How about some of these
- 45:15Speaker 1: owners for some of these sports teams or something like that?
- 45:17Speaker 1: You go to Jeffrey Epstein, huh? I'm sure that was
- 45:20Speaker 1: the only reason. Only because you were looking for some
- 45:23Speaker 1: charitable handouts, Bill Gates, Mr. Richest Guy in the World.
- 45:28Speaker 1: As Bill has said many times before, it was a
- 45:30Speaker 1: mistake to have ever met him, and he deeply regrets it,
- 45:33Speaker 1: the spokeswoman said. The documents reveal how Epstein's friends sustained
- 45:38Speaker 1: a relationship after his conviction in ways that were mutually beneficial.
- 45:43Speaker 1: Epstein received help to repair his reputation and his friends, well,
- 45:47Speaker 1: they received favors. Dr. Eva Anderson Dubin, a longtime friend
- 45:52Speaker 1: and the wife of hedge fund billionaire Glenn Dubin, invited
- 45:56Speaker 1: Epstein to charity events to which he contributed. In the
- 46:00Speaker 1: summer of 2015, Epstein sent Dr. Anderson Dubin a funny
- 46:04Speaker 1: story about checking into a California hotel with a young woman.
- 46:09Speaker 1: I went to park the car. And the bellman said
- 46:11Speaker 1: to Carnia, is that your father? Epstein, then 62, wrote
- 46:15Speaker 1: in an email referring to his female companion, then in
- 46:19Speaker 1: her 20s. Dr. Anderson Dubin wrote back, Glenn laughed so hard.
- 46:25Speaker 1: I wonder if he'd laugh as hard if he had
- 46:26Speaker 1: to sit down for a deposition and tell the truth
- 46:29Speaker 1: under oath. I highly doubt it would be a comical
- 46:32Speaker 1: situation then. In 2019, when Epstein was charged with sex trafficking...
- 46:38Speaker 1: The Dubins told the Journal through a spokesman that they
- 46:40Speaker 1: were horrified and that they had continued their friendship after
- 46:44Speaker 1: his 2008 guilty plea because they believed he had been
- 46:47Speaker 1: rehabilitated himself. So that's the going excuse, right, for all
- 46:51Speaker 1: of these elites. Oh, he was rehabilitated. We believe in rehabilitation. Meanwhile,
- 46:57Speaker 1: all of these jerk off zone companies and people who
- 46:59Speaker 1: have felonies go and try and get a job at
- 47:02Speaker 1: Glenn Dubin's. hedge fund. Go and try and get a
- 47:04Speaker 1: job from Larry Summers. Go and try and get a
- 47:07Speaker 1: job from any of these people with a felony on
- 47:09Speaker 1: your record. I mean, this shit might work on other people,
- 47:12Speaker 1: but those of us who have been following along, we
- 47:15Speaker 1: all know better. And the gaslighting, the misdirection, and the
- 47:18Speaker 1: rest of it is not going to work. Dr. Anderson Dubin,
- 47:23Speaker 1: a physician and former Miss Sweden, has said she dated
- 47:26Speaker 1: Epstein in the 1980s. Epstein connected Mr. Dubin to JPMorgan Chase,
- 47:31Speaker 1: which bought control of the hedge fund Highbridge Capital Management
- 47:35Speaker 1: in 2004 for more than $ 1 billion. Epstein earned a
- 47:39Speaker 1: fee for this transaction, the journal has reported. Yeah, he
- 47:43Speaker 1: got his middleman fee. That's what he did. He would
- 47:45Speaker 1: get in there, become the middleman, set the transaction up,
- 47:49Speaker 1: then take a few bucks off the top. The documents
- 47:52Speaker 1: also reveal Epstein offering to help to one of the
- 47:56Speaker 1: Dubin's daughters, as he did for the children of other contacts.
- 48:00Speaker 1: In 2012, Epstein emailed the Dubin's daughter that he would
- 48:04Speaker 1: arrange modeling jobs for her with apparel brands. In 2014,
- 48:08Speaker 1: he scheduled a meeting between her and a professor at
- 48:11Speaker 1: Harvard where she was a student, the document shows. Must
- 48:15Speaker 1: be nice to have Uncle Jeffy show up for the save, huh?
- 48:19Speaker 1: A spokeswoman for the Dubins said Epstein didn't make any
- 48:23Speaker 1: introductions for modeling jobs for their daughter. The spokeswoman reaffirmed
- 48:27Speaker 1: the Dubin's 2019 statement, which also said they had been
- 48:31Speaker 1: aware of the vile and unspeakable conduct described in these
- 48:35Speaker 1: new allegations, they would have cut off all ties long
- 48:38Speaker 1: ago and certainly never allowed him to be in the
- 48:42Speaker 1: presence of their children. I don't believe it for a second.
- 48:46Speaker 1: Uncle Jeffy was invited over for Thanksgiving dinner right after
- 48:50Speaker 1: he got out of jail. What are you talking about?
- 48:53Speaker 1: Epstein donated millions of dollars to Harvard during Mr. Summers'
- 48:56Speaker 1: tenure as the university's president from 2001 to 2006. Harvard
- 49:02Speaker 1: has said it decided to reject donations from Epstein after
- 49:06Speaker 1: his 2008 guilty plea in Florida. Mr. Summers, who remains
- 49:10Speaker 1: a Harvard professor, had more than a dozen meetings scheduled
- 49:13Speaker 1: with Epstein from 2013 through 2016, including several dinners the
- 49:16Speaker 1: document showcased. Mr. Summers didn't solicit donations for Harvard for
- 49:24Speaker 1: Epstein after his conviction and didn't personally receive money from him,
- 49:28Speaker 1: his spokeswoman said. Their interactions primarily focused on global economic issues,
- 49:33Speaker 1: she said. So the renowned economist, Larry Summers, has to
- 49:38Speaker 1: sit down with brain-dead Jeffrey Epstein and talk about political
- 49:42Speaker 1: issues and economic issues that are globally based? Okay, sure.
- 49:47Speaker 1: I guess I'm going to go and talk to the
- 49:48Speaker 1: plumber about radiology next. But he did solicit donations for Ms. New,
- 49:54Speaker 1: his wife. In 2014, Ms. New, a professor of English,
- 49:59Speaker 1: was hoping to expand the general public of her Harvard
- 50:02Speaker 1: coursework about poetry. She established the nonprofit that received the
- 50:06Speaker 1: Epstein donation and later created a public television series, the
- 50:10Speaker 1: spokeswoman said. Mr. Marsh said Epstein asked him multiple times
- 50:15Speaker 1: if the Templeton Foundation could donate to Miss New's poetry project.
- 50:20Speaker 1: Templeton didn't donate to the project, he said. Harvard declined
- 50:24Speaker 1: to comment beyond its 2020 report on its ties with Epstein.
- 50:28Speaker 1: which found he donated $ 9. 1 million before 2008 and had
- 50:33Speaker 1: visited the campus dozens of times after his conviction. He
- 50:37Speaker 1: also had an office there, okay? Let's be very clear.
- 50:40Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein was the patron saint of Harvard. Epstein was
- 50:45Speaker 1: known to have friendly relations with Mr. Allen. The documents
- 50:49Speaker 1: reveal new details about some of their activities and how
- 50:52Speaker 1: often they met. They were scheduled to get together nearly
- 50:55Speaker 1: every month in 2014 and 2015. In November 2012, an
- 51:01Speaker 1: assistant to Mr. Allen sent one of Epstein's assistants a note.
- 51:05Speaker 1: Woody was wondering if Jeffrey would be interested in watching
- 51:09Speaker 1: his new film either today or tomorrow. Epstein said he
- 51:12Speaker 1: was available. Epstein said Mr. Allen... Also planned visits to
- 51:17Speaker 1: the studio of artist Jeff Koons in 2013 and to
- 51:21Speaker 1: the South Bees Auction House in 2017. The documents show Mr.
- 51:26Speaker 1: Koons didn't respond to requests for comment. And the art house.
- 51:30Speaker 1: We know that they use high-end art as a way
- 51:33Speaker 1: to launder money. It's one of the most foolproof ways
- 51:36Speaker 1: to hide your money. And the value doesn't depreciate in
- 51:40Speaker 1: these pieces of art. You buy yourself a Picasso, something
- 51:43Speaker 1: like that. It's only going to go up. So they'll
- 51:45Speaker 1: buy this art because the reporting practices are lax, to
- 51:50Speaker 1: say the least. And then from there, they'll use it
- 51:53Speaker 1: as a way to launder their money, just like with
- 51:56Speaker 1: high-end real estate. Epstein arranged for Mr. Allen to join
- 52:00Speaker 1: dozens of dinners at Epstein's townhouse. Mr. Allen went with
- 52:04Speaker 1: his wife, Ms. Previn. Epstein's staff sometimes ordered Mr. Allen's
- 52:08Speaker 1: flourless chocolate cakes and bottles of Beck's beer. The documents show,
- 52:13Speaker 1: Woody and Soon-Yi lived in the same neighborhood as Epstein
- 52:17Speaker 1: and were frequently invited to dinner parties at his townhouse,
- 52:20Speaker 1: said a spokeswoman for the couple. There were always other
- 52:24Speaker 1: guests at those gatherings, like that's some kind of confidence builder,
- 52:28Speaker 1: like you all weren't there being degenerate. In October 2014,
- 52:33Speaker 1: Epstein planned for Mr. Allen to give lessons on film
- 52:37Speaker 1: editing at his townhouse to a group of guests watching
- 52:40Speaker 1: Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, the document show On the guest list
- 52:44Speaker 1: in the 2014 film session with Mr. Allen, the documents
- 52:48Speaker 1: show where Terry Rod Larson, a Norwegian diplomat who helped
- 52:52Speaker 1: negotiate the Oslo Accords in the 1990s. I've talked about
- 52:55Speaker 1: this before several times. The IPI Foundation, the International Peace Institute,
- 53:01Speaker 1: the UN, and Larson here were all in bed with
- 53:05Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein, never mind the CFR. The documents reveal... Epstein
- 53:10Speaker 1: also made plans for Rod Larson to visit his private
- 53:13Speaker 1: island in 2012. The diplomat came so frequently to Epstein's
- 53:18Speaker 1: townhouse dozens of times from 2013 to 2017 that the
- 53:23Speaker 1: staff knew to have cucumbers on hand for his gin,
- 53:26Speaker 1: the documents show. But I really don't know Jeffrey Epstein.
- 53:30Speaker 1: I've never been there for anything but business, and I
- 53:33Speaker 1: have no idea what you're talking about. Meanwhile, a whole
- 53:36Speaker 1: different story is being played out right in front of
- 53:39Speaker 1: us And I don't understand how people aren't paying attention
- 53:43Speaker 1: to just how deep all of this goes. You take
- 53:46Speaker 1: a look at the players on this stage, and it
- 53:50Speaker 1: is a who's who of the elite, of the power
- 53:53Speaker 1: brokers around the world, not just in America, but worldwide.
- 53:57Speaker 1: And all of them were palling around with this scumbag,
- 54:00Speaker 1: even though they knew what he was. Mr. Rod Larsen
- 54:04Speaker 1: resigned in 2020 as president of the International Peace Institute.
- 54:09Speaker 1: after Norwegian newspaper DN reported he visited the townhouse frequently,
- 54:14Speaker 1: had received a $ 130, 000 personal loan from Epstein, and had
- 54:18Speaker 1: accepted about $ 650, 000 in donations from Epstein's foundations for the nonprofit.
- 54:25Speaker 1: The IPI said in 2020 that it was unaware of
- 54:28Speaker 1: the donations and the loan, and that Mr. Rod Larson
- 54:31Speaker 1: had apologized for his failed judgment. Oh, well, it's all
- 54:35Speaker 1: forgiven then, right? He apologized. Let's just move on, folks.
- 54:39Speaker 1: Let's not talk about Mr. Rod Larson, the UN, or
- 54:42Speaker 1: the IPI anymore. After Epstein was arrested in 2019, photos
- 54:48Speaker 1: were published in newspapers showing Mr. Barak, the Israeli politician,
- 54:53Speaker 1: entering Epstein's townhouse in 2016. The documents provide new details
- 54:58Speaker 1: about his scheduled meetings. They show that between 2013 and 2017,
- 55:02Speaker 1: Epstein planned at least three dozen meetings with Mr. Barak.
- 55:08Speaker 1: They had appointments every month for 11 consecutive months, starting
- 55:12Speaker 1: in December 2015, the documents show. And remember, it's his daughter,
- 55:17Speaker 1: Ehud Barak's daughter, Daphne Barak, who gets all of those
- 55:20Speaker 1: interviews with Ghislaine Maxwell. Oh, I wonder why that happens. Mr.
- 55:25Speaker 1: Barak told the Journal he was introduced to Epstein in
- 55:28Speaker 1: 2003 by Shimon Peres, another former prime minister of Israel,
- 55:32Speaker 1: at a social event with U.S. dignitaries, and that he
- 55:35Speaker 1: would regularly visit Epstein when he traveled to New York.
- 55:39Speaker 1: Quite often, I came to the townhouse with my wife, Mr.
- 55:42Speaker 1: Barak said. Mr. Peres died in 2016. Oh, I love
- 55:46Speaker 1: these ones too, right? Oh, I was there with my wife.
- 55:49Speaker 1: I only went to Epstein's while I was with my wife. Okay, sure, buddy.
- 55:52Speaker 1: We believe you. Mr. Barak also took flights on Epstein's
- 55:57Speaker 1: private jet, the documents show. In January 2014, he met
- 56:01Speaker 1: Epstein at his Palm Beach mansion, and then they flew
- 56:04Speaker 1: together to Tampa, where Epstein dropped them off and continued
- 56:08Speaker 1: on to New York. I flew only twice on his airplane,
- 56:12Speaker 1: together with my wife and an Israeli security detail, Mr.
- 56:16Speaker 1: Barak said. He said he remembers the trip in Florida
- 56:20Speaker 1: was to visit a U.S. military installation in Tampa. Why
- 56:24Speaker 1: is Epstein getting access to military installations in Tampa? Anybody
- 56:28Speaker 1: ever want to ask that question? I never participated in
- 56:32Speaker 1: any party or any other improper event around Epstein and
- 56:36Speaker 1: never met him with girls or minors or even adult
- 56:39Speaker 1: women in improper context or behavior. Mr. Brock said, Okay, sure,
- 56:44Speaker 1: we believe you, even though we've seen the photos of
- 56:47Speaker 1: you going into this house with a bunch of young girls. Mr.
- 56:52Speaker 1: Hoffman said, The LinkedIn co-founder has apologized for his interactions
- 56:56Speaker 1: with Epstein, including inviting him to a 2015 to a
- 57:00Speaker 1: dinner in Palo Alto with Silicon Valley leaders. After Epstein
- 57:04Speaker 1: was arrested in 2019, Mr. Hoffman said he had met
- 57:08Speaker 1: with him to help raise funds for MIT at the
- 57:11Speaker 1: request of then-director of MIT's Media Lab, Joy Ito. The
- 57:16Speaker 1: documents reveal that Epstein had plans for Mr. Hoffman and Mr.
- 57:20Speaker 1: Ito to visit his private island in March 2014 and
- 57:24Speaker 1: November 2014. On the second date, Epstein planned to travel
- 57:29Speaker 1: with both men from Palm Beach to the island for
- 57:31Speaker 1: a weekend and then fly together to Boston. When the
- 57:35Speaker 1: venture capitalist had a flight scheduled to land late at
- 57:37Speaker 1: night in New York on December 4, 2014, Epstein arranged
- 57:40Speaker 1: for Mr. Hoffman to stay overnight in his townhouse, the
- 57:45Speaker 1: documents show. The following morning, Mr. Hoffman was scheduled to
- 57:50Speaker 1: attend a breakfast party with Epstein, Mr. Gates, and others,
- 57:54Speaker 1: according to documents. And this is the man who bundled
- 57:57Speaker 1: a bunch of dough for President Biden. And this is
- 57:59Speaker 1: what I mean about the financial sector. These dudes are
- 58:03Speaker 1: so corrupt, they're so in bed with people like Epstein,
- 58:06Speaker 1: that it's not even funny. And then they go on
- 58:09Speaker 1: to have a huge impact on our elections by being
- 58:12Speaker 1: bag men for potential presidents. What, you think Reid Hoffman
- 58:16Speaker 1: doesn't have a seat at the table if he wants
- 58:19Speaker 1: one when Joe Biden's having a meeting? With all the
- 58:21Speaker 1: money that was donated by Reid Hoffman, if you think
- 58:24Speaker 1: that he can't call the White House whenever he wants,
- 58:27Speaker 1: you're crazy. That's what that money buys you, access. And
- 58:30Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein was a master at that. He knew that
- 58:34Speaker 1: he could get into those halls of power. He knew
- 58:36Speaker 1: that he could hang with the so-called elite. He just
- 58:39Speaker 1: had to offer them what they wanted. And what did
- 58:42Speaker 1: the elite always want, folks? What do they never have
- 58:44Speaker 1: enough of? That's right, money and power. And Epstein was
- 58:48Speaker 1: offering both in spades. Mr. Hoffman told the Journal he
- 58:53Speaker 1: only visited Epstein's Island residence, Little St. James, for an
- 58:57Speaker 1: MIT fundraising trip with Mr. Ito. He said he regrets
- 59:01Speaker 1: ever meeting with Epstein and his last interaction with him
- 59:03Speaker 1: was in 2015. It gnaws at me that, by lending
- 59:07Speaker 1: my association, I helped his reputation. and thus delayed justice
- 59:12Speaker 1: for his survivors, Mr. Hoffman said in an email. He
- 59:15Speaker 1: said he met with Epstein to discuss science projects at universities.
- 59:19Speaker 1: While I relied on MIT's endorsement, ultimately, I made the mistake,
- 59:23Speaker 1: he said, and I'm sorry for my personal misjudgment. Well,
- 59:26Speaker 1: at least this guy's owning up to it a little bit,
- 59:29Speaker 1: but still, The fact remains, this dude was around Epstein's
- 59:33Speaker 1: house all the time, and there's no way that you're
- 59:35Speaker 1: going to convince me that you never saw anything improper.
- 59:39Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Mr. Ito said in an email, Reed attended
- 59:43Speaker 1: a few fundraising events at my request, including one trip
- 59:47Speaker 1: to Little St. James, after I confirmed to Reed that Mr.
- 59:50Speaker 1: Epstein had been an approved donor target for MIT in
- 59:54Speaker 1: accordance with university rules and regulations. After Epstein's arrest in 2019, Mr.
- 1:00:01Speaker 1: Ito resigned from the MIT Media Lab and apologized for
- 1:00:05Speaker 1: accepting funding from Epstein. MIT said at the time that
- 1:00:09Speaker 1: it was a mistake to accept Epstein's gifts. The school
- 1:00:12Speaker 1: later said it donated $ 850, 000 to nonprofits supporting survivors of
- 1:00:19Speaker 1: sexual abuse. Well, folks, as you can see from this article,
- 1:00:22Speaker 1: all of these names that have been associated with Epstein
- 1:00:26Speaker 1: that have been rumors, well, now that's all confirmed for
- 1:00:30Speaker 1: the regular folk out there that might have needed a
- 1:00:33Speaker 1: little push in that direction. But for the rest of
- 1:00:35Speaker 1: us who have known these names forever, who have known
- 1:00:38Speaker 1: what they've been up to forever, look, the dance goes on, folks.
- 1:00:42Speaker 1: And while I'm not naive enough to think that we're
- 1:00:44Speaker 1: ever going to have real justice here, you better believe
- 1:00:47Speaker 1: your boy and his beard are going to continue screaming
- 1:00:50Speaker 1: into the wind from the mountaintops. All of the information
- 1:00:54Speaker 1: that goes with this episode can be found in the
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