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DOJ Refuses to Release More Epstein Files After Court Order (7/3/26) · 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. Over the past couple of months, there has
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  been a lawsuit brewing behind the scenes between journalists Kadi
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  Fang and the Department of Justice. Well, on Thursday, the
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  DOJ was supposed to turn over files according to an
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  order from a judge. Well, I know this is going
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  to be the most shocking news of the day, but
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  the DOJ is not in compliance once again, and they're
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  refusing to turn over these documents and they're now asking
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  for a delay of sixty days because they haven't had
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  long enough. Meanwhile, these imbeciles have had over four decades,
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  but sure not enough time to get our story straight.
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  Todd Blanche is managing an ongoing cover up and he
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  needs to be held accountable. Congress needs to do their
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  job and make sure that Todd Blanche is never the
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  Attorney General. Now he might be the sitting Attorney General,
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  but he should never be confirmed. And anybody that votes
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  to confirm him is basically giving the stamp of approval
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  to the DOJ and their handling of what happened with Epstein.
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  So if that's what these Congressmen and senators want to do, cool,
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  go for it. But I hope that everybody remembers that
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  when it comes time to vote, because really, that's the
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  only power we have. All these incumbents that are in office,
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  that are making all these terrible decisions, the only thing
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  they fear is losing their seat. So we should make
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  that a reality. Every person who's made light of this,
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  every person who's called it a hoax, every person who's
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  tried to ignore it, every last one of those people
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  should be voted out. Unfortunately, we know that's not going
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  to happen, and that's because nobody wants to hold their
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  quote unquote favorite politicians accountable. It's always the other team,
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  the other side. Well what about no, not what about
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  let's talk about right now. Let's talk about who's in
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  charge right now. Let's talk about who's making the decisions
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  right now. Just like four years ago, I was saying
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  the same shit about Merrick Garland and Uncle Junior Soprano Biden,
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  And if you recall, I was telling you that he
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  had cognitive decline years ago, and I was taking pushback
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  for it. What are you defending Donald Trump? And then
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  the next email, why are you talking about Joe Biden?
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  He isn't in mental decline. He's perfectly healthy, making great decisions. Meanwhile,
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  Uncle Pudding Brain was literally zombified. That has nothing to
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  do with left or right. It has to do with
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  the fact that the leader of the country, the leader
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  of the free world, doesn't even know what time it is.
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  That was a pretty big problem. And then, of course
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  Merrick Garland, another person that I criticized on a regular
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  basis for not going after Jeffrey Epstein's empire. But that's
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  in the past. That's all happened previously. What's happening now
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  is what I'm concerned with, and that's the cover up
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  that's being led by Todd Blanche. So today we have
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  an article from ABC News and the headline the DOJ
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  declines to turn over additional Epstein files, says redactions were appropriate.
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  This article was authored by Peter Charlembeau and James Hill.
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  Don't you think that if there was nothing there to hide,
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  they just turn them all over and get this behind them.
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  What are they so scared of? What are they so
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  worried about? The Department of Justice on Thursday declined to
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  turn over additional information from the Epstein files as ordered
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  by a judge, arguing that the materials include sensitive victim
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  information or were appropriately redacted as required by law. Well,
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  that's not up to you at this point. Nobody believes you,
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  nobody trusts you, and I'm still wondering why nobody is
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  calling for a special counsel. I guess everybody's too worried
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  about their salacious engagement. Oh no, or he's waning. Interest
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  is falling off. I better talk about the most wild
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  shit I possibly can. Who gives a shit if there's
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  any truth to it? Yet? The story's living right here
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  in this decision being made by the DOJ. And don't
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  you find it disturbing that the DOJ can just ignore
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  a court order like this and do whatever they want.
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  I guarantee you that you wouldn't be given the same
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  kind of leeway hours ahead of the deadline to turn
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  over the material or explain why they were properly withheld.
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  Associate US Attorney General Stanley Woodward asked the judge to
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  delay the deadline by sixty days or disregard it entirely
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  by accepting the DOJ's reasons for withholding the material. And
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  this is how our circular system works. I'm sure the
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  judge is going to give them what they want, because
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  that's how it always works. For whatever reason, the court
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  still wants to give these people over the DOJ the
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  benefit of the doubt when they've been in non compliance
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  of this law from the very beginning. Although the government
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  strongly disagrees with the court's ruling that the Epstein Files
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  Transparency Act is enforceable by private parties through the Administrative
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  Procedure Act, the government welcomes this opportunity to resolve any
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  confusion regarding the records at issue in this case. Woodward wrote, Oh, well,
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  in that case, the government can't wait to explain themselves,
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  So do it. What are you waiting for? Why don't
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  you just explain yourself right now? Why don't you just
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  come clean, turn over all the files you have and
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  explain why things were adacted. That might be a good idea,
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  or you can just continue with your bullshit and keep
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  digging that hole deeper. According to Woodward, some emails in question,
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  which had their senders and recipients concealed, were redacted to
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  protect the names of victims. Oh now they care about that, huh.
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  All of a sudden, they care about protecting the names
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  of victims. Meanwhile, back in reality. For one of the emails,
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  Woodward claimed that some of the information was withheld because
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  many communications written by victims without context can appear disturbing
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  on their face. Well, that's not up to you to decide.
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  The American people should have a look at it. We
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  should be able to take a look at all the
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  information in its entirety as the law demands. But instead
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  they're a cherry picking, they're gatekeeping. Woodward also claimed that
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  the redactions to a draft two thousand and seven indictment
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  from the Southern District of Florida were present in the
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  original file obtained by the Department of Justice, and that
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  they have been unable to locate an unredacted version of
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  this specific photocopy. They refuse to put that out. That
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  was the original indictment that they were going to hit
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  Epstein with, and then they pulled back and went with
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  the state prosecution, and all of that was controlled by
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  Main Justice, And that's why they don't want this to
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  come out. One of the biggest things they're hiding the
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  fact that the United States government, the Department of Justice,
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  knowingly and in coordination with Jeffrey Epstein and his people
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  decided that they were going to kick this down to
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  state so that Epstein can continue to do whatever he
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  was doing for the federal government. It's really not that
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  difficult once you start putting the pieces together. Regarding the
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  interview notes from a woman who made it unsubstantiated assault
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  claims about President Donald Trump, Woodward claim that the material
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  were deemed duplicative of the typewritten reports memorializing the interviews.
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  So release it. What's the big deal If it's duplicative,
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  that should be very simple. All right, Look, I told
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  you that this was duplicative. Here it is. Take a
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  look at it. But no, we're going to keep it hidden.
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  You don't deserve to see that. Who cares what the
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  law says? Don't you know that? I'm Todd Blanche. Their
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  handwritten nature further complicates their redaction process and increases the
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  risk of inadvertent disclosure of victim personal identifiable information, including
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  because of technical limitations on the department's ability to run
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  meaningful quality control checks for victim PII across handwritten materials.
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  He wrote, It's always an excuse, it's always something, and
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  that something is never good for the American people. Oh,
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  they have no problem talking about other folks, right, but
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  this case, forget it. The last thing they want to
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  do is let anyone know the truth. Woodward also pushed
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  back on the U. S. District Judge em Mitt Sullivan's
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  conclusion that the Department of Justice effectively conceded that they
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  violated the law pass by Congress to force the release
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  of the Epstein files. Well, they did, and they're doing
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  it brazenly. They do not care. Are you paying attention yet?
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  While you're fighting with your cousin, Steve, these motherfuckers are
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  Robin You blind but cool, keep arguing about dumb shit. Indeed,
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  the Department has not knowingly violated, nor has it ever
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  acknowledged violating, the AFTA, as it continues working to comply
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  with statutory requirements. He wrote, Well, Todd Blanche said he did,
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  So what do you even mean, mister Woodward. In his
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  order last week, Sullivan rejected the DJ's argument against releasing
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  the material and concluded that the Public Integrity Project, a
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  public interest law firm, demonstrated that independent journalist Katie Fang
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  was harmed by the material that was being withheld. Well,
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  we all are. Katie Fang's just taking the forefront here
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  she's the vanguard. But we're all harmed by this shit,
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  every single one of us. And it's amazing how many
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  people still don't understand that until we deal with this issue,
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  none of the other issues matter. I mean, how are
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  you going to sit there and be confident that things
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  are fine, things are great, when these saying people are
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  still at the sticks, still running the show. The DOJ
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  began releasing thousands of pages of documents related to Ebstein
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  late last year, following the release of the Epstein Files
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  Transparency Act. However, the Department faced criticism from some lawmakers,
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  who questioned whether the Department violated the Act by withholding
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  some material and missing the deadline to release the files.
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  Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has stated repeatedly that the
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  DOJ has complied with the law. Well since Todd Blanche
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  told us, though, we should all just believe him. Hell
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  of a guy that Todd Blanche never steered us wrong,
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  never told us anything that was incorrect, and he's never
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  given us any reason to not believe him right. I mean,
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  could it be any more absurd the narrative that they're
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  trying to run the gaslighting, they're trying to engage in
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  and the fact that some people are still buying it.
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  It might be some of the most absurd shit I've
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  ever seen. Then again, we're only three days into the months,
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  so like usual, we'll keep following along and when we
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  have something else to add, we'll get it added to
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  the catalog. All the information that goes with this episode
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  can be found in the description box.