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Emails Reveal Senator Wyden's Son Sought Epstein’s Entry Into Investment Fund · The Epstein Chronicles

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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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Epstein Chronicles. Senator Ron Wyden has spent the better part
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of the year telling us about Epstein's deep ties to
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the financial sector. But there's one little part that he
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has left out, and that part is his own son,
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Adam Widen, had his own connections to Jeffrey Epstein, and
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in twenty sixteen, Adam Widen and his firm adw Capital
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tried to get some money from Jeffrey Epstein. And of
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course that's after Jeffrey Epstein was already arrested for crimes
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against miners. But of course that didn't matter, did it,
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Because for people like this, it's always profits over people.
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And make no mistake, this is what makes people cynical
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about the whole situation. How can you take somebody serious
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when their own kid was trying to get money from
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the same guy that you're going crazy about. Did you
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have that conversation with your son and before airing out
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Leon Black, you should have ered out your own kid. Now,
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of course you can air out Leon Black as well,
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but don't try and play games. Don't try and you know,
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act like your own son had nothing to do with Epstein.
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So today we have an article from the New York
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Post and the headline unearthed emails revealed Democratic Senator's son
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wanted Epstein to join his fund. I enjoyed our conversation.
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This article was authored by Alec Shemel and Cameron Cawthorne.
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Senator Ron Wyden has spent months hammering President Trump and
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his Justice Department over their handling of Jeffrey Epstein records,
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accusing them of trying to sweep evidence under the rug,
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and even teasing that has followed. The money work ties
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back to Donald Trump, and Senator Wyden has been very
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adamant that he believes that the paper trail will lead
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back to Donald Trump. And look, he might be right,
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but one thing that we know for sure is that
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the financial trail leads to his son. So that's where
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the conversation should have started. Because if you want to
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be taken seriously and not look like you're just engaged
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in a hatchet job, you have to treat everybody the same,
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whether it's your son or your most heated, hated political rival.
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And if you can't do that, then you should have
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nothing to do with this case. Because this case calls
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for serious adults who are willing to stash their confirmation
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bias and follow the evidence wherever it goes. But unfortunately
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we're stuck with wholly unserious people who like to play games. However,
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email's reviewed by Fox News Digital in the doj Epstein
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files show Widen's own family connection in April twenty sixteen
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appointment at Epstein's Manhattan mansion between his son Adam and
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the disgraced financier. So look, obviously there's levels here. Leon
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Black was much more connected intimately to Jeffrey Epstein than
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Senator Widen's son. There's no dispute. That's just a fact.
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But I don't think that's the issue. I think the
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issue is that Senator Widen has been very vocal when
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it comes to the financial angle of what was going
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down with Jeffrey Epstein. And if you're going to be
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vocal about something like this, you have to be unimpeachable
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because you know you're going to have oppo research being
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run against you and the other side is going to
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look for anything that they can possibly use against you.
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And if your own son is in the files, that's
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what we call leverage. An email chain from late April
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twenty sixteen after it was already public that Epstein was
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a convicted child sex offender and was accused of operating
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an underage sex slave ring shows. Adam Widen sought investment
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backing from Epstein during a meeting at Epstein's home in Manhattan,
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where at Ristein allegedly engaged in some of his criminal activity. Boy,
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isn't Fox News brave allegedly engaged? Huh? I mean it
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might have happened. We don't know. Such an absolute joke.
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They know, and they also know that it wasn't alleged.
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A lot of abuse occurred in New York, not alleged abuse.
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I mean, as anyone actually doubting that Epstein was abusing
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girls in New York. Notice how they'll say alleged here.
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But then when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein's death in jail,
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they'll say that he died by suicide. No alleged, just
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he died by suicide. But sure, let's say alleged here.
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The senator's son founded his own private investment fund, adw
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Capital in twenty ten. Jeffrey, I wanted to thank you
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for taking the time to meet with me. I thoroughly
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enjoyed our conversation, and hope my passion and dedication for
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my business came through in the meeting. I live and
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breathe this business and take my returns, integrity, and reputation
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quite seriously. Yeah, I take my reputation so seriously that
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I'm reaching out to a child sex offender to join
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my hedge fund. I mean nothing screams that you care
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about your integrity and your reputation like soliciting business from
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a child sex offender. Other emails inside the tranch of
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Epstein documents released by the DOJ shoe Epstein and the
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younger Widen, communicating about a time and a location for
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the meeting. Meanwhile, another document appearing to be a ledger
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of Epstein's deli engagements and activities on April twenty eighth,
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twenty sixteen, marks the meeting is taking place at ten
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am that day. Now imagine brain the way that Senator
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Widen has and your own son is showing up with
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a beggara bull trying to get Jeffrey Epstein as part
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of his fund. The whole thing's disgusting, and it plays
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right into the hands of people trying to call it
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a hoax, because when you're not serious, and when you're
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dishonest and you're only playing politics here, you're causing great
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damage to not only the case, but to the survivors.
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Because the only way that we're ever going to get
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real justice or hold anybody accountable is if it's bipartisan.
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And when you have people like Ron Wyden, who has
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a personal connection to what's going on here, trying to
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lob grenades at the other side while not taking any
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accountability for his own son, it's a big problem, and
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it certainly chips away at the credibility of what we're
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trying to accomplish. The same scheduling document also describes the
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young Widen in parentheses as Jonathan Farcas's friend. Farcas appears
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to refer to the husband of President Trump's ambassador at
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al Malta and the brother of Andrew Farcas, who had
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a profound friendship and business ties with Epstein. According to
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The New York Times, I don't speak to my kids
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about their business activities, and I read about this a
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few months ago on social media like everybody else, Senator
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Wyden said in a statement to Fox News Digital when
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for comment, my investigation began four years ago and continues unchanged.
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I want transparency and accountability across the board. Well, if
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you knew about this, why didn't you come out right
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away and say, look, my son's caught up in this.
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He tried to get money from Epstein and explain the situation,
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but instead it comes out like this, and it makes
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it look like Senator Widen's hiding things. Adam did not
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respond to Fox News Digital request for comment in time
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for publication. Widen has repeatedly hammered the Trump administration over
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access to Epstein related records and argued his follow the
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Money investigation ties back to Donald Trump. And just to
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be clear, Senator Wyden hasn't shown us any of that evidence. Now,
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if we're talking about leon Black one hundred percent one
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hundred percent, but the allegations about it tying back to Trump,
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I haven't seen the evidence yet. If somebody has that evidence,
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the actual paper trail, I'd love to see it because
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that's a banger, right, That's the kind of thing that
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can lead to a conviction. So I'd love to see that.
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But we have to deal in reality. Right. It's one
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thing to hope and wish that things are going to
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change or things are going to be this way or
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that way, and then of course there's the reality that
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we're forced to live in. And even when evidence is presented,
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some people are so caught up in that confirmation bias
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that they refuse to follow the evidence wherever it leads.
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And that state of denial is only hardened when you
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have situations like this pop up. When you have people
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out there that already are on the fence about, you know,
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the legitimacy of what the Senate or Congress is doing
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when it comes to Ebstein, and then something like this
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pops up where Senator Widen is not being truthful or
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hasn't been forthcoming about his own family's relationship. It really
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neecaps Senator Widen's credibility. And when we're talking about this
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topic specifically, your credibility is the only currency that you have.
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One of the most important questions that comes out of
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this is why we're America's leading banks, a number of
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them basically sleepwalking throughout this whole Epstein matter, Wyden said
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in a video chronicling his probe into the Epstein scandal.
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As the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, they
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should have been watchdogging this. They should have brought law
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enforcement what they believed was going on. Well, I can't
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disagree with that, right. I think it's true. The banks
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played a gigantic role here, and their willingness to look
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the other way allow Jeffrey Epstein to operate for as
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long as he did, and it led to countless women
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and girls being abused. Widen also touted his plan to
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author a bill that would hold banks accountable in the
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future if they turned a blind eye to such a
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legal activity. Well, that would be nice. Imagine holding the
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banks accountable for once, good lord, that would be a change.
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At the time of the April twenty sixteen meeting between
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Epstein and the senator's son, Epstein was already a convicted
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sex offender who had pleaded guilty in Florida to sexually
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abusing a minor, and the Palm Beach investigation that led
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to Epstein's plea had identified dozens of possible Epstein victims,
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many which were reportedly minors, possible victims, And it all
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goes back to that initial investigation. And that's why I'm
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so adamant and so vocal about how shitty that investigation was,
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because that's the basis people use to say that this
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whole thing's overblown. Oh, it was one girl, she was
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about to turn eighteen. What the fuck kind of drugs
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are you on? Are you smoking LSD and queludes? Because
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if you think that it was only one girl and
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she was seventeen about to turn eighteen, you're crazy. That
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is not what the evidence showed. What the evidence shows
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us is that the prosecution and the federal government conspired
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with Epstein to give him that NPA. That's what the
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evidence shows. And if we want to get to the
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bottom of this, if we want real accountability for people
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that were involved, we have to start at ground zero.
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And ground zero here is most certainly Palm Beach. But
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as far as the story at hand, it's terrible when
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we're talking about optics. If you're sitting on the Senate
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and you're demanding everybody else be accountable, everybody else show
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full transparency, and your own son is outed as somebody
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trying to get funds from Epstein after he was already
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convicted as a child abuser. My advice to Senator Widen
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cleans up his own backyard before popping his head over
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the wall and complaining about his neighbors. All the Information
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