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Mega Edition: Jeffrey Epstein And The Editorials (6/14/26) · The Epstein Chronicles

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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
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As the lawsuit down in the US Virgin Islands continues
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to snake its way through the court system, we're learning
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more and more about some of the documentation that has
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been turned over by Jeffrey Epstein's estate to the US
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Virgin Islands. And inside that documentation is confirmation of what
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all of us already knew, and spoiler alert, that confirmation
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is all of these people that were paling around with
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old egg Dick are sick as hell, and they all
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knew what he was, what he was up to, and
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the sort of nonsense he was involved in, and yet
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they all try and give you the same story every
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single time that they're called out. And in today's episode,
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we're going to talk about another institution that had Jeffrey
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Epstein penned down marked down as a meeting, and now
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this institution, which is Scientific America, is saying that the
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meeting never happened. So let's dive into this article from
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Insider and let's try and clear it up. Headlined, Jeffrey
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Epstein was invited to editorial meetings with Scientific American's top editor.
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Email record show this article was authored by Jacob Shamsian. Now,
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why in the hell would Scientific America invite a guy
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like Jeffrey Epstein to sit in on editorial meetings, unless,
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of course, they had him there to help with editorial decisions. Now,
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I'm not saying that's what happened. There's no proof backing
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that up. But why would you want this guy at
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an editorial meeting in the first place. Jeffrey Epstein was
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invited to editorial meetings with Mariette de Christina when she
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was the top editor of Scientific American magazine, according to
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scheduling emails obtained by Insider. So again, all of these people,
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what they'll say is, oh, had these meetings scheduled, but
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they never took place. I never met with Epstein. We've
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never had any kind of conversation besides maybe at a
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party where all of us were together. Meanwhile, we all
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know what happens at these parties. The emails between Epstein
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and one of his employees, Leslie Groff, show her arranging
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the now dead Pedophile Financiers schedule for the month of
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September twenty fourteen. Epstein had the opportunity to attend editorial
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meetings on September twenty second and twenty ninth, ten thirty
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am to eleven thirty am Mariette de Christina to hold
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her editorial meetings to discuss story ideas. Do you want
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to attend? She will be at this meeting, Groff wrote
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in one such email. And imagine not bringing Leslie groffin
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not bringing Sarah Kelln Vickers in all of these ladies
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that were setting appointments, setting schedules, flying girls all over
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the country. How is that not the man act? You
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need to tell me that nobody here that was facilitating
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all of this nonsense as far as his assistants go,
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Sarah Kellen Vickers, Adriana Ross, Leslie Groff, nobody has any
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sort of dirt on their hands for what occurred here?
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Is that what you're trying to tell us? And if so,
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I wonder if the next mafia dude who was sitting
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around and just you know, scheduling the hits and stuff,
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can use the same excuse. Well, I didn't do it.
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I was just you know, making phone calls doesn't work
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for them, right, but it sure does work for Jeffrey Epstein.
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And is Mary Bend of Diddlers huh de Christina Now,
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the dean of the College of Communication at Boston University,
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told Insider in an email that Epstein never attended an
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editorial meeting at Scientific American, so why was he invited?
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We know he was a notorious liars, so we have
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to leave a little room for him being a bullshit artist.
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But it's not a lie all the time. All of
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these groups that are acting like, oh, he never met
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with us, Oh, we never even invited him. Come on,
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that's a bunch of bs. We know you invited him.
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We know you all hung out, and we all know
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that you were looking to get something from him, and
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in return, believe me, there was payment coming back to
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old egg Dick, She said. Epstein was interested in learning
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about how the magazine identified scientific research for potential coverage,
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thinking he may be able to use the same strategies
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to discover new research for funding. And am I the
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only one that cracks up about all of these super
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rich people who are out here hanging out with a
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bunch of devious, disgusting assholes and then saying it's all
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about trying to get some funding. I have a hard
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time believing guys like Leon Black and Bill Gates needed
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somebody like Jeffrey Epstein to hook them up, to get
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anyone to donate to their foundations or to put money
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towards whatever stupid ass project they're working on. Is Jeffrey
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Epstein the only man in the world that had any money?
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Of course not. But Epstein offered them things that other
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people weren't offering, and unfortunately we all know what that was.
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During my tenure at Scientific America, it was not unusual
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for educators, students, investors, policy leaders, editors and publishers and
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others to expressed interests in the magazine's editorial process, and
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we would host visitors from time to time. She said, yeah, well,
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how about guys that are, you know, convicted child molesters.
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Go and invite the local child molester who just got
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out of prison, because it's basically the same thing you
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did when you invited Jeffrey Epstein. I know that's uncomfortable
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for these stupid ass jerk off rich people to hear,
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but it's the truth. What's the difference, Oh, I'll tell
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you the difference. Epstein has money. Epstein has access, while
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your local child molester doesn't. If he had money, well,
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he'd be welcomed to hang out with these sick fucks too,
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So don't try and give me the nonsense of, oh,
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we used to host visitors all the time, Well why
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did you host a child molester? A representative for Scientific
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American didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. The
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emails between Groeffen Epstein show different versions of his schedule
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for the month of September twenty fourteen. Some versions of
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his September twenty second, twenty fourteen schedule show a pack
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day following the ten thirty am editorial meeting, including getting
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lunch afterwards with then Harvard University Psychology Department chairperson Stephen Coslin,
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talking with former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers in the afternoon,
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and then watching the Denzel Washington thriller Equalizer in the evening.
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And is anyone going to talk about how often Larry
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summers name keeps coming up when we're talking about Jeffrey Epstein.
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I mean, is that like inconvenient for some people out
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there or something, because the fact is, every time we
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turn around, we're hearing about Epstein at some meeting with
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Larry Summers, hanging out with Larry Summers. So when is
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Larry Summers going to get the alex Acosta treatment. Instead,
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they'll trot him out on more TV shows to give
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us more financial advice. At different points in time, Epstein
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was scheduled to be at his homes in New York, Paris,
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or his private island, Little Saint James in the US
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Virgin Islands on the day of September twenty ninth. Editorial
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meetings also scheduled for ten thirty am. At eleven thirty
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am that day, he was scheduled to be at a
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luncheon for the Dubin Breast Center of the Tish Cancer
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Institute in Midtown Manhattan, which was founded by his close
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friend Eva Anderson Dubin. Epstein bought fifty seats at the
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luncheon a ding to Gros's emails. And we all know
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the story about him and Eva Dubin. They were boyfriend
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and girlfriend allegedly for a while before she met Glenn,
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and then afterwards they remained very close friends. Not only
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him and Eva Dubin, but him and Glenn Dubin became
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friends as well. And remember, Glenn Dubin is one of
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the men that has been directly named as partaking in
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the abuse. That's not me saying it that's his accuser.
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Insider obtained the scheduling emails through an information request to
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the Office of the Attorney General of the US Virgin Islands.
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The office settled a civil sex trafficking case with Epstein's
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estate in December and is currently involved in a separate
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lawsuit playing out in Manhattan Federal Court against JP Morgan
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Chase over the banks ties with Epstein. And you know,
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everybody's been held responsible here, right, the banks, this one,
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that one. But nobody in government, nobody that was protecting Epstein,
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none of these people that handed down this bullshit plea deal. Well,
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of course not, because it's only the pawns that get
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taken off the chess board, and we continue to see
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that on a daily basis when we're talking about Jeffrey Epstein.
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Epstein died in twenty nineteen in a Manhattan jail cell
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while awaiting trial for criminal charges alleging e trafficked girls
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for sex. His survivors and other witnesses at the trial
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of Epstein's associate co conspirator, general all around scusbag, fellow
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child abuser, and bipedal serpent Glene Maxwell, frequently referenced Groff
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as a woman who scheduled flights to his residences for
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women he raped, as well as appointments between them in
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Epstein's massage rooms. In a two thousand and five New
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York Times story about personal assistance, Groft described herself as
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an extension of Epstein's brain. Nothing to see here, folks.
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We have no issues with Leslie Groff. She should have
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never been brought in for questioning with Sarah Kellen Vickers
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and Adriana Ross because you know, she had no idea
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what was going on, just another victim of Jeffrey Epstein's
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who ended up making probably millions. It's such a joke
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that all of these co conspirators, all of these captains
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of Jeffrey Epstein's criminal enterprise, have been able to get
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away with this. At the very least, you would think
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that people like these schedulers who were setting it all up,
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who were facilitating it all would get the Glenn Maxwell treatment.
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But none of them have. And the question is why not.
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After a jury convicted Maxwell of trafficking girls to Epstein
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for sex in December twenty twenty one, Groff's attorneys told
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Insider that prosecutors said they would not bring charges against
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her Groff, through an attorney, declined to comment for this story.
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Of course she did. She's not gonna say anything, and
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why would she, especially at this point she's basically gotten
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away with it, So why would she come out and
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make a comment and follow Prince Andrew down that rabbit hole.
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Shut your mouth, fade away into the background, and hope
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everybody forgets about you. Meanwhile, all those girls have to
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go on with broken lives and broken dreams. Epstein's connection
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to Scientific American demonstrates his deep ties to science and
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technology research while he was alive, and I think a
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lot of people missed the point here. I see people
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talking all the time about scientists around Epstein and what
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the point was, And my answer to that always is,
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I urge you to take a look at the scientists
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that he was around and the projects that they were
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working on, and then ask yourself if any intelligence service
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around the world would want access to information about those
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scientific projects. Di Cristino led the magazine as editor in
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chief for a decade before moving to her current role
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at Boston University in August of twenty nineteen, the same
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month Epstein died. Following Epste's death, Harvard University and MIT
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both conducted internal investigations into his donations and ties to
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professors at the universities. Epstein sought meetings with technology entrepreneurs
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and high profile research scientists. I wonder why. I'm sure
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that none of that information that those scientists were working
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on would be beneficial to insert intelligence agency here. And
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I don't just mean the CIA or the MASADE, because
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people seemed to think that Epstein was strictly working for
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one intelligence agency or the other. But I don't think
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that's what he was doing as an information broker. I
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think he was working for several different intelligence agencies following
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the blueprint that was laid out for him by Bob Maxwell. Remember,
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Robert Maxwell was working with several different intelligence agencies as well.
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According to many many reports, he told associates he wanted
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to see the human race with his DNA by impregnating women,
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a plan that appeared consistent with his transhumanist philosophy, and
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there's no doubt there was a lot of that as well.
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Talking about the transhumanism. He was fascinated with all of
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that stuff and really thought that he was going to
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be able to, you know, freeze his body and seed
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the Earth and all this other weird, crazy shit that
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only a meglomaniac could ever possibly think about. But either way,
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as more of these emails come to light, and more
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of these schedules come to light, and the legacy media
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is forced not to ignore it anymore, hopefully the curtain
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gets pulled back even more. All Right, folks, that's gonna
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do it for this one. All of the information that
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goes with the episode can be found in the description box.
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What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
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Over the past few days, there's been a lot of
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action down in Palm Beach when it comes to the
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grand jury documents from Jeffrey Epstein's first arrest being released
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to the public. And as you're all aware at this point,
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this has been a fight that's been going on for
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literally decades now, so finally seeing some movement in a
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positive direction is a pretty big deal. And considering what
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we might find out from these documents about the behavior
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of the people who were involved, I think that it
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is long overdue, and I hope that the release isn't
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just the end of it, though. I hope that after
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they're released, if people need to be held accountable, which
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I believe they do. I hope that those people are
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held accountable. Now. I don't know what kind of levers
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the government will have to pull on as far as
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down in Florida if people were found to be out
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of line when it comes to prosecuting Epstein, but I
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would think that there has to be some way to
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penalize these people, I mean retroactively if they did something illegal,
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wouldn't that bar them from drawing on their path? I
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would think that would be something that they could yank
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from them if they're found to have been out of
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line here and when all is said and done and
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all the cards are pushed to the center of the table,
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I hope that's the end result. That if somebody or
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people were out of line and they didn't do the
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right thing, I hope that there is retroactive penalties that
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are applied to them. Today's article is from the Palm
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Beach Daily News, and the headline editorial, law to unseal
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Epstein documents welcome. Palm Beach Police did their job, and
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I agree with that. I think that the Palm Beach
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Police did a very good job tracking it all down,
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putting it all together and writing up that report. That's
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why we went through the report page by page. While
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other people are telling you about stupid ass shit like
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Tom Hanks being you know, down at Guantanamo because he
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was hanging out at Epstein's Island. We've been on the
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trail of the actual facts here. Now. I know that
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that doesn't really bring in the paycheck like the salacious bullshit,
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but I'm not gonna hoo myself out and become TMZ.
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We're going to continue to talk about the things that
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actually move this case. And to do that you have
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to actually put in the legwork and go through all
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of the information. And if that's not something that people
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are interested in, they're in the wrong place because this
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isn't your thirty second TikTok video type shit. Here. We're
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doing long form communication here. We're talking about stories literally
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for years. So to finally see a little bit of
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resolution here is a huge deal for a lot of people.
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This article was authored by the Palm Beach Daily News
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editorial board. Palm Beach saw a little history being made
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on Thursday when Governor Ron DeSantis came to town to
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sign a bill at the police headquarters. The first time
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this has been done, and again, good for Ron DeSantis.
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I know there's a lot of people out there that
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don't like them, but so what I don't care how
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about that this is the that's actually doing something here
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to try and promote justice and move things forward. And
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like I've said from the very beginning, if you're looking
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for justice when it comes to Epstein or allies, at
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least during this whole ass ordeal, because if you want
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to take down somebody like Epstein, if you want justice
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for the people that he abused, it can't be a
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one way street. Everybody has to be involved. You can't
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have people running obstruction like Stacy Plaskett and the knuckleheads
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that are trying to keep the flight logs from being
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introduced into the conversation. I'm looking at you, Dicky Durbin.
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This is not a topic that people should be arguing about.
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This is a topic that everybody should be able to
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rally around, but unfortunately that's not the case because some
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assholes have to play political ping pong. It was an
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appropriate return to the town where the crimes happened to
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sign HB one seventeen, which aims to ensure the release
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of secret documents detailing the proceedings of a two thousand
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and six Palm Beach County grand that issued only one
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criminal prostitution related charge against Jeffrey Epstein. We are happy
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in Florida to be leading the effort for transparency and
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for accountability because what happened was clearly wrong and the
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punishment was simply wholly inadequate to the crime, DeSantis said
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before assigning the bill at the Palm Beach Police Department.
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And I know people have seen that for many, many
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years now, so I thank the legislature for doing this.
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And what this does is it puts people like Krisher
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and other prosecutors who think that using the grand jury
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to shield their behavior is a good idea, Well, those
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prosecutors should think again, because with this new law in
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the books, it shows you that there are ways and
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means to go about this to get these documents released
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if it furthers justice. And there's no doubt that these
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documents do just that. So I'm glad to see Florida
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leading the way here and I hope that other states
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do the same thing. It is long past time for
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Epstein's victims to know why they were treated shabbily while
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their abuser was given a sweetheart deal, and that's really
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what it comes down to, right answers. We need to
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know how this all happened so it never happens again.
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And there's no way to know that if we don't
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have access to these grand jury documents. So that's why
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it's so crucial that this bill was signed and that
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these documents become readily available to the general public. This
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is not something to be sweeping under the rug, said
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Haley Robson, who was sixteen years old when she met
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Epstein and now advocates against human trafficking and sex trafficking.
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A lot of us are still in therapy, We're still
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trying to survive. I can't express the gratitude I have
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for this bill, and unfortunately that's a common theme for
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a lot of these women. They're still suffering from the
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after effects of this abuse. They're going through therapy, they're
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going through all kinds of different treatment, and they're just
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trying to get their feet under them. And for all
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these years they been denied justice by a Department of
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Justice and a justice system that simply doesn't care. But
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now hopefully with the signing of this bill, it puts
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some of these scumbags on notice. Jenna Lisa Jones, another
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of Epstein's victims, said, there has been no closure for
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those who survived his crimes. These were vulnerable children who
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deserved to be protected, and the system felled them. When
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then Palm Beach County State Attorney Barry Krisher, who in
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two thousand and six was the first prosecutor to ever
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consider criminal charges against Epstein, took the matter to a
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grand jury, the result was a single felony charge of
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solicitation of prostitution. How do you look at yourself in
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the mirror, as Barry Krisher, You had all these girls,
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all these parents calling you and telling you that Epstein
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was abusing them, abusing their daughters, this, that, the other thing,
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and you only bring one girl up in front of
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that grand jury. You had all of those other witnesses
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that were willing to give testimony against Jeffrey Epstein, and
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instead you only bring that one girl up. Because we
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all know the deal. You are trying to hook your
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boy Epstein up with the homie hookup. All of that
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initiated by Epstein's legal team of pitbulls led by Alan
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Dershowitz and Ken Starr, and that's exactly what happened, the
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back room dealing, talking with Michael Mukaesy, having lunch with Mukayesy,
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and then from there, well we see how this deal
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came into existence. And you can save the alex Acosta
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bullshit for somebody else. Mister spaghetti Spine was nothing more
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than a fall. Guy Epstein, a multi millionaire pedophile, pleaded
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guilty in two thousand and eight to two felony charges
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of soliciting prostitution and procuring a minor for prostitution. He
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received a plea deal that was criticized for being lenient.
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Oh lenient? Is it? Imagine getting a plea deal where
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all known and unknown co conspirators are protected? How does
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that even get past a basic smell test? How could
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any prosecutor look at that and be like, you know what,
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this is a good idea and then a judge sign
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off on it. What sort of bonehead moronic stupidity has
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to be pumping through your head to sign off on
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an abomination like this. Many of the allegations had centered
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on Epstein's pom Beach hom at three point fifty eight
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l Brio Way, now demolished, which was bought in nineteen ninety.
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New York federal prosecutors in twenty nineteen charged Depstein with
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sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy. Before he could go
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to trial, he killed himself allegedly on August tenth, twenty nineteen,
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while in federal custody. It is important to note the
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critical role played by the Palm Beach Police, led by
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then Chief Michael Ryder, in this case. For starters, they
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listened when a woman reported that her fourteen year old
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stepdaughter had been molested by a rich man. And there's
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no doubt that the pom Beach Police Department, when it
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was being led by Michael, they were all over this case,
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and it was their office that initiated a federal investigation.
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It wasn't the local prosecutors who called the Fed's right,
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it was Michael Ryder and his office. Chief Raccari, the
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detective who led the case, was dogged in his investigations
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and eventually found two dozen girls and young women who
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had similar encounters with Epstein. Writer now retired, and Riccari,
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who died in May of twenty eighteen, were frustrated by
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Krisher's decisions and went to the FBI as well as
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urge Krisher to step down. Now, imagine you have a
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whole ass police department telling you not to do this,
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and you do it anyway. What sort of pressure was
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being exerted on mister Krisher. You have all these high
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power lawyers, you know, giving you the full court press,
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and then you have the Department of Justice probably calling you,
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that would be my guest, Mukasey or somebody from his
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office and telling them, look, this is going to be
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the deal. You're going to sign off on this, meaning Acosta,
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and that's just the way it's going to be. And
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they thought they'd get away with it. They thought that
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everybody would just be like, you know what he did
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his time, let's forget about it. Well, breaking news, you
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were wrong, and now we want some answers. Writer attended
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Thursday signing and told The Daily News he has thought
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about Epstein's victims every day for the past nineteen years.
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I hope and pray that law schools in their ethnic
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courses teach this case for what not to do in
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handling a large scale sexual offender, as in the case
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of Epstein, Writer said, and that future prosecutors realize the
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very slippery slope that they're on when they investigate and
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prosecute a wealthy and influential person in a town filled
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with wealthy people. Upon Beach police showed that in their eyes,
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no one was above the law and they would not
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be deterred in the pursuit of justice for their victims.
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They took it as far as they could, but the
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prosecutors failed to do their job. We hope that this
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bill gives the victims the answers they want and maybe
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helps move them forward to the closure that they seek.
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And I hope so too. And I also hope, like
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I said earlier, that anybody who's found accountable here has
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to pay the piper. Now do I think that's gonna happen.
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Probably not. Nobody's paid the piper really throughout this whole thing,
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So why should that change now? But they should, And
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at the very least, what it'll do is it'll give
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us a much more vivid view of what went down,
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and hopefully once we have the full picture, then justice
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comes after that. All right, everybody that's going to do
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it for this one. All of the information that goes
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with this episode can be found in the description box.
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What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein chronicles.
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It should come as no surprise to anybody out there
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that the Washington Post has picked up the clarion call
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for the OIG report and saying that there is no
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doubt that Epstein killed himself and that what occurred inside
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of the MCC was just straight up negligence, and that
26:14
any talk of anything but it being negligence is nothing
26:17
but a conspiracy theory. Well, that all hinges on you
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believing the OIG report in the first place. And for me,
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I don't believe whitewashed reports. I don't believe internal reports.
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I don't believe the reports that are initiated by the
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people who are being investigated. And to act like the
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OIG is some kind of neutral investigator while they're drawing
26:43
a paycheck from the government is laughable at best. Now,
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I will say I do agree with the Washington Post
26:50
editorial board here that the Bureau of Prisons is an
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absolute shit show and it needs to be fixed. You
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would think in the wake of this that there would
26:58
be some big changes, but there wasn't. Instead, we just
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see more of the same with the same people at
27:04
the levers of control. So how are you going to
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put out this report that absolutely destroys the BOP. And
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at the same time, we don't see any sort of
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congressional hearing being initiated. We don't see any of these
27:18
people being called up before Congress and having to give
27:21
a full accounting of what happened. Ask yourselves why not.
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Today's article is from the Washington Post and the headline
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Jeffrey Epstein's suicide reveals grave failures of the US prisons.
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This was authored by the editorial board for the Washington Post. No,
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Jeffrey Epstein wasn't murdered in federal prison in twenty nineteen,
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despite the many conspiracy theories circulating about his death. He
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killed himself. That was one clear conclusion from the long
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awaited investigative report released recently by the Inspector General for
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the Justice Department. And it's pretty convenient, huh. That's the
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one conclusion they came to. The one thing that they
28:08
could figure out was that Epstein killed himself. But all
28:11
the other stuff, well, we need more of an investigation.
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We have to look into that a bit more deeply.
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How can you possibly say that he killed himself when
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you can't even figure out all the other stuff that
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was going on inside of this jail, And don't even
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get me started on the camera system inside of that jail.
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The fact that the warden knew and then it was
28:33
still left untouched, unfixed. Shouldn't he be culpable for that?
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I know if at my job I knew something was
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broken and I didn't fix it and something went wrong,
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I'd be held responsible. So how come none of these
28:47
people are held responsible? Are we supposed to just shrug
28:50
our shoulders and say, yeah, you know what, maybe they'll
28:53
do better next time, or should we demand that the
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people in charge of the BOP, the people in charge
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of the MCC at the time, are held accountable. If
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things were as bad as the OIG report's saying, and
29:08
as bad as the media is reporting, why aren't heads rolling?
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But the report cited gross negligence in the days leading
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up to his death that enabled Epstein, a financier facing
29:19
multiple charges of sex trafficking you mean a pedophile, to
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take his own life. There is no record that his
29:25
cell had ever been inspected, and he was able to
29:29
hoard an excessive amount of bed sheets even after he
29:33
was previously found with a torn strip of cloth around
29:36
his neck, and no mention of Tartaglioni. Remember all of
29:40
these people, all of these journalists, all of these websites
29:43
that don't understand the Tartaglioni angle of this story. They're
29:48
just not going to get it. And it's unfortunate because
29:50
people keep pushing all this weird shit without even understanding
29:54
what's really going on here, and without understanding that there's
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no way in hell that Tartaglione should have ever been
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in a cell with Epstein in the first place. In
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violation of policy, he was allowed to make an unmonitored
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and unrecorded phone call. Finally, despite warnings that he was
30:14
displaying suicidal tendencies and needed a cell mate, Epstein was
30:18
left alone in his cell unchecked for several hours before
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his suicide, even though the officer in charge had ordered
30:26
the staff to check on him every thirty minutes. And
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that's a hell of elipe suicidal tendencies. Really, according to
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him and all of the people around him, he didn't
30:34
have any suicidal ideation. The fact that he was assaulted
30:39
in that cell the first time around destroys that whole
30:42
entire narrative, and that's why they don't want to talk
30:44
about it. The reason they don't bring up Tartaglioni, the
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reason they don't want to talk about that part of
30:49
the story is because it absolutely torpedoes their narrative. The
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report calls for a list of reforms, hiring more staff,
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tightening cell search procedures, fixing security cameras, assigning cell mats
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to inmates who have been on suicide watch. This list
31:06
doesn't go far enough. Well, I agree with that the
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whole entire system has to be fixed. All of these
31:13
people who are in charge, they have to go. They're
31:16
obviously incapable or unwilling to do their jobs. So why
31:21
are they still kept in these positions where they're going
31:23
to collect these gigantic pensions. They're going to get paid
31:27
by the taxpayer. Meanwhile, they're not doing their job. They
31:31
can't even make sure that a guy like Jeffrey Epstein
31:33
is held safely for a measly few months before we
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get to trial. It doesn't address the inhumane conditions of
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special housing units, where Epstein spent the bulk of his time.
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Inmates housed in these units are confined to their cells
31:48
for twenty three hours a day and have limited human interaction.
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Though the term special housing unit is commonly used interchangeably
31:57
with solitary confinement. Inmates are often not alone. Generally, federal
32:02
prisoners in them have a cell mate. That's because of overcrowding.
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Two inmates are squeezed into a cell made for one.
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And I get what the Washington Post is trying to
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say here, because the jail system is absolutely screwed up.
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It's absolutely horrible, and it all needs to be addressed.
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But that should have been for a different report. The
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OIG report was basically used to address all of these
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issues that are found within the federal prison system, when
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it should have been used to talk to EMT's talk
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to other people involved. Go harder on TARTAGLIONI. But for
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four years, this is all we get. If you want
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to have a comprehensive report on the Federal Bureau of Prisons,
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I am completely fine with it. But let's use this
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report to talk about, Oh, I don't know the circumstances
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surrounding Epstein's death. The Inspector General reported special housing units
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enable prison staff to ensure inmates are secure in their
32:57
cells and in good health, but being cooped up in
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a tiny, bare cell with another person for twenty three
33:05
hours a day is not conducive to good health. Solitary
33:09
confinement is torture. Look. I don't disagree with any of that, honestly,
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but when you're talking about an inmate like Epstein that
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has to be safeguarded, where else are you going to
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put them? And let's remember he's there because he was
33:23
molesting people. He was trafficking little girls. So don't give
33:27
me the hole. Oh we should feel sorry for the
33:29
conditions that Epstein had to live in. I will never
33:33
feel sorry for one second about anything when it comes
33:36
to old egg Dick himself. This guy got everything he
33:40
deserved and the only thing that sucks is that he
33:43
didn't face justice. But as far as him dying, what
33:46
do you think anybody gives a shit about? That? He
33:48
deserved it, Okay, point blank period. If anybody ever deserved
33:53
to die, it's certainly Jeffrey Epstein. The problem is he
33:57
should have been kept around until he had to face justice.
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Then after that, who the hell cares what happens. Inmates
34:05
subjected to this punishment are more likely to suffer from psychosis, depression,
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and suicidal thoughts. Being forced to eat, sleep, and defecate
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in front of another prisoner can intensify these effects, as
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well as increase the risk of inmate on inmate violence.
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For that it is not a step up from solitary.
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For some, double celled solitary is worse. So look, here's
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the deal. When you put somebody in a cell with
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somebody like Epstein, you got to put another molester in
34:35
that cell, not a quadruple murderer. So they put Tartaglioni
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in this cell with Epstein instead of putting in somebody
34:44
like Mercy or one of the other known prison snitches.
34:48
They go out and get Nicholas Tartaglioni. For what reason?
34:52
Why in the hell with the warden? Okay, having that
34:54
guy in the cell with Epstein, please explain that. How
34:58
come we didn't have more of that in the OIG. Oh,
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that's right, It would torpedo the narrative. Even when prisoners
35:05
are discovered to be experiencing suicidal ideation, they are not
35:09
treated much better. Suicide watch is a lesser acknowledged evil
35:14
of the prison system. Epstein was placed on suicide Watch,
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but only for one day. Inmates on suicide watch where
35:22
rough terror resistance smocks and are isolated in harmproof cells.
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These cells are even more barren than those in special
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housing units. They don't have bed sheets, books, showers, or
35:33
oftentimes toilet paper. The lights remain on at all times. Unsurprisingly,
35:39
these restrictive conditions have been found to make inmates more suicidal.
35:44
Some will conceal their suicidal tendencies to avoid being removed
35:49
from this environment. Instead of receiving life affirming therapy, prisoners
35:53
struggling with suicidal ideation are treated like radioactive liabilities, locked
35:59
the while unmitigated misery reflects off the blank walls back
36:04
at them. Both solitary confinement and the current design of
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suicide Watch deserved no place in a country with a
36:11
constitutional amendment banning cruel and unusual punishment. Epstein's death in
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a prison cell elicited little sympathy from the public. He
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had been allowed to sexually abuse teenage girls for decades
36:24
with impunity because of his immense wealth and connections. But
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the government has a responsibility to ensure the physical and
36:32
mental well being of all inmates, regardless of their offenses.
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Any death in custody is a failure of the prison system,
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and I totally agree with that. But what I don't
36:43
agree with is using the OIG report into Epstein's death
36:48
as some kind of litmus test for the Bureau of Prisons.
36:53
This investigation should have been focused on the details surrounding
36:56
this man's death. However, what we have is a white wane,
37:00
and what we have is them providing excuses for why
37:04
this happened, and in my opinion, those excuses are unacceptable
37:09
and the whole entire internal report falls short of what
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it should be. All Right, folks, that's gonna do it
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for this one. All of the information that goes with
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the episode can be found in the description box. What's up, everyone,
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and welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. The
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New York Post has never met a slacious story it
37:30
doesn't like. In fact, Page six of the New York
37:34
Post is synonymous with slacious bullshit. But now, all of
37:39
a sudden, the New York Post editorial board has a
37:42
lot to say about Jeffrey Epstein and about how ridiculous
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the New York Post editorial board thinks you are for
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caring about the story. So what we're gonna do today
37:52
in this episode is we're going to read what the
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editorial board had to say, and then I'll give you
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my opinion of what I think, and as you can imagine,
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I have a few things to say. Today's article was
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published by the New York Post and the headline You'll
38:08
never Guess what the new Epstein scandal is by the
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New York Post Editorial Board. It may be the most
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wasteful fool's errand in the history of American law. Nearly
38:18
all of the two hundred federal prosecutors in the Southern
38:21
District of New York, the nation's most important US Attorney's office,
38:25
now spend their days reading through millions of pages of
38:27
Jeffrey Epstein documents, redacting the names and other identifying information
38:32
of alleged victims so the full Epstein files can be
38:36
publicly released. All because of an insane social media hysteria
38:41
that began on the right and are now fed by
38:43
the left, including top Democrats in Congress, the insistence that
38:47
sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein and his paramour procureur Glenn Maxwell
38:52
entrapped and blackmailed many of the world's billionaires and power brokers,
38:56
with it all covered up in an elaborate plot. As
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with all conspiracy theories, anything that fails to prove the
39:02
truth especially anything that debunks it just becomes more proof
39:06
of the plotter's reach. The believers will never be convinced otherwise.
39:11
It was absolutely the fever swamp right that fed the
39:14
initial hysteria. But Democrats last year started jumping in with
39:18
both feet, obsessively speculating that President Donald Trump himself is
39:23
named in the supposed Epstein client list, with Trump himself
39:28
supporting full disclosure to remove any doubts in rational minds. Anyway,
39:32
a new law compels rapid release of the Fed's vast
39:35
stockpile of Epstein related documents were adacted to protect anyone
39:40
who might claim victim's status, and so the SDNY, the
39:45
most prestigious and important district in the federal justice system,
39:49
has had to put other work on hold to satisfy
39:52
an unsatisfiable demand. Venezuelan strongman Nicholas Madoro and his wife
39:58
are in jail a wedding trial on immensely complex charges.
40:02
You'd hope the US Attorney Ja Clayton could assigned adequate
40:05
coverage to that case, but Epstein alleged health executive assassin
40:11
Luigi Mangioni's federal death penalty charges now rest on delicate
40:15
questions about the definition of stalking too bad. SDNY a
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swamp with work addressing the down the rabbit hole preoccupations
40:23
of Epstein's fanatics, conspiracists, and cynical polls alike. Called everything
40:28
else going on in America a distraction stage to further
40:31
the great cover up. Immigration enforcement, Greenland, tariffs, Ukraine all
40:36
ginned up fake issues to keep people from finding out
40:39
the truth. Yet the Biden Whitehouse had full access to
40:43
all the supposedly explosive Epstein material for four years. If
40:47
anything about Trump was there, the folks who went through
40:49
his wife's underwear drawer would have found it in a
40:53
way to at least leak it, if not assign a
40:55
special prosecutor to try and imprison them for it. Reality check,
40:59
Epstein was a sexual deviant, but not a bit of
41:02
evidence has ever surfaced to indicate he ran as sinister
41:05
eyes wide shut, sex cold. Yet many of the nation's
41:08
top legal minds are wasting endless hours trying to convince
41:12
people who will never be convinced of the truth. What
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a sick gift to criminals the SDNY should be prosecuting,
41:20
all right. So that's the garbage ass piece that the
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boot liquors and dickheads over at the New York Post
41:28
thought was acceptable. Here's my response, Why don't we just
41:33
start with the headline? Because nothing screams intellectual rigor like
41:37
You'll never guess the literary equivalent of a Carnival Barker
41:41
waving a rubber chicken. The purpose isn't to inform, it's
41:45
to condition the reader before the first sentence, Even lands
41:49
you're not being invited to think you're being coached to sneer,
41:52
the headline tells you immediately who the villain is supposed
41:55
to be. Not Epstein, not prosecutors, not institutions, but you.
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Your curiosity is the crime, Your questions are the scandal,
42:04
And by the time you finish the first line, you're
42:06
meant to feel faintly embarrassed for caring. And it sets
42:09
the tone perfectly for everything dishonest that follows. Calling this
42:14
the most wasteful fool erin in the history of American
42:17
law is a remarkable feat of historical amnesia. Apparently, Watergate,
42:22
Iran Contra, Cointel pro mk Ultra, and the Pentagon Papers
42:26
were all charming uses of time, but reviewing records tied
42:30
to a trafficking empire that touch heads of state. Well,
42:33
that's the real blunder. Notice how their don't question why
42:36
millions of pages exist in the first place. They don't
42:39
ask why this material wasn't transparently handled years ago. No,
42:43
the sin is that people now want to see it.
42:46
The scale of the mess becomes proof that clean up
42:48
itself is irresponsible. It's like scolding firefighters because the blaze
42:54
happens to be inconvenient, and somehow the fire is your
42:57
fault for pointing it out. Then we're told nearly all
43:02
of SDNY is now trapped in document purgatory, as if
43:05
prosecutors are indentured servants being marched at gunpoint. To the
43:09
redaction minds, this is meant to trigger resentment, non understanding.
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Look what you made them do? The peace whispers, wagging
43:16
its fingers at the audience. But staffing decisions are made
43:20
by leadership, not people on X resource allocations policy not
43:25
a hysteria. If reviewing EPSTEIN material disrupts operations, that means
43:29
the government sat on a mountain of sensitive evidence for
43:32
years without a plan. The workloads on an argument against transparency.
43:36
It's proof of how long transparency was denied and blaming
43:40
citizens for wanting answers is a neat way to avoid
43:44
blaming officials for hiding them. Next comes the insult parade
43:48
insane social media hysteria, because nothing discredits inquiry faster than
43:53
labeling it pathological. The phrase does all the heavy lifting
43:57
so they don't have to. They don't review claims, they
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diagnose the audience. If you're asking questions, you're not curious,
44:04
you're unwell. And conveniently, this hysteria supposedly started on the
44:08
right and is now fed by the left, which lets
44:11
the editorial board play referee without examining substance. The bipartisan
44:16
interests itself becomes suspicious, not the scandal that produced it.
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When both parties ask questions, that's not convergence, my friends,
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we call that contagion. Accountability becomes a virus, and the
44:29
disease is people noticing that powerful men escaped consequences. Now
44:34
from here we arrive at the magic word, conspiracy. The
44:37
editorial sprinkles it like holy water, confident it'll ward off
44:41
all scrutiny because once labeled a conspiracy, evidence becomes irrelevant,
44:45
context becomes noise, and unanswered questions become personality defects. They
44:51
claim nothing could ever convince believers otherwise, which is fascinating
44:55
because the DOJ itself spent years refusing to release records.
44:59
The very secrecy fuel suspicion is now proof that suspicion
45:03
is irrational, that circular reasoning wrapped in contempt. They don't
45:08
engage with flight logs, plea deals, sealed depositions, or immunity agreements.
45:13
They just announced that skepticism is self stealing madness, and
45:16
by that logic, Watergate was delusional until Nixon resigned. But
45:21
apparently institutional history has an expiration date. Next up in
45:26
the article comes the ideological sorting, because every narrative well
45:30
needs villains. The fever swamp right apparently berth this, which
45:34
is a convenient way to discredit facts by association. The
45:38
editorial board doesn't explain why conservative courts, conservative prosecutors, and
45:43
conservative administrators repeatedly protected Epstein. It just paints concern as
45:49
partisan psychosis. When Democrats start asking questions, they're mocked IWO,
45:54
but only as opportunists. Nobody's allowed to be sincerely disturbed.
45:58
Either you're insane or sin never rational, and that framing
46:03
is an accidental It empties the middle ground. If concern
46:07
is always pathological or political, then institutional failure never has
46:12
to be examined, And suddenly the scandal isn't the trafficking,
46:16
it's your curiosity. The next part of this monstrosity is
46:20
the Trump section, and it's a master class in misdirection
46:23
dressed as reassurance. We're told Trump supports disclosure in rational
46:29
minds anyway, which is a cute way to insult anyone
46:31
who still doubts his relationship with Epstein. While pretending neutrality,
46:36
the piece carefully avoids mentioning photographs, flight proximity, maralago recruiting,
46:42
or years of social overlap. Instead, disclosure itself becomes proof
46:46
of innocence. If you allow files to be released, you
46:49
must be clean. That logic would have acquitted every criminal
46:53
whoever cooperated after getting caught. Transparency becomes retroactive absolution, and
46:59
anyone one who still questions it is irrational by definition,
47:03
and I could help. But note that the article repeats
47:05
itself about sdny's prestige, like a nervous intern, reciting talking
47:09
points most important, most prestigious, most vital, as if reverence
47:15
alone should end the debate. Institutions aren't holy relics. Prestige
47:20
did not prevent the NPA, the sealed agreements, the Sweetheart sentence,
47:24
or the non prosecution of accomplices. Prestige didn't stop federal
47:28
agents from being muzzled or victims from being ignored. Repeating
47:32
the title does not erase the record. If anything, prestige
47:36
makes the failure larger, not smaller. The higher the office,
47:39
the greater the obligation, and invoking status as a shield
47:44
is a confession of weakness. One of the most ridiculous
47:47
points comes in the form of the guilt by triage routine,
47:51
where Epstein files are blamed for distracting prosecutors from Medoro
47:55
and Mangioni. This is emotional blackmail with a lead vocabulary. Apparently,
48:02
justice is a zero sum game where only one villain
48:04
may be pursued out of time. The system cannot handle
48:08
the dictator and a trafficking ring simultaneously, we are told,
48:12
which is remarkable given that SDNY prosecutes hundreds of cases
48:16
a year. The editorial pretends prosecutors are incapable of division
48:21
of labor. It ignores the reality that large offices operate
48:25
in parallel, and it quietly suggests that Epstein is less
48:29
worthy of attention than foreign autocrats, as if elite abuse
48:32
networks are a hobby crime, and that hierarchy tells you
48:36
exactly who suffering counts. As we move along, of course,
48:39
we get to the distraction section, and that's where the
48:42
piece really loses control of itself. They mock the idea
48:45
that immigration Greenland tariffs in Ukraine might be used to
48:49
drown coverage, while simultaneously writing an article designed to drown coverage.
48:54
The irony is so thick you could tile a courthouse
48:57
with it. They accuse critics of seeing manipulation everywhere, while
49:02
openly trying to reframe attention away from Epstein. They list
49:06
crisis not to analyze them, but to overwhelm. The message
49:09
is simple, there are too many problems, stop caring about
49:12
this one. Accountability has become a luxury item, and justice
49:16
is postponed indefinitely in the name of busyness. The absurd
49:21
piece then moves on to Biden, which is where the
49:24
editorial performs rhetorical gymnastics worthy of an Olympic medal. We're
49:28
told Biden had access to the files for four years,
49:31
and since nothing leaked about Trump, therefore nothing exists. This
49:36
assumes leaks always happen, are always complete, and always politically convenient.
49:41
It also ignores the mountain of materials still stealed by courts,
49:44
special masters, and protective orders. Access does not equal publication,
49:49
Possession does not equal permission. An absence of leaks does
49:53
not equal absence of evidence. The logic collapses under its
49:57
own weight. But it sounds confident, and confidence is apparently sufficient,
50:02
And the underwear drawer line is supposed to be clever,
50:04
But it reveals the piece real intent. The goal is
50:07
not truth, its exoneration by insult. If investigators were willing
50:12
to search personal drawers, surely they'd leak the Epstein ties.
50:15
The article sneers that presumes political will, institutional courage, and
50:20
prosecutorial independence all function perfectly. History suggests otherwise. It ignores
50:27
seal grand juries, classified materials, national security privileges, and negotiated redactions.
50:34
It ignores the fact that the Epstein case involved intelligence
50:36
overlaps and international sensitivities. And most importantly, it ignores the
50:42
documented reality that prosecutors already once buried this case. Deliberately
50:46
pretending that never happened. Is the editorial central fraud reality check.
50:52
The piece announces, which is usually the moment that reality
50:56
exits the building. Epstein, we were told, was merely a
50:59
deep not a cult leader, not an organizer, not a blackmailer.
51:04
This is the cheapest form of minimization, downgrade structure to pathology.
51:09
If he's just sick, no one else matters, no logistics,
51:13
no recruiters, no financiers, no protectors, no facilitators, just a
51:17
lonely pervert with a jet, multiple mansions, an international pipeline,
51:22
and immunity from federal prison. And of course that story
51:25
collapses under basic arithmetic. Deviants do not build global operations alone,
51:31
and predators at that level do not survive without protection.
51:36
The dismissal of the eyes wide shut sex cult is
51:39
a straw man built to be burned. No serious investigator
51:42
claims Epstein ran a robed candle ceremony in a Manhattan penthouse.
51:47
The actual allegations are more banal and more damming. Recruitment, coercion, payments, favors,
51:54
compromnt access. But it's easier to mock masks and orgies
51:59
than this. Scuss influence networks by charactering the theory. They
52:04
avoid evidence, They reduce complexity to parody. So they never
52:08
have to touch the uncomfortable middle ground, and the middle
52:11
ground is exactly where institutional accountability lives. The ridicule is
52:16
not and at fantasy. It's and at inquiry itself. Then
52:20
comes the lament about top legal minds wasting time convincing
52:24
people who will never be convinced. That story alone reveals
52:28
the editorial's worldview. The purpose of law apparently is not
52:32
justice but persuasion. If some citizens remain skeptical, the entire
52:37
exercise is pointless. That's not how accountability works. Courts don't
52:42
exist to soothe opinion. They exist to establish record. Transparency
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is not therapy for doubters, its obligation to the public,
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and victims are not props in public relations exercises. The
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idea that their case is a gift of criminals because
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it occupies time is obscene. Criminals benefit from secrecy, not sunlight.
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Notice how the article never once addresses the non prosecution agreement,
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the immunity clause for unnamed co conspirators, the sealed grand jury,
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the destroyed evidence, the delayed indictments, the classified designations, the
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intelligence overlaps, the banking settlements, the estate negotiations, or the
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missing surveillance footage. Not one of these inconvenient facts appears.
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Instead we get workload complaints and mood policing. Believe me
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that omission is not accidental. You can't dismantle the cover
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up without mentioning the cover, and the editorial carefully steps
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around every structural failure that produces this distrust. The repeated
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insistence that no evidence is ever surfaced is a masterpiece
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of selective blindness. Flight log surfaced, settlement surfaced, photograph surfaced,
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testimony surfaced, financial record surfaced, recruiting pattern surfaced, non prosecution
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agreement surfaced. Whatever surfaced were full accomplice lists, charging memos
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or intelligence referrals. Declaring no evidence while ignoring mountains of
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partial evidence is not skepticism, Its curatorship. They're not denying
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the facts, They're rationing relevance, and the ration, somehow always
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favors power. What truly terrifies as editorial is not conspiracy thinking,
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its institutional memory. Because the Epstein case is not an anomaly,
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It's a case study. It shows how money bends law,
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how prestige shields predators, how silence is negotiated, and how
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victims are managed. It exposes the pattern the system desperately
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wants buried. The files are dangerous not because they reveal orgies,
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but because they reveal process. They show who intervened, who stalled,
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who authorized, and who looked away. That's why transparency is
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treated as vandalism, and that is why curiosity must be pathologized.
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They contempt dripping from this piece is not aimed at extremists.
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It's aimed at you. You are not trusted to read
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the documents. You are not trusted to weigh evidence. You
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are not trusted to distinguish rumor from record. You are
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to be managed, reassured, and scolded back into apathy. The
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editorial does not defend institutions by explaining them. It defends
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them by insulting their critics. And that, my friends, is
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the rhetoric of insecurity, not confidence. Strong systems invite scrutiny.
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Weak ones bed for quiet, and this piece is not calm.
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It's panicked. In the end, this article is not about
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Epstein at all. It's about control, control of narrative, control
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of attention, control of legitimacy. The real scandal is not
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document review. It's the fear of what the review might reviewal.
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The real waste is not prosecutor time, it's decades of
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accountability that's been deferred. The real hysteria is not public suspicion,
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it's institutional anxiety. And the conspiracy is not a cult,
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but a culture that teaches powerful men they will be protected.
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This editorial is not journalism, it's damage containment, and the
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contempt it shows for the public is the clearest evidence
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yet that something remains very wrong. All of the information
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that goes with this episode can be found in the
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description box.