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Declined and Done? How UK Authorities Cleared the Path for Epstein in London (4/24/26) · 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. The long list of crimes committed by Jeffrey
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Epstein in the UK did not happen in a vacuum.
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That's the comfortable lie that they want to tell you,
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the one that lets institutions pretend that they were overwhelmed, confused,
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outpaced by a man who was somehow too elusive to
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pin down. But when you trace the movements of Jeffrey
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Epstein through the UK, that excuse falls apart almost immediately.
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He wasn't hiding in the shadows. He wasn't operating off
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the grid. He was moving through elite social circles, hosting, attending, networking,
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interfacing with people who are making themselves plugged in to
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the very systems that are supposed to detect, flag and
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act on predatory behavior. And at multiple points along that timeline,
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concerns were raised, not rumors, not vague suspicions, actual red
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flags enough to warrant scrutiny, enough to justify intervention. But
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nothing means happened, No escalation, no sustained pressure, just a
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quiet pattern of dismissal that, over time starts to look
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less like in competence and more like a choice. Because
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here's the part that doesn't sit right when you start
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lining it all up. Every time something surfaced, every time
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someone pushed information forward, it didn't trigger urgency. It triggered containment.
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The response wasn't we need to look deeper into this?
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Instead it was this doesn't go anywhere. Now. They want
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to call that a breakdown, but I call it a filter.
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And filters don't operate randomly. They operate with intent. Whether
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it was institutional hesitation, fear of reputational damage, deference to
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wealth and influence, or something even more deliberate, the effect
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was the same. Epstein and his criminal empire kept moving uninterrupted.
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The system that should have slowed him down instead absorbed
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the impact and kept them insulated. And the longer that
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went on, the harder it becomes to argue that nobody
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understood what he wants us. Now you fast forward to
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the present, where pieces of the record, emails, testimonies, internal
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communications are starting to surface in greater volume, and what
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those pieces do is remove the benefit of the doubt
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because they show awareness, they show proximity. They show that
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Epstein was in some unknown quantity drifting through British territory.
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He was a known problem that was repeatedly deprioritized. And
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once that becomes clear, the narrative shifts from failure to tolerance,
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not because anyone stood up and said protect them, but
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because the cumulative effect of an action did exactly that.
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When warnings don't lead to action, they become permission, and
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over the years, that permission hardens into something that looks
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a lot like policy, even if it was never written down.
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And that's where this stops being about Epstein alone and
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starts becoming about institutional accountability, because if the same name
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keeps appearing alongside ignored warnings, ignored opportunities, ignored interventions, then
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you're no longer asking why didn't they catch them? You're
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asking why didn't they want to? And that is a
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much more uncomfortable question. It forces you to consider whether
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the cost of acting socially, politically, reputationally was deemed higher
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than the cost of doing nothing. And if that calculation
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was made, even implicitly, then what you're looking at isn't
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just a failure of law enforcement or oversight. It's a
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failure of will. And now that the paper trail is expanding,
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now that more of these fragments are becoming visible. The
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pressure shifts because you can't keep calling it coincidence when
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the same outcome repeats itself under different circumstances. You can't
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keep calling it oversight when the oversight consistently favors the
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same person. At some point, the pattern demands to be
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acknowledged for what it is, and what it suggests plainly
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is that the system didn't just miss Epstein, it made
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room for him. Today's article is from The Guardian and
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the headline Epstein housed alleged victims in London after MET
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declined to investigate him. This article was authored by Jamie Grierson.
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Jeffrey Epstein how some of his alleged abuse victims in
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flats in London after police in the UK decided against
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investigating him, according to reports, all by design. I hate
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to say it, but it's true. The cover up is vast,
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and the cover up runs deep, and it's not just
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contained in America, and it's not just contained to London.
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This is a worldwide cover up that involves so many
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powerful people that it's almost hard to wrap your head around.
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And I speculated that the MET killed these investigations back
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in the day when they were happening, because they wanted
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to protect Andrew. But what they did was just make
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things a lot worse, not only for them but for
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Andrew too, because it's all a cover up now and
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I think that the cover up in the UK is
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going to be unraveled. The BBC said it uncover evidence
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of four flats in Kensington and Chelsea in receipts, emails
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and bank records contained within Epstein's files. Six women who
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stayed in the properties have since accused the late financier
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of sexually abusing them. The broadcaster said, well, the broadcaster
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BBC should have done more at the time, but they
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were too busy calling everybody who was interested in the
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story a conspiracy theorist or crazy. Well who's crazy now
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because all these chickens are coming home to roost and
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BBC might be breaking this story right now, but they're
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about five years too late. And can you imagine if
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they would have broke this story early and let people
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know what was going on, and let all of you
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know what was going on, Imagine the anger, imagine the rage.
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But no, instead they played games, just like here in America.
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Some of the women, including some from Russia and Eastern
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Europe were brought to the UK after the Metropolitan Police
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decided not to investigate Virginia Roberts twenty fifteen allegation that
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she had been a victim of international trafficking to London.
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The BBC said all at the Queen's demand. I know
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people don't want to hear that, and I know people
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love the Queen, but the Queen was involved deeply. She
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protected Andrew from the very beginning, all the way up
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until her death, and she knew exactly the kind of
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monster that Andrew was. But as far as the met
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there's no way that they were ever going to go
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against the Queen, certainly not now Charles. Maybe I don't
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think that Charles has built up the you know, rapport
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or the love with the English people. The Queen was
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beloved and people were willing to give her the benefit
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of the doubt. I highly doubt that anybody wants to
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give Charles the benefit of anything. So maybe this investigation
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ends up having a different outcome that would be great.
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Am I confident that that'll happen? I'm not do. I
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I hope it will. I do, because it's something like
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that that could really open the floodgates. And while I
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think that there's a better chance at that happening now
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that the queen is gone, I'm not very confident that
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it's going to Roberts was one of Epstein's most high
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profile accusers, alleging the convicted child sex offender abused and traffickeder.
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What do you mean, accuser? You mean survivor, right, somebody
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that was abused by Jeffrey Epstein and Jeffrey Epstein's friends.
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That's what you mean, right. She claimed in a twenty
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twenty one US lawsuit that Andrew mount Baton Windsor had
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sex with her at a home in London in two
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thousand and one, when she was seventeen, after she had
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been trafficked by Epstein. Mount Baton Windsor has denied the allegations.
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The BBC reported various details from the files dated around
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twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen after Robert's allegation that show
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Epstein corresponding with women housed in flats in affluent areas
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of London. And this is something that we were reported.
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How did I know? I listened to the survivors they
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were telling us this, And we also had anonymous people
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talking about it, how the airports in the UK were
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being used, how there were women being housed in London,
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and how the authorities were just ignoring it. And I
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remember at the time being called crazy. Well, I guess
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it's not so crazy anymore, is it. In some of
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the exchanges seen by the broadcaster, Epstein uses aggressive language
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after the women apparently complained of the conditions. In one message,
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she reportedly swears at one woman, calling her rude and
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accuses her of discussing behavior, saying she was a brat
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who has yet to accept responsibility. And that's right on
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bran for Epstein. The guide to mean people talk trash
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to people and talk down to everybody. And when it
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comes to these girls, they were a commodity, right, They
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weren't human. There were just another commodity for Epstein to trade.
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Another message seen by the BBC reveals pictures of cute
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models sent to Epstein by one of the women in London.
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Epstein also reportedly paid for at least five women, many
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of whom were in the UK on student visas to
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study in London. Of course he did. That was a pipeline.
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That was one of the stopovers, and that was his
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central base when it comes to Europe. Jeffrey Epstein and
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Glenn Maxwell obviously loved London and they spent a lot
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of time there. And anybody who thinks that they weren't
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abusing people while they were there, they're crazy. They most
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certainly were. And here's another little golden nugget. They were
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engaged in immigration fraud in the UK, just like in
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the United States. Now that part hasn't been reported yet,
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but it's coming and I have that on a pretty
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good source. Millions of documents, images, videos, and emails detailing
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the activities of Epstein, who died in jail in twenty
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nineteen while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges, have
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been released since December last year, including documents collected as
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evidence in the criminal case against them and his associates.
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His associates, huh, you mean Glenn Maxwell. No criminal case
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against anybody else. The files were released after the US
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House of Representatives past the Epstein Files Transparency Act and
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the Senate unanimously approved it, with Donald Trump signing the
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bill into law the next day. The met Police have
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been contacted for comment. All right, folks, So things are
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heating up over in the UK and considering just how
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quickly things are moving over in Europe and how fast
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the story is expanding. We're going to launch a podcast
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that deals with Epstein in Europe because I keep getting
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a lot of messages from people over in Europe who
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want more coverage of the story. So that's what we're
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gonna do. We're gonna launch a companion podcast that deals
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with Epstein over in Europe and is centered on people
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like Prince Andrew. So my plan is in the next
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few days to have that bad Boy launched and ready
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to go, and once that happens, I'll make sure that
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I link that podcast in the description box. Until then,
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that's going to do it for this one. All the
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information that goes with this episode can be found in
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the description box.