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Michael Wolff Sues Melania Trump For A Billion Dollars As Part Of Their Ongoing Epstein Feud · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. So, Michael Wolfe, the author, has filed a
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  lawsuit against Milania Trump, and he says that Malania Trump
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  is attempting to intimidate him and to stop him from
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  reporting on her ledged ties to Jeffrey Epstein. And now
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  Michael Wolfe is taking it a step further, saying that
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  he hopes that he's able to depose Malania Trump and
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  Donald Trump when it comes to this issue. And look,
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  this fire has been burning now since July. And at
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  the center of this controversy is Michael Wolfe, the veteran
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  author famous for torching political royalty and now the man
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  who filed a billion dollar lawsuit against her in New York,
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  claiming that she tried to silence him with a billion
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  dollar threat. Yeah billion with a bee. You could rebuild
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  half of Miami for that kind of money, but apparently
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  that's what it costs these days to keep a journalist quiet.
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  Wolfe says her tea went nuclear after he suggested that
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  Milania and Trump once moved in Epstein's orbit, that maybe
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  their paths weren't as distant as they'd like people to believe.
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  Her lawyers naturally hit back with a vengeance, letters, warnings,
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  demands for retractions, the whole arsenal of high society damage control.
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  But instead of backing down, we'll flip the script and
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  suit her first. He wants discovery, meaning depositions, records, flight manifests,
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  the kind of evidence that makes powerful people sweat under
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  fluorescent lights. And look, let's be real. Wolf, no stranger
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  to controversy. Bros made a career out of walking right
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  up to the line between journalism and provocation, then moon
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  walking over it for good measure. Dude's been called reckless, sensational, brilliant,
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  and everything in between. But love him or hate him,
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  one thing's for sure. He's not afraid of a fight,
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  and in this case, he picked one with the family
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  that practically trademarked the word litigation. That's like poking a
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  hornets just to see if it still stings. Now. Of course,
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  Milania's side calls it all false in defamatory. They say
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  Wolf is chasing cloud, that he's peddling solicious fiction for clicks.
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  Maybe he is, But if this were really about shutting
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  down lies, why make it a billion dollar spectacle? Because
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  threats like that don't sound like damage control. They sound
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  like deterrence. And history tells us when people start screaming
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  about defamation in the Epstein orbit, it's usually because someone's
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  getting a little too close to something uncomfortable and the
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  irony of it all. If the goal was to bury
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  the story, threatening a billion dollar lawsuit against a guy
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  who thrives on controversy is like pouring gasoline on a barbecue.
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  Wolf'spin in this rodeo long enough to know the value
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  of a headline, and Milanya's legal threats practically gift wrap
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  them one. The moment those words billion dollar lawsuit hit
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  the press, the story became unstoppable, because that's how this
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  saga works. If he's on silence, on secrecy, on that
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  sense that the truth is always a half a page away.
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  Every time a new name gets pulled into it, the
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  whole thing reignites. One minute, its bankers, the next it's princes,
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  and before you know it, you're talking about former and
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  current presidents. And every time it comes back to the
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  same haunting question that's been hanging in the air since
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  the day Epstein was found dead in a cell. Who
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  knew what and when This article was published by NBC
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  News and the headline author Michael Wolfe sues Malania Trump
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  over Jeffrey Epstein threat. The author of this article is
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  Chloe Atkins and Dora Gregorian. Author Michael Wolfe has sued
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  First Lady Malania Trump, charging that she threatened a one
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  billion dollar legal action against him to stop him from
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  reporting and writing about her alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
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  Miss Trump's claims are made for the sole purpose of harassing, intimidating, punishing,
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  or otherwise maliciously inhibiting mister Wolfe's free exercise of speech,
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  said the suit, which was file Tuesday in New York
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  Supreme Court in Manhattan. The filing includes an attachment a
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  letter of Trump's attorney, Alexandro Brito, sent to wolf the
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  author of Fire in Fury, last week, demanding that he
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  retract and apologize for public comments he made linking his
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  client to Epstein, the notorious sex offender, and that he
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  make a monetary proposal to Miss Trump for the damages
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  that you have caused. And if you think that a
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  guy like Michael wolf is going to just open up
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  the bank account and start paying out settlements, you're crazy.
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  He can manipulate all of this into a story, and
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  that's what he's going to do. And look, I have
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  a lot of questions about Michael wolf himself and about
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  what his motivations are. I mean, you would think that
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  if you have all this information that you say you have,
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  that you say you've had four years, you'd release it, right,
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  But it's always a drip with Michael wolf Oh, I
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  have this, I'm going to release it later, and then
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  he just keeps dragging it out because he knows it's
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  good for business, right. And then of course he'll drop
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  a book or two and you'll have a bunch of
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  salacious allegations in the book, and a lot of them
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  are unverifiable, There's no doubt about it. And when we
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  first started talking about mister wolf a few years ago,
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  I said that I would take everything he has to
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  say with a grain of salt. And I still feel
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  that way. But does that mean that what he's saying
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  is a bunch of bs? All of it? Absolutely not.
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  So I think it's worthy of discussion. But I'd be
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  a liar if I told you that I thought that
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  Michael Wolfe was some kind of arbiter of truth when
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  it comes to Epstein. I don't believe that to be
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  the case. I think that Michael wolf just knows that
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  he could sell books, he can get clicks, and he
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  can make some money with this story. I think that's
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  what it comes down to. But with this lawsuit with
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  Milania Trump certainly interesting, right And if they do get
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  to discovery, boy, that would be exciting. Can you imagine
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  what will come out in a discovery like that? What
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  sort of nonsense all these people have been getting up to?
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  And I'm not just talking about the Trumps, Michael wolf himself,
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  because sometimes you think that you are going to have
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  the upper hands when it comes to these depositions, and
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  then it comes time for the deposition and you find
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  out something completely different. So is that what Michael Wolfe
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  has in store for him? I guess we'll have to see.
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  Trump has been aggressive in pushing back against what her
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  lawyers describe as false reports linking her to Epstein, and
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  her office said in a statement on Wednesday that she
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  is proud to continue standing up to those who spread
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  malicious and defamatory falsehoods as they desperately try to get
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  undeserved attention and money from their unlawful conduct. And look,
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  if he's telling falsehoods, if he's not telling the truth,
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  I'd sue him too. But remember when you sue somebody,
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  you have to back it up, and that means depositions,
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  that means going to court, that means discovery, that means
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  all of that stuff probably going public. So if you
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  have any anything that you're embarrassed of, chances are you're
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  going to try and avoid a deposition and certainly try
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  and avoid discovery. And that's why you see Prince Andrew's
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  bitch ass settle with Virginia when he did. The letter
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  from Brito cited comments Wolf made to The Deli Beasts
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  this year in a story headline Malania Trump very involved
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  in Epstein's scandal, as well as comments he made on
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  a Deli Beasts podcast, And if you remember, he was
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  saying that Milania Trump was introduced to Donald Trump by
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  somebody who she says wasn't the person who introduced them.
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  So Milania Trump has said that everything Michael Wolf is
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  saying about her and the origin story of her meeting
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  Donald Trump is defamatory. The website later issued a retraction
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  and an apology. The full text of the retracted Delibeast
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  article is no longer available online instead of the publication
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  said in an editor's note upon reflection, we have determined
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  that the article did not meet our standards and has
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  therefore been removed from our platforms. You know, you have
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  to really be pushing the envelope if The Daily Beast
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  is going to remove an article about Donald Trump, because boy,
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  they love to stick it to him, right, So if
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  they have something they feel like is going to be damaging,
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  they're going to run it. So what does that say
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  about the credibility of the reporting of Michael Wolfe. Now
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  you could look at it from a different perspective, right,
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  and say, well, this is all about litigation. They're trying
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  to mitigate their exposure here by pulling this story. That way,
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  they don't have to deal with a very, very very
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  litigous Trump family. So that's certainly one way you could
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  look at it. But of course it could be spun
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  that the story was a bunch of bs and that's
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  why it was pulled. I mean, if you stand by
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  your work and you stand by your reporting, you're not
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  going to retract something. Right. Look at the Wall Street
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  Journal with the fiftieth birthday card that was allegedly sent
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  by Trump. They're standing ten toes down on business when
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  it comes to that. So if you believe something is true,
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  then you're going to back it up. Well. Suit says
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  the statements in the article were taken out of context,
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  and he maintained he had not to fame Trump. Trump
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  has not been accused of any wrongdoing connected to Epstein.
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  Epstein had been friends with Donald Trump in the nineties
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  and the early two thousands, and look, there's no doubt
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  that they were homies. They most certainly were same parties,
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  same social circles, the whole thing. And there is no
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  doubt that they did have a falling out. That's not
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  in dispute. And for me, I think the biggest problem
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  is the cover up that we're seeing right now. You
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  talked all this nonsense about releasing files, being transparent, making
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  sure the American people know what happened, only to come
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  into office and clam right up like everybody else. So
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  that's really where my criticism's coming from. Don't bullshit me
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  on the campaign trail and then when you get into
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  office do something completely different. I mean, it's one thing
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  to say, look, we have to investigate further to see
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  what's going on. It's a whole less other thing to
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  call it a hoax and to just kill the investigation entirely.
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  And that's why I think for Donald Trump, the cover
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  up in his case when it comes to Ebstein, is
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  worse than the crime. And that's all compounded by the
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  promises that were made on the campaign trail by Trump
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  and people that are now part of his administration. Epstein
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  died by suicide in a New York Jael cell in
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  twenty nineteen while he was awaiting trial on federal sex
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  trafficking charges. His death sparked numerous conspiracy theories and vows
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  during the twenty twenty four campaign from Donald Trump and
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  his allies of increased transparency into Ebstein's case and any
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  possible accomplices. And that's the big problem. Like I was
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  just saying, you can't run around literally for years talking
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  about this one's involved and that one's involved. And Bill
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  Clinton's going to have some issues because he went to
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  the island only to show up and say, just kidding,
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  there's nothing to see here. We're just playing with you guys.
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  That's not gonna work for any And look, I'll tell
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  you right now, if they released everything they had, every
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  file they had. I think that it would be better
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  for them in the long run, even if it's embarrassing now.
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  But unfortunately, it's all about politics, it's all about optics,
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  and it's all about trying to continue to control the narrative.
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  It's not about justice. It's not about holding anybody to
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  account and anybody telling you that's lying. And that goes
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  for Congress as well. Well. They're not trying to use
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  this as a political cudgel. Why isn't Matthew Menchell being
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  called or a Villa Fauna or a Krisher or any
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  of those other people? Ask yourself that. Wolf Suit said
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  that he had accrued many hours of interviews of Jeffrey
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  Epstein's conducted over several years, and that the First Lady's
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  legal threats are also intended to shut down legitimate inquiry
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  into the Epstein matter, which the Trumps and their collaborators
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  have at every turn sought to impede and suppress. In
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  a video on Wednesday on Instagram, wolf said he hopes
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  to be able to depose the Trumps as part of
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  his legal action. To be perfectly honest, I'd like nothing
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  better than to get Donald Trump and Milanya Trump under
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  oath in front of a court reporter and actually find
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  out all of the details of their relationship with Epstein.
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  He said, well, look, everybody would like to see that.
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  Do you really think it's gonna happen. I highly doubt it,
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  and that's because it's way too risky a deposition, really
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  sitting under oath talking about Epstein. That doesn't work out
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  well for people, and that's why you see so many
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  people avoiding it. So we'll have to see what comes
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  of this. But I have a hard time believing that
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  this is going to progress very far inside of the court.
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  My guess is that it's going to be dropped one
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  way or the other, some sort of settlement maybe, or
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  maybe the judge just says, look, there's no merit here
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  and we're going to toss it. So we'll keep an
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  eye on things, and when we have some more information,
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  we'll get it added to the catalog. All of the
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