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The UK Reckoning: Why Demands for An Investigation Into Andrew Are Intensifying · 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. In this episode, we're going to bounce across
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  the pond and we're gonna check in on the Joe
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  exotic of the Windsor family. Because now the calls for
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  the police to be involved and to really investigate Andrew
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  are growing, and I have to tell you, I'm pretty shocked.
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  I never thought that we get to a point where
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  there'd be calls in the UK for Andrew to really
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  answer for what he was up to. And remember, I'm
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  not just talking about the alleged sexual abuse. I'm talking
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  about all of it. And at some point, when you
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  keep the company that Andrew kept, those chickens are going
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  to come home to roost. Whether somebody ends up getting
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  hemmed up and flips on you during a trial, whatever
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  it might be, there's no honor amongst thieves and there
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  are certainly no friendship amongst human traffickers. Today's article was
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  published by The Independent and the headline former Minister joins
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  calls for police to investigate Andrew over Epstein ties. This
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  article was authored by Athena Stavro. Authorities are facing renewed
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  pressure to launch a full investigation into Andrew mount Baton
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  Winsaw and his ties with Jeffrey Epstein after a former
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  business secretary urged them to examine his role as UK
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  Trade Envoy. And at this point, I think that's a
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  universal call. And I know I've said it once, but
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  I'll say it again. If you were Prince Andrew and
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  you were really innocent, wouldn't you welcome this? Wouldn't you
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  want there to be an investigation to clear your name? Hey,
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  look this was looked at, I was cleared I had
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  nothing to do with this, and then afterwards you can
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  start suing people, right Prince Andrew so broke. I think
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  that him suing people would be a great idea for
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  him if he had a case. But that's the thing.
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  He doesn't have a case, and he doesn't want to
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  go to discovery. As we saw with Virginia. If he
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  had all the evidence he said he had, if he
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  never did the things that he was accused of doing,
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  do you really think he would have set on fire
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  what little legacy he had left because there was no
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  coming back from that settlement. Everybody knew that. And let's
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  not act like he's just some rich guy who can
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  pay that shit to go away. That's not what happened.
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  He had to go hat in hand to his family
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  to get the money to make it go away. So
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  all signs point to Prince Andrew being guilty. Okay, they
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  always have and in my opinion, unless there's something drastic,
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  they always will. According to emails released by the US
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  Department of Justice, mister mount Bountain Winsor appeared to have
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  forwarded official reports on trips to Singapore, Hong Kong, and
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  Vietnam in twenty ten and twenty eleven to Epstein when
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  he was a government trade envoy. And I think this
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  is going to be the downfall for a lot of people.
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  A lot of the people that were in Epstein's orbit
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  will probably be protected from the most heinous of charges,
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  whether it's statutal limitations, whether there's not enough evidence, whatever
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  it might be. But when it comes to shit like this,
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  when it comes to financial crimes, when it comes to
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  trading state secrets, well if there is a paper trail,
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  if there is evidence, that is a surefire away to
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  put these people behind bars. And as far as I'm concerned,
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  that's where they all belong. Ser Vince Cable, whose time
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  as a business secretary between twenty ten and twenty fifteen
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  overlap with Andrew's envoy. Roll said the activity was totally
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  unacceptable and urged the police to launch a full investigation
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  into his role. He told the BBC we need a
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  police or DPP Director of Public prosper Secutions check on
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  whether criminal corruption took place and a government investigation into
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  how this was allowed to happen. Well, the uncomfortable truth
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  is a lot of it had to do with the Queen.
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  She loved her baby boy, Andrew, and she was willing
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  to go to great length to protect them. And we've
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  saw that time and time again throughout this whole entire fiasco.
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  How many times did the Queen protect Andrew? How many
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  times were people turned away when they were looking for answers.
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  So that's something that the royal family is going to
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  have to grapple with and I think more people are
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  going to become aware of that as time moves on.
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  And we have to keep in mind that the vast
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  majority of people are playing catch up now. They don't
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  have all the details you have. They haven't been following
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  along for years, they don't know all the nuance, they're
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  not hit to all of the so called insider baseball, right,
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  they don't know all of that yet, but once you
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  start looking at it, and once you start downloading that information,
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  it becomes rather obvious that the Queen played a gigantic
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  part in being a roadblock between Andrew and any real
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  consequential investigation into the allegations against them. And it wasn't
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  until the eleventh hour where things were undeniable anymore, where
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  the Queen acquiesced and got on board with Andrew doing
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  what he did. It comes after the UK's top prosecutor,
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  Stephen Parkinson, warned that nobody is above the law, as
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  the Director of Public Prosecution said no, of course not
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  when asked whether he thought that the royals were above
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  the law. Well that's nice, huh. I mean, considering a
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  royal has never been arrested, considering that nobody has access
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  to their server, I would say that they're above the law,
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  but it would be nice if they weren't. He added
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  that he has total confidence that the police will be independent. Well,
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  I hope so, but I don't know where he gets
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  that confidence from. I mean, how long if we heard
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  the police in the UK try and sweep this under
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  the rug time and time again. Oh we took a
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  look at that. Nothing to see here, Prince Andrew, hell
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  of a guy, but even then it was obvious garbage.
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  How many people came forward and corroborated that there was
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  at least enough to investigate. That's the biggest problem here,
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  that there was never even an investigation, not a real one,
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  not robust, not one that touched on all facets, and
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  certainly not one that included Prince Andrew. Emails released as
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  part of the so called Epstein Files earlier this month
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  appear to show the former Duke, who served as a
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  trade endvoy between two thousand and one and twenty eleven,
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  sharing confidential reports from his role as the UK's trade
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  endvoy with the pedophile financier. And even if you don't
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  believe all the other accusations, even if you're one of
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  these people that thinks it's all made up, can you
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  justify passing any kind of confidential information to anyone, never
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  mind kai like Jeffrey Epstein? I mean, are you crazy?
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  We all know the DUE was an asset. We all
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  know the DUE was working for multiple intelligence services. So
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  what happened to this confidential information? Did it make its
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  way into the hands of an enemy of the state.
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  And again, look, I don't know, I'm just asking questions.
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  Trade envoys have a duty of confidentiality, and the King
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  has made clear his profound concern over allegations of misconduct
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  against Andrew, with Buckingham Pallas saying it stands ready to
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  support the police if approached. And that's a pretty big
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  statement because we all know that the Royal Family they
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  really don't answer to anybody. But I think the storm
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  is blowing so fiercely that they can't avoid it, right,
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  so they have to answer it, they have to recognize it.
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  But to do that exposes them. So the King has decided, hey, look, Andrew,
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  you've been voted off the island, my friend, and if
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  the police come for you, we're not stepping in. And
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  that's great, right. I think that's a good step. But
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  it's about, oh, I don't know, a decade too late,
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  because Prince Andrew and his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, and
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  his relationship with all these scoundrels in fact, should have
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  been investigated a long time ago. Much of the work
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  of the Royal family in recent weeks has been overshadowed
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  by the Epstein scandal. Despite the King's attempt to draw
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  a line under the matter when he banished Andrew and
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  removed his titles. Again, too little, too late. You can't
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  wait for the ship storm to show up and then
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  may pretend you care. You have to proactively be out
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  in front of it. And if you're not, people are
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  gonna have questions. And that's what we're seeing now right. Well, okay,
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  it's great that the king's acting, but what took so long?
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  Why didn't the Queen do it? Why were people so
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  willing to defend Andrew for so long when the writing
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  was on the wall. The truth is, they never thought
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  that this bill was going to come due. They thought
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  that it was going to get swept under the rug
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  and that we were never going to get answers. Well,
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  guess what they were wrong, and now we want those answers.
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  Liberal Democrat leader At Davey claimed the files had made
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  it clear that Andrew had abused his position as trade
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  endvoy and called for a public inquiry. The Epstein revelations
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  were hugely damaging the public trust in our institutions. It's
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  clear Andrew mount Batten Windsor abused his position as trade endvoy,
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  sharing sensitive information about the UK's interest with his friend
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  and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. He told The mal online
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  the police are rightfully looking into this as we need
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  full trans to get justice for the victims of this
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  abhorrent abuse. That must also include a public inquiry. Labor
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  and P Sarah Owen, who heads the Commons Women and
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  a Qualities Committee, this week, said Andrew must answer to
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  the police and Parliament over the allegations, while Labor MP
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  Rachel Mascal told BBC the former Duke should be stripped
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  of his succession rights to the throne. Well, that sounds
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  like a pretty good idea. No last thing you want
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  is Uncle Touchy anywhere near the throne, unless, of course,
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  that throne happens to be a bathroom somewhere that he's cleaning,
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  because that's the only job he's qualified for. Right with
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  all the bullshitt he's out here spewing all the bullshitt
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  he's involved in, definitely be somebody that cleans toilets. We
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  need to know what was happening in those circles, and
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  therefore I think it would be right to be able
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  to scrutinize, have transparency and get to the bottom of
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  all these dealings. She said, all of these titles and
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  positions need to be addressed, so we're just left with
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  Andrew the citizen, and the citizen that is fully accountable.
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  It comes as Tames Value Police said last week that
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  they have held discussions with specialists from the Crown Prosecution
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  Service about the allegations that Andrew shared confidential reports. Before
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  said while we cannot provide time scials over when a
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  decision as to whether a criminal investigation will be opened,
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  we can assure you that Tames Value Police is making
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  progress as quickly as possible. Assistant Constable Oliver Wright said
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  they were leading the assessment of allegations relating to misconduct
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  in public office, which specifically related to documents within the
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  United States Department of Justice Epstein files. And I think
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  for Prince Andrew that's where the most exposure is because
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  he obviously was using his position for personal gain, and
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  I think that there's plenty of evidence that backs that up.
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  So now the question is what's the endgame. Is Prince
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  Andrew held accountable or are we going to get the
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  UK version of just move On. All of the information
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