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Donald Trump's Legal Offensive Against Epstein Reporting Falls Apart (11/2/26) · 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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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. Back in July of 2025, Donald Trump filed
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  Speaker 1: a lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over their story
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  Speaker 1: about the birthday card that he allegedly sent to Jeffrey
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  Speaker 1: Epstein for Jeffrey Epstein's birthday. And according to Trump, well,
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  Speaker 1: that letter, that was never sent by him and he
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  Speaker 1: has no idea how something like that would have ever
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  Speaker 1: found its way to a guy like Epstein. And at
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  Speaker 1: the time, I said that if it was a forgery,
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  Speaker 1: then you would think that the Secret Service would be
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  Speaker 1: all over that, right? I mean, if somebody forges the
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  Speaker 1: president's name onto a birthday card, you would think that
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  Speaker 1: the Secret Service would take that very serious. So if
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  Speaker 1: it was a forgery, how come we didn't see that
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  Speaker 1: kind of investigation? How come we didn't hear about somebody
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  Speaker 1: that was forging the president's name? Well, It's pretty simple, right?
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  Speaker 1: Because that letter was in fact sent by Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: And the fact that this has been thrown out now
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  Speaker 1: by two separate judges tells me everything I need to
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  Speaker 1: know about this lawsuit that was filed by Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: And if you needed any more proof or evidence that
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  Speaker 1: it was a bunch of BS, well, here it is.
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  Speaker 1: So in this episode, we're going to dive into an
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  Speaker 1: article from CNBC. And then later on, we'll be diving
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  Speaker 1: into the order itself. So first things first, let's dive
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  Speaker 1: into this article from CNBC. Headline, Trump defamation suit against Murdoch,
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  Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal over Epstein letter dismissed with prejudice. This
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  Speaker 1: article was authored by Michael Wayland and Dan Mangan. A
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  Speaker 1: federal judge in Miami on Saturday dismissed with prejudice President
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump's amended defamation lawsuit against media baron Rupert Murdoch
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  Speaker 1: and the Wall Street Journal, over the newspaper's reporting on
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  Speaker 1: a purported 50th birthday letter from the president to notorious
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  Speaker 1: sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. District Court Judge Darren Gales ruled
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  Speaker 1: that Trump had again failed to plausibly allege that the
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  Speaker 1: newspaper and other defendants acted with actual malice when they
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  Speaker 1: published the story in July of 2025. For them to
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  Speaker 1: act in malice, the story would have to be fake,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it's quite obvious to anybody paying attention
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  Speaker 1: that this is not fake, that Donald Trump did in
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  Speaker 1: fact send this birthday card. And like I always tell you,
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  Speaker 1: if he is lying about this, what else is he
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  Speaker 1: lying about? As with his first attempt, he has failed,
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  Speaker 1: Gills wrote in the 20-page ruling, which came more than
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  Speaker 1: six months after he dismissed Trump's first version of the suit.
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  Speaker 1: Grasping at straws, the amended complaint attempts to manufacture flaws
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  Speaker 1: with the investigation. And of course it does. Loopholes, technicalities,
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  Speaker 1: and the rest of it. It's never on the merits, right?
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  Speaker 1: These guys are never trying to get these suits tossed
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  Speaker 1: out on the basic merits of them. They're getting them
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  Speaker 1: tossed out on loopholes and technicalities. And then these rotten
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  Speaker 1: sons of bitches have the audacity to act like that's
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  Speaker 1: some kind of big victory. You didn't win the case.
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  Speaker 1: You won on technicalities and loopholes. By dismissing the suit
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  Speaker 1: with prejudice, the judge blocked Trump from filing another suit
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  Speaker 1: alleging the same claims about Murdoch and the paper in
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  Speaker 1: federal court. So that's significant, right? The fact that he
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  Speaker 1: can't refile this claim in federal court is a big deal,
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  Speaker 1: especially considering how much Trump loves to sue. So you
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  Speaker 1: know that he was probably gearing up for another lawsuit
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to this issue as well. But the
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  Speaker 1: judge told him, listen, buddy, that's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: So take your claims and tell your story walking. That's
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  Speaker 1: basically what the judge told him. Gale said that the
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  Speaker 1: journal had conducted a thoughtful and detailed investigation, and he
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  Speaker 1: rejected Trump's argument that the newspaper should not have published
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  Speaker 1: the story after he denied writing the letter. Well, your
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  Speaker 1: denial's not good enough, buddy. Especially after you've been railing
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  Speaker 1: about the Epstein files for all these years, about holding
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  Speaker 1: people accountable, and then you pull this shit? So yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Breaking news, President Trump. Nobody buys your bullshit when we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about Epstein. The judge did not determine whether Trump
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  Speaker 1: actually authored the disputed letter. Trump is adamantly denied writing it. Well,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, the biggest tell for me is that
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  Speaker 1: there is no investigation by the Secret Service. Because if
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  Speaker 1: this was a real forgery, then the Secret Service would
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  Speaker 1: be all over it. And there would be a big-ass investigation,
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  Speaker 1: and we'd know about it. But since that never occurred...
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  Speaker 1: It leads me to believe that this is legit and
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  Speaker 1: old Donald Trumpino did write the birthday card. When Gales
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  Speaker 1: first dismissed the suit in April, he allowed Trump to
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  Speaker 1: file an amended version of the complaint to cure legal
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  Speaker 1: defects the judge had identified. So the judge was more
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  Speaker 1: than fair, gave Trump and his team the chance to
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  Speaker 1: go back and fix some things up, make some changes.
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  Speaker 1: fix their legalese, if you will. And still, after all
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  Speaker 1: of that, the judge decides to dismiss it with prejudice. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what does that tell you? I know what it tells me.
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  Speaker 1: Trump was seeking $ 10 billion in damages from Murdoch and
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  Speaker 1: the Journal, which is owned by Murdoch's News Corp. A
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  Speaker 1: spokesman for Trump's legal team confirmed to CNBC that the
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  Speaker 1: president plans to appeal the ruling. President Trump will continue
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  Speaker 1: to press forward in his powerhouse lawsuit against the Wall
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  Speaker 1: Street Journal and all of the other defendants, the spokesman
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  Speaker 1: said in a statement. The president will continue to hold
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  Speaker 1: those who mislead the American people with fake news and
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  Speaker 1: smears accountable for their actions. Well, why don't you start
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  Speaker 1: with yourself? I mean, the audacity of this dude talking
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  Speaker 1: like this. I've never seen anything like it. We've seen
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  Speaker 1: some brazen people in this country before running the show.
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  Speaker 1: But this takes the cake. This dude's literally telling you
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  Speaker 1: not to believe your own eyes. Just believe what I
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  Speaker 1: tell you. And that might work with, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: MAGA faithful. But the rest of us? We're not buying
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  Speaker 1: that shit, buddy. And if anything's a hoax, it's the
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  Speaker 1: narrative that's been put forward by Donald Trump. That's the
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  Speaker 1: real hoax. And the fact that he keeps running the
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  Speaker 1: app on the American people is just unbelievable. And at
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  Speaker 1: some point, those chickens are going to come home to roost.
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  Speaker 1: And come Wednesday, Donald Trump might be waking up to
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  Speaker 1: a whole ass different world. Gales, as he did when
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  Speaker 1: dismissing the suit for the first time, noted Trump, who
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  Speaker 1: has adamantly denied sending the letter to his then friend
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  Speaker 1: Epstein in 2003, had not plausibly alleged that the defendants
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  Speaker 1: published the article with actual malice. Again, that's because there
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  Speaker 1: was no malice. They were posting something that they believed
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  Speaker 1: is true, that they say they have evidence for. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's literally their job, isn't it? Like, isn't that what
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  Speaker 1: they're supposed to do? Like, what are they supposed to do?
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  Speaker 1: Not report the story because it's hurtful to Trump? What
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  Speaker 1: are we talking about, Sean Hannity here? Plaintiffs who are
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  Speaker 1: public figures like Trump must show a defendant acted with
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  Speaker 1: actual malice when making allegedly defamatory statements, according to Supreme
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  Speaker 1: Court decisions that Gales cited at the beginning of his ruling.
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  Speaker 1: Trump's amended lawsuit contained new details and claims, including that
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  Speaker 1: Murdoch told the president, I will handle it, during a
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  Speaker 1: phone conversation they had about the article describing a birthday
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  Speaker 1: letter to Epstein that allegedly bore Trump's signature, Newsweek previously reported.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that this really just puts it to bed.
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  Speaker 1: Because if anybody is out here thinking that Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: didn't write this, then that person shouldn't be trusted. Whatever
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  Speaker 1: their motivations are, for lying and carrying water, that person,
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  Speaker 1: whoever it is, should not be trusted. Because if they're
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  Speaker 1: going to lie about something like this, you know where
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  Speaker 1: I'm going with that, right? What the fuck else are
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  Speaker 1: they lying to you about? Gales rejected each of Trump's
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  Speaker 1: arguments in the amended complaint, including that the journal did
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  Speaker 1: not adequately investigate the letter, omitted relevant details, and that
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  Speaker 1: the article was published after the president and his representatives
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  Speaker 1: denied it was authentic. Your denial means nothing. What kind
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  Speaker 1: of evidence do you have to back that shit up? Like,
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  Speaker 1: are these dudes brain dead? Nobody trusts you guys. Not
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  Speaker 1: for a second. Not for a minute. Ever again. And
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  Speaker 1: it's all self-inflicted. Another federal judge in Miami on October
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  Speaker 1: 22nd ordered Trump to sit for a deposition in his
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  Speaker 1: $ 10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC by December 11th.
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  Speaker 1: A sitting president sitting for a deposition, that's going to
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  Speaker 1: be fireworks. The Journal's article on July 17th, 2025, said
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  Speaker 1: a letter bearing Trump's signature was included in an album
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  Speaker 1: of letters Epstein was given for his 50th birthday. And
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  Speaker 1: that's indisputable. As far as the fact that Epstein did
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  Speaker 1: receive this, the only thing in dispute is what Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump said or didn't say. And in my opinion, I
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  Speaker 1: think that Donald Trump most certainly wrote that message to
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein. And I need to explain what he meant.
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  Speaker 1: The article said Trump sent letters at the request of
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's close friend, Glenn Maxwell, who to decade. later, was
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  Speaker 1: convicted of procuring underage girls to be sexually abused by
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  Speaker 1: Epstein and abusing them herself. Okay? Why do they always
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  Speaker 1: leave that part out? Like Ghislaine Maxwell was just some
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  Speaker 1: woman bringing girls to Jeffrey Epstein like she was Heidi Fleiss.
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  Speaker 1: That is not what occurred. The journal noted that the
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  Speaker 1: letter contained several lines of typewritten text framed by the
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  Speaker 1: outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn
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  Speaker 1: with a heavy marker. A pair of small arcs denotes
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  Speaker 1: the woman's breasts, and the future president's signature is a
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  Speaker 1: squiggly Donald below her waist, mimicking pubic hair. Journal reporter
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  Speaker 1: Khadija Safdar and Joe Palazzolo said in the article, The
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  Speaker 1: letter concludes Happy Birthday and may every day be another
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  Speaker 1: wonderful secret, they wrote. Like, what the fuck does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: Real talk. I want to know what he means by
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  Speaker 1: every day is another wonderful fucking secret. What do you
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  Speaker 1: mean by that, Mr. President? Trump angrily denied writing the
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  Speaker 1: letter saying this is not me. This is a fake thing.
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  Speaker 1: I never wrote a picture in my life. I don't
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  Speaker 1: draw pictures of women, the president said at the time.
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  Speaker 1: Turns out to be another lie. Do doodles all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Have you seen some of the drawings? So even at
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  Speaker 1: the time, Donald Trump's story just didn't make sense. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that these rulings by these judges just cements it.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see where Trump goes from here. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's not just going to give up. He'll try and
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  Speaker 1: elevate it somewhere else where who knows. But the good
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  Speaker 1: news is we'll be here every step of the way.
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  Speaker 1: All the information that goes with this episode can be
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