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Left vs. Right Is a Distraction: The Cross-Partisan Web Around Epstein · 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. One of the biggest mistakes you can make
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when you're looking at Jeffrey Epstein in his crimes and
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his criminal organization is to try and fit it into
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a box. Jeffrey Epstein was not a Republican, he was
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not a Democrat, and didn't give two shits about loyalty
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to country or party. All Jeffrey Epstein cared about was
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Jeffrey Epstein, and all of this fighting, all this arguing,
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all this he said, she said, right versus left, pitchforks
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versus torches works to their advantage. So the more that
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we fight, the more that we argue, the better off
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they are and the easier it is for them to
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continue to push whatever kind of crazy narrative they're trying
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to push. But the truth is it's not a right
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or left problem. It's a problem shared by both sides
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because the people that are in charge, no matter what
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political party they claim to be ian, they don't care
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about you. They have no desire to do anything for you,
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and everything you see that comes out of their mouths,
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for the most part, is nothing more than theater. I mean,
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just take a look at what's going on in Congress.
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I mean, you'd think that all these people that are
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freaking out would want to talk to Stacy Plaskett, right,
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they'd want to get her deposed, see what she knows.
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It's not like she was part of a lawsuit saying
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that she was helping enable Jeffrey Epstein's operation. Oh wait,
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she was. Oh okay, might be something to talk about.
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Might be a good conversation I have. And when people
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like Jasmin Crockett refuse to even have the conversation, they
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lose credibility because how can you demand that other people
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get up there and talk about what they know while
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you're giving your buddy a pass. Isn't that the same
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thing that we're here going crazy about Trump doing so
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for me, the outrage and the anger is uniform. And
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that's because I understand that it's not one or the other,
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it's all of them. And in this article from The Independent,
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we're going to talk about that a little bit more headline.
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Epstein was invited to gatherings with a dozen members of
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Congress years after his initial arrest. Documents reveal this article
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was authored by Brendan Rasius. Look this shouldn't shock you, folks. Okay, Congress,
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the Senate, they have a slush fund that they use
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to pay off accusers who make accusations against them. And
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where do you think that money comes from? You think
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it's theirs? Wrong, We pay it the taxpayer. So just remember,
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those are the people up there waxing, poetic, engaging in
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all this theater, acting like they care. Meanwhile, their own
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colleagues are getting up to all kinds of no good.
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And not only that, they're still trying to associate with
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Jeffrey Epstein even after bro was arrested. In January of
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two though eleven, Jeffrey Epstein received an email inviting him
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to join a freshman congressman for a breakfast at a
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luxury hotel in midtown Manhattan. The billionaire pedophile was promised
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the chance to rub shoulders with Representative Alan West, a
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rising star Florida Republican whose district encompassed Epstein's Palm Beach mansions. Well,
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I'm sure that the other neighborhood diddlers also received invites
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to come to the galla. Right, Oh it was just Epstein. Oh,
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you just wanted his money. You didn't care about morality,
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you didn't care about the girls that were abused. Makes sense,
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sounds about right. You will have the opportunity to explore
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his views on a variety of issues, including spending, the
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national debt, taxes, education, the economy, Islam, the big One, Israel,
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among others. The letter read, So they're trying to dangle
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that as some kind of bait to get Epstein to
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come to the gala. Oh, you can talk to him
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about Israel, Like what does that even mean? And don't
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you people have like somebody that does research about who's
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coming to your gala, about who you're inviting, So you
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can make up whatever excuse you want now. But at
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the time, Jeffrey Epstein and his crimes were already known.
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Bro was already convicted. Okay, not for stealing a sandwich,
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not for touching a girl who's seventeen the way some
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of these jerkofs want to frame it. We all know
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what Jeffrey Epstein got him dubbed for, and we all
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know that it would have been a lot more, including
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a life sentence, if the federal government would have done
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its job. An hour after it landed in his inbox,
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Epstein replied that he was unfortunately in the Caribbean. For Epstein,
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this type of offer was far from unusual. After he
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pleaded guilty to procuring a minor for prostitution in two
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thousand and eight and served at thirteen months in jail,
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the convicted sex offender received offers to meet with over
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a dozen current or former members of Congress. According to
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the Independence analysis of documents released by the Department of Justice,
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most invitations delivered to Epstein's inbox were four exclusive gatherings,
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a birthday gala, a breakfast briefing, a fundraiser at a
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billionaire's home. Some, though, sought to facilitate one on one
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meetings between elected officials and the disgraced financier. Over half
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the lawmakers involved are from New York, New Mexico, and Florida,
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states where Epstein owns sprawling properties. Notable names include House
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Minority Leader Jakim Jeffreys, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and
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Senator Martin Heinrich. Every one of them should be deposed
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if they have nothing to say cool it was just
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an email sent by a staffer. Great, but everybody gets
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the business. I don't care who you are. You're caught
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up in this and there's even a hint of public corruption.
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You need to be deposed, you need to go under oath,
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and you need to explain what you were up to.
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We're talking about public funds now right. There needs to
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be accountability and that means full transparency by all these people, Hakim, Jeffries,
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Chuck Schumer, and Senator Martin Heinrich. And I've talked about
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Chuck Schumer previously. There was a point in time where
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he was getting a grip of money from Jeffrey Epstein
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and it wasn't until they got called out that they
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returned the money or even acted like they cared. And
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if he was never called out, that money would have
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been gone and spent, and he wouldn't have given a
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damn about the people that were abused. You see, these
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people never care about the abuse. They never care that
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we're getting stolen from. All they care about is that
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they're getting outed. That's the big problem, not the crime,
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not the fact that they screwed everybody literally and figuratively,
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but that they've been outed. That we know now that
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the jig is up, and you see that they're doing
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anything in their power to try and change the narrative.
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I mean, they got the avengers of idiots out there
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defending the Jeffrey Epstein DOJ decisions and what the Epstein administration,
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I mean, the Trump administration's doing. And because it's their side,
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their team, everything's okay, no big deal here, nothing to see.
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This is all just a big political hoax. Intermediaries such
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as public relation executives and major donors with ties to
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Epstein issued the invitations, and it's unclear how many events
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Epstein attended, if any, or whether lawmakers themselves were aware
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of the entreaties being made on their behalf. But taken together,
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the documents reveal how many political insiders tied to Capitol
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Hill viewed Epstein in the decade before his death. They
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didn't shun the convicted sex offender or Purgam from their
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email lists. Instead, they persistently pursued them. And this is
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what I mean. It's the whole ass system, folks, not
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just Trump. Now. Of course, Trump is a different level
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because he's the president, and in my opinion, he's overseeing
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a cover up, So of course that's a big point
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of conversation. But don't lose the plot. Don't go off
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on side quests. The whole ass system is broken. And
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all these people had no problem breaking bread with Jeffrey
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Epstein and benefiting either directly or indirectly from his massive
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amount of wealth. And that's all that mattered, not the
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people who were abused, not the girls, nobody. But now
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you'll see all these people come out and say, well,
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we return the money, we did this, we did that.
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The fact that you even emailed them is the problem.
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And until people are ready to confront that and get
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rid of their demagoguery, it's going to be a big
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problem moving forward. Because if we truly want to see justice,
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if we truly want transparency, we need to create a
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coalition of people that don't give a shit about ideology,
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that don't give a shit about politics, that understands that
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this is the biggest issue, maybe that we have ever faced,
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and now that we know what's going on, there's no
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running from it. This has to be confronted. And all
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the people that think that the world is the same
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as it used to be when it comes to inviting
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people like Epstein back into the fold, they need to
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be made aware that that's not the case. And for
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all the people that enable Jeffrey Epstein they need to
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understand that they're going to be outed billionaire fundraisers, birthday galas,
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and social club briefing. In November of twenty twelve, Mortimer Zuckerman,
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the billionaire then owner of the New York Delhi News
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and US News and World Report, sent an email to
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Epstein asking him to attend a fundraiser at his home
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for then Senator Max Baukis, a Montana Democrat who left
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office in twenty fourteen. And look, it might be uncomfortable
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for some people, but Jeffrey Epstein donated a ton of
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money to Democrats throughout the years. Now, he did donate
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some money to Republicans as well, no doubt about it.
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But Jeffrey Epstein's dive, if you will, with Republicans was
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elsewhere the tech sector, etc. But when it comes to politicians,
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Epstein was donating a lot of money to the Democrats
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and that's not debatable. I'd like to add that Senator
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Schumer is likely to attend the gathering, and I think
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this will be an excellent chance to interact with two
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key Senate Democrats, he wrote, referring to New York Senior
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Senator Zuckerman's named surfaces repeatedly in the DOJ files. In
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two thousand and nine, he exchanged emails with Epstein discussing
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how to influence media coverage of the Sex Offenders two
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thousand and eight Guilty Flea. At one point, according to
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the files, Zuckerman wrote to Epstein, we are doing major
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editing over huge objections. And this is another thing that
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has been very obvious. The legacy media has been bought
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and paid for. They ran cover for Epstein for all
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these years, and then they show up late to the
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party acting like they've cared. Well, they didn't care. And
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I can't tell you how many times they ignored people
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who had information about Jeffrey Epstein and his cohorts. And
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I can tell you for a fact that they thought
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this whole story was nothing more than a conspiracy theory.
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Just days prior to Zuckerman's invitation, Epstein was asked to
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attend a fundraiser for New York GOP representative Nicole Malatakis,
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who was then a state assembly woman. The event, which
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was ultimately postponed due to Hurricane Sandy, was said to
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be co hosted by John Castemitis, the billionaire owner of Gristetis,
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and a big Republican donor Castemitas Dame appeared in Epstein's
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nineteen ninety seven address book, according to Business Insider. A
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spokesperson for Amalia Takis told The Independent the congresswoman never
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met Epstein, did not invite him to anything, and never
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received a donation from him. Okay, sure, just your people, right. Look,
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the buck stops at the top. Same shit with Trump?
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Oh is everybody else? No, he's in charge right well,
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buck stops with him. The following year, an employee at
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a political fundraising firm penned a similar message to the
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disgraced financier. Dear Jeffrey, I hope you received an invite
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to the party that Congressman Akeeme jeffreyes this Wednesday night
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in Manhattan, the email said, adding that it promises to
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be a great night. Oh, I bet it did. I
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bet it had a lot of promise. Huh. Come and
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sit next to your favorite diddler because he's handing out money.
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Burn it all to the ground, as far as I'm concerned,
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Bernard all to the ground. In twenty seventeen, over a
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decade after his first arrest, Epstein received another invitation to
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a dinner with Jeffries now the top Democrat in the House.
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The event, which included a meet and greet, was hosted
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by Delegate Stacy Plaskett of the Virgin Islands, whose relationship
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with Epstein triggered a center vote last year. Oh that's
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all they talk about, though they don't give any kind
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of context that she was part of a lawsuit filed
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by Epstein's survivors, saying that she was part of the abuse,
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not an actual physical part, but she conspired with and
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she ate it and abedded in the abuse of the survivors.
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But sure, let's just move on. Let's just move to
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the next paragraph and act like nothing happened, like she
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was just there. And this is a big problem with
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the legacy media. They need to be very honest when
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they're telling this story, or they're no better than cat
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Turd or Gunther Eagleman or any of the other idiots
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trying to runcover for the administration. They're no better. But
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they should know better, they should do better, and they
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should have learned their lesson the first time around. Stop
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having faves, stop protecting people, and call balls and strikes
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for what they are. In February of twenty thirteen, a
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staffer at a political fundraising firm sent a message to
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Ebstein on behalf of then New York Representative Joe Crowley,
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who was in office until twenty nineteen. Jeffrey, hope you
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can join me for my birthday gala next month. The
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letter said. The party was set to be hosted at
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the Dream Downtown Hotel in Manhattan, with a performance by
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singer Willie Nile. The convicted sex offender, was again invited
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to Crowley's gala the following year. Documents suggest oh, well,
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Crowley had no idea. Come on, I would never have
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anything to do with Jeffrey Epstein unless I'm having something
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to do with Jeffrey Epstein. These people think you're so stupid.
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That's really what they think. That's what it comes down to.
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And they all want to blame everybody else, but they
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were all involved. Everybody looked the other way as long
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as the bag was right. Epstein was also offered access
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to a more businesslike gathering. In April twenty eleven, former
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DEA agent turned head of private security firm invited him
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to a briefing with then New York Representative Peter King,
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who represented Long Island until twenty twenty one. It was
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said to be held at the Metropolitan Club, a private
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social club in Manhattan's Upper east Side. Please be our
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guest for a breakfast presentation with Congressman Peter King. The
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invite said the topic of discussion was listed as homeland security.
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Pretty odd that a guy that is just you know,
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a loan predator, a lone wolf, is so ensconced with
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so many people and intelligence and national security. I guess
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it's just another coincidence. Right on the bright side, the
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Dow Jones is over fifty thousand. Most folkspeople for the
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name lawmakers did not respond to request for comment from
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The Independent, with the exception of two who said the
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elected officials never met Epstein. All of the Name lawmakers
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who are currently in office voted to pass the Epstein
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Files Transparency Act, which required that the DOJ released its
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records on Epstein. Being named in the files is not
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evidence of wrongdoing one on one meetings following his guilty plea,
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the pedophile billionaire also received several emails inviting him to
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one on one meetings with members of Congress. In July
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twenty twelve, a staffer at a political fundraising firm wrote
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to Epstein asking if he would meet with New Mexico
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Senator Martin Heinrich, who was a representative at the time.
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Congressman Martin Heinrich will be in New York City tomorrow
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and would love to get lunch with you at around
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twelve thirty pm if you're free. Twenty twelve. By the way,
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and I'm sure that somebody in New Mexico wasn't giving
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Epstein any kind of cover, right, No political cover in
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New Mexico. That never happened. Are you guys paying attention yet?
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The whole ass system, the whole thing is rotten, all
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of it. And between twenty eleven and twenty fourteen, a
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woman named Barbara Enbaum repeatedly asked Epstein if you would
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meet with Colorado Representative Diana Gagett in the hopes of
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setting up a sit down. She highlighted the congresswoman's dedication
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to science. Oh yeah, because Jeffrey Epstein real smart guy.
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Anybody who tells you that is lying to you. Dude,
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was not smart? Was he savvy? Sure? Was he a
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bit slick? Yeah? Was he devious as fuck? Yup? Was
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he some kind of genius? No? Absolutely not. Are you
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by chance in New York City this week. Next Monday,
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my friend, Congresswoman Diana de Get from Colorado, is coming
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to NYC for the New York Stem Cell Foundation. Gala
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en Bomb wrote to Epstein in October twenty eleven email,
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She's one of the few people in Congress who has
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a scientific agenda and she's a good person. Want to
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meet her. A spokesperson for to Get said she had
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no knowledge of Enbam's relationship with Epstein and that the
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congress woman never met the disgraced financier. No nobody ever
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met anybody. Come on now, just a big conspiracy theory.
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Mister Epstein did not attend the fundraisers that miss Enbaum
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emailed about over a decade ago, nor did Representative to
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Get ever receive any campaign contribution from mister Epstein. The
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spokesperson told the independent Representative to Get strongly supports the
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release of the full Epstein files. While political operatives repeatedly
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tried to connect lawmakers with Epstein, the disgraced financier, for
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his part, also pursued several former members of Congress. In
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May of twenty eleven, epstein assistant sought to set up
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a meeting with former Democratic main Senator George Mitchell, who
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left office in nineteen ninety five. In November of twenty thirteen,
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Epstein sent a message to Mitchell, writing that it was
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a pleasure meeting him. And we all know that Virginia
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says that George Mitchell is one of the guys who's
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sexually abused her. So do with that as you will.
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I mean, it's something that people need to come to
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grips with Bill richardson, George Mitchell, both Democrats, certainly not Trumpions.
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So my point is it's all corrupt both sides. It's
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not just a one side or the other thing. And
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the more we fight about that, the more we try
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and make it into a political hand grenade, the more
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chance we give for these people to get away with
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their bullshit. And I flat out refuse. The following year,
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former Democratic Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey, who left office in
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twenty twenty one, was invited to a lunch with Epstein
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at his cavernous Manhattan townhouse. Other high profile figures, venture
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capitalists Peter Thiel and former CIA director Bill Burns, were
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listed as potential guests, underscoring that Epstein's connections reach far
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beyond the halls of Congress. Look, the whole point of
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this article for me anyway, is just to point out
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that both sides hate you, neither side cares about this,
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and neither side wanted to put Epstein away. So does
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that mean we should absolve Trump of the cover up
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of all the bullshit. Of course not. But we have
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to understand that it's not just about It's about the
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system that let a man like this to rise, about
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a system that continues to let a man like this thrive,
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and about a system that not only let a man
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like Epstein thrive, but protected him the whole entire time.
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And just like any disease, it's the actual disease that
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needs to be confronted and not just the symptoms. Because
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I want you to aught to remember something, Republican, Democrat, whatever,
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keep this in mind. It's a big ass club and
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none of us are invited. All of the information that
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