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From Wikileaks Warrior to Epstein Email Evasion: The Art of Steve Bannon’s Hypocrisy · 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. Well, isn't this a heartwarming hallmark moment? It's
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  Speaker 1: truly inspirational. Honestly, Steve Bannon, the self anointed guardian angela truth,
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  Speaker 1: justice and whatever the hell he thinks patriotism smells like
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  Speaker 1: after three days in the same unwashed flannel at a
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  Speaker 1: motel six bathroom singh bath, suddenly doesn't want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about emails. The man who practically built a miniature media empire,
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  Speaker 1: rummaging through the WikiLeaks inbox like a hyped up raccoon,
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  Speaker 1: tearing into a Golden Corral dumpster, shrieking about Podesta's rosatto
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  Speaker 1: recipe like it was the seventh chapter of Revelations, now
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  Speaker 1: wants everybody to be cool and stop asking uncomfortable questions
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  Speaker 1: about the Epstein Trump emails. Now he wants restraint, Now
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  Speaker 1: he wants nuance. Now he wants everyone to act like adults. Huh,
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  Speaker 1: how strange? What a coincidence? I wonder what changed? Solar
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  Speaker 1: flares astrological turbulence. Did Jesus himself descend from the clouds
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  Speaker 1: to grant Steve ahle No, no, no, come on, let's
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  Speaker 1: not be ridiculous, my guess, and this is just a
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  Speaker 1: wild tinfoil had conspiracy theory, so please hold on to
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  Speaker 1: your pearls. Is that, maybe, just maybe it has something
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  Speaker 1: to do with the fact that this walking shernoble disaster
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  Speaker 1: of a human being was being coached by Jeffrey Epstein
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  Speaker 1: all the way up until twenty eighteen. Crazy right, absolutely insane.
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  Speaker 1: Who could have predicted that the man screaming the loudest
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  Speaker 1: about adrenochrome, satanic pizza tunnels, reptilian pedophile cabals, and baby
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  Speaker 1: blood cocktails was secretly taking strategic notes from a convicted
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  Speaker 1: sex trafficker and intelligence cutout who ran a global compromount
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  Speaker 1: operation completely unimaginable. Never saw that plot twist coming, And
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  Speaker 1: now suddenly our warrior poet of the populace, right, the
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  Speaker 1: crusader who rode into battle on a flaming chariot of
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  Speaker 1: conspiracy theories, is clutching his pearls and hyperventilating at the
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  Speaker 1: mere suggestion that we apply the same exact enthusiastic microscope
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  Speaker 1: he weaponized against his pitical enemies. The same Steve Bannon
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  Speaker 1: who delivered breathless monologues that sounded like he was broadcasting
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  Speaker 1: live from a burning tent at the gates of Hell itself.
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  Speaker 1: Now pretending Epstein emailing on political strategy notes is quote
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  Speaker 1: no big deal. He's acting like the guy who gets
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  Speaker 1: caught with the severed head in his freezer and says, Wow,
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  Speaker 1: everybody just needs to chill. This is being blown way
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  Speaker 1: out of proportion. But don't worry, folks. This is an hypocrisy. No,
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  Speaker 1: this is performance art. This is a character study in
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  Speaker 1: the theater of fraud. This is a man who can
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  Speaker 1: look directly into the camera, talk about baby blood smoothies
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  Speaker 1: and ritual satanic sacrifice with his chest out, and then
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  Speaker 1: rewrite history when Epstein's name pops up in his inbox.
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  Speaker 1: And the best part, he thinks we're dumb enough to
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  Speaker 1: swallow it. He truly believes the public is made of
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  Speaker 1: unmedicated toddlers who can't connect the dots unless they're printed
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  Speaker 1: in crayon. News flash, you don't get to scream where
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  Speaker 1: are the emails every day for eight straight years like
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  Speaker 1: a malfunctioning car alarm, and then suddenly decide emails don't
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  Speaker 1: matter when they're pointed at your forehead like a loaded shotgun.
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  Speaker 1: You don't get to demand congressional hearings on Hillary Clinton's inbox,
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  Speaker 1: demand journalists be imprisoned, demand investigations into risotto recipes, and
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  Speaker 1: then play amnesia victim when someone politely suggests that you
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  Speaker 1: Steve Epstein's little helper, Bannon might need to clarify a
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  Speaker 1: few things under oath. So here we are. The chickens
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  Speaker 1: have come home to roost, and they are pissed, and
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  Speaker 1: they're carrying subpoenas in their beaks. And if Steve Bannon
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  Speaker 1: thinks he's going to gaslight his way out of this
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  Speaker 1: one with that sweaty faced, nicotine stained Carnival Barker routine,
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  Speaker 1: he might want to ask his old mentor Epstein for advice.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wait, that's going to be difficult. Gravity already handled
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  Speaker 1: that appointment. Man, Let's roll the tape. Today's article is
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  Speaker 1: from The Guardian and the headline Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve
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  Speaker 1: Bannon during the twenty eighteen pro Trump media campaign. This
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  Speaker 1: article was authored by Jason Wilson. The convicted sex offender.
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein apparently served as a behind the scenes advisor
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  Speaker 1: to the former Trump official mega influencer Steve Bannon during
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  Speaker 1: in August twenty eighteen media campaign to defend Trump and
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  Speaker 1: his agenda and to promote Bannon's media ventures. All that
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  Speaker 1: talk this dude did, all that nonsensical bullshit talk this
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  Speaker 1: man did about Pizzagate and all the other nonsense. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: at the same time, he's sitting here playing touch ass
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  Speaker 1: with Jeffrey Epstein via email and who knows what else.
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  Speaker 1: Text messages released by the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: detail is six day exchange between the men from the
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  Speaker 1: seventeenth to the twenty third of August, and show Epstein
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  Speaker 1: coaching Bannon on television appearances and political messaging. Yo, you
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  Speaker 1: have to be one of the dumbest people on earth
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  Speaker 1: to go to Jeffrey Epstein to try and get some help.
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  Speaker 1: And we're not talking about Jeffrey Epstein before he was
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  Speaker 1: arrested the first time. We're talking about after when everybody
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  Speaker 1: knew what he was. Steve Bannon, all the Trump's allies,
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  Speaker 1: they were out on the campaign trail talking all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of shit. Oh yeah, we're going to release this. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to release that only for us to find out now,
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  Speaker 1: well for the rest of the world to find out
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  Speaker 1: now that behind the scenes Steve Bannon is literally getting
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  Speaker 1: campaign advice and political advice from Jeffrey Epstein, Like, how
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  Speaker 1: did people square this circle? How can you support somebody
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  Speaker 1: like this, somebody that lied to you for all these
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  Speaker 1: years about Adreno chrome and Tom Hanks on an island
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  Speaker 1: and people in Guantanamo Bay and the storm's coming and
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  Speaker 1: all that other bullshit Q nonsense. One of the biggest
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  Speaker 1: tenants of that whole, entire shit show was that there
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  Speaker 1: was kids being trafficked right that people were hurting children,
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  Speaker 1: that there was this cabal. Well here it is right here,
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  Speaker 1: in black and white, and unfortunately, your boy Steve Bannon
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  Speaker 1: was dick deep in it. And I don't mean somebody
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  Speaker 1: that got caught up. I mean somebody that willfully put
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  Speaker 1: themselves into the web of Jeffrey Epstein. So no, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to be preached to by people like Steve Bannon.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna let Steve Bannon control the narrative when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to Jeff Epstein. And if he has so
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  Speaker 1: much to say about the topic, why doesn't he make
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  Speaker 1: an appearance in front of Congress and go under oath
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  Speaker 1: and talk about everything he knows him and his buddy
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  Speaker 1: Michael Wolf. They'll make a beautiful pair, won't they. One
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  Speaker 1: side of the conversation is sent from an I message
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  Speaker 1: account associated with Epstein's email address, and while the name
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  Speaker 1: of Epstein's correspondent is redacted in the documents as released,
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  Speaker 1: contextual clues, including references to Fox News appearances in his
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  Speaker 1: August twenty seventeen firing from the White House and his
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  Speaker 1: work on the documentary Trump at War, make it clear
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  Speaker 1: the other participant is Bannon. You know, the hypocrisy is
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  Speaker 1: just too much for me. Here's an idea. Have something
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  Speaker 1: you stand for, and then stand for it, no matter
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  Speaker 1: who gets caught up. I said from the very beginning
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  Speaker 1: of this, I have no faves. I really don't care.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not somebody that is looking to be popular. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not looking to promote my podcast. I'm not on social media. Really,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care about any of it. What I care
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  Speaker 1: about is passing this message on to you folks, and
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  Speaker 1: then what you do if it is up to you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not some big shot journalist. I'm just a regular
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  Speaker 1: guy who's pissed off, just a regular guy who saw
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  Speaker 1: something was wrong and had to speak out. And if
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  Speaker 1: other people agree or other people have the same opinions. Great.
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  Speaker 1: If not, well, that's cool too. I am not here
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  Speaker 1: to convince anybody of shit. I'm here to open doors,
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  Speaker 1: and once the door's open, what people decide to do
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  Speaker 1: after that is up to them. This story isn't about
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  Speaker 1: content creators, it's not about Steve Bannon. It's not about
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  Speaker 1: anybody but the survivors. That's what it should be centered on.
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  Speaker 1: But more times than not, people don't even talk about
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  Speaker 1: the survivors and it's their story. It's not known whether
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  Speaker 1: the release material is excerpted from a longer conversation. Bannon
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  Speaker 1: did not reply at a multiple requests for a comment
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  Speaker 1: from The Guardian. What Elon Mus said earlier this year
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  Speaker 1: that Bannon is in the Epstein files, Bannon told the
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  Speaker 1: Independent he wanted a special investigator to look into all
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  Speaker 1: the open documents, and at this point, would that be
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  Speaker 1: a bad idea? I think that's a good idea. Get
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  Speaker 1: somebody that's not connected to any of this, have them
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  Speaker 1: be the special investigator and give them subpoena power, all
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  Speaker 1: the power that's needed to bring people to justice. We
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  Speaker 1: obviously can't count on the DOJ. And if that doesn't work,
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  Speaker 1: then we need to use some kind of sovereign immunity
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  Speaker 1: and have a state investigation initiated in a place like
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  Speaker 1: New York or New Mexico or anywhere else where. Jeffrey
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  Speaker 1: Epstein was up to his bullshit because I hate to
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  Speaker 1: break the news to everybody, but there's no cavalry coming
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  Speaker 1: to save any of us. We're on our own. The
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  Speaker 1: Exchange offer a detailed picture of Bannon's efforts to continue
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  Speaker 1: supporting Trump a year after his acrimonious departure from the
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  Speaker 1: White House, and shows Epstein's close involvement in crafting messages
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  Speaker 1: on tax cuts, immigration, and even security clearance revocations. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: isn't that nice to know? Huh, that's comforting. That is
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  Speaker 1: real comforting Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Eppsteor commiserating, and that's
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  Speaker 1: becoming policy. Well, I wish I could tell you that
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  Speaker 1: that wasn't real, but it is. And like I've been
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  Speaker 1: telling you from the very beginning, the same people that
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  Speaker 1: are making our laws, the same people that are running
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  Speaker 1: our banks, the same people that are controlling our lives,
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  Speaker 1: are the same people that were enjoying Jeffrey Epstein's largest
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  Speaker 1: the same people that were breaking bread with them the
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  Speaker 1: same people that were using them for whatever they were
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  Speaker 1: using them for, and in turn they were getting used
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  Speaker 1: as well, because every single one of these relationships was
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  Speaker 1: parasitical in nature. They also show the two men's responses
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  Speaker 1: to breaking scandals. When news broke on August twenty third
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  Speaker 1: that National Inquirer publisher David Pecker had received immunity in
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  Speaker 1: the Michael Cohen case, Bantan texted huge event huge followed
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  Speaker 1: by more women payoffs coming. I mean, if you're not guilty,
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  Speaker 1: why are all these dudes paying women off? I know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like Scrooge McDuck with my money. I'm not paying
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  Speaker 1: you shit, not once single dollar. If I'm innocent, In fact,
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  Speaker 1: I'll go broke defending my name, because that's never gonna
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  Speaker 1: go away. What you think Prince Andrew's you know, descendants
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  Speaker 1: thirty years from now aren't gonna know you as a
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  Speaker 1: piece of shit. Oh they're gonna know, folks, They're gonna know.
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  Speaker 1: So if you were innocent, wouldn't you want to defend
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  Speaker 1: your legacy. Wouldn't you want to stand up in front
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  Speaker 1: of the court, in front of everybody and say that's
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  Speaker 1: not me, that's not who I am. How dare you
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  Speaker 1: say that I know I would. The messages begin with
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  Speaker 1: Epstein offering immediate feedback on a live media appearance by Bannon.
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  Speaker 1: The venue is not identified in the chat records, but
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  Speaker 1: YouTube archives indicate that on August seventeenth, Bannon was interviewed
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  Speaker 1: on MSNBC by Aery Melber. How did it go, Epstein asked.
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  Speaker 1: As the interview concluded, Epstein appeared to be watching the
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  Speaker 1: broadcast live, telling Bannon, I took off early so I
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  Speaker 1: could land in time to watch all good. Bannon responded,
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  Speaker 1: they went for an hour instead of thirty minutes, showing
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  Speaker 1: the entire hour over multiple platforms. Epstein shot back at
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  Speaker 1: a boy, Oh yeah, Steve Bannon's going to tell you
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  Speaker 1: that he was, you know, working undercover to take down
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein. I was just trying to get Apple research.
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  Speaker 1: Have another drink, bro obvious, drunken fool. I'm tired of
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  Speaker 1: all these people, every last one of them, All these
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  Speaker 1: big mouths that run around point in fingers that everybody
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  Speaker 1: else when they themselves are up to no good. The
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  Speaker 1: hypocrisy is too much to deal with. The pair then
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  Speaker 1: engaged in banter, with Epstein writing you look so clean
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  Speaker 1: cut next to him, I thought I turned on the
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  Speaker 1: figure skating channel by accident. Bannon responded, my come hither. Look,
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  Speaker 1: Epstein replied, that was better than the usual cum hitler. Look. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: look at how que two friends bantering. And if you're
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  Speaker 1: just working with somebody, this isn't the kind of conversation
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  Speaker 1: you have, right, So Bannon will say this is a
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  Speaker 1: working relationship. We weren't friendly. No, you were friendly, and
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  Speaker 1: you know exactly what he was. So spare me the
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  Speaker 1: bullshit about the kids and how you care about them
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  Speaker 1: and about the cabal. You have no more credibility, mister Bannon.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, in my opinion, you're no better than another
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  Speaker 1: Epstein enabler. That's all you are. Bannon, who has been
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  Speaker 1: credited with a central role in the resurgence of far
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  Speaker 1: right populism around the world, responded ouch when Bannon mentioned
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  Speaker 1: that he had prepared carefully for the appearance, saying you
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be clean, not sloppy for what he called
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  Speaker 1: soy boy network. Epstein responded, closer to toy boy. Everything
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  Speaker 1: is a sexual innuendo with Epstein always, so everybody talking
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  Speaker 1: about they had no idea what he was what he
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  Speaker 1: was up to. I don't buy it. I never have
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  Speaker 1: and I never will. This man talk like this all
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  Speaker 1: the time. And if you have a friend and they
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  Speaker 1: talk like this all the time, you know what they are, right,
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  Speaker 1: You know you have a homie who's always talking about, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to find girls this at the other thing.
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  Speaker 1: Chances are that's who they are. And when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to Jeffrey Epstein, we know exactly what he is, what
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  Speaker 1: he was, and what he always was. And the sad
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  Speaker 1: truth is all these people that were around them they
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  Speaker 1: knew too. Epstein then offered more considered feedback on his
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  Speaker 1: performance and appearance, writing last ten Minutes more than Real You,
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  Speaker 1: which he followed with some detailed advice on staging your
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  Speaker 1: eye is the best, so important for you to watch
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  Speaker 1: the play, reel over the shoulder for him, three fourths
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  Speaker 1: for you, lighting hot for you, Chairs too restrictive for you.
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  Speaker 1: How does Epstein know any of this? What do you see?
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  Speaker 1: Some kind of interview guru dude to his dumbest shit,
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  Speaker 1: and anybody who's reaching out to him for advice life advice,
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  Speaker 1: You're dumber. Epstein took an active role in developing talking
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  Speaker 1: points for abandons media appearances at that time, particularly about
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  Speaker 1: economic policy. The messages show Epstein crafting detailed responses to
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  Speaker 1: criticism of Trump's tax cuts. Well, isn't that nice working
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  Speaker 1: for the president via proxy? Is he? I know people
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  Speaker 1: don't want to hear it, but they're going to have to.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Them's the brakes, Just like I talked about
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  Speaker 1: the Wiki League's emails, because there was some disturbing ass
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  Speaker 1: shit in those two and the left they tried to
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  Speaker 1: play those down. Oh this isn't real. These have been doctored. No,
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  Speaker 1: they weren't. All those emails were real. And all that
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  Speaker 1: degeneracy they were talking about, that's real too, just like
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  Speaker 1: these emails are real. So there's people out here that
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  Speaker 1: want to play partisan bullshit, and then there's very few
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  Speaker 1: of us that just want to get to the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of it. And I'm one of those people. I just
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  Speaker 1: want to get to the bottom of it. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: here to protect any of these people. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: about any of them. We can discuss the response to
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  Speaker 1: the tax cut criticism the eighty three percent to rich
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  Speaker 1: as misleading by miles cash back pension funds up, Epstein wrote,
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  Speaker 1: adding corporations or not. People giving corporations breaks is perceived
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  Speaker 1: as giving it to someone else. Wage inflation can't be
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  Speaker 1: the first focus. The additional money in the system first
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  Speaker 1: goes to hiring new people. Only afterwards can wages rise.
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  Speaker 1: What exactly made Jeffrey Epstein some expert, had no legal training?
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't somebody that was, you know, in the mix? But
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  Speaker 1: yet time and time again, influential man goes to him
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  Speaker 1: for advice. That's not normal, None of it's normal. And finally,
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  Speaker 1: after all these years, people are starting to take notice
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  Speaker 1: of just how fed up all this really is. Epstein
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  Speaker 1: also complained to Bannon about people turning on him amid
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  Speaker 1: a developing scandal about his previous activities and his apparently
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  Speaker 1: favorable treatment by federal prosecutors. On August twenty second, he wrote, FYI,
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  Speaker 1: there's a guy totally nuts out of jail after twenty
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  Speaker 1: years that has been sending letters to me to all
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  Speaker 1: agencies stalking wants a billion dollars, no real threat, just
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  Speaker 1: one more pain, he added Stephen Hoffenberg. He bought the
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  Speaker 1: New York Deli News for one dollar, et cetera. And Hoffenberg,
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  Speaker 1: of course, is somebody I've spoken to personally. Before he
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  Speaker 1: passed away, him and I had many conversations. And the
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  Speaker 1: fact is, according to Steve Hoffenberg, Jeffrey Epstein was the
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  Speaker 1: architect of the Ponzi scheme, but it was Steve Hoffenberg
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  Speaker 1: who took the fall. And that's because Epstein was folded
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  Speaker 1: into intelligence right was protected. Steve Hoffenberg was imprisoned in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight for his role in a five hundred
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  Speaker 1: million dollars Ponzi scheme, one of the largest in US history.
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  Speaker 1: According to Hoffenberg's reported claims and legal filings, Epstein was
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  Speaker 1: also involved in the scheme. In August twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: Hoffenberg was found dead in his Connecticut apartment at the
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  Speaker 1: age of seventy seven. The messages revealed discussions between Bannin
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  Speaker 1: and Epstein about Mago world figures, including Teel and Anthony Scaramucci,
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  Speaker 1: the short lived Trump communications director. On August eighteenth, Epstein
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  Speaker 1: wrote message on back Wednesday Teel coming three days later,
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  Speaker 1: he laid out a set of priorities for Bannin, one
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  Speaker 1: Peter Tiel in town for the mooch. Scaramuci, still in
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  Speaker 1: contact with Ivanka, has reached out to me and asked
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  Speaker 1: how we can re engage with you. I've only met
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  Speaker 1: him once. Odd, well, isn't that nice? Mister Scaramuchi's out
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  Speaker 1: here running his mouth too. What did you know, buddy?
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  Speaker 1: How many times did you meet Epstein? What were you
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  Speaker 1: up to? The messages captured two men's reactions to major
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: developments in the Michael Cohen case. When news broke on
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  Speaker 1: August twenty third, twenty eighteen, that National Inquirer publisher David
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  Speaker 1: Pecker had received immunity, both recognized its significance immediately. Epstein
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  Speaker 1: texted Pecker, immunity one more job. Bannon responded, huge, event, huge,
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  Speaker 1: He added, more women payoffs are coming elsewhere. The pair
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  Speaker 1: appeared to try to conceal their own collaboration from wider scrutiny.
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  Speaker 1: On August twenty third, Epstein wrote, by the way, I'm
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  Speaker 1: in New York tonight through Saturday. If you want to
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  Speaker 1: visit under the cover of darkness or breakfast tomorrow if
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  Speaker 1: you'd like. Bannon replied, do you have access? That's not
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  Speaker 1: the front door. They have twenty four to seven surveillance
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  Speaker 1: on you. Epstein responded, I'm happy to come see you
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: if better, adding separate from the process, says server that
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: left yesterday or the early morning doorman next door, any
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: idea of who? Bannon responded, don't know, but real folks
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: costing a lot of coin. Epstein continued, can meet you
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: at three oh one to E sixty six if you prefer,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: I will send an apartment number. Epstein owned the apartments
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: on E. Sixty sixth Street in Manhattan. Him and his
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: brother own that apartment building, and that's where a lot
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: of their nonsense was taking place. They'd bring these girls
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: in from South America, they'd bring them in from wherever,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: and then they'd end up having these girls who thought
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: that they were going to be models end up getting abused.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Bannon responded, I don't like the regency as it's totally wired.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: In a string of messages, Epstein tried to accommodate Bannon's
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: apparent desire for secrecy, writing there is also a rear
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: entrance on sixty seven if you prefer super secure, and
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: someone can meet you and take you in. Bannon, apparently satisfied, responded,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: just at a time. I'll be in after four point thirty.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: So for me, I'm left with this picture Steve Bannon,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: sweat beating like bullets on a rotisserie ham pacing back
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: and forth backstage, trying to figure out how the hell
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: he's going to spin this one. The man who turned
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: to email leaks into a national sport, who treated wiki
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: leaks like it was the holy gospel of modern patriotism,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: now mumbling under his breath like a teenager caught with
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: a backpack full of fireworks. Suddenly the great champion of
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: transparency has discovered the sacred value of privacy. Suddenly the
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: guy who demanded the public's right to know every syllable
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: type by his political enemies is waving his arms like
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: an air traffic controller, screaming stop the presses. Funny how
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: life works. When the boomerang finally comes screaming back at
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: skull cracking velocity, he can ramped about adrino chrome, pizzagate,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: satanic ping pong tables, and quote unquote spirit cooking until
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: his lungs collapse. But the second we start talking about
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Epstein coaching him like a political little league dad, the
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: man chokes harder than Prince Andrew, explaining sweating. Suddenly Steve
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Bannon missed your eternal outrage, becomes a shy librarian whispering
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: about context and nuance. And how maybe we shouldn't jump
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: to conclusions. Oh yeah, Steve, Since when this is the
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: same guy who could turn a typo in an email
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: subject line into a six hour conspiracy marathon with sound
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: effects and graphics and a goddamn chalkboard. But now that
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: the emails involve him, now that the rot is under
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: his fingernails, now that the corruption implicates his movement, Suddenly
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: we're expected to be calm, reasonable adults. Suddenly we're supposed
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: to treat this like a misunderstanding instead of what it is. Evidence, direct, unfiltered, radioactive,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: and spare us the bullshit that Steve wants to pretend
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: that these documents, these communications with Jeffrey Epstein, the man
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: who trafficked children for the powerful, are just another Tuesday,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: nothing to see here, Move along, Yeah, not happening. You
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: demanded congressional hearings for rosato recipes. You demanded investigations over
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: pasta sauce. You wanted indictments over emojis. So guess what.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: The subpoena printer is warmed up, the ink is full,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: and your name is already on one of the pages.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Because this isn't about left or right, or red or blue,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: This is about the truth finally snapping the rubber band
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: back in the other direction, and it's going to sting
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: like hell. So Steve, pick out a tie, practice your
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: hand on the Bible, pose, and try to get some
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: sleep tonight because eventually the questions are for you. All
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: of the information that goes with this episode can be
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: found in the description box.