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The United States Senate Rejects the Idea of a Maxwell Pardon · 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. The U.S. Senate unanimously has agreed to oppose
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  Speaker 1: a pardon, or a potential pardon, for Ghislaine Maxwell if
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  Speaker 1: one is brought to the table. And that's all fine
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  Speaker 1: and well. But the fact that we even have to
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  Speaker 1: have that discussion is a problem unto itself. Like how
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  Speaker 1: could there even be a sentiment or a thought at
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  Speaker 1: pardoning Somebody like Ghislaine Maxwell. I just can't wrap my
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  Speaker 1: mind around it. Anybody who looks at the facts of
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  Speaker 1: the case, and looks at what Ghislaine Maxwell was not
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  Speaker 1: only accused of, but was convicted of, and thinks she
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  Speaker 1: should be pardoned, has a mental condition, and they should
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  Speaker 1: seek immediate help. Because if anybody deserves their sentence, deserves
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  Speaker 1: more of a sentence, with harsher terms, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: it's Ghislaine Maxwell. So today we have an article from
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  Speaker 1: the New York Post and the headline, Senate unanimously agrees
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  Speaker 1: to oppose pardon for Epstein accomplice convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
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  Speaker 1: This article was authored by Zoe Hussain. The Senate unanimously
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  Speaker 1: agreed on Wednesday that socialite and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine
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  Speaker 1: Maxwell should not be allowed a presidential pardon or clemency. Socialite, really?
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're calling her? How about bipedal serpents? fellow
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  Speaker 1: child abuser, general, all-around scumbag. Much more fitting. The resolution
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  Speaker 1: was introduced by Senator Jackie Rosen to prevent the president
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  Speaker 1: from granting a pardon, commutation, or any other form of
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  Speaker 1: executive clemency to Maxwell, the accomplice, and occasional girlfriend of
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  Speaker 1: dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The fact that this conversation needs
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  Speaker 1: to be had, let me reiterate, is ridiculous. Glenn Maxwell
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't be pardoned. That's it. That's the whole conversation. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to go re-litigate it all? Oh, well, see what
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  Speaker 1: had happened was... I mean, come on. Enough is enough.
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  Speaker 1: The resolution is not binding, but signals to the Trump
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  Speaker 1: administration that Senate Republicans and Democrats oppose clemency for Maxwell, 64,
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  Speaker 1: who is currently serving a 20-year federal prison sentence after
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  Speaker 1: being convicted in late 2021 on charges including sex trafficking conspiracy,
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  Speaker 1: and trafficking of a minor. Why is this discussion being had?
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  Speaker 1: We don't have better things to talk about? You know,
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  Speaker 1: like the people who enabled Jeffrey Epstein? Or the NPA?
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  Speaker 1: Or the fact that there's no special counsel yet? It's
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  Speaker 1: frankly horrifying that Trump would entertain the idea of clemency
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  Speaker 1: for even a second for a convicted sex trafficker, Rosen
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  Speaker 1: said in a speech on the Senate floor, according to
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  Speaker 1: The Hill. Well, she's right about that. Not exactly a
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  Speaker 1: big fan of Jackie Rosen. She is a senator from
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  Speaker 1: my state, but I'm not a big fan of her.
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  Speaker 1: But she's right here. And guess what? When you're right,
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  Speaker 1: you're right. And she happens to be right about this.
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  Speaker 1: I find it immoral and disgusting that this is even
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  Speaker 1: a topic of discussion. If Republicans advance Todd Blanche's nomination
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow in the Judiciary Committee... This is the least they
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  Speaker 1: can do to make their opposition to a Maxwell pardon clear,
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  Speaker 1: she said. Yeah, it's non-binding. Words are wind. They'll say
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  Speaker 1: one thing and then do another. I mean, look at
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  Speaker 1: how all these Republicans were so gung-ho before the election
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  Speaker 1: to get to the bottom of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes. Now, though? Nah,
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  Speaker 1: come on. I mean, I'm old enough to remember when
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  Speaker 1: Sean Hannity used to talk about Jeffrey Epstein. But now, crickets.
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  Speaker 1: Not a word. And why? Well, because it's politically damaging.
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  Speaker 1: The same reason he was trying to utilize it against
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  Speaker 1: his enemies. And these same people, people like Sean Hannity,
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  Speaker 1: they've been paving the road to get Ghislaine Maxwell some
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  Speaker 1: clemency for whatever reason. Maybe they think that helps out
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  Speaker 1: their boy. Maybe they just want to remove another damaging
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  Speaker 1: piece from the table. Whatever the motivation, it's not good.
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  Speaker 1: A vote to confirm acting Attorney General Todd Blanch as
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  Speaker 1: Trump's pick to replace former Attorney General Pam Bondi was
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  Speaker 1: derailed by two Senate Republicans on Wednesday. Not over Epstein, though.
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  Speaker 1: Has to do with the IRS. And the fund that
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump allegedly was setting up to pay people for
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  Speaker 1: government issues or whatever. You know, government screwed them. Here's
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  Speaker 1: a fund. Get some money from it. But of course,
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  Speaker 1: it's not what it seems. Just like everything else this
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  Speaker 1: government does. Blanche, who oversaw the rollout of the Epstein
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  Speaker 1: files as Deputy Attorney General, has said he wouldn't recommend
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  Speaker 1: the pardon for Maxwell. White House officials have repeatedly denied
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  Speaker 1: that clemency for the convicted sex trafficker is under consideration. Well, look,
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  Speaker 1: that would be insane, honestly. Even for Donald Trump. Imagine
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  Speaker 1: giving Ghislaine Maxwell a pardon. Do you know what the
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  Speaker 1: news cycle would be like? I mean, he'd have to
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  Speaker 1: drop a nuke in Iran to change the news cycle.
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  Speaker 1: And yo, real talk, I don't put it past him.
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  Speaker 1: I honestly don't. I mean, what kind of president gets
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  Speaker 1: up there and talks about we're going to beat the
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  Speaker 1: shit out of so-and-so? How about some decorum? How about
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  Speaker 1: not letting our enemies know what's coming? Trump, however, has
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  Speaker 1: previously been coy when questioned by reporters about whether he's
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  Speaker 1: considered granting Maxwell a pardon. I haven't even thought about it.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't thought about it for months. Maybe I haven't
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  Speaker 1: thought about it at all, the president said in November.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't talk about that. I don't rule it
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  Speaker 1: in or out. The month before, Trump had said, I
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  Speaker 1: will speak to the DOJ. I wouldn't consider it or
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  Speaker 1: not consider it. I don't know anything about it. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: sure you don't. Sure you don't know anything about Ghislaine
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  Speaker 1: Maxwell and her prison sentence. And sure you didn't unleash
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  Speaker 1: Todd Blanche to go make a deal with her. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure that was all organic, right? The Supreme Court rejected
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  Speaker 1: Maxwell's appeal of her sex trafficking conviction this past October.
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  Speaker 1: Maxwell appeared virtually before the House Oversight Committee from the
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  Speaker 1: Minimum Security Texas prison camp in February, where she was
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  Speaker 1: moved shortly after an interview with Blanche last summer. No answers.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody stepped up and said, hey, this is why we
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  Speaker 1: moved her. This is what it was based on. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: they just say it's protocol. It's in the hands of
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  Speaker 1: the B.O.P., Until your loved one gets in trouble and
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  Speaker 1: they send them across the country and they tell you
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  Speaker 1: to go get fucked. But if it's Glenn Maxwell, ah,
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  Speaker 1: come on. Not only are we going to sit down
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  Speaker 1: with her, but we're going to move her to Camp
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  Speaker 1: Ryan and we're going to hook her up. Whatever she wants. Puppies, Chick-fil-A,
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  Speaker 1: extra computer time, hoodies, whatever it is. Does that sound
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  Speaker 1: like the treatment a human trafficking child molester should get?
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  Speaker 1: And people can talk all the bullshit they want about
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  Speaker 1: anybody else, try and pass the buck. Who's in charge
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  Speaker 1: right now? Who made that deal with Glenn Maxwell? Well,
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  Speaker 1: we know who made the deal. Donald Trump and Todd Blanch.
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  Speaker 1: And those are just the facts. And if you want
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  Speaker 1: to be mad about it, be mad about it. But
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  Speaker 1: be mad at Trump. He's the one who is in
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  Speaker 1: control here. He's the one behind the sticks. And in
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  Speaker 1: my opinion, this whole entire cover-up originated in the White House.
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  Speaker 1: She invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during the deposition.
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  Speaker 1: Her defense lawyer, David Oscar Marcus, said she was eager
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  Speaker 1: to testify that President Trump and former President Bill Clinton
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  Speaker 1: were innocent of any wrongdoing, despite ties to Epstein in
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  Speaker 1: the 90s and 2000s. So how could she know that?
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  Speaker 1: I thought Ghislaine Maxwell was nowhere near Jeffrey Epstein after
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  Speaker 1: about 2004, 2005. What happened, Ghislaine? Did you lie? You
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  Speaker 1: would never do that, right? The world's biggest liar telling lies?
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  Speaker 1: Who would have ever expected it? What's next? I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to have a big mouth? The absurdity of it all, folks.
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  Speaker 1: The fucking absurdity of it all. And I can't even
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  Speaker 1: believe this conversation's happening. I know I keep saying that,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm truly in disbelief. I thought that when Ghislaine
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  Speaker 1: Maxwell exhausted her appeal attempts and the Supreme Court told
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  Speaker 1: her to get stuffed, that would be the end of it.
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  Speaker 1: But when you've got enough money, enough power, and enough
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  Speaker 1: dirt on people, maybe, Well, I guess the rules change.
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  Speaker 1: I guess there's that two-tier justice system we all love
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  Speaker 1: so much. One set of rules for them, another set
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  Speaker 1: of rules for people like us. And then you have
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  Speaker 1: her lawyer, David Oscar Marcus, who is just absolutely ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: Now look, I get it. You have to pine for
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  Speaker 1: your client, right? You have to passionately defend them and
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  Speaker 1: do everything you can to get them out. I get that.
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  Speaker 1: But some of the ridiculous nonsense that comes out of
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  Speaker 1: his mouth is just absurd. It's like the stuff Andrew
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  Speaker 1: Tate's lawyers are saying. Does anyone really believe that? Andrew
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  Speaker 1: Tate's the reason that Donald Trump got elected? What? Like,
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  Speaker 1: come on. You really think that guy has that much pull,
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  Speaker 1: that much power? He doesn't. But it's the same nonsense
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  Speaker 1: with David Oscar Marquez. talking about Ghislaine Maxwell like she's
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  Speaker 1: some kind of victim, like she wasn't convicted by a
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  Speaker 1: jury of her peers, like that conviction wasn't upheld by
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  Speaker 1: the Second Circuit, like that conviction wasn't upheld by the
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  Speaker 1: Supreme Court. So who are you trying to kid? Some
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  Speaker 1: of us actually know the story. Some of us have
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  Speaker 1: actually looked at the court documents. And what those court
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  Speaker 1: documents tell us? Well, they tell us that Ghislaine Maxwell
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  Speaker 1: is exactly where she belongs. Well, she was until her
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  Speaker 1: buddy Todd Blanche moved her, But if anybody deserves to
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  Speaker 1: be behind bars for what happened with Jeffrey Epstein, for
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  Speaker 1: what they did in association with Jeffrey Epstein, for the
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  Speaker 1: pain and suffering they caused on their own, then well, folks,
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  Speaker 1: it's none other than Ghislaine Maxwell. All the information that
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  Speaker 1: goes with this episode can be found in the description box.