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Jeffrey Epstein And His Clandestine Business In Africa (Part 2) (10/15/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. In this episode we're picking up where we
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  Speaker 1: left off with the article from ABC News talking about
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein and his passports and his travels to Africa.
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  Speaker 1: This article was authored by James Hill and Thomas Valchow.
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  Speaker 1: The records obtained by ABC News also contain multiple instances
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  Speaker 1: in which Epstein applied for a second passport in order
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  Speaker 1: to avoid conflict visa stamps. when traveling to Israel and
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  Speaker 1: certain Arab states, including Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
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  Speaker 2: That's so ridiculous. So that's the excuse?
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  Speaker 1: He was worried that a plane was going to get hijacked?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a convenient excuse, but does it hold water?
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  Speaker 1: Not for me, it doesn't. What it really is, is
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  Speaker 1: more cover for Jeffrey Epstein to engage in clandestine type
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  Speaker 1: of behavior. And when he has access to all these
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  Speaker 1: different passports and these visa stamps, it's easy for him
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  Speaker 1: to come and go as he pleases, right? Let's remember
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein wasn't flying in on a TWA flight. Bro
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  Speaker 1: was coming in on his own plane. Landing in private
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  Speaker 1: airfields and able to do pretty much whatever he wanted.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't like somebody's boarding his plane and checking what he has.
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  Speaker 1: And not for nothing, but how much cargo can a
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  Speaker 1: 727-747 hold?
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  Speaker 2: A whole lot, right?
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  Speaker 1: So who the fuck knows what Jeffrey Epstein had on
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  Speaker 1: those planes even? Epstein has long-standing connections to Ehud Barak,
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  Speaker 1: a former Prime Minister of Israel. Barak publicly acknowledged visiting
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  Speaker 1: Epstein more than 10, but much less than 100 times,
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  Speaker 1: including one visit to Epstein's private estate in the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Virgin Islands. He told the Daily Beast in 2019 that
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  Speaker 1: he'd never attended a party with Epstein and had never
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  Speaker 1: met him in the company of women or girls, which
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  Speaker 1: is a lie. We've seen the pictures. And we know
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  Speaker 1: that Ehud Barak is out here telling falsehoods. And when
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  Speaker 1: I talk about Epstein amnesia, people like Ehud Barak are
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  Speaker 1: exactly who I'm talking about. Instead of just owning up
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  Speaker 1: to the relationship that you obviously had, you try and
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  Speaker 1: bullshit everybody and act like you weren't close. Act like
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  Speaker 1: you dudes weren't involved in, you know, a pretty deep relationship.
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  Speaker 1: You were business partners, friends, the whole thing. A New
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  Speaker 1: York Times columnist reported in 2019 that Epstein had boasted
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  Speaker 1: without evidence of speaking often with Mohammed bin Salman, the
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  Speaker 1: crown prince of Saudi Arabia. Well, his plane was in
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  Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, the night before the 2016 election. So
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  Speaker 1: what was Jeffrey Epstein doing in Riyadh? What's he ever
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  Speaker 1: doing there, right? What's the connection? Well, it goes all
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  Speaker 1: the way back to Khashoggi. And Jeffrey Epstein has been
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  Speaker 1: well-situated within the kingdom ever since. Look, the Saudis understood
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  Speaker 1: that they had an asset. They understood they had somebody
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  Speaker 1: that they could utilize. And like I've said before, Jeffrey
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  Speaker 1: Epstein was a free agent. My guy was out here
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  Speaker 1: looking to make some dough, looking to get more influence,
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  Speaker 1: looking to collect more compromise. And if that meant working
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  Speaker 1: for the Saudi royal family, so be it. For both
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  Speaker 1: safety and business reasons, it's imperative that Mr. Epstein have
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  Speaker 1: the necessary flexibility of a second passport. One of his
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  Speaker 1: corporate representatives wrote, In 2003, State Department policy permits certain
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  Speaker 1: frequent international travelers to carry a second passport, particularly in
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  Speaker 1: cases where a visa stamp from one country might prohibit
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  Speaker 1: entry into another. He had no problems with that, stop it.
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  Speaker 1: When you have his kind of money, you really think
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  Speaker 1: one of these countries is going to stop him from
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  Speaker 1: coming in? You really think that some customs agent in
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  Speaker 1: Gabon or Mali or wherever can't be paid off? That's
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  Speaker 1: how this dude operated, remember, like I was saying a
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  Speaker 1: second ago. He wasn't flying into the local airport on some,
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  Speaker 1: you know, TWA flight, you know, boarded on a Delta
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  Speaker 1: flight in New York and then flew over to Saudi Arabia.
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  Speaker 1: He's on his own plane. And with that comes its
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  Speaker 1: own set of rules. And of course, that allowed Jeffrey
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  Speaker 1: Epstein to keep the nature of his business, at least
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  Speaker 1: for a very long time, secret. And one of the
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  Speaker 1: ways he was able to do that is that he
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  Speaker 1: didn't have the same kind of rules that the rest
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  Speaker 1: of us do. when it comes to international travel. The
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  Speaker 1: issue arose again two years later when Epstein reported a
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  Speaker 1: scheduled trip to Israel and Afghanistan. Talk about two wildly
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  Speaker 1: different places. What kind of business do you have in Afghanistan?
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  Speaker 1: That's the question I've had for a very long time.
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  Speaker 1: What is Jeffrey Epstein doing in Afghanistan in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of a war? And I don't think we have enough
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  Speaker 1: answers when it comes to his behavior in Afghanistan and
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  Speaker 1: some of these other places. And I think that was
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  Speaker 1: all by design, right? I mean, when we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: a place like Afghanistan, there can only be a few
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  Speaker 1: reasons for Epstein going there. And if you take some
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  Speaker 1: of the things that we've talked about previously and add
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  Speaker 1: them to this situation, it kind of makes sense, right?
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  Speaker 1: We know that Epstein was involved with a lot of
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  Speaker 1: gun runners back in the day. We know that he
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  Speaker 1: had a whole network set up for his human trafficking.
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  Speaker 1: Could Epstein have been involved in bringing weapons into Afghanistan?
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  Speaker 1: in a clandestine nature?
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  Speaker 2: Very possible.
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  Speaker 1: Now look, that is just speculation on my part, and
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  Speaker 1: I want to make that clear. I don't have any
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  Speaker 1: evidence to back that up, besides the circumstantial evidence that
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  Speaker 1: we've compiled throughout the years. But there's just no explanation
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  Speaker 1: for what Epstein's doing in a place like Afghanistan. In
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  Speaker 1: the middle of a war especially, he's worried about passport stamps,
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  Speaker 1: but he's going to fly into Kabul? As part of
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  Speaker 1: the request for an additional passport, Epstein submitted travel itineraries
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  Speaker 1: indicating he had booked two first class trips in the
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  Speaker 1: spring of 2005. Two first class trips, huh? I don't
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  Speaker 1: think Jeffrey Epstein was ever on a passenger plane. A
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  Speaker 1: commercial passenger plane?
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  Speaker 2: This guy? Zero chance.
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  Speaker 1: Epstein also provided details of a journey that would take him,
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  Speaker 1: on April 7, 2005, to Istanbul, where he would connect
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  Speaker 1: through Baku, Azerbaijan, to Kabul. The records do not indicate
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  Speaker 1: whether he actually made the trip. On Epstein's scheduled departure
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  Speaker 1: from Kabul, the late former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
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  Speaker 1: made an unannounced visit to the Afghan capital for a
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  Speaker 1: joint press conference with President Hamid Karzai. There is no
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  Speaker 1: evidence that Rumsfeld... And Epstein's visits were connected. Just another coincidence. Again,
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  Speaker 1: what was he doing there? Isn't that the question everybody
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  Speaker 1: should be asking? Who was he meeting with?
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  Speaker 2: Why was he there? Who approved it? Where did he land?
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  Speaker 1: Who did he meet with? Who was at the tarmac
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  Speaker 1: waiting for him? You know, very basic questions. But still,
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  Speaker 1: all these years later, and no answers. While Epstein was
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  Speaker 1: apparently traveling in Southern Asia... Police officers in southern Florida
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  Speaker 1: were hunting for evidence in trash cans outside his Palm
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  Speaker 1: Beach mansion. Three weeks earlier, the parents of a 14-year-old
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  Speaker 1: girl had reported to police that their daughter had been
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  Speaker 1: molested by a white-haired man who went by the name Jeff.
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  Speaker 1: The police investigation that followed would turn up dozens of
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  Speaker 1: alleged underage minor victims and begin a saga that would
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  Speaker 1: ultimately lead to Epstein's permanent status as a sex offender
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  Speaker 1: for all the good it did. he was still abusing
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  Speaker 1: girls all the way up to his second arrest. But
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  Speaker 1: that designation would have little impact on Epstein's ability to
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  Speaker 1: obtain a U.S. passport or to travel internationally until Congress
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  Speaker 1: passed the international Megan's Law in 2016. Imagine being a molester,
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  Speaker 1: a child molester, and able to just travel freely wherever
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  Speaker 1: you wanted, unchecked. If you've been convicted of the crimes
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  Speaker 1: that Epstein was convicted of, you should not be allowed
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  Speaker 1: to fly internationally. That legislation allowed the government to revoke
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  Speaker 1: the passports of sex offenders who must reapply for a
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  Speaker 1: special passport carrying a notice inside that reads, The bearer
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  Speaker 1: was convicted of a sex offense against a minor and
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  Speaker 1: is a covered sex offender, according to the State Department.
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  Speaker 1: It also strengthened the requirement that registered sex offenders provide
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  Speaker 1: advance notice for all intended international travel. Well, that's a
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  Speaker 1: good idea. I mean, if you're going to let them travel.
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  Speaker 1: If it was up to me, these scumbags would be
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  Speaker 1: underneath the prison, not traveling internationally. Epstein's file indicate that
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  Speaker 1: a passport issued to him in 2016 and valid for
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  Speaker 1: 10 years was revoked. A second passport valid until 2020
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  Speaker 1: was also revoked. His final application in the State Department
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  Speaker 1: files indicates his last U.S. passport was issued in March
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  Speaker 1: of 2019. ABC News has previously obtained records of the
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  Speaker 1: United States Marshal Service that show the agency was looking
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  Speaker 1: into Epstein's foreign trips. Investigation reveals Epstein travels internationally quite
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  Speaker 1: frequently using private planes and may also have failed to
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  Speaker 1: report all of his international travel. A January 2019 report stated, Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't want anyone knowing what he was doing.
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  Speaker 2: That was the whole point, right?
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  Speaker 1: The whole entire clandestine nature of Jeffrey Epstein's activity Had
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  Speaker 1: to be protected by somebody besides him. He couldn't do
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  Speaker 1: all this on his own. Get these passports.
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  Speaker 2: Travel.
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  Speaker 1: Get the visas. You know all of that was not done.
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  Speaker 1: By Jeffrey Epstein just asking for it. He pulled on levers.
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  Speaker 1: And people helped him. And when I talk about the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein files. I want to know who was helping him.
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  Speaker 1: Who signed off on all this stuff. Who was his contact.
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  Speaker 1: Who was the person in charge. Because those people need
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  Speaker 1: to answer some questions. And furthermore, those people that were
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  Speaker 1: involved in any way, we should be checking their financial statements.
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  Speaker 1: How much money did they get after dealing with Epstein?
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  Speaker 1: And after they were dealing with him, did they engage
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  Speaker 1: in some kind of criminal behavior? If so, they should
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  Speaker 1: be held accountable. So for me, at least, that's what
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  Speaker 1: I mean when I'm talking about the Epstein files. I
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  Speaker 1: want all of this stuff that puts the pieces together,
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  Speaker 1: the things that tie everything up, And until we get
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  Speaker 1: all of that stuff, forget it. We're never going to
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  Speaker 1: have the truth. Six months later, he was arrested at
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  Speaker 1: Teterboro Airport, New Jersey. After his private Gulfstream jet touched
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  Speaker 1: down from Paris, a federal indictment charged him with conspiracy
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  Speaker 1: and child sex trafficking. When FBI agents executed a search
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  Speaker 1: warrant at Epstein's New York home later that day, they
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  Speaker 1: found a lock safe that contained 48 loose diamonds and $ 70, 000
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  Speaker 1: in cash.
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  Speaker 2: Also recovered were three U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Passports and one Austrian passport with Epstein's picture, but with
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  Speaker 1: someone else's name and an address in Saudi Arabia. Unexplained,
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  Speaker 1: nobody has told us how he got the Austrian passport.
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  Speaker 2: That's not normal.
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  Speaker 1: You shouldn't just be able to go get a passport
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  Speaker 1: from a foreign country, unless of course somebody's greasing the
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  Speaker 1: wheels for you, right? Unless somebody's opening that door. So
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  Speaker 1: the question is, who opened the door for Epstein to
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  Speaker 1: get that Austrian passport? Again, still not answered. Epstein's defense attorneys,
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  Speaker 1: seeking to secure bail for their client, said that two
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  Speaker 1: of the U.S. passports were expired, the foreign passport they
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  Speaker 1: claimed was given to Epstein by a friend, and he
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  Speaker 1: had never used it to travel. They argued he received
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  Speaker 1: it in the 80s for personal protection when traveling in
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  Speaker 1: the Middle East. So he received it in the 80s
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  Speaker 1: but never used it? Yeah, okay, sure. Do people really
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  Speaker 1: believe this? Anyone who believes this shit is crazy. Some
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  Speaker 1: Jewish Americans were informally advised at the time to carry
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  Speaker 1: identification bearing a non-Jewish name when traveling internationally in case
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  Speaker 1: of hijacking, his attorney said. That's bullshit too. Sorry, I
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  Speaker 1: don't believe it for one single second. Convenient excuse, no
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  Speaker 1: doubt about it, But true? I have my doubts. Partly
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  Speaker 1: because of that foreign passport and Epstein's history of international travel,
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  Speaker 1: a judge determined Epstein was a flight risk and refused
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  Speaker 1: to grant bail. Three weeks later, Epstein was dead. His
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  Speaker 1: death was ruled a suicide by hanging, and here's the kicker, folks,
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  Speaker 1: you ready for it? Following his death, the Marshal Service
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  Speaker 1: investigation into his travel was dropped. Well, isn't that convenient?
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  Speaker 1: Just like the investigation into the CVRA was dropped. Just
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  Speaker 1: like the investigation into this, that, the other thing was dropped.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason that all these investigations stopped was because
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein died. If he didn't die in that jail cell,
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  Speaker 1: all these investigations would have been ongoing. All these rocks
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  Speaker 1: would have been turned over. All these doors kicked in.
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  Speaker 1: But instead, conveniently for them, all of that ended when
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  Speaker 1: Epstein died. And isn't it ironic that all the coincidences
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  Speaker 1: seem to favor the people who want Epstein gone? And
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  Speaker 1: for my money, that might be the biggest coincidence of
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  Speaker 1: them all. All of the information that goes with this
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