Latest / The Vault: The Epstein Files / Mega Edition: Ghislaine Maxwell And The Battle Over In Court Attire During Her Trial (10/24/26)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the program. As
- 0:04Speaker 1: you can imagine, in the coming days, weeks, and couple
- 0:07Speaker 1: of months, basically till the middle of January, there is
- 0:11Speaker 1: going to be a ton of content about Ghislaine Maxwell
- 0:16Speaker 1: and her trial and the fallout surrounding it. Now, not
- 0:24Speaker 1: only is there going to be a ton of episodes...
- 0:28Speaker 1: I am also going to be live streaming quite a
- 0:31Speaker 1: bit as the trial gets closer, you know, the week
- 0:36Speaker 1: of and throughout the whole entire trial, possibly even, you know,
- 0:41Speaker 1: one or two live streams a day, depending on the
- 0:43Speaker 1: information that's out there and what we need to cover.
- 0:48Speaker 1: Because after all of these years, all of these months,
- 0:53Speaker 1: all of these hours, we're finally getting to a point
- 0:57Speaker 1: Where Ghislaine Maxwell finally is going to have to sit
- 1:01Speaker 1: in front of a jury of her peers. And she's
- 1:05Speaker 1: going to have to answer for the allegations laid before her.
- 1:11Speaker 1: And for decades, her and her friends have avoided something
- 1:18Speaker 1: like this. They have avoided being held responsible for their
- 1:23Speaker 1: part in Jeffrey Epstein's criminal conspiracy. But those days are
- 1:29Speaker 1: quickly coming to an end. And through all of the wiggling,
- 1:34Speaker 1: all of the loophole jumping, all of the game of technicalities,
- 1:42Speaker 1: Maxwell and her team have been met with resistance each time.
- 1:47Speaker 1: And they've captured nothing but L's throughout the whole entire process.
- 1:53Speaker 1: And honestly, I don't see how that changes. With just
- 1:59Speaker 1: the circumstantial evidence that we have available to us, I
- 2:03Speaker 1: do not see any way that Ghislaine Maxwell can wiggle
- 2:07Speaker 1: out of this. Now, again, we are dealing with the
- 2:11Speaker 1: United States government. We know how they love to take
- 2:15Speaker 1: care of their friends. But I think that with all
- 2:19Speaker 1: of the interest in this case, all of the eyeballs
- 2:22Speaker 1: on this case, and all of the people who are
- 2:25Speaker 1: not only asking for justice in this event, But demanding justice?
- 2:31Speaker 1: I think that the federal government understands that they can't
- 2:35Speaker 1: play their little game this time around. And Maxwell's going
- 2:39Speaker 1: to have to get a good hard look by a
- 2:42Speaker 1: jury this time.
- 2:44Speaker 2: No more plea deals.
- 2:45Speaker 1: No more non-prosecution agreements. No more, you know, friendly prosecutors
- 2:51Speaker 1: turning it into a solicitation charge. That shit's over. That
- 2:55Speaker 1: ship has sailed. And guess what? Now it's time to
- 2:58Speaker 1: answer these allegations. So you can expect a ton of
- 3:05Speaker 1: information coming up as we get closer to this trial,
- 3:09Speaker 1: a ton of new content. And also I'm going to
- 3:12Speaker 1: be posting episodes about other players within the circle that
- 3:17Speaker 1: you'll probably be hearing about in the next few weeks.
- 3:21Speaker 2: That way, those of you who have just.
- 3:23Speaker 1: Found my work, you can get caught up to date.
- 3:26Speaker 1: You can get an idea for some of the players
- 3:29Speaker 1: on the stage and kind of get a better idea
- 3:32Speaker 1: at the gigantic, enormous scope of this whole entire operation.
- 3:38Speaker 1: And now, trial. Because it is monstrous as far as
- 3:44Speaker 1: information goes. So with that said, let's take a look
- 3:49Speaker 1: at our article for tonight. from The Guardian, and this
- 3:54Speaker 1: article was authored by Victoria Bekempis, and the headline is,
- 3:59Speaker 1: Ghislaine Maxwell appears relaxed in pre-trial court appearance. New York
- 4:04Speaker 1: court considers jury selection arrangements for trial of British socialite, co-conspirator,
- 4:10Speaker 1: general all-around scuzzbag, on sex trafficking charges linked to Jeffrey Epstein.
- 4:16Speaker 1: And while that is true in the essence of it,
- 4:20Speaker 1: Let's not forget that there are girls who are alleging
- 4:23Speaker 1: that Maxwell abused them as well. That she wasn't just
- 4:28Speaker 1: an enabler or a scheduler or Jeffrey Epstein's ex-girlfriend. According
- 4:34Speaker 1: to these young ladies, she actually engaged in the abuse herself.
- 4:39Speaker 1: So let's make sure we always pop that in there
- 4:42Speaker 1: as well and not just say that she's, you know,
- 4:45Speaker 1: for helping Jeffrey Epstein. because that takes a little bit
- 4:48Speaker 1: of the blame off of her, right? Let's her set
- 4:51Speaker 1: it up as if she's a victim, as if she's
- 4:53Speaker 1: been victimized, when in reality, she's the one causing people
- 4:57Speaker 1: to be victimized. Less than 24 hours before Ghislaine Maxwell
- 5:03Speaker 1: will be in a courtroom with prospective jurors who will
- 5:06Speaker 1: decide her fate in a Manhattan federal court sex trafficking case,
- 5:10Speaker 1: the former British socialite, co-conspirator, general all-around scuzzbag, fellow child
- 5:15Speaker 1: abuser and bipedal serpent, appeared notably at ease during a
- 5:19Speaker 1: proceeding on Monday morning. Oh, well, that's nice to know.
- 5:23Speaker 1: I'm glad you're at ease now, Ms.
- 5:24Speaker 2: Maxwell.
- 5:25Speaker 1: Very nice to see. Because guess what? Your days of
- 5:28Speaker 1: ease are certainly, it would seem, coming to a screeching halt.
- 5:35Speaker 1: Your days of ease, your days of floating through life
- 5:38Speaker 1: with servants and people doing your every little bidding, those
- 5:43Speaker 1: days are over. And hopefully, After your trial here, you'll
- 5:50Speaker 1: be fitted for a jumpsuit and stuck behind bars for
- 5:55Speaker 1: the rest of your natural life. So enjoy being comfortable now.
- 5:59Speaker 1: Enjoy it while it lasts, because I have a sneaking
- 6:02Speaker 1: suspicion that it's not going to be for much longer.
- 6:07Speaker 1: One woman, who identified herself as a family member to
- 6:10Speaker 1: a court security officer, waved at Maxwell shortly before proceedings started.
- 6:15Speaker 1: She carried a yellow legal pad and scribbled notes throughout
- 6:18Speaker 1: the proceeding. Oh, well, scribbling notes, are you? Sure, the
- 6:21Speaker 1: prosecutors are terrified. Maxwell, her lawyers and prosecutors were appearing
- 6:29Speaker 1: before Judge Allison Nathan to discuss the logistics of questioning
- 6:33Speaker 1: potential jurors. And you know that this is definitely a
- 6:37Speaker 1: very sore subject for both sides, right? They want to
- 6:40Speaker 1: make sure that they get the proper jurors to move
- 6:44Speaker 1: their case forward. And that goes for the prosecution and
- 6:48Speaker 1: for the defense. So when it comes to jockeying over
- 6:51Speaker 1: lawyers and which I mean over jurors and which jurors
- 6:56Speaker 1: are going to sit in for the case, they go
- 6:59Speaker 1: real hard in the paint. And originally there were there
- 7:02Speaker 1: were like 600 jurors for this whole entire situation. Of
- 7:07Speaker 1: the roughly 600 jurors who completed questionnaires earlier this month,
- 7:12Speaker 1: Nathan said that Maxwell's lawyers and prosecutors agreed on 231
- 7:17Speaker 1: who should be called back for further questioning. I believe
- 7:20Speaker 1: that's a sufficient number, Nathan said. And I would think so, right?
- 7:25Speaker 1: I mean, 231 people after weeding it down from 600.
- 7:29Speaker 1: You should have a nice and varied juror pool there
- 7:33Speaker 1: to choose from. people from different walks of life, people
- 7:37Speaker 1: from different backgrounds, you know, people of all different stripes,
- 7:41Speaker 1: whatever it may be. A pool of 600 in a
- 7:44Speaker 1: place like New York, chances are you're getting a pretty
- 7:47Speaker 1: diverse juror pool. Nathan also said she hoped that they
- 7:53Speaker 1: would question 50 possible panelists a day, divided into morning
- 7:58Speaker 1: and afternoon sessions. Virtually all questioning of potential jurors will
- 8:02Speaker 1: be public, Nathan has said. So that's going to be
- 8:05Speaker 1: an interesting situation starting tomorrow for sure. And your boy's
- 8:10Speaker 1: going to be here for it.
- 8:11Speaker 2: Absolutely. Got a couple.
- 8:13Speaker 1: Of energy drinks ready to go and cleared my schedule.
- 8:20Speaker 1: And I plan on being in the studio, honestly, folks,
- 8:22Speaker 1: for the next, I don't know, five, six, seven weeks
- 8:26Speaker 1: until this trial, at the very least until I leave
- 8:28Speaker 1: for New York, because this information is going to come fast.
- 8:33Speaker 1: And it's going to come quickly. So we're going to
- 8:35Speaker 1: have to document it the same way we have throughout
- 8:38Speaker 1: this whole entire ordeal. That way we can keep everything
- 8:42Speaker 1: in context, right? Make sure we have enough meat on
- 8:45Speaker 1: the bone and have a good idea of the puzzle
- 8:48Speaker 1: that we're trying to put together. Maxwell, an alleged accomplice
- 8:54Speaker 1: in the late disgraced financier, pedophile, sex abuser, disgusting wannabe
- 9:01Speaker 1: human being, Epstein's sex trafficking of minor teens appeared in
- 9:05Speaker 1: good spirits when the proceedings ended around 10.30 a.m., laughing
- 9:09Speaker 1: as she spoke with her attorneys. Several of her lawyers
- 9:13Speaker 1: rubbed her shoulders supportively. Aw, isn't that nice? For $ 2, 000
- 9:17Speaker 1: an hour, you get.
- 9:18Speaker 2: A massage as well.
- 9:20Speaker 1: Not only do you catch all of these L's throughout
- 9:23Speaker 1: the proceedings, we'll give you a nice little supportive massage.
- 9:27Speaker 2: I mean, really?
- 9:28Speaker 1: Give me a break already. Weren't massages one of the
- 9:31Speaker 1: things that got them in this mess in the first place?
- 9:34Speaker 1: Talk about being tone deaf. So now let's just start
- 9:37Speaker 1: giving out Jeffrey Epstein style massages to our client at
- 9:42Speaker 1: the courthouse because that's a fantastic idea.
- 9:46Speaker 2: I mean, really?
- 9:47Speaker 1: And again, I ask myself, how in the hell are
- 9:51Speaker 1: these people charging two grand an hour?
- 9:54Speaker 2: I missed my calling.
- 9:55Speaker 1: I should have finished up law school instead of changing
- 9:58Speaker 1: my major back in the day. so I could have
- 10:01Speaker 1: got paid $ 2, 000 an hour for all kinds of L's
- 10:04Speaker 1: and all kinds of losses inside of the courtroom. But
- 10:08Speaker 1: at the very least, I'll throw you a shoulder rub.
- 10:11Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a pretty fair guy. Maxwell sported a
- 10:15Speaker 1: black turtleneck. What is she, Steve Jobs? and gray slacks
- 10:19Speaker 1: as she was escorted into courtroom 518 of the Thurgood
- 10:22Speaker 1: Marshall U.S. Courthouse about 9.40 a.m., the first time she
- 10:26Speaker 1: has appeared in court wearing something other than shapeless jail scrubs. Oh, wow,
- 10:32Speaker 1: the socialite got to socialize it up.
- 10:34Speaker 2: A little bit, huh?
- 10:36Speaker 1: She was able to wear something besides the court-ordered clothing.
- 10:40Speaker 1: And I'm sure that was just fantastic for her, right?
- 10:44Speaker 1: How dare anybody put her in state-issued clothing? Don't you
- 10:49Speaker 1: know who I am, peasant? She wore black boot-like shoes
- 10:54Speaker 1: rather than institutional slip-ons that appeared on her feet at
- 10:58Speaker 1: prior court proceedings. She was neither handcuffed nor shackled and
- 11:02Speaker 1: carried a Poland Springs water bottle just like countless others
- 11:07Speaker 1: do as they move around New York City. Wait, why
- 11:11Speaker 1: are you guys doing that? I thought the plastic bottles
- 11:13Speaker 1: weren't good. Gotta get yourselves a nice little reusable cup, folks.
- 11:17Speaker 1: Come on, get with it. All kidding aside, though, for
- 11:20Speaker 1: Maxwell not being in the shackles, not being in handcuffs,
- 11:24Speaker 1: that's definitely something that is a good thing for her, right?
- 11:32Speaker 2: Appearance matters.
- 11:33Speaker 1: And honestly, unless you're like a violent felon and shit,
- 11:38Speaker 1: like somebody who's hurt people, like, you.
- 11:40Speaker 2: Know, a violent.
- 11:42Speaker 1: way, assaults, all of that stuff, then I think that
- 11:45Speaker 1: you probably shouldn't be shackled in front of the jurors.
- 11:50Speaker 1: And that goes towards my whole thing of the system
- 11:53Speaker 1: being more fair, right? You don't want to taint the
- 11:57Speaker 1: jurors' opinions, bringing someone shackled for, you know, financial crime, right?
- 12:04Speaker 1: And again, it is just appearances. And for Maxwell, it
- 12:10Speaker 1: is certainly... The first time, like the article saying, that
- 12:13Speaker 1: we have seen her appear without all of the newly
- 12:17Speaker 1: found gear that was donated to her by the taxpayers
- 12:21Speaker 1: of the United States. So for her, she's loving that,
- 12:24Speaker 1: I bet. Epstein was arrested in July 2019 for sex
- 12:30Speaker 1: trafficking of minor teens. He killed himself, allegedly, in jail
- 12:34Speaker 1: while awaiting trial. Maxwell was arrested one year after Epstein's arrest.
- 12:39Speaker 1: for her alleged role in procuring teenage girls for him
- 12:42Speaker 1: between 1994 and 2004. And we know that Maxwell was
- 12:48Speaker 1: crucial to Jeffrey Epstein's operation. She was his, you know, underboss,
- 12:55Speaker 1: the person that was helping things move behind the scenes.
- 12:59Speaker 1: Her job was to climb into the social class of
- 13:03Speaker 1: New York City, the so-called elite, And Jeffrey Epstein's job
- 13:07Speaker 1: was to continue building these dossiers. And they were perfect
- 13:14Speaker 1: for each other. Things worked out swimmingly for years. Not
- 13:18Speaker 1: only were they able to access some of the most
- 13:20Speaker 1: high-profile people in the financial world, but they were also
- 13:25Speaker 1: rubbing elbows with ex-presidents, ex-prime ministers, and a bunch of
- 13:35Speaker 1: other politicians of all kinds of stripes. And trust me
- 13:39Speaker 1: when I tell you, they didn't care about political party.
- 13:43Speaker 1: It was all about who could increase the profile. Who
- 13:48Speaker 1: could offer the most. And wherever that wind blew, you
- 13:53Speaker 1: better believe that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were not
- 13:57Speaker 1: far behind. They were the epitome of social grifters. Audrey Strauss,
- 14:06Speaker 1: acting Manhattan U.S. attorney at the time, stated that Maxwell
- 14:09Speaker 1: played a critical role in helping Epstein to identify, befriend,
- 14:13Speaker 1: and groom minor victims. And that in some cases, Maxwell
- 14:17Speaker 1: participated in the abuse. And see, that's why I say
- 14:21Speaker 1: in these articles, it's almost like a lie of omission
- 14:24Speaker 1: when they don't say that.
- 14:26Speaker 2: What are they scared of?
- 14:27Speaker 1: You have the Manhattan U.S. attorney at the time, Audrey Strauss,
- 14:32Speaker 1: coming out and saying it. I think it's a pretty
- 14:35Speaker 1: safe assumption to say that this is the case here.
- 14:42Speaker 1: Maxwell has been fingered by survivors who said that not
- 14:46Speaker 1: only was she instrumental in the whole entire logistical part
- 14:50Speaker 1: of this, but she also took part in the actual abuse.
- 14:55Speaker 1: So I think it's crucial when these articles come out
- 14:58Speaker 1: and they're talking about Maxwell's role in this for them
- 15:00Speaker 1: to touch on that. because it doesn't give you the
- 15:04Speaker 1: whole story, right? If you're just reading that article, you
- 15:08Speaker 1: could definitely take it as, oh, Maxwell, she facilitated this stuff.
- 15:12Speaker 1: She wasn't actually doing the abuse. But in reality, that's
- 15:16Speaker 1: not what the court documents say. That's not what's being
- 15:18Speaker 1: alleged by some of these survivors. So it's important to
- 15:23Speaker 1: have all of the details, right? It's important to have
- 15:26Speaker 1: as much context as possible so you can build this
- 15:30Speaker 1: puzzle out. And one thing that I have found since
- 15:33Speaker 1: we've been covering this case is that they don't do
- 15:36Speaker 1: that nowhere near enough in the legacy media. So that's
- 15:39Speaker 1: where the independent content creators come in or the independent
- 15:42Speaker 1: journalists come in or just the people following the case,
- 15:46Speaker 1: reaching out to these journalists and setting them straight, putting
- 15:49Speaker 1: them on the right course, if you will. Maxwell maintains
- 15:57Speaker 1: she is innocent. Opening arguments in Maxwell's trial are expected
- 16:00Speaker 1: to take place on November 29th. If convicted, Maxwell faces
- 16:05Speaker 1: up to 80 years in federal prison. And I don't
- 16:08Speaker 1: think that's long enough, honestly. Should be 880 years. If
- 16:13Speaker 1: you're engaging in a human trafficking ring and you're helping
- 16:16Speaker 1: groom 16, 17, 15-year-old girls to be involved in a
- 16:21Speaker 1: sex trafficking ring, probably should be getting thrown underneath the
- 16:25Speaker 1: prison if you're convicted of those charges. Because, again, there's
- 16:29Speaker 1: no coming back from that, right? You're not wired like
- 16:32Speaker 1: the rest of us. You're not normal. That's not normal behavior.
- 16:35Speaker 1: And anyone normalizing behavior such as that needs to have
- 16:39Speaker 1: their head checked. There is no scenario that could be
- 16:43Speaker 1: put in front of me where this behavior is normal.
- 16:49Speaker 1: And Ghislaine Maxwell was at the forefront of Jeffrey Epstein's
- 16:54Speaker 1: operation at his right hand for years. And now, when
- 17:02Speaker 1: all is said and done, and all of the glowing
- 17:05Speaker 1: fallout is tumbling from the sky, Ghislaine Maxwell is finally
- 17:13Speaker 1: being held responsible for her part. And I'll tell you what, folks.
- 17:20Speaker 1: I cannot wait for this trial and for her day
- 17:25Speaker 1: in front of the jury. If you'd like to contact me,
- 17:28Speaker 1: you can do that at BobbyCapucci at ProtonMail.com. That's B-O-B-B-Y-C-A-P-U-C-C-I
- 17:36Speaker 1: at ProtonMail.com. You can also find me on Twitter at
- 17:40Speaker 1: B-O-B-B-Y underscore C-A-P-U-C-C-I. The link that I discussed can be
- 17:47Speaker 1: found in the description box. All right. Back to the
- 17:50Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. Day one of the Ghislaine Maxwell trial is
- 17:55Speaker 1: now in the books. The proceedings wrapped up about 45
- 18:00Speaker 1: minutes ago, and they even got to the first witness today. Now,
- 18:08Speaker 1: the defense, well, they're going with the same strategy that
- 18:11Speaker 1: we all thought they were going to use. They're trying
- 18:14Speaker 1: to demean the credibility of the survivors, of the accusers,
- 18:19Speaker 1: and flip the whole entire script on its head to
- 18:22Speaker 1: make it seem like Ghislaine Maxwell is some kind of
- 18:25Speaker 1: victim here. When in reality, we know that that's not
- 18:28Speaker 1: the case. But that's what the defense is going to
- 18:31Speaker 1: try and prove. And the prosecution better be ready for it. Now, obviously,
- 18:38Speaker 1: I am not in that courtroom. Not yet anyway. So
- 18:42Speaker 1: we're relying on reports from other people. And there are
- 18:46Speaker 1: several different sources that you can rely on. Adam Klatsfeld
- 18:52Speaker 1: does a good job reporting. Inner City Press. has been
- 18:57Speaker 1: doing a fantastic job reporting. Kate Bricklett from over at
- 19:02Speaker 1: the Daily Beast has been fantastic throughout this whole entire thing.
- 19:06Speaker 1: And I'm sure there's a couple of other people that
- 19:08Speaker 1: I'm missing. Attican from Addy Ads, he's been covering the case.
- 19:15Speaker 2: He's doing a great job. So these are all people.
- 19:17Speaker 1: That are on site, on the scene, that are covering
- 19:21Speaker 1: things and keeping an eye on the case as it unfolds.
- 19:25Speaker 2: Now, that's crucial work, right?
- 19:27Speaker 1: Because unfortunately for this case, which is a complete bummer,
- 19:32Speaker 1: there's no call in line for the public to call
- 19:34Speaker 1: in and get an idea of what's going on. Throughout
- 19:38Speaker 1: this case, we have had different hearings where we have
- 19:42Speaker 1: been able to call in and follow along, specifically when
- 19:47Speaker 1: we were talking about the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
- 19:51Speaker 1: So it's a real bummer that we can't follow along
- 19:54Speaker 1: for ourselves and we have to rely on a third
- 19:59Speaker 1: party to give us the information. But the people that
- 20:03Speaker 1: I just mentioned, those are all solid folks who are
- 20:08Speaker 1: aren't you know looking to cause any sort of disinformation
- 20:11Speaker 1: or anything like that just trying to get to you
- 20:14Speaker 1: know the bottom of the story so when you have
- 20:17Speaker 1: people like that at least we have that as a
- 20:19Speaker 1: crutch to rely on because frankly after the piss poor
- 20:24Speaker 1: job the legacy media has done throughout this whole entire
- 20:28Speaker 1: thing i don't know how anyone can rely on them.
- 20:31Speaker 2: To give them the truth.
- 20:34Speaker 1: But there's people out there that will adamantly argue with
- 20:38Speaker 1: you if you try and disrupt their biases. And it's
- 20:44Speaker 1: wild how many people have come out of the woodwork
- 20:46Speaker 1: as of late who are all of a sudden experts
- 20:49Speaker 1: about Epstein. And you can tell the type. They come
- 20:55Speaker 1: out of the woodwork and they try and use the
- 20:57Speaker 1: issue as a political cudgel to slap their opponents over
- 21:00Speaker 1: the head with. And it's just an absolutely... ridiculous way
- 21:05Speaker 1: to spend your time. So I won't be spending much
- 21:09Speaker 1: time on social media throughout this whole entire thing because
- 21:12Speaker 1: it's not worth it for me.
- 21:14Speaker 2: It's just stupid.
- 21:15Speaker 1: A bunch of people yelling at each other and acting
- 21:17Speaker 1: the fool. So what I'll do is I'll continue my
- 21:20Speaker 1: research and continue covering this case the same way I have.
- 21:23Speaker 2: I don't really need social media for all of that.
- 21:26Speaker 1: It's just a vile place in general, right? People just
- 21:29Speaker 1: have no act right and people have gotten way too
- 21:31Speaker 1: comfortable with saying things behind the computer screen that they
- 21:35Speaker 1: would never say in real life. And I look at
- 21:37Speaker 1: the way people talk to each other, and I'm like,
- 21:39Speaker 1: holy cow, what the hell is wrong with you? But
- 21:43Speaker 1: whenever you have a case like this, a trial like this,
- 21:46Speaker 1: it brings out all of the carnival barkers, brings out
- 21:49Speaker 1: all of the weirdos, and certainly brings out all of
- 21:51Speaker 1: the grifters as well. And you'll also see a lot
- 21:55Speaker 1: of people who really have no idea what they're talking about.
- 22:00Speaker 1: And all you have to do is listen to them
- 22:01Speaker 1: for a little while and they'll expose themselves. So it's
- 22:07Speaker 1: important that there are some sources on site that are reliable.
- 22:12Speaker 1: And like I said, my plan is to get into
- 22:14Speaker 1: New York for at least the last week of this trial,
- 22:17Speaker 1: maybe even a little earlier. I'm trying to shuffle some
- 22:20Speaker 1: things around to maybe get into New York a little
- 22:22Speaker 1: earlier for this. But At least, at the very least,
- 22:28Speaker 1: we have a few people on the ground, a few
- 22:30Speaker 1: people in the courtroom who are going to shoot us straight.
- 22:35Speaker 1: So with that said, let's take a look at this
- 22:38Speaker 1: article from Law and Crime and let's see what they
- 22:43Speaker 1: have to say about the opening of this trial. Headline,
- 22:48Speaker 1: Dangerous Predators. Prosecutors open long-anticipated trial of Ghislaine Maxwell with
- 22:53Speaker 1: a tale of Jane and Jeffrey Epstein. So again, prosecutors
- 23:00Speaker 1: are going to make the case that Ghislaine Maxwell was
- 23:05Speaker 1: a huge component of what Jeffrey Epstein was up to.
- 23:09Speaker 1: She wasn't a victim. She wasn't somebody who was just
- 23:11Speaker 1: along for the ride. And that's where both of these
- 23:15Speaker 1: narratives are going to collide head on. You have prosecution
- 23:19Speaker 1: who is pitching a completely different narrative to what the
- 23:22Speaker 1: defense is pitching. And it's going to come down to
- 23:25Speaker 1: what the jury ends up believing. And for me, all
- 23:29Speaker 1: of the evidence that we have seen thus far, circumstantial,
- 23:33Speaker 1: but all of the evidence that we have seen so far,
- 23:36Speaker 1: it certainly looks like it's not going to end up
- 23:39Speaker 1: well for Ghislaine Maxwell. Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking trial, a
- 23:46Speaker 1: lurid case a quarter century in the making, began in
- 23:48Speaker 1: the style of a storybook with a hideous twist on
- 23:51Speaker 1: Monday as a federal prosecutor told jurors, I want to
- 23:55Speaker 1: tell you about a young girl named Jane. Describing Jane
- 23:59Speaker 1: as a 14-year-old girl who met a man and woman
- 24:02Speaker 1: at a camp, Assistant U.S. Attorney Laura Elizabeth Pomerantz told jurors,
- 24:07Speaker 1: what Jane didn't know is that the man and the
- 24:10Speaker 1: woman were predators, later using the phrase dangerous predators. So
- 24:16Speaker 1: right out of the gate, AUSA Elizabeth Pomerantz was going
- 24:23Speaker 1: hard in the paint. calling them what they are, calling
- 24:26Speaker 1: them predators, and making that assertion right out of the
- 24:30Speaker 1: jump block. And that's a little off of the pattern as.
- 24:36Speaker 2: The usual MO. They usually ease into it, right?
- 24:39Speaker 1: But I have a sneaking suspicion that they feel like
- 24:43Speaker 1: they have a lot of evidence here and that they
- 24:46Speaker 1: can go this route of labeling her as a dangerous
- 24:49Speaker 1: predator right here and right now.
- 24:53Speaker 2: So it's going to be interesting.
- 24:54Speaker 1: To see how this narrative is challenged as this case proceeds, right?
- 24:59Speaker 1: Because we know that the defense wants nothing to do
- 25:02Speaker 1: with talk like that. The last thing they want to
- 25:05Speaker 1: hear is their client being called a dangerous predator. The
- 25:11Speaker 1: prosecutor identified the man as Jeffrey Epstein and, in steady
- 25:15Speaker 1: and soothing tones, built up dramatic anticipation for the woman.
- 25:20Speaker 1: Who was that woman targeting young girls for sexual abuse?
- 25:23Speaker 1: It was the defendant, Ghislaine Maxwell, Pomerantz charged. So think
- 25:29Speaker 1: about that for a second. That's pretty heavy for those
- 25:31Speaker 1: of us who have been following this case for a
- 25:33Speaker 1: long ass time, and especially for the survivors. Forget the
- 25:36Speaker 1: rest of us. To see Ghislaine Maxwell in that courtroom
- 25:40Speaker 1: and to see the prosecutors call her a predator like that,
- 25:45Speaker 1: that's definitely.
- 25:46Speaker 2: A move towards the goal line.
- 25:49Speaker 1: Considering the rhetoric we've seen previously, the way they keep
- 25:53Speaker 1: calling her a socialite and all of that, it's almost
- 25:57Speaker 1: surreal at this point to see her on the stand
- 26:00Speaker 1: and being held accountable. Or at the very least, they're
- 26:04Speaker 1: going to try and hold her accountable. Because if you
- 26:09Speaker 1: would have told me this was going to happen, oh,
- 26:11Speaker 1: I don't know, two and a half years ago, three
- 26:12Speaker 1: years ago, I would have said, there's no way.
- 26:17Speaker 2: No way.
- 26:23Speaker 1: A little less than a year after Epstein was found
- 26:26Speaker 1: dead in his prison cell, Maxwell became the first accused
- 26:29Speaker 1: co-conspirator of his to be charged by prosecutors. Yeah, so
- 26:36Speaker 1: she is the only co-conspirator who is being charged by
- 26:43Speaker 1: these prosecutors as of now that we know of. Now,
- 26:45Speaker 1: Jean-Luc Brunel is being charged as well, but he is
- 26:48Speaker 1: being charged in.
- 26:51Speaker 2: France, right?
- 26:52Speaker 1: He's not here in America facing charges. So that's pretty interesting.
- 26:59Speaker 1: If she's convicted of all six charges, she is facing
- 27:04Speaker 1: at 70 years. And the indictment charges at four of
- 27:07Speaker 1: her alleged victims, the prosecutor did hint at more. He
- 27:12Speaker 1: told the jurors that Maxwell and Epstein had devised a
- 27:14Speaker 1: pyramid scheme of abuse. And we've used that analogy before
- 27:18Speaker 1: on the podcast even. That's definitely what he had going on.
- 27:22Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. That's exactly what he was
- 27:24Speaker 1: up to. And it's a generic way of describing it,
- 27:30Speaker 1: but it is a way that the Unsullied, those who
- 27:33Speaker 1: don't know much about the case, a way for them
- 27:36Speaker 1: to get an idea of what was going on here.
- 27:38Speaker 1: When you look at a pyramid scheme, you understand the
- 27:41Speaker 1: dynamics of it, right? You understand the way it works.
- 27:45Speaker 1: And instead of doing it with money, Epstein and Maxwell
- 27:48Speaker 1: and their cohorts were doing it with human beings, according
- 27:52Speaker 1: to the prosecutors. And more importantly to me anyway, according
- 27:55Speaker 1: to the survivors themselves. Assistant Attorney General Pomerantz went on
- 28:04Speaker 1: to say, ladies and gentlemen, Jane was not the only one.
- 28:09Speaker 1: She called Jane that name in this because... three of
- 28:13Speaker 1: these minor victims are going to be coming forward anonymously.
- 28:20Speaker 1: And the one who is going to be coming forward
- 28:22Speaker 1: with their name in public is Annie Farmer. So, when
- 28:28Speaker 1: you hear people referred to as Jane 1, 2, or 3,
- 28:31Speaker 1: those are the other accusers in this case who have
- 28:35Speaker 1: elected to keep their names private. Several other women have
- 28:43Speaker 1: made the same kind of allegations in court. But this
- 28:47Speaker 1: is the first time since Epstein's case in 2018 that
- 28:51Speaker 1: a plea deal for these allegations related to his conspiracy
- 28:54Speaker 1: went all the way to a criminal trial. And we
- 28:57Speaker 1: have seen time and time again with Epstein and his friends,
- 29:00Speaker 1: they've been able to buy their way out of these allegations, right?
- 29:03Speaker 1: They've been able to pay people off. make sure that
- 29:09Speaker 1: they don't have to go to jail, settlements as far
- 29:12Speaker 1: as civil cases go. And then what they do is
- 29:15Speaker 1: get people to sign away their rights in return for
- 29:18Speaker 1: some money. Bobby Sternum, who is Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyer, she
- 29:27Speaker 1: depicted the case as one about a woman getting the
- 29:29Speaker 1: blame for a man's misdeeds. And it's a pretty shrewd
- 29:33Speaker 1: move on Sternheim's.
- 29:35Speaker 2: Part, right? It's a good strategy usually. If you could
- 29:39Speaker 2: set it up.
- 29:40Speaker 1: That Jeffrey Epstein was the number one motivation here, the
- 29:46Speaker 1: number one engine here, and Ghislaine Maxwell was simply just
- 29:51Speaker 1: a passenger, that is a dream outcome for the defense.
- 29:56Speaker 1: And that is exactly what they're going to try and do.
- 29:59Speaker 1: But that's not going to work out, I don't think.
- 30:01Speaker 1: I really don't think that that kind of defense in
- 30:06Speaker 1: this current place where we find ourselves as a society
- 30:13Speaker 1: is the proper way to go about it. But again, look,
- 30:16Speaker 1: that's just my opinion. I'm certainly not a lawyer, right?
- 30:19Speaker 1: And I'm certainly not somebody making two grand an hour
- 30:21Speaker 1: for my legalese advice. But it just seems like a
- 30:25Speaker 1: bad strategy to me. And then that in turn leads
- 30:29Speaker 1: me to believe that that's all they have to go on.
- 30:33Speaker 1: We've talked about it a lot here. They really don't
- 30:35Speaker 1: have any kind of tenable ground. Ever since Eve was
- 30:44Speaker 1: accused of tempting Adam for the apple, women have been
- 30:47Speaker 1: blamed for the bad behavior of men, and women are
- 30:49Speaker 1: often villainized and punished more than men ever are, Sternheim said.
- 30:54Speaker 1: And again, look, it's a shrewd move. And if she
- 30:56Speaker 1: wasn't dealing with minor victims, minors who are going to testify,
- 31:03Speaker 1: then it might have more of an impact on the jury.
- 31:06Speaker 1: But when you look at the whole entire case, I
- 31:08Speaker 1: do not think that it's going to play out. I
- 31:12Speaker 1: just don't think it's going to play out. Countering the
- 31:20Speaker 1: prosecution's first words to jurors, Sternheim said... I wish I
- 31:24Speaker 1: could tell you a progressive, once upon a time narration.
- 31:27Speaker 1: But she added that the evidence of the case was
- 31:29Speaker 1: not conducive to that approach. Instead, Sternheim depicted the case
- 31:35Speaker 1: in themes of four words beginning.
- 31:37Speaker 2: With the letter M.
- 31:38Speaker 1: Memory, manipulation, media, and money. And that's really what it
- 31:43Speaker 1: all comes down to for these people always, right? They
- 31:46Speaker 1: always say, oh, it's all about money. It's all about
- 31:49Speaker 1: making a dollar, it's all about a payday, blah, blah, blah, blah.
- 31:56Speaker 1: But if that was the case, then why would some
- 31:58Speaker 1: of these survivors continue the fight after the fact of
- 32:02Speaker 1: the matter? After they've had settlements, why would they continue
- 32:06Speaker 1: to deal with having their lives dragged through the media,
- 32:09Speaker 1: having to deal with disinformation agents, and having to deal
- 32:12Speaker 1: with a bunch of other knuckleheads? It doesn't make sense
- 32:16Speaker 1: to me. And to set it up like these ladies,
- 32:23Speaker 1: these survivors, it's all about money is just so gross
- 32:26Speaker 1: on its face. This isn't one person claiming that this occurred.
- 32:32Speaker 1: A he said, she said matter where we don't have
- 32:35Speaker 1: all of the information. This is literally dozens upon dozens
- 32:40Speaker 1: of girls and little girls and women coming forward and
- 32:42Speaker 1: saying this happened. So there's really not, you know, a
- 32:47Speaker 1: he said, she said.
- 32:48Speaker 2: Kind of gray area here.
- 32:52Speaker 1: So this morning, the jury was in panel, the 12
- 32:55Speaker 1: jurors and six alternates. That was all locked away before
- 32:59Speaker 1: everything started. And Maxwell was accompanied into and out of
- 33:06Speaker 1: the courtroom without handcuffs. She wore a cream colored sweater
- 33:10Speaker 1: and black pants, a white mask. And yeah, she adhered
- 33:17Speaker 1: to all the pandemic related social distancing and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
- 33:21Speaker 1: all that stuff. And there were some people at the
- 33:24Speaker 1: trial who have a big say in the matter, such
- 33:29Speaker 1: as Sarah Ransom.
- 33:32Speaker 2: And when she.
- 33:33Speaker 1: Was talked to by reporters outside of the courthouse, she
- 33:37Speaker 1: said she never thought that this day would come. And
- 33:40Speaker 1: for me, you have to look at these survivors and
- 33:43Speaker 1: what they've been through and how long they have been
- 33:45Speaker 1: dealing with all of this. And think about that for
- 33:48Speaker 1: a minute. How it must be surreal. How it must
- 33:51Speaker 1: be almost like it's not happening. So that's definitely something
- 33:58Speaker 1: that I'm interested to see. How many of the survivors
- 34:03Speaker 1: end up showing up in court here. And how many
- 34:05Speaker 1: of them, you know, are maybe put on the stand.
- 34:09Speaker 1: Should be an interesting path that we're on here, folks.
- 34:14Speaker 1: Another thing that happened at the... trial today, which was
- 34:18Speaker 1: very interesting, is they had a witness on the stand already.
- 34:24Speaker 1: And that witness was Larry Vesosky. Larry Vesosky was Jeffrey
- 34:29Speaker 1: Epstein's airplane pilot. And I've done several episodes on him.
- 34:34Speaker 1: I've posted some recently. Maybe I'll repost it for those
- 34:38Speaker 1: of you who have just found the podcast and don't
- 34:41Speaker 1: want to navigate through the gigantic catalog. Maybe I'll just
- 34:44Speaker 1: repost it again. But Larry Vysotsky was Jeffrey Epstein's pilot,
- 34:49Speaker 1: his top dog, so much so, in fact, that he
- 34:51Speaker 1: was given a parcel of land on Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch.
- 34:57Speaker 1: Larry Vysotsky's daughter was also married on Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch.
- 35:04Speaker 1: So there's a little bit of background of who Lawrence
- 35:08Speaker 1: Paul Vysotsky is. So he was on the stand today,
- 35:12Speaker 1: called as a witness for the prosecution. And he was asked, obviously,
- 35:19Speaker 1: some questions. You know, what his name was, gave his name,
- 35:25Speaker 1: who he worked for, Jeffrey Epstein. He was asked where
- 35:29Speaker 1: he was hired. Where did Epstein hire him out of?
- 35:32Speaker 1: And he was hired out of Columbus, Ohio, as we've
- 35:35Speaker 1: talked about previously, along with David Rogers, who was the
- 35:39Speaker 1: other pilot who we also talked about. Maureen Comey went
- 35:44Speaker 1: on to say, how long did Mr. Rogers work for Mr.
- 35:47Speaker 2: Epstein?
- 35:48Speaker 1: And Vysotsky said, about the same duration as himself. Some
- 35:52Speaker 1: other questions about Maxwell's hairstyle. Another question about, can he
- 36:00Speaker 1: identify Ms.
- 36:01Speaker 2: Maxwell?
- 36:02Speaker 1: And he said that she was over in the corner
- 36:04Speaker 1: wearing a white sweater. Questions continued to come in about
- 36:09Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein and about the private jets. And one of
- 36:12Speaker 1: the questions was, did Jeffrey Epstein always take the private jet?
- 36:17Speaker 1: And Vysotsky said the only time he didn't do that
- 36:20Speaker 1: was when the Concorde was flying. And he also went
- 36:23Speaker 1: on to add that Ms. Maxwell, she used the airplane sometimes,
- 36:27Speaker 1: used airlines sometimes. In the 90s, she had an option
- 36:31Speaker 1: on a quarter share of a private jet, according to
- 36:33Speaker 1: Larry Vesosky. So, we know that Epstein was not flying commercial, okay?
- 36:40Speaker 1: We know that he was rocking out in his private jets.
- 36:44Speaker 1: And we know that Maxwell also, for the most part, was,
- 36:47Speaker 1: you know, afforded the same kind of transportation.
- 36:50Speaker 2: Um....
- 36:53Speaker 1: Now, Vysotsky started to get on to a little bit
- 36:55Speaker 1: of talking about the flight logs and who was flying
- 36:58Speaker 1: on the plane with him. And he said for domestic flights,
- 37:01Speaker 1: he didn't need to know who was flying in the plane.
- 37:04Speaker 1: And that's kind of mind-blowing. How is that even possible?
- 37:07Speaker 1: The pilot doesn't need to know who's in his plane? Now,
- 37:10Speaker 1: I'm not questioning if he's right or wrong saying that.
- 37:12Speaker 1: I'm sure he knows the rules and regulations. But as
- 37:17Speaker 1: a bystander sitting over here in the peanut gallery, you
- 37:20Speaker 1: would think that you would have to know who's on
- 37:22Speaker 1: your plane, right? kind of an important thing. Comey went on,
- 37:30Speaker 1: Maureen Comey, who's one of the attorneys working the case,
- 37:36Speaker 1: went on to ask him, you didn't get all of
- 37:38Speaker 1: the names? And Vysotsky said he did not. He said
- 37:42Speaker 1: there were New York City, Palm Beach, Santa Fe, actually Stanley,
- 37:46Speaker 1: New Mexico, and then an apartment in Paris, and an
- 37:49Speaker 1: island in St. Thomas. So he was talking about all
- 37:52Speaker 1: the places that he took Epstein. And it is crazy
- 38:01Speaker 1: to think that this guy's flying Epstein and all these
- 38:04Speaker 1: people all across the country, across international boundaries, and doesn't
- 38:10Speaker 1: even have all of the information on who's on his flight. Now,
- 38:14Speaker 1: I'm guessing on the international flights, he has to know
- 38:18Speaker 1: considering he pointed out for a domestic flight, he doesn't
- 38:21Speaker 1: need to know. So I don't know one way or
- 38:24Speaker 1: the other what the rules and regulations are about that.
- 38:27Speaker 1: I'll have to look that up. Comey went on to
- 38:32Speaker 1: ask some more questions about Epstein's Palm Beach residence, and
- 38:36Speaker 1: Vysotsky went on to explain what they looked like. She
- 38:40Speaker 1: went on to ask, who drove Epstein up to the plane?
- 38:49Speaker 1: And Vysotsky answered that it was the butler who did that.
- 38:53Speaker 1: But he said others did too. So again, a little
- 38:59Speaker 1: more context about Larry Vysotsky, right? We've talked about him
- 39:03Speaker 1: plenty of times, but the fact that he is on
- 39:05Speaker 1: the witness stand right now, I didn't really, I didn't
- 39:07Speaker 1: expect that, especially not this quickly. So the questioning continued.
- 39:16Speaker 1: And Comey asked him what he did at the 9th,
- 39:20Speaker 1: 71st Street place. He said, pick up luggage and install
- 39:25Speaker 1: video equipment. So that's the townhouse. So he picked up
- 39:29Speaker 1: luggage and installed... video equipment at the townhouse.
- 39:32Speaker 2: Very interesting.
- 39:33Speaker 1: Very interesting indeed. Maureen Comey also asked about which airport
- 39:38Speaker 1: he used. And he said, Teterboro or Newark or JFK
- 39:43Speaker 1: if they had the larger plane. Right after the questioning
- 39:47Speaker 1: of Larry Vesosky, they wrapped it up for the night.
- 39:51Speaker 1: And it looks like Judge Nathan wrapped it up at
- 39:53Speaker 1: around 4.58.
- 39:56Speaker 2: So.
- 39:57Speaker 1: Again, we're lucky that we have some people in there
- 40:00Speaker 1: documenting what went on. And make sure that you're following
- 40:04Speaker 1: people like Inner City Press and Adam Klarsfeld. And all
- 40:08Speaker 1: of these people who are actually there and on the scene.
- 40:12Speaker 2: Because... Without them, we wouldn't.
- 40:15Speaker 1: Have any idea of what's going on in this courtroom
- 40:17Speaker 1: right now. So... For me, it's a very interesting development
- 40:22Speaker 1: that Larry Vesoski was on the stand today and that
- 40:26Speaker 1: he was taking these questions. Now, come tomorrow, there's going
- 40:31Speaker 1: to be some cross-examination and the defense is going to
- 40:34Speaker 1: get their crack at Mr.
- 40:36Speaker 2: Vesoski.
- 40:37Speaker 1: And I'm sure that the prosecution probably has some more
- 40:41Speaker 1: to ask him as well.
- 40:43Speaker 2: So we'll see where it all goes, folks.
- 40:45Speaker 1: But That's kind of a compartmentalized version of what occurred today.
- 40:52Speaker 1: And while there was nothing too bombshell-ish, I think that
- 40:56Speaker 1: Larry Vesosky taking the stand tonight is a pretty big development.
- 41:00Speaker 1: And he is somebody who has a lot of knowledge
- 41:03Speaker 1: about the inner workings of Jeffrey Epstein's organization as far
- 41:07Speaker 1: as where they went, where they were traveling to, etc., etc.,
- 41:11Speaker 1: And you have to think that Larry Vesosky is somebody
- 41:15Speaker 1: who is deeply, deeply in Epstein's confidence or was. If
- 41:20Speaker 1: Epstein's given him 40 acres at Zorro Ranch with a
- 41:23Speaker 1: beautiful property like that, you have to think they're pretty close.
- 41:27Speaker 1: So it's going to be interesting to see which line
- 41:30Speaker 1: of questioning the prosecution goes with tomorrow. And we'll just
- 41:35Speaker 1: have to see, right? We'll have to, you know, Keep
- 41:38Speaker 1: following it and see where it goes. But it's already
- 41:41Speaker 1: turning interesting. So... We're going to keep at it, folks.
- 41:47Speaker 1: We're going to keep following the case every day. We'll
- 41:49Speaker 1: have at least two updates. We'll have the live streams.
- 41:52Speaker 1: And we'll try and make heads or tails of it.
- 41:55Speaker 1: Because one thing's for sure. There is a lot of
- 41:58Speaker 1: murky water that we've got to swim through. A lot
- 42:01Speaker 1: of BS.
- 42:01Speaker 2: A lot of nonsense. And a lot of carnival barkers.
- 42:07Speaker 1: So.
- 42:08Speaker 2: We'll continue to.
- 42:08Speaker 1: Follow the case through these trusted sources, through people who
- 42:13Speaker 1: have motivation of seeing the truth be told. And I
- 42:16Speaker 1: highly suggest that if you're interested in following this stuff
- 42:19Speaker 1: real time, you follow places like people like Inner City
- 42:23Speaker 1: Press or Adam Klasfeld or Kate Bricklett or, you know,
- 42:27Speaker 1: somebody that is working this case who has a track
- 42:30Speaker 1: record of telling the truth. Because there is a lot
- 42:35Speaker 1: of disinformation out there, folks. Be very mindful of it.
- 42:39Speaker 1: All right, everybody, that's going to wrap it up for
- 42:41Speaker 1: day one, Ghislaine Maxwell trial coverage. We'll be right back
- 42:46Speaker 1: at it tomorrow morning, nice and early. We'll get a,
- 42:50Speaker 1: you know, a pre-trial show in, talk about what's going on,
- 42:54Speaker 1: some of the headlines. And then as the day progresses,
- 42:57Speaker 1: we'll keep an eye on the news, keep an eye
- 42:59Speaker 1: on how the trial is progressing. And if we need
- 43:02Speaker 1: to have more than one update, I'm certainly here and
- 43:05Speaker 1: prepared for it. But as of now, it looks like
- 43:08Speaker 1: the two updates a day will be sufficient. And we'll
- 43:11Speaker 1: go from there.
- 43:13Speaker 2: So with that said, folks, I hope you all have.
- 43:15Speaker 1: A great Monday night. And I will see you all
- 43:18Speaker 1: back here at the same time, same place, same channel
- 43:22Speaker 1: tomorrow morning. Have a great night, everyone. If you'd like
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