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Mega Edition: Epstein Investigations Abroad Move Forward as U.S. Accountability Freezes (4/30/26) · 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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Epstein Chronicles. Lawmakers from the Oversight Committee were able to
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take a look at some of the unredacted files that
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have been redacted by the DOJ before being released to
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the public, and as you can imagine, they found some
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issues right away. And that's because the DOJ is not
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in compliance, and honestly, I doubt they even plan on
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ever being in compliance at this point. They've had ample
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opportunity to do the right thing, and time and time
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again they've refused to do so. And even when there's
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a law passed, they find ways around it, you know,
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the loopholes and technicality strategy. That's certainly the strategy that's
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being used by the DOJ. And if there's nothing to hide,
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there is nothing to cover up, then why are they
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going to these lengths to make sure nobody sees these documents,
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especially considering they tell us all the time how President
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Trump is some kind of crusader here and how he
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was working with the authorities. Cool, then he should want
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to release all this stuff and get it out there
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right and clear his name. But of course the exact
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opposite continues to happen. So why If there is nothing
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damaging in those files, then why this whole song and dance.
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Why did we need a law to get the president
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to do what he said he was going to do
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anyway while he was on the campaign trail. Do you
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really think that there is nothing in those files, nothing
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that the current administration or especially their donors, are worried about.
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And if there's nothing to worry about, this has been
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one of the biggest blunders in the history of any administration.
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Imagine burning this kind of political capital and there's nothing
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to hide. That would have to go down as one
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of the biggest blunders of all time. And while there's
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no doubt that I find this administration to be incompetent,
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I also don't believe that they'd be fighting toothanel the
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way they are if there was nothing to see inside
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of the documents, and if the Jeffrey Epstein story was over,
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they would come clean and they would end this shit tomorrow.
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The problem is they can't because the only way to
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end the story now is to come completely clean and
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be transparent, and we know that's not going to happen,
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So their only other option is to dig in and
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try and make the cover up as airtight as possible.
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But I don't think that's going to work out for
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them the way they think it will. This article was
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published by CNN and the headline new roadblocks slow US
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reckoning over Epstein as Europe races ahead. This article was
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authored by Steven Collinson. And there's no doubt that Europe
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is holding people accountable. I would think that America would
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want to do the same thing. But then again, when
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you have the people in charge who are in charge,
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I'll bet off who the fuck knows what they're gonna
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do next. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche pledged last month
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that the Justice Department was not protecting anyone, least of
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all Donald Trump. Those assurances by the president's former personal
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lawyer are facing new scrutiny following remarkable developments in the
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Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Come on, does anyone believe Todd Blanche?
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All you have to do is take a listen to
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what he said to Glene Maxwell and what he let
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Glaine Maxwell say, and you know that Todd Blanche isn't
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a serious lawman. What he is is a mouthpiece for
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the administration. That's all he is. Intrigue deepened after lawmakers
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emerged perplexed after being given the chance to read unredacted
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versions of blacked out investigative files previously released to the
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public and massive document dumps compelled by Congress. And it's
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wild to me that the most transparent administration in history
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had to be drag kicking and screaming to release the files.
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Let's not forget that part of it. We didn't want
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there to be a cover up, and yet what I
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saw today was that there were lots of examples of
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people's names being redacted when they were not victims. Maryland
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Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin said the lawmakers started inspecting the
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documents at the DOJ on a day of broadening fallout
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from a scandal that has blown the lid off the
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late sex offenders, stunning global network of billionaires and power brokers.
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Well not for nothing. If y'all would have been paying
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attention seven years ago, you would have known. But the
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same powers that are now trying to muddy the waters
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did the same thing back then. They were able to
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change the narrative, they were able to steal the narrative,
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and we ended up with no justice and nobody being
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held accountable and now they're trying to do the same
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thing here. It was one guy, just a loan predator.
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There's nothing to see here, folks, Come on, move on,
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Oh what do you have? TDS so dumb like, at
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least come with some kind of facts or something right.
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And look, I'm not even talking about the human trafficking
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portion of this. I'm talking about the obvious financial crimes
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that were taking place, the obvious passing of information that
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was confidential by multiple parties to Jeffrey Epstein. That's what
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I'm talking about. So even if you don't believe the
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portion of this about there being this huge human trafficking network,
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how could you possibly deny the rest of it? How
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could you deny that there is a group of people
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behind the scenes that are truly in charge of everything.
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And I don't say that lightly. I'm not talking about
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a group of reptilians. I'm talking about a group of
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ultra rich people. And the vast majority of those people
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are in the financial sector. And that's why I've been
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driving that point home for seven years now. All the pain,
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all the suffering, all the bullshit can be traced directly
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right back to the financial sector and if you're looking
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for villains, they're right there. The whole ass financial sector
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basically is corrupt, and that fact has been illuminated by
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the emails that we see between Jeffrey Epstein and the
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so called masters of the universe and what That's not
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a problem that deserves more analysis. That's not a problem
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that should be dealt with. I most certainly think it is.
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And make no mistake, that's why they want you on
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the salacious side quest. They don't want you digging into this.
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They don't want you thinking about this from this point
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of view, because, like I've said a million times, if
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you really want justice and you really want to take
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these people down, there's one surefire way to do it,
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dig directly into their finances. While new concern surfaced over
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the DOJ's handling of the files and the case, more generally,
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the push for accountability eras to head in Europe, where
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the political careers and reputations of powerful people are in shreds. YO,
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say what you want about Europe, but at least they're
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not wasting any time cleaning house of Jeffrey Epstein's buddies.
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We should take a page out of their book here
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in America, But unfortunately we won't because all these billionaires
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and power brokers, they're the ones who really run the country,
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not your president. While that people still think that the
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president really wields that power, you know, wields the power
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the people who hold the purse strings, they willed the
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power and breaking news that's not the president, and suspicions
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among survivors that their long quest for justice is being
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impeded yet again were reinforced by an extraordinary offer made
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to Trump by a lawyer for Epstein's jail associate, Glanne Maxwell.
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The gist was this, grant clemency to Maxwell, are convicted
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six trafficker, and she'll put the president in the clear.
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Well in that case, why does an al chapo just
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come out and say that he can clear President Trump too?
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Oh yeah, I can clear Trump. He had nothing to
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do with Epstein. Can I get my pardon now? As well? Like?
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What are we even doing here? Do they really think
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everybody's stupid enough to fall for this shit? Listen? Not
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everybody tuned into kid Rock for the halftime show. Lawmakers
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who were able to see some unredacted copies of the
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Epstein files did not directly accuse the DOJ of a
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cover up, but there are findings only fuel mistrust among
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many of their colleagues and the public about its handling
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of the case. This is especially so since the names
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of many people linked to Epstein were redacted in public disclosures,
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while the names of some victims were visible. And that
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was the beginning of them trying to shift the narrative
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to blame the victims. And we're already seeing it. Look
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at the tweet by Anna Paulina Luna. I mean talk
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about being out to lunch. And if you recall, this
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is a woman who told us, Oh yeah, I'm coming
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for transparency, I'm coming for justice. I'm coming to find
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out what really happened with Epstein, with JFK, with UFOs. Well,
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with the bullshit this lady pumps, she should probably just
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stick to UFOs and Bigfoot probably more speed because she
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has no idea what she's talking about when it comes
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to Jeffrey Epstein, and just you watch, keep an eye
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on it. That's going to be the narrative shift over
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the coming weeks. After pressure from lawmakers, the Justice Department
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unredacted some more names in the Epstein files on Monday,
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with Republican Representative Thomas Massey of Kentucky telling CNNs Caitlyn
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Collins that they redacted the identities of several people named
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in a twenty nineteen document that listed Epstein's edge co conspirators. Blanche,
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in an online exchange with Massey on Monday night, said
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that the Justice Department is hiding nothing. Oh no, nothing
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at all except three million more documents. Is this guy
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for real? Imagine actually thinking that Todd Blanche was trustworthy?
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I mean, holy shit, this guy makes fucking Merrick Garland
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look like elliot Ness. Democratic Representative James Wilkinshaw demanded answers.
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I can say that I saw many names, including names
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and emails to and from Jeffrey Epstein that suggests these
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individuals were involved in crimes or at least knew about crimes,
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the Virginia lawmaker told CNN's Aaron Burnett. And again, I'm
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not able to explain why they were redacted in a
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way that's consistent with the law. Well me either, the
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redactions are terrible, and the Justice Department they need to
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explain why they were redacted the names they did. Raskin
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said the department hadn't explained why certain redactions were made,
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but what he saw was a whole bunch of them
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that seemed very suspicious and baffling to me. Democratic Representative
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Jared Moskovitz total reporters, he'd seen lots of names, lots
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of co conspirators, and they're trafficking girls all across the world,
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and I think people need to understand that this wasn't
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just something that was happening in America. And a lot
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of these victims, a lot of these unnamed girls as
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I call them, are from Central Eastern Europe, South America,
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Central America, and everywhere else in between. And after Epstein's
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first arrest, he wised up. He knew that he could
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bring in girls from places like South America, he knew
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he could bring in girls from Eastern Europe and war
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torn countries, and he knew that the likelihood of him
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ever being caught or anyone believing them was zero to none.
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So they exploited that, and that was one of the
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hunting grounds that Jean Luke Brunel used almost extent. The
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DOJ was supposed to limit redactions to the personal information
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of victims and materials that would jeopardize an active criminal investigation,
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and Congress has not yet received privilege from the DOJ
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explaining why certain redactions were made, which DOJ is compelled
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to provide fifteen days after its January thirtieth release of documents.
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The experience of lawmakers means an even tougher reception for
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Attorney General Pam Bondy when she testifies to the House
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Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. Oh, you better believe on watching
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that one. I hope they grill the shit out of
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Pam Bondy because she certainly deserves it. She's done nothing
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but flub this from the very start. Many Democrats already
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believe that our department, whether by design or omission, is
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failing to honor the Epstein Files Transparency Act, passed after
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a GOP revolt against Trump last year. The laws authors,
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California Democratic Representative Rocanna and Representative Massey, express disappointment with
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the DOJ. I think that's an understatement. I think we
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all have disappointment with the way the DJ has handled this,
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and it's caused a collapse of trust when it comes
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to the DOJ and the investigations that they're engaging in.
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This lack of trust is certainly going to bleed over
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into other things. I mean, if they lie to us
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about this, what else are they lying about? That's really
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where we're at right Well, you think this is the
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only thing they're lying about, the only thing they've been
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dishonest about. Come on, we all know better than that.
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And the sad part is, instead of trying to regain
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our trust, the DOJ just continues to double down on
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the lives in the deceit. But they refuse to self correct,
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They refuse to do anything to help rebuild that trust,
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and the impact that's going to have on our society
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in general cannot be understated. All right, folks, we're gonna
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wrap up episode one right here, and in the next episode,
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we're gonna pick up where we left off. All of
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the information that goes with this episode can be found
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in the description box. What's up, everyone, and welcome to
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another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're
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gonna pick up where we left off with the CNN
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article about the roadblocks slowing down or reckoning when it
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comes to Epstein in the United States, and this article
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was authored by Stephen Collinson. It was another stunning day
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of fallout in the Epstein Sagon Monday, Maxwell was piped
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in from her detention facility in Texas to provide testimony
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to a House committee investigating the scandal, but she invoked
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the Fifth Amendment to avoid self incrimination, as is her
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constitutional right. Look, there's no doubt that she has a
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right to plead the Fifth and honestly, she's smart to
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do so. Does anyone really think that anything she says
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is not going to incriminate her as well? And remember,
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Gleainne Maxwell's already cooked as far as witnesses go because
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of her perjury. She's a known liar. And when you're
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a known liar, well, folks, I know it's breaking news,
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but people don't believe you, especially Jerry's. And that's why
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there was never any chance whatsoever that Glayn Maxwell was
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ever going to offer anything up as far as that deposition.
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Her goal is to get out of prison, not add
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more time. But her lawyer made a stunning proposal. Miss
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Maxwell's prepared to speak fully and honestly if granted clemency
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by President Trump. Attorney David Oscar Marcus said in a
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statement during the deposition, which he later posted on x YO,
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that is just crazy. So we're just gonna put it
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out there for everybody to see that we got some
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quid pro quo going on. Is that what led to
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Glenn Maxwell being given those cushy ass circumstances in the
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first place. Yo, I got questions, and unfortunately all the
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answers that are coming back to me are not valid.
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There is no excuse for anything like this to even
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take place. Glenne Maxwell shouldn't even be where she is now.
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She's trying to run the table once again, talking about
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do this for me and I'll do that for you.
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Classic quid pro quo. This is a crazy ass statement,
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and the fact that they're so brazen about it makes
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me wonder what they've been promised. Only she can provide
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the complete truth, Marcus continued. Some may not like what
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they hear, but the truth matters. For example, both President
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Trump and President Clinton are innocent of any wrongdoing, So
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Glenn Maxwell knows exactly what everybody did, even when she
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claims she was no longer there. That's interesting. That's a
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hell of his skill Glenn Maxwell has. Does that come
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with being a bipedal serpent? Or is that something she
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picked up later on down the road. She just puts
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on that swami hat and before you know it. Well,
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she knows everything, and she knows who did. What is
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that really what you're trying to pitch to me? That's
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what you expect me to buy that Glaine Maxwell is
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going to be the person that blows the doors off
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and gives us all the information we need. Are you stupid?
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She had her chance to do that before she ended
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up in prison. She didn't though right, She didn't enter
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into a deal, she didn't speak when it was her
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time on the stand, none of it. But now at
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this moment in history, all of a sudden, Glainne Maxwell
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has something to say. Watching them try to change this
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narrative in real time is wild, and the fact that
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they think that it's going to be successful is even
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more wild. Nobody's buying what you're selling, and nobody believes
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that Gallainne Maxwell is going to tell the truth and
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blow the doors off this and anybody telling you any
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different is lying to you. Neither the current or the
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ex president has been charged with any crime in connection
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to Ebstein. Both deny having any knowledge of his offenses.
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While considering that article we just went through about Donald
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Trump's statements to the pom Beach Police about how everyone
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knew what Epstein was. I think Donald Trump has some
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explaining to do. Did you lie to the pom Beach
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police or are you lying to us? Trump has struggled
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to explain his friendship with the disgraced financier and said
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he threw Epstein out of his Mara al Lago club
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after they became estranged. But the clemency play is the
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epitome of an age when attempted quid pro quoes play
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out in public in hopes of swaying a president who
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mocks ethics and exploits power granted by voters for his
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own ends. Well, look, man, that's exactly what it looks like. Right.
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We can't deny the reality of what's going on and
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the fact that they're being very brazen when it comes
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to these kinds of deals. And I don't just mean
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with Glenn Maxwell. I'm talking about overall. The whole situation
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with pardons, not just with Trump either, by the way,
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is ridiculous, and the president should have as much lateral
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ability to pardon some of the scumbags that they do
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end up pardoning. Now, of course that's just my opinion,
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but every single administration it's the same song and dance.
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Anything that Maxwell said in the event she was released
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from prison would be immediately regarded as not credible, given
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her incentive to improve her own plight, But such as
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Trump's outlandish past use of his pardon powers that her
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gambit cannot be dismissed. It might even work. Look, I
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don't put anything past Trump or the administration. Previously, before
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all of this blew up in July, I would have said,
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no way, there is no chance that Donald Trump would
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make that move. But now who the hell knows. It's
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rather obvious he doesn't care about Burnham political capital when
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it comes to Epstein, so why should he care about
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commuting or pardoning Glene Maxwell, even though he himself said
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that she was worse than Jeffrey Epstein. But I guess
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we can't let that get in the way of some
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good politics, right to help with the people who were abused,
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to help with the people who were wronged. As long
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as I'm coming out of this without looking any worse
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than I do. That's exactly the pattern we're seeing here,
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and I find it disgusting. The atmosphere of thwarted accountability
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on one side of the Atlantic only sharpened the contrast
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with an extraordinary political crisis engulfing Britain. Prime Minister Cure
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Starmer battled to save his job amid recriminations over his
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decision to appoint Peter Mandelsson, a former friend of Epstein,
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as ambassador to Washington, and in a mind boggling move,
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King Charles the Third off to cooperate with police in
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any investigation into his brother, the former Prince Andrew, who
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has had his royal titles stripped after he obfuscated his
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ties to Epstein. So all this accountability going on across
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the sea, but here in America, we can't be bothered.
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The whole people accountable. How dare you even ask? What
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is this a moral panic? Bitch? This ain't canceled culture.
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This is consequence culture. And it's time you motherfucker's wised up.
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Oh well, he only sent an email. I don't care. Okay,
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I don't care. And look, I'm not calling for people
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who are sending emails to go to prison. What I
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am saying, though, is there pieces of shit. And if
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you don't like that or it offends you, I really
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don't care, because I'm offended that these people rule over
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my life. That's what I'm offended about. So if you
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want to be offended that they're getting called out and
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that their reputations are in danger, well you right along
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with the people that were enabling Jeffrey Epstein, can all
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go get fucked. And I don't know how much more
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clear I need to be. You see, folks, I don't
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care about making friends. I don't care about being accepted
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to any big clubs. I don't care about any of it.
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I don't care about sponsors. I don't care about selling
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you dick pills, none of that shit. You know what
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I care about. I care about these people being held accountable,
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and I refuse to shut my mouth until that occurs.
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Underscoring the peril the affair opposes to the monarchy, the
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heir to the throne, Prince William and his wife, Princess Catherine,
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offered empathy to Epstein's survivors through a spokesperson in Norway,
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where another royal has been shamed by the affair, authority
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said they're investigating a former diplomat suspected of growth corruption.
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So everybody out there talking about Epstein not collecting information
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or a compromunt, you look fucking dumb. Now we have Mandel's.
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We have Prince Andrew himself and we have this Norway
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royal who were all giving Jeffrey Epstein confidential information and
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for what reason? And do you think that's where it ended?
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Just those people, because I have my doubts. This was
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the pattern, and this is what Jeffrey Epstein was trying
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to do. You folks have to understand when you get
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to this level, it's not just about money, It's about information.
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And the most important currency to these people is information
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because information can change everything, right, And that was Jeffrey
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Epstein's job. He was collecting information. He was working as
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a free agent, and he was willing to work with
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anyone that was willing to pay him for his services.
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And a whole lot of people were caught up in
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passing Jeffrey Epstein all kinds of information. And if that's
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not blackmail, if that's not compromont, I don't know what
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is the reputation of a highly respected former French culture
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minister was tarnished by this past contact with Epstein, and
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Poland is investigating whether the convicted sex offender was linked
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to Russian spies. When we know the Polish girls came
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to America Adriana Ross was Polish, so there are certainly
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things to look at over in Poland and Eastern Europe
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as a whole, because that was prime hunting ground for
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Jeffrey Epstein and his people. One thousand percent Conna Marvel
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that the contrast between the UK and the US. Look
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at what's happening in Britain. You have a left government.
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Actually I know Kuri Starmer I was excited at onenty one,
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yet I believe he needs to be held accountable with
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what's happened with Mandelssohn. You have the British monarchy having
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to answer questions. I mean, the King of England is
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putting out statements and yet in our country we have
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not had the reckoning. What explains the difference, It's a
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good question. It comes down to protection, money and narratives.
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You see, they're turning the narrative on its head now
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and they're trying to make this into a me too
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type of thing. But what they need to understand is
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that during Me Too, this topic was largely ignored. Nobody
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showed up in any pussy hats at the Glenn Maxwell
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trial and hardly anybody gave a damn about these survivors.
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So save the bullshit. This reckoning ride here has been
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a long time coming. And we're not talking about a
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nineteen year old who was dating a seventeen year old.
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We're not talking about a twenty year old who was
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with a seventeen year old. What we are talking about
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is some of the richest, most powerful people in the
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world preying on young, vulnerable girls who came from broken homes.
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But I guess we should just ignore the circumstances, right,
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just ignore it all. So what explains the difference. It's complex,
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especially since none of the people who came into contact
25:56
with Epstein, apart from Maxwell, have been charged with crimes.
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That doesn't necessarily point to a cover up. Evidence may
26:03
not lead in such a direction. Oh no, not at all.
26:08
There is no crimes that were committed here, nothing, No
26:10
financial crimes, no crimes against children, no crimes against women,
26:14
no crimes against the rest of us. Just pack it in.
26:18
We should all just pack it in and never talk
26:20
about it again. But the growing push for accountability is
26:26
raising the question of what this network of powerful and
26:29
sophisticated people, mostly rich men, knew about Epstein's activities and crimes,
26:34
especially once he emerged from prison in two thousand and
26:38
nine after serving a thirteen month sentence four sex offenses
26:42
against children. By the way, oh, it was prostitution, not
26:47
kids can't consent, that's not prostitution. There have been some
26:54
consequences for Americans who had links with Epstein. Former treasure
26:58
secretary and Harvard University president Larry Summers stepped away from
27:03
public life after the release of embarrassing email exchanges with Epstein.
27:08
Last week, Brad Karp resigned as chairman of Paul Weiss,
27:12
one of the country's top corporate law firms, over is
27:15
Epstein ties. But such downfalls in the US have been
27:21
precipitated by reputational damage to individuals rather than government action.
27:27
In Europe, the machinery of investigation and accountability remains independent.
27:32
In the US, the Justice Department is run by Trump
27:35
loyalists who have heard his calls for the country to
27:38
move on. And that's really what it comes down to.
27:41
And it's sad to say, and I really don't care
27:44
how people try and twist themselves up to excuse it
27:47
or explain it. There is no excuse and there is
27:50
no explanation. It's wrong, it's disgusting and it needs to end.
27:57
Mandelssohn is facing a criminal investigation or allegations he passed
28:01
secret and market moving government information to Ebstein. It's hard
28:06
to see the Trump DOJ launching a probe in similar circumstances.
28:10
Oh yeah, talk about highly unlikely things that are never
28:14
gonna happen. Okay, the Trump DOJ is not going to
28:17
investigate itself. But keep in mind that Trump is not
28:21
going to be in power forever, and there's gonna be
28:23
a reckoning, I promise you. Mandelssohn is facing a criminal
28:27
investigation over allegations he passed secret and market moving government
28:31
information to Epstein. It's hard to see the Trump DOJ
28:34
launching a probe in similar circumstances. Mandelssohn has apologized for
28:39
his past links with Epstein and has resigned from the
28:42
Labor Party and the House of Lords. At least he
28:46
had the humility to do that. Now, of course he
28:49
was forced to do so. But still here we are.
28:53
Results matter, right, and the fact that Mandelssohn is now
28:56
running in disgrace, that's a good thing. The shockover disclosures
29:02
about Epstein's behavior and the sprawling network of contacts is
29:06
palpable in Europe. But why is discussed less obvious in
29:10
the United States, Perhaps ten years into the Trump era,
29:14
the country is just punched drunk on scandal, or maybe
29:17
the spectacle of Epstein's influence pedaling is in such big
29:21
news in a nation where politics is saturated in campaign cash.
29:26
You know, that's horrible to even read, and the fact
29:29
that we're in a place where that could even be
29:31
possible is disgusting. There is no amount of cash that
29:35
should protect anyone from anything even close to what Epstein
29:40
was doing. But yet here we are, all these years later,
29:44
and that's still occurring. Each day brings new revelations about
29:47
Epstein's extraordinary global network of interlocking ties between bipartisan political
29:53
leaders and influencers, finance and business titans, and international organizations
30:00
and billionaires. But amid the cacophony, people often forget what
30:05
this is really about. Grievous harm inflicted on the women
30:09
who were trafficked by Epstein as girls and forced to
30:13
perform massages and sex acts. Their trauma is only exasperated
30:18
by the apparent impunity of powerful people who flocked around
30:22
their abuser. Well, that's the most important part from a
30:25
humanistic standpoint. Without a doubt, and it's the most horrendous part,
30:30
but the part that is going to send these people
30:32
to prison, if anything does, it's going to be the
30:35
paper trail. And they're agreed, and that's the reason we
30:39
haven't dug into that. That's not something that the powers
30:45
that be want to get into. They don't want people
30:48
understanding just how interconnected Jeffrey Epstein was and just how
30:52
much of his money found its way into the pockets
30:55
of politicians that are currently in office. Hello, Stacey Plaskett,
31:00
Chuck Schumer. The story is much tidier if they can
31:03
only blame one man, right, one sick, degenerate, And that's
31:07
exactly why they're doing that. They don't want people to
31:10
understand just how widespread this rot is and how this
31:15
is not just about one man, Jeffrey Epstein, but about
31:18
a system that allowed that man to thrive. That's what
31:22
this is really about. I think that what people also
31:25
need to remember is that, you know, the survivors of
31:28
his crime know what happened. Epstein. Victim Liz Stein, wearing
31:32
a sweater reading courage is contagious, told CNN's Jake Tapper
31:36
on Monday. And so when we see things coming out
31:39
that you know, don't parallel what our truth is. We
31:42
really were taking notice, and they should be, and so
31:46
should you. We should all be demanding truth and accountability
31:51
wherever it leads, not because it's politically convenient, not because
31:55
the other side is in jeopardy, but because it's the
32:00
right thing to do, and because our society depends on it.
32:05
And I truly mean that, Like, what kind of society
32:08
do we want to be? Do we want to be
32:11
a society that lets this kind of shit slide, that
32:14
gives these people a pass because they have power and money,
32:18
or do we want to be a society that holds
32:20
people accountable no matter their status or their wealth. I mean,
32:25
I know it's a novel idea, but if you commit crimes,
32:28
you should be held accountable. And I don't care if
32:31
you're some homeless guy on the street or the president.
32:34
It shouldn't matter one bit. But unfortunately we know that
32:38
it's a big ass club and none of us are invited.
32:43
All of the information that goes with this episode can
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be found in the description box. What's up, everyone, and
32:50
welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. While the
32:55
Jeffrey Epstein Maelstrom continues to rage, there's a big difference
33:00
with how things are being handled here in the United
33:03
States and over in Europe, because over in Europe there
33:08
is accountability, or at least the appearance of accountability when
33:12
it comes to people who add deep ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
33:16
Now we haven't only seen it over in England, but
33:19
we're now seeing it in Norway and also in France,
33:23
where Jack Lang, who used to be the Culture Minister,
33:27
has been summoned by the Foreign Ministry to discuss his
33:30
ties to Epstein. Now does that mean that there is
33:33
any kind of real accountability coming. Of course not, but
33:38
at the very least over here in Europe they're making pretend,
33:42
and who knows, maybe there will be some repercussions. I
33:46
think for somebody like Peter Mandelsson, we could definitely be
33:49
looking at a criminal trial, considering he handed over classified
33:54
documents to Jeffrey Epstein. That seems like a pretty serious
33:58
offense to me and for the people out there saying
34:01
Epstein wasn't engaging in any kind of compromant or intelligence gathering.
34:06
I don't understand how you come to that conclusion, especially
34:10
after these leaks and the emails have come to light.
34:14
So in this episode we're going to skip across the
34:17
pond and we're going to talk about for burn Jagland
34:21
from Norway, and we're going to also talk about mister
34:24
Jack Lang from France. The first article we have is
34:28
from ABC News and the headline Norway investigates former Prime
34:32
minister over Epstein ties. This article was authored by the
34:37
Associated Press. Authorities in Norway have opened an investigation into
34:43
former Prime Minister for burn Yagland on suspicions of corruption,
34:47
following revelations of his ties with the late sex offender
34:51
Jeffrey Epstein. And I think this is the right way
34:54
to go. If you really want to hold people accountable
34:56
who are with Epstein, then you're going to have to
34:59
find other ways to do it. And when you're dealing
35:01
with a criminal enterprise, there's no better way to do
35:04
it than going after people for things like corruption, money laundering,
35:09
and the whole host of other crimes financial and otherwise,
35:13
because I think that's the right way to get these people.
35:16
You know they've committed a ton of financial crimes. You
35:20
know that anybody that was sending money to Epstein was
35:23
looking to get a tax break. And not the kind
35:25
of tax break that you get when you go to
35:28
H and R Block. Now we're talking about the special
35:30
kind of tax break, right, the Leon Black kind of
35:33
tax break. The Norwegian Economic Crime Investigation Service, a mixed
35:37
unit of police and prosecutors, announced Thursday that it would
35:41
look into whether gifts, travel or loans were received by
35:44
Jaglind in connection with his positions. And my guess is
35:49
they'll probably find some because anybody that was involved with
35:52
Epstein financially in any capacity was either sending or receiving
35:57
ill gotten gains, and I think if a real investigation
36:01
was ever launched, we'd certainly find that to be true.
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Jacqueline was Norway's Prime Minister between ninety six and ninety seven.
36:10
He also served as a chairman of the Norwegian Nobel
36:13
Committee and was Secretary General of the Council of Europe,
36:17
the continent's largest inter governmental human rights body. Well, isn't
36:21
that nice, mister champion of the people over here, mister
36:25
fighter for human rights, But at the same time spending
36:30
time with Jeffrey Epstein just like the rest of these people,
36:33
a bunch of liars, a bunch of conniverors, and certainly
36:37
a bunch of degenerates. The files revealed years of contact
36:42
between the politician and Epstein. Emails in the files indicate
36:47
that he made plans to visit Epstein's Island with his
36:50
family in twenty fourteen when he was chairman of the
36:53
Nobel Committee, with an Epstein assistant organizing the flights. So
36:58
you're going to go to Epstein's Island after he's already
37:00
been convicted as a sex offender. And I don't want
37:04
to hear oh I brought my family. That's even worse,
37:08
Like you're gonna bring your family into that environment? What
37:11
kind of scumbagg are you? And it's the same with
37:13
Howard Lutnik, Right, what are you doing? Dude? What are
37:16
you doing going to that island when you knew what
37:18
Jeffrey Epstein was and then lying to everybody about it.
37:21
I mean, if the ex Prime Minister of Norway can
37:25
be looked into, then I think that Howard Lutnik should
37:28
be called on the carpet as well. No Norwegian authorities
37:36
are also looking to lift Jagline's immunity, which he enjoys
37:39
because of his past as a diplomat. His legal representative
37:44
told Norwegian broadcaster NARKA that Jaglind is cooperating with the investigation.
37:50
Jaglind is one of several Norwegian public figures whose reputation
37:54
has been impacted by revelations from the recent release of
37:58
over three million pages of documents on the millionaire financier
38:03
and sex offender Epstein's released last week by the US
38:07
Department of Justice. Epstein killed himself in twenty nineteen while
38:12
awaiting trial on charges that he sexually abused under age
38:15
girls at his homes in the US. Well, not just
38:19
the US, This dude was abusing girls over in the UK,
38:22
over in France, and everywhere else that he went. The
38:27
World Economic Forum, the organizer of an annual high level
38:31
business summit in Davis, also announced on Thursday that it
38:35
was opening an internal review into its CEO, Borges Brendi,
38:40
to determine his relationship with Epstein, after the files indicated
38:44
the two had dined together several times and exchanged messages.
38:49
Brandy served as Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs between twenty
38:52
thirteen and twenty seventeen. And it's always the people that
38:56
are out here yelling and screaming about how much they
38:59
care about human rights and about people who end up
39:02
being the biggest comebacks, and we've seen that time and
39:05
time again when we're talking about Jeffrey Epstein and his buddies.
39:10
He told NRK that he's cooperating with the investigation, that
39:14
he only met Epstein in business settings and he was
39:17
unaware of Epstein's criminal background. Norway's Princess Mehdie Merritt also
39:23
faced renewed scrutiny over her past contacts with Jeffrey Epstein,
39:27
just as her son went to trial this week of
39:30
multiple offenses, including charges of rape. Well that's nice, huh.
39:34
I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
39:37
You got mom dukes out here hanging out with Epstein,
39:40
partying with Epstein, and her son turns out to be
39:43
a rapist. Who could have saw that coming? Maybe, just maybe,
39:47
instead of hanging out with Epstein, you should have been
39:49
home raising your kid. The Epstein files contained several hundred
39:55
mentions of the crown princess, who already said in twenty
39:58
nineteen that she regrets having contact with Epstein. Norwegian media
40:03
reported the documents, which include email exchanges, showed that medi
40:08
Merit borrowed and Epstein owned property in Palm Beach, Florida,
40:11
for several days in twenty thirteen, after Epstein was already
40:15
convicted as the sexual offender. The timeline matters, and the
40:21
fact that this lady would go and hang out with
40:23
Jeffrey Epstein after he was already an offender tells you
40:27
all you need to know about her, and I don't
40:29
need to hear all the excuses. You know what Epstein
40:33
was and you made the conscious choice to spend time
40:35
with them anyway. Medi Merrit said in a statement that
40:39
you must take responsibility for not having investigated Epstein's background
40:43
more thoroughly and for not realizing sooner what kind of
40:46
person that he was. She added, I showed poor judgment
40:50
and regret having had any contact with Epstein at all.
40:54
It's simply embarrassing. Well, that's really the problem. That's what
40:57
it comes down to. She's embarrassed. If she really cared
41:01
about what Epstein was doing or about those girls he molested,
41:05
she would have never been at his house in the
41:07
first place. But the truth is she didn't care about
41:09
any of that, and she only cares now because she's
41:13
being outed. And the same goes for the next person
41:17
that we're about to talk about, and that is Jack Lang.
41:22
And to do that we have an article from France
41:24
twenty four dot com headlined France's former culture minister Jack
41:30
Lang summoned over Epstein Linx. This article was authored by
41:34
France twenty four Pressure rose on Friday on former French
41:39
culture Minister Jack Lang to resign as president of Paris's
41:44
Arab World Institute over his ties till lay convicted sex
41:48
offender Jeffrey Epstein after the Foreign Ministry summoned him to
41:52
discuss the matter. Lang said earlier this week that he
41:56
had been unaware of Epstein's two thousand and eight sex
41:58
offense conviction when when they met around twenty twelve, describing
42:02
the financier as an acquaintance interested in art and cinema
42:07
introduced to him by US filmmaker Woody Allen. Oh, another pedophile. Huh.
42:12
Why is that not shocking? And does mister Lang think
42:17
that that's a flex or something, because everybody in America,
42:21
well we all know that Woody Allen is a degenerate
42:24
as well, and we also know that he was a
42:26
fellow traveler of Jeffrey Epstein, the eighty six year old
42:30
former Prime minister head of the Arab World Institute since
42:33
twenty thirteen, has not been accused all of wrongdoing. Lang
42:38
told bf MTV on Wednesday that Epstein was not a friend,
42:42
that he knew little about the convicted sex offender, but
42:45
had found him to be passionate about art, culture and cinema. Well,
42:50
I guess that's all it takes. Huh little art, a
42:52
little culture. All of that outweighs human trafficking and child
42:56
abuse because remember Jeffrey Epstein, just a misunder stood guy.
43:02
But files released by the US Department of Justice last
43:05
week raised questions about Lang's characterization of his relationship with Epstein.
43:11
They show Epstein and Lang corresponding intermittently between twenty twelve
43:16
and the financier Pedophile's death in twenty nineteen, which US
43:21
authorities ruled a suicide. In an email sent by Lang
43:25
to Epstein on April seventh, twenty seventeen, nearly a decade
43:29
after the financier was convicted of soliciting prostitution from an
43:34
underage girl, he thanked Epstein for a splendid time the
43:37
previous day. Oh, a splendid time is it can only
43:41
imagine what that means your friendship. The amazing plane, and
43:47
your extraordinary generosity really touched us, Lang wrote, Lang, who
43:52
served multiple terms as Culture and Education Minister between nineteen
43:56
eighty one and two thousand and two, did not immediately
43:59
respond to a quest for comment. Yeah, he has to
44:02
get with his people and find out what's spin to
44:04
put on it, because if you were innocent and none
44:07
of that was true, you'd be stepping up right away
44:09
and you'd be like, look, that's all bs, here are
44:12
my receipts. A source close to President Emmanuel Macron said
44:19
the Presidency in Prime Minister's Office had asked relevant ministers
44:22
to summon Lang and encourage him to think about the institution.
44:27
The Foreign Ministry said it had some in Lang to
44:29
a meeting on Sunday. The Arab World Institute is a
44:33
cultural research institution that promotes understanding of the Arab world
44:37
and is located in Paris on the banks of the
44:41
Sign River. Lang's name appears over six hundred times in
44:45
the Epstein files, according to a Reuter's review of the documents.
44:50
I fear nothing and I am clean as a whistle,
44:54
Lang told French radio RTL on Wednesday. The files dump
44:58
as heightened scrutiny of Epstein's global connections with public figures,
45:03
including Britain's Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, the younger brother of King Charles,
45:08
and Peter Mandelsson, the former UK ambassador to the United States.
45:13
On Monday, Lang's daughter Caroline resigned as head of France's
45:17
independent production union after her own links to Ebstein surfaced.
45:22
So it's a family affair, huh. Imagine being such a
45:25
disgusting degenerate that you'd have your daughter associating with Jeffrey Epstein.
45:29
There is not a single scenario that you could present
45:32
to me that would have me having my daughter anywhere
45:36
near Jeffrey Epstein, no matter how old my daughter was.
45:40
Both father and daughter deny wrongdoing, with Caroline telling BFM
45:45
TV on Thursday she only knew epstein two thousand and
45:48
eight conviction after he told her to look him up
45:51
on Google in twenty fourteen. Once again, the smartest and
45:55
richest people in the room want you to think and no,
45:58
they had no idea what jaf Free Epstein was. The
46:01
Only problem with all of that is that it's bs
46:05
they knew, They just didn't care. All of the information
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