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Mega Edition: The Original Jeffrey Epstein Investigation And Those Who Handled It (8/30/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. Every time something awful happens, a mass shooting
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: at a music festival, a terrorist attack, a scandal that
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: should blow the roof off the carpeted halls of power,
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: the first thing that the people who run the narrative
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: do is reach for the bleach. They scrub. They sanitize.
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  Speaker 1: They slap on a neat little label, just an isolated incident,
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  Speaker 1: a lone wolf, an anomaly. And then, They roll the footage,
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  Speaker 1: release the talking points, and everybody goes back to business
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  Speaker 1: like there's nothing left to see. And they do it
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  Speaker 1: because it works. You can call it crisis management, call
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  Speaker 1: it PR, call it whatever legalese keeps them sleeping at night.
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  Speaker 1: The goal is the same. Shrink the story until it
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  Speaker 1: fits inside a press release. Shrink the culpability until it
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  Speaker 1: reads like bad luck instead of the structural rot that
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: it is. Make it personal. Make it accidental. Make it
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: feel small. If you can convince people it was a
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: single broken cog, you saved the machine. Well now, they're
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: trying that trick with Jeffrey Epstein. Watch them pivot. A
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: solitary predator. A private deviant. A tragic aberration. Yo, we
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  Speaker 1: all know that that's the play. Frame them as a
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  Speaker 1: lone wolf. A freak. A bad apple. And then breathe
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  Speaker 1: easy while your donors, your banks, your charities, your institutions,
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  Speaker 1: your titled friends slip off the hook. They sanitize the
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  Speaker 1: story to protect the reputations that matter, not to deliver
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  Speaker 1: justice that matters. So my advice is, don't let them
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  Speaker 1: get away with that neat little narrative. This is not
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  Speaker 1: an aberration you can lock in a drawer and forget.
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  Speaker 1: What this is, is a roadmap of who protected them,
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  Speaker 1: who profited from proximity, who looked the other way while
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  Speaker 1: predators ran the playground. Call that shit out when they
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  Speaker 1: try to flatten it into a single name, a single villain.
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: Because the truth is, never that tidy. And the covering up?
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  Speaker 1: Never is either. So, here's what I think. You know
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  Speaker 1: what's funny? Not funny like ha ha, but funny like
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  Speaker 1: you want to smash your fist into a wall? This
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  Speaker 1: whole entire cover up. You know, the one that's happening
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  Speaker 1: right now in front of our eyes. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: can smell it from here. It's not subtle. It's not clever.
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  Speaker 1: It's not some high-level mystery. It's blunt, it's brazen, and
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  Speaker 1: it's them saying, we own this game, and you're too
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  Speaker 1: dumb to stop us. At least to me, that's what
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  Speaker 1: it feels like. It's not even a cover-up anymore. It's
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  Speaker 1: a taunt. They're looking right at us and going, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we did it, so what? What are you going to
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  Speaker 1: do about it? And the worst part is, They're daring
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  Speaker 1: us to forget. And it's obscene. Every time they trot
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  Speaker 1: out those little corporate scripted lines, we're investigating. We are
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  Speaker 1: cooperating fully. Our hands are tied by legal process. You
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  Speaker 1: can almost hear these idiots snickering behind the curtain. And
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  Speaker 1: we're supposed to nod like trained seals, clap our flippers
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  Speaker 1: together and say, wow, what integrity? No, that is not integrity.
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  Speaker 1: That's not justice. That's not accountability. What that is, is
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  Speaker 1: Broadway theater built for the cameras. And the actors are
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  Speaker 1: people that are wearing tailored suits and pitching us rehearsed outrage.
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  Speaker 1: We have survivors that are still screaming, the files are
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  Speaker 1: still sealed, and we're all supposed to pat ourselves on
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  Speaker 1: the back because some committee barked at some witness for
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  Speaker 1: 15 minutes? And the We Didn't Know chorus? Don't even
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  Speaker 1: get me started on that garbage. Don't even dare stand
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  Speaker 1: there and insult people's intelligence like that. You flew on
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  Speaker 1: his planes, you stayed at his palaces, you watched him
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  Speaker 1: surround himself with girls who looked like they were cutting
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  Speaker 1: gym class, and your brain just went totally normal? Please,
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  Speaker 1: you knew. Every last one of you sons of bitches knew.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't care. You didn't care because he had money.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't care because he opened doors. You didn't care
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  Speaker 1: because those parties were worth it. You knew, and you
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  Speaker 1: chose to look away. And of course, once they're caught,
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  Speaker 1: then come the crocodile tears. The shocked and appalled statements,
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  Speaker 1: oh suddenly, they're a pearl clutching, now that the receipts
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  Speaker 1: are public, now that the emails are leaked, now that
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  Speaker 1: their names got dragged back into the daylight. You can
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  Speaker 1: miss me with that. Where was the shock when you
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  Speaker 1: were cashing his checks? Where was the outrage when you
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  Speaker 1: were smiling in those photographs? Where is the horror when
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  Speaker 1: you were bringing him around your kids for God's sakes?
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  Speaker 1: Don't act brand new now. You weren't shocked. You weren't outraged.
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  Speaker 1: What you were was comfortable. What you were was complicit.
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  Speaker 1: You were climbing that social ladder and you were damn
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  Speaker 1: happy to take the boost. And of course, we can't
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  Speaker 1: talk about a cover-up without talking about Congress. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the three-ring circus. Those hearings are nothing more than kabuki theater.
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  Speaker 1: Cameras flashing. Politicians pounding their fists on desks. Acting like
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  Speaker 1: they're going to rip the whole thing open once and
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  Speaker 1: for all. And then... What happens? Well, the curtain drops,
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  Speaker 1: the lights go out, and guess what? The files stay sealed,
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  Speaker 1: the names stay redacted, and the survivors in the public?
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  Speaker 1: We're still waiting. And of course, no cover-ups complete without
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  Speaker 1: the FBI. The mighty FBI. They can chase you down
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  Speaker 1: for pirating movies or forgetting to pay your taxes. But
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to the most infamous predator on the planet,
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  Speaker 1: suddenly they're helpless. Suddenly, it all becomes very complicated. Suddenly,
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  Speaker 1: it's ongoing. Ongoing since when? The motherfucking Stone Age? He
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  Speaker 1: was throwing up red flags so bright you could have
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  Speaker 1: seen them from the moon and somehow they missed it? Nah,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't miss it. They looked away. And why did
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  Speaker 1: they look away? Because that is the rule of the game, folks.
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  Speaker 1: Power protects power. Period. End of story. And that's not possible.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't have the charities that become their favorite shield,
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  Speaker 1: we've all seen the story play out. Donate a wing
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  Speaker 1: to a hospital, fund a scholarship, put your name on
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  Speaker 1: a building, and suddenly, you become untouchable. Like philanthropy cancels out, predation,
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  Speaker 1: like cutting a check, erases the screams. It's washing your
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  Speaker 1: filth in public goodwill, and the worst part? These big-name
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  Speaker 1: institutions knew. They knew the money was dirty. They took
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  Speaker 1: it anyway. smiled for them cameras, took the checks, and
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  Speaker 1: pretended their hands were clean, and now, now, they want
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  Speaker 1: to be sorry? And of course no great cover-up can
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  Speaker 1: ever be completed without the complicity of the legacy media,
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  Speaker 1: and boy, they have plenty of blood on their hands.
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  Speaker 1: Half of them treated it like celebrity gossip, like a
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  Speaker 1: dirty little sidebar story, the other half ignored it outright
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  Speaker 1: until the clicks got too loud to ignore. You see, survivors,
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  Speaker 1: they don't get to move on. They don't get to
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  Speaker 1: bury it. They live with this shit every day. But
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  Speaker 1: the press, they move on like it was a canceled
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  Speaker 1: TV show. And then they wonder why nobody trusts them anymore. Yo,
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  Speaker 1: it's not rocket science. You made your choice. You gave
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  Speaker 1: the powerful cover and you left the powerless to rot.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what all of these people have in common?
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  Speaker 1: It's their arrogance. The sheer naked arrogance of all of
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  Speaker 1: these people. They think that if they stall long enough,
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  Speaker 1: if they throw enough no comments at the wall, if
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  Speaker 1: they drag it out just a little more, that the public,
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  Speaker 1: that means you, will get bored. Like I've told you,
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  Speaker 1: that's the strategy. They want to wait us out. They
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  Speaker 1: want us to tire ourselves out. But that's their mistake.
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  Speaker 1: I think they've underestimated our rage. Some things you don't forget.
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  Speaker 1: Not in a year. Not in a decade. Not ever.
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  Speaker 1: Especially when every sealed document is another middle finger in
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  Speaker 1: all of our faces. Every blacked out name. Another neon
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  Speaker 1: sign flashing that the rules don't apply to us. Every
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  Speaker 1: ongoing investigation excuse. Another insult to everyone's intelligence. It's the
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  Speaker 1: same plays from the same playbook once again. Delay. Deny. distract,
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  Speaker 1: spin it, stretch it, bury it. The plan is to
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  Speaker 1: buy time until outrage fades. But outrage doesn't fade when
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  Speaker 1: it's tied to truth. Rage doesn't have an expiration date.
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  Speaker 1: And don't for a minute begin with that move on
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  Speaker 1: garbage and bring that into the conversation. That's the final insult.
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  Speaker 1: Move on? No, you move on from a breakup. You
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  Speaker 1: move on from that badass haircut your mom gave you.
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  Speaker 1: You don't move on from decades of abuse protected by billionaires, politicians, bankers,
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  Speaker 1: and royals. Move on is code for shut up. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that it's quite apparent by now that we're
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  Speaker 1: not shutting up. Not today, not tomorrow, not ten years
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  Speaker 1: from now. Because again, it's not just about Epstein. Epstein
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  Speaker 1: was just the tip of the spear. He was the symptom,
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  Speaker 1: the front man, the monster that they let us see.
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  Speaker 1: Behind them is the system, the machine, the lawyers who
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  Speaker 1: close the doors, the politicians who cash the donations, the
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  Speaker 1: bankers who move the money, the academics who smile for
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  Speaker 1: the photo ops. That's the institutional rot, and every time
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  Speaker 1: they bury it, they prove how deep it runs. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I am furious, and I think that you should be too.
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  Speaker 1: Because if they can bury this, if they can shred
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  Speaker 1: these files, if they can erase this truth... with the
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  Speaker 1: whole world watching, then what else do you think that
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  Speaker 1: they're covering? What else do you think they've buried so
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  Speaker 1: deep it'll never see daylight? This is the playbook, this
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  Speaker 1: is how it works, and they're showing it to you
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  Speaker 1: in real time. So yeah, mock them. Mock every fake apology,
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  Speaker 1: every staged photo op, every crocodile tear. Mock the politicians
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  Speaker 1: who pounded their tables for the cameras but refused to
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  Speaker 1: unseal the records. Mock the institutions that took the money
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  Speaker 1: and claimed ignorance. Mock the dumbass royals who pretended they
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  Speaker 1: were too dim to notice what was happening in their
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  Speaker 1: own guest rooms. Mock them all. Because mockery cuts deeper
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  Speaker 1: than their PR. And don't you ever forget this. Every stall,
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  Speaker 1: Every delay, every excuse is proof that they're terrified. They
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be working this hard to bury it if the
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  Speaker 1: truth wasn't catastrophic. If it was nothing, if it was empty,
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  Speaker 1: they'd have dumped this shit long ago. The fact that
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  Speaker 1: they're still hiding, still redacting, still stonewalling tells you everything
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  Speaker 1: you need to know. And here's something that they need
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  Speaker 1: to know. We're not letting it go. Not now, not ever.
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  Speaker 1: The survivors deserve better. The truth deserves better. The public
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  Speaker 1: deserves better. And this outrage, it's not fading. It's not softening.
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  Speaker 1: It's not going away. It's only building. It's growing hotter
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  Speaker 1: every day they try to bury it. And when the
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  Speaker 1: dam finally breaks, when all that rage and disgust and
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  Speaker 1: truth finally comes crashing down, and it will, every coward,
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  Speaker 1: every enabler, every power-hungry parasite who played along is going
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  Speaker 1: to drown in the flood they thought they could hold back.
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  Speaker 1: All of the information that goes with this episode can
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  Speaker 1: be found in the description box. What's up everyone and
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  Speaker 1: welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. As the
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  Speaker 1: back and forth argument continues to rage in Congress over
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  Speaker 1: the discharge petition, we have to remember that this is
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  Speaker 1: not just another debate. This is not just another bill
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  Speaker 1: that's destined to die in the committee. This is about
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  Speaker 1: whether the United States Congress has the backbone to stand up,
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  Speaker 1: open the books, and let the truth speak louder than fear,
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  Speaker 1: louder than convenience, and louder than the endless excuses that
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  Speaker 1: have become second nature when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein.
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: The discharge petition exists for one reason only, to be
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  Speaker 1: used when leadership refuses to act, when politics take precedence
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  Speaker 1: over accountability, and when the people's right to transparency is
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  Speaker 1: being smothered by silence. It's a tool designed for moments
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  Speaker 1: exactly like this one. It's the last safeguard against secrecy,
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  Speaker 1: the last avenue when the usual channels have been locked down,
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: and right now, that safeguard must be used. For too long,
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  Speaker 1: the American people have been left with half-truths and unanswered questions.
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  Speaker 1: Who was involved? Who enabled the misconduct? Who benefited from
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  Speaker 1: looking the other way? These questions strike at the foundation
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  Speaker 1: of of public trust. They're not abstract. They're not partisan.
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  Speaker 1: They're real. And they matter to every citizen who depends
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  Speaker 1: on this institution to put integrity over self-preservation. As we
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  Speaker 1: all know, without transparency, the truth will rot in the dark.
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  Speaker 1: Without disclosure, suspicion will fester. Distrust will grow. And this
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  Speaker 1: Congress will be remembered not as defenders of democracy, but
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  Speaker 1: as guardians of secrecy. The people will not forgive that.
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  Speaker 1: History will not forgive that. Signing on to the discharge
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  Speaker 1: position is not about party. It's not about advancing one
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  Speaker 1: side's agenda over another. It's about honoring the oath every
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  Speaker 1: member swore. It's about affirming that this chamber serves the people,
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  Speaker 1: not itself, not special interests, and not the powerful few
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  Speaker 1: who are desperate to keep their names hidden. Now, Republicans
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  Speaker 1: in Congress face a decision that will echo long beyond today.
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  Speaker 1: They can stand with truth, sign on to the petition,
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  Speaker 1: and prove that transparency is not a partisan value, but
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  Speaker 1: an American one. Or, they can turn away, knowing full
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  Speaker 1: well that by doing so they are choosing secrecy over sunlight,
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  Speaker 1: and protection over accountability. To those who hesitate, ask yourselves,
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  Speaker 1: what's there to fear from the truth? What is there
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  Speaker 1: to fear from transparency, unless what you fear is exposure?
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  Speaker 1: This petition is not a weapon. Instead, it's a mirror.
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  Speaker 1: It will not create guilt where none exists. It will
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  Speaker 1: not invent involvement where there is none. It will simply
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  Speaker 1: show what is already there. And that, more than anything,
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  Speaker 1: is what so many seem to fear. But the American
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  Speaker 1: people are not afraid of the truth. They're hungry for it.
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  Speaker 1: They're tired of cover stories, tired of procedural delays, tired
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  Speaker 1: of watching their representatives circle wagons while accountability is postponed
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  Speaker 1: again and again. They want openness. They want answers. They
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  Speaker 1: want leadership. that does not flinch when the cost is discomfort.
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  Speaker 1: And let us remember, accountability delayed is accountability denied. Every
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  Speaker 1: day that passes without disclosure, without a real reckoning, is
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  Speaker 1: another day when the credibility of this Congress erodes. Another
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  Speaker 1: day when faith in government shrinks. Another day when cynicism
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  Speaker 1: grows stronger than hope. That is the cost of inaction.
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  Speaker 1: Now look, the petition is not the easy path. It's
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  Speaker 1: the hard one. But the hard path is often the
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  Speaker 1: right one. The discharge petition represents a choice to tell
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  Speaker 1: the American people with actions, not words, that transparency is
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  Speaker 1: not negotiable, that the truth is not optional, that no one,
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  Speaker 1: no matter how high their office or how deep their connections,
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  Speaker 1: is beyond the reach of accountability. Republicans must decide if
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  Speaker 1: they will stand where history demands they stand, not with secrecy,
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  Speaker 1: not with shadows, but with the light of transparency. And
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  Speaker 1: when the record is written, when future generations ask whether
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  Speaker 1: this Congress had the courage to confront the truth, the
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  Speaker 1: answer should not be silence. The answer should be yes.
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  Speaker 1: The time for delay is over. The time for excuses
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  Speaker 1: is over. The time for hiding behind procedure is over.
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  Speaker 1: This is the moment to stand up to sign on
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  Speaker 1: and finally give the people what they have demanded all along,
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  Speaker 1: the full, unvarnished truth. Because in the end, transparency is
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  Speaker 1: not just about accountability, it's about survival. The survival of
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  Speaker 1: public trust, the survival of representative government, the survival of
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  Speaker 1: institutions as something worthy of the name Congress of the
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  Speaker 1: United States. And the only way forward, the only way
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  Speaker 1: to heal, the only way to move beyond suspicion and doubt,
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  Speaker 1: is full transparency. nothing less will do. Today's article is
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: from The Hill, and the headline, GOP Momentum Grows to
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  Speaker 1: Force Trump DOJ to Release the Epstein Files. This article
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  Speaker 1: was authored by Alexander Bolton. Some Republicans now say privately
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  Speaker 1: that it's inevitable that Congress will pass legislation directing Attorney
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  Speaker 1: General Pam Bondi to release all files the Department of
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Justice has related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they need to. And I know that we beat this
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  Speaker 1: drum on a regular basis, but it has to be
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  Speaker 1: said again. There is no reason for this stuff to
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  Speaker 1: be hidden, no reason for it to be kept secret,
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  Speaker 1: and certainly no reason for us not to be able
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  Speaker 1: to get a look. I mean, come on now. If
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  Speaker 1: this was an ongoing investigation, which it's not, then okay,
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  Speaker 1: at least you'd have that kind of defense. All right,
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  Speaker 1: this is an investigation. We can't give out any information
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  Speaker 1: because we don't want to screw our investigation up. At
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  Speaker 1: least that's, you know, something you can defend. But that's
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  Speaker 1: not what's going on here. Instead, we're getting the middle
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  Speaker 1: finger by the DOJ and they're telling us to go
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  Speaker 1: get stuffed. The question is, why? What are they hiding?
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  Speaker 1: President Trump has repeatedly tried to wave aside calls to
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  Speaker 1: make the Epstein files public. But GOP lawmakers say privately
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: that Trump is losing the battle to move on from
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  Speaker 1: the controversy that has been a White House annoyance since
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  Speaker 1: earlier this summer. Boy, if it's been an annoyance for
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: the White House, wait until you hear how the survivors feel.
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  Speaker 1: Wait until you hear how the rest of us feel. Annoyance.
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  Speaker 1: This is a stain, not an annoyance. We're talking about
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  Speaker 1: a scarlet letter, right? I mean, come on. An annoyance.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a little bit more than an annoyance, huh?
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  Speaker 1: Seems to me we're in full-blown crisis mode. One Republican
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  Speaker 1: senator who requested anonymity to comment on the sensitive topic
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  Speaker 1: told The Hill that Congress will sooner or later pass
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  Speaker 1: legislation directing Bondi to release all unclassified files related to Epstein. Well, yeah,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: that's something that I think is going to happen. And
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: I think that the Republicans should get on board. I
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: think that there's a lot of Republicans in Congress that
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: want to sign this petition, but obviously they don't want
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: to go against the leadership. And I get that, right?
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  Speaker 1: I understand. I don't agree with it. but I understand
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  Speaker 1: what they're doing. But that said, you mean to tell
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  Speaker 1: me not one of you has the courage to just
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  Speaker 1: step up and say, you know what? Let's get this
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: stuff out there. I mean, if you want to show
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: everybody that this one or that one wasn't involved, isn't
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  Speaker 1: the best way to do that? Giving us the documentation
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  Speaker 1: and just cutting off the bullshit right at the jump.
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  Speaker 1: What happens is if you keep leaking stuff, if we
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: keep having these halfway conversations and It provides fertile ground
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  Speaker 1: for these theories and conspiracies and whatnot to grow. And
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: then they'll cry about that too. But it's all part
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: of the confusion plan, right? This whole entire thing is
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: all part of the plan. The more confusion, the better.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: The more we're fighting, the better. The more we hate
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: each other, certainly the better. The senator pointed out that
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: many Republican lawmakers who follow Speaker Mike Johnson's instructions and
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: declined to sign a discharge petition... to bring the Epstein
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: matter to the House floor for a vote, have nevertheless...
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: been very vocal in demanding that the Justice Department release
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: all Epstein related materials. Well, you can't have your cake
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: and eat it, too. It's time to step up and
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: put your name on the petition. And I promise you,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Republican Congress people out there, your constituents are going to
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: be OK with it. More people than not understand that
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: we have a nuanced world, right? You can disagree with
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: the president and the administration on one issue and agree
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: with them on another. That's how the country's supposed to work, right?
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: I don't get this whole fallen line. Everybody has to
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: be lockstep in behind everybody else. Uh, no, that's not
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: how it works. You're supposed to challenge shit from the inside.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: If you're a part of the GOP, you should be
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: fighting back against all of this. If you think that
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: something's wrong or something's not right, you shouldn't just get
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: in line. And of course, the same goes for the
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: other side. I mean, let's be real. All these different articles,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: all these different podcasts that are popping up, all this
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: talk about Epstein all of a sudden from people that
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: never really cared. And not one of them has talked
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: about Stacey Plaskett. Not one of them. Do they talk
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: about George Mitchell? Do they talk about Bill Richardson? Do
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: they talk about any of their faves? No, because they're
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: still playing partisan politics, right? So the truth is, both
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: sides are playing this game. The problem for the Republicans, however,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: is they're the ones in power. So at the end
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: of the day, the buck stops with them. They could
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: release all this stuff tomorrow. So we're not going to
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: just ignore that fact. But we're not going to sit
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: here and act like this is one-way traffic. I haven't
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: heard one Democrat, one person on the left, come out
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: and demand that Stacey Plaskett come forward and give up
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: everything she has, speak before the committee, go on the record,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: none of it. Have they called for her to resign?
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: It has to be accountability for everybody or this is
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: not going to work. When this is turned into a
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: partisan issue, that falls right into the hands of the
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: nefarious scumbags that are behind all of this shit. The
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: whole idea is for us to fight. If we're fighting,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: if we're arguing, well, one side or the other is
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: not going to want to hear the truth, right? They
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: don't want to hear about their team. Nobody wants their
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: worldview destroyed. And that's all part of the plan. If
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: everybody is in their bunker, if everybody's retreated to their
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: echo chamber, then nobody's going to hear anybody else. And
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: any kind of situation that pops up that might involve
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: super powerful people on either side of the aisle, well,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: it's going to be called a hoax. It's going to
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: be called a scam. And then that, of course, gives
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: people the cover to say, look, don't even believe that.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Ignore that. None of that's true. None of that's happening.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: It's all partisan. And my friends, I'm telling you right now,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: That has always been by design, especially in regard to
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein. Whole bunches of them have been very vocal
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: about this. Most of the Freedom Caucus has been, the
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: senator said. The problem for some of these folks is
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: that this has been an issue for years. Well, that's
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: the biggest problem, no? Weren't you sent to Congress to
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: fix issues? Wouldn't this be an issue that you'd want
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: to have your name to? Yeah, I came to Congress.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: And after all these years, after all this bullshit, it
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: was us who decided that Jeffrey Epstein was going to
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: be exposed. Isn't that something to hang your hat on? Instead,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: you want to go down as a congressman or a
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: congresswoman who's known for killing the discharge petition or not
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: getting on board to get justice and truth for the
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: American people and the people who were abused? Is that
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: really how you want to be remembered? Because I promise you,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: that's how history is going to remember you. The senator
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: observed that when Bondi said in February that a list
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: of Epstein's clients is sitting on her desk right now
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: to review, she created a huge expectation that the administration
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: would reveal the names of the well-connected and wealthy men
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: who participated in Epstein's sexual exploitation of girls and teenagers.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: That was really unwise, the lawmaker said. He had no shit.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: And I told you all the way back then that
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Pam Bondi was BSing. You know how I knew that? Well,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: there's no list. There never has been. And anybody who's
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: told you that there was some list, they've been lying
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: to you. Now, does that mean there is not a
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: group of names somewhere? Of course not. We definitely have names,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: but there's not some mythical list that's waiting to be uncovered.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: You know, we're not talking about Blackbeard's gold here. There
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: is no list. There's no treasure. And if we're being real...
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: There's a bunch of names out there already that have
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: been credibly accused of taking part in the abuse. So
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: where are the calls for action? Where are the investigations
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: into George Mitchell and Bill Richardson? Yeah, I know they're dead.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: I don't care. What did they know? When did they
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: know it? If their legacy is tarnished, then so be it.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: But this is what I'm talking about. All these people
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: now that are so gung-ho about Jeffrey Epstein, especially in
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: the legacy media, were around during Bill Richardson, they were
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: around during George Mitchell, and they didn't have any time
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: to talk about their relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and the
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: accusations that were made against them. But now all of
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: a sudden, they have a lot to say. You're a
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: little late to the party, and your credibility is absolutely shot.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: You spent all these years defending Jeffrey Epstein, and now
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: you're the arbiter of truth? All of these outlets spent
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: all these years lying to their readers, to their listeners,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: and the vast majority of people that I know, my
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: friends that are on the left, they were all under
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: the impression that everything that happened with Epstein was nothing
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: more than a big conspiracy. Oh, that's all overblown. That's
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: all just a bunch of nonsense. But now, all of
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: a sudden, it's not nonsense. It's not BS. You should
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: really be questioning the people who kept that information from you.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: That's who you should be mad at. Republican lawmakers say
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: it now appears certain that a discharge petition that's being
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: circulated in the House by Rep. Thomas Massey and Ro
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Khanna will get enough signatures by the end of the
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: month to force a vote on a bill directing Bondi
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: to release the Epstein files. Massey and Khanna are only
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: one vote short of getting 218 signatures to force the
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: vote on their bill. Once Arizona holds a special election
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: on September 23rd to fill the vacant seat of Rep.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Raul Gravala, who died earlier this year, they're likely to
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: reach the threshold. Gravala's daughter, Adelita, won the Democratic primary
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: and is a heavy favorite to win special election. She's
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: expected to provide the final signature. I mean, are you
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: guys really going to wait and let her do that?
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: There's not one Republican that's going to step up and
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: steal that narrative. And if they don't do it, then
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: they deserve the narrative that's coming their way. So far,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: only four House Republicans have signed the petition to force
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: a vote on releasing the Epstein files, Massey and Rep.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nancy Mace, and Lauren Boebert. But more
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Republicans are likely to vote for the measure when it
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: comes to the floor. Rep. Eric Burleson, for example, hasn't
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: signed the discharge petition but called for the Trump administration
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: to prioritize the release of the Epstein files. Well, quit
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: talking and just sign the petition. Why you waiting? Yeah,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: I think the American people are sick and tired of
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: being lied to by their government or the government holding
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: these secrets that they deserve to know the truth on,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Burleson told Missouri Net in July. Representative Tim Burchett also
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: said he wants the Justice Department to release the Epstein
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: files and told ABC News in July that he was
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: ticked off when Trump claimed the Epstein files were a
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: hoax concocted by the Democrats, only to go ahead and
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: call it a hoax himself Tim Burchett's a phony. He's
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: another one of these congressmen that wants to be a
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: social media personality. Out here riding his little skateboard around.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: You know, posting stupid nonsensical comments on X. Acting like
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: he's just a regular citizen. Breaking news. You're an elected official.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Act like it. Senator Majority Leader John Thune declined to
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: comment Tuesday when asked whether he would bring any legislation
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: passed by the House. Directing the release of all Epstein
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: files up for a vote in the Senate. calling it
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: hypothetical scenario. But Thune acknowledged the loud calls within his
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: party for more transparency from Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: I can't comment at this point. I guess the House
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: is having a conversation about that. What I can tell
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: you is, I believe that transparency is always the best
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: and you should get as much information out there as
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: you possibly can in a way that protects the rights
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: of the victims, he told reporters. Breaking news, the survivors
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: want this documentation. Stop using them as your excuse for
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: not releasing it. They've all come out and said already,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: let's see the documents. These people really think you're stupid.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: They truly believe that you're dumb. I'm all for transparency disclosure,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: he said. Thune was caught off guard last week when
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer ambushed him by offering an
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: amendment to the annual defense authorization bill directing the Justice
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Department to release the files. You mean the same Chuck Schumer?
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: that accepted a bunch of money from Epstein throughout the years,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: same guy? Oh, okay, same guy, got it. Thune hadn't
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: filed the amendment tree immediately after bringing the defense bill
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: to the floor, an action that would have prevented Democrats
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: from offering amendments, and Schumer pounced by offering his Epstein
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: amendment and putting GOP senators in a tough situation. Thune
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: and his leadership team urged the Senate GOP conference to
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: stick together and vote down the amendment, calling it a
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: political stunt. but they suffered two big defections when Senator
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Josh Hawley and Rand Paul joined the Democrats' call for
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: more transparency. And I expect Rand Paul, when all is
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: said and done, to get on board. I think that
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Rand Paul wants transparency, and I think that he's going
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: to get on board with the calls for the Epstein
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: files to be released fully. Hawley said he couldn't vote
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: against a proposal directing Justice Department to provide more transparency
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: into its investigation into Epstein. after previously staking out a
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: position that the American people and public are entitled to
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: the truth, even if it might expose some powerful people.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: My position has long been, I think we ought to
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: release those files and trust the American people, just like
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: we did with the MLK files and the JFK files.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: I think this is a similar deal, he said, referring
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: to the files about Martin Luther King and former President
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: John Kennedy. Paul, a prominent libertarian-leaning conservative, hasn't been vocal
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: on the Epstein controversy, but explained to The Hill that
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: when the issue came up for a vote, he felt
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: he had to support the amendment directing the Justice Department
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: to release its files as a matter of principle. People
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: are losing faith in the government, and people have this
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: idea that rich people are getting treated differently, he said,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: pointing to the widespread view that the Justice Department is
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: trying to protect Epstein's wealthy clients from being exposed. Not
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: just clients. We're going to talk about this a little
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: bit more later. There's a difference between what Jeffrey Epstein
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: was doing when it comes to compromise and what he
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: was doing when he was molesting people himself. And I
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: don't think enough people understand the difference. So we're going
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: to talk about that a little bit more later. I
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: feel this sense from the public that they think something
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: untoward happened. That there was some kind of secret deal
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: to let really wealthy people off the hook, he explained.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: It's difficult to have a legal system if people think
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: they're treated differently by justice. I think it's worth opening
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: up the Justice Department, Epstein files, to reassure people, he added.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe nothing happened. Reveal the information so
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: that people can feel more comfortable that justice is equal, impartial,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: and blind. That's all I'm asking for. I'm not sitting
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: here and telling you that everybody that's in the files
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: is somebody that was involved in the diddling. That was
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: somebody that was important to what was going on. But
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: we need a full accounting. And hiding the truth does
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: nobody any good. Doesn't do the American public any good.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Certainly doesn't do the survivors any good. And obviously, it's
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: not doing the Republicans any good. Paul said there's more
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: support among House Republicans for requiring Bondi to release the
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Epstein files than it appears from the fact that only
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: four GOP lawmakers have signed the Masikana discharge petition. Because
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: they're lobbying so hard against it, they only have a
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: few Republicans on the discharge petition, he said. They're trying
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: whatever they can to squelch dissent with brute force, Paul
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: said of the GOP leadership. And that's sad as hell.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Totally pathetic. How are you going to try and strong-arm
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: people to get them on board with whatever the dumbass
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: narrative is when we can all see that that's obviously
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: not the truth? So if you're not hiding anything, here's
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: an idea. Just be transparent. There are signs of broader
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: support among Republican senators for requiring the Justice Department to
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: release the files. Senator Tom Tillis voted against Schumer's amendment
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: because he said it was a procedural vote and that
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: the Republican leaders were certain to strip it from the
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: final version of the defense bill, even if it received
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: enough votes to be adopted. But he said the matter
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: comes to the floor again in a more legitimate way.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: He would vote in a heartbeat to make all of
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: the Epstein files public. We should hold him to that.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: If and when it comes to a vote, I expect Mr.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Tillis to be on board. In another sign of growing
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: momentum to compel the administration to release the files, Republicans
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: on the Appropriations Committee agreed this summer to adopt an
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: amendment sponsored by Senator Chris Van Hollen to the Commerce, Justice,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: and State Appropriations Bill directing the Justice Department to provide
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: detailed reports to Congress on all of its Epstein-related material.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: The amendment directs the Attorney General to retain, preserve, and
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: compile any records related to the investigation and prosecution of
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Epstein and to submit to the Senate a report on victims, testimony,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: the investigation of co-conspirators, and an intelligence assessment of Epstein's
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: financial ties, clients, and connections to the U.S. or foreign governments. Well,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: I don't have very much hope that we're going to
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: get much out of that, but that's the right way
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: to go. I mean, we have to have a full accounting.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Every last file, let's see them all. And anything short
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: of full disclosure at this point is only going to
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: lead to more questions. So that brings us to a crossroad.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: The discharge petition isn't just another procedural vote. It's a
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: test of whether this Congress still belongs to the people
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: or whether it has surrendered to secrecy. The choice cannot
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: be clearer and the stakes cannot be higher. Transparency is
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: not a gift. It's not a privilege to be handed
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: down when convenient. It's the lifeblood of democracy itself. Without it,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: trust collapse. Without it, the people turn away from the
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: very institutions meant to represent them. Without it, we are
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: left with suspicion instead of accountability, shadows instead of truth.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: This petition is a line in the sand. To sign
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: it is to declare that the American people come first,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: that their right to know outweighs anyone's desire to protect
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: reputations or shield the powerful. To refuse is to side
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: with silence, and with silence comes complicity. Republicans now have
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: a chance to prove that integrity still matters, that transparency
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: is not negotiable, and that Congress can still rise to
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: meet the moment. Because history will not remember the excuses.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: It will not remember the procedural maneuvers. It will remember
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: only this. When truth was on the line, did you
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: stand with it? Or did you walk away? Let this
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Congress be remembered, not for its hesitation, but for its courage.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Not for burying the truth, but for bringing it to light.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Not for protecting the few, but for serving the many.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: The time for shadows is over. The people are watching,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: the truth is waiting, and the path forward begins with transparency.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: All of the information that goes with this episode can
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: be found in the description box. What's up everyone and
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. Well folks,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: you made it. And that alone is worth pausing to recognize.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Because another year is officially in the books. And no
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: matter how it treated you, you're still standing here listening
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: to this. And that matters more than people give it
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: credit for. Life doesn't ask permission before it throws obstacles
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: in our path. It doesn't slow down when things get heavy.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Yet here we are, still moving forward, together. And I
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: know that we all took hits this year one way
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: or another. We all felt moments of frustration, exhaustion, and doubt.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: And despite all of that, we kept going. And I
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: know that me personally this year was not easy by
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: any stretch of the imagination. There were days when everything
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: felt like an uphill climb with no summit in sight.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: There were moments when progress felt invisible and hope felt thin.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: But persistence has a way of quietly stacking wins while
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: no one's looking. And every step forward, no matter how small,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: still counts. Every conversation had, every question asked, every uncomfortable
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: truth confronted mattered. We didn't give up when it would
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: be easy to look the other way. We stayed engaged
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: when disengagement would have been more comfortable. And what makes
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: this past year stand out is the momentum that we've
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: all built together. Not just personal momentum, but collective momentum
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: around something that truly matters. We pushed forward in the
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: fight to right one of the worst wrongs in this
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: country's history. The Jeffrey Epstein scandal was buried for years
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: under silence, power, and indifference. This year, that silence has
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  Speaker 1: begun to crack. And that didn't happen by accident. It
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  Speaker 1: happened because people like you refused to stop caring. And
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  Speaker 1: for me personally, it's felt like screaming into a void
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  Speaker 1: for a very long time. Covering Epstein felt like shouting
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  Speaker 1: truth into a world that didn't want to listen. Doors
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  Speaker 1: were closed, eyes were rolled, and the story was minimized
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  Speaker 1: or mocked. But persistence wears down even the thickest walls.
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  Speaker 1: And this year, we forced the story back into the narrative.
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  Speaker 1: We made it impossible for them to ignore. We educated, challenged,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes straight up dragged the truth into the light.
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  Speaker 1: And what's important to understand is that awareness doesn't happen
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  Speaker 1: all at once. It builds slowly, conversation by conversation. And
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  Speaker 1: this year more people started asking the same questions all
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  Speaker 1: of us have been asking for years. People who once
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  Speaker 1: dismissed the story are now demanding answers. And that shift
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: didn't come from the institutions or the headlines. It came
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  Speaker 1: from regular people refusing to let it die. And in
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: my opinion, that's powerful. But even with all that progress,
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  Speaker 1: we're not done, not even close. And this coming year
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  Speaker 1: is going to be pivotal in this fight. Transparency doesn't
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  Speaker 1: happen because it's convenient. It happens because pressure is relentless.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why staying engaged matters more now than ever.
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  Speaker 1: elected officials respond when they know people are watching. Accountability
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  Speaker 1: only exists when silence is no longer an option. For
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  Speaker 1: me personally, this year was deeply eye-opening. Watching the tide
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  Speaker 1: turn after so many years was surreal. I remember a
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  Speaker 1: time when nobody wanted to hear the word Epstein at
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  Speaker 1: all now it's part of the mainstream conversation once again
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  Speaker 1: and that shift still blows my mind it feels like
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  Speaker 1: watching something impossible slowly become undeniable and it reinforces why
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  Speaker 1: staying the course matters I mean seven years Saying that
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  Speaker 1: out loud still feels unreal. Seven years of research, frustration, breakthroughs, setbacks,
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  Speaker 1: and late-ass nights. Seven years of pushing through doubt and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of resistance. Seven years of people telling me
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  Speaker 1: it was pointless. And yet here we are. It's been
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  Speaker 1: a wild-ass ride in every sense of the word. And
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  Speaker 1: when I think back to the beginning, it honestly makes
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: me laugh. A spare bedroom, two cell phones, and a
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  Speaker 1: lapel mic that had no business being used for a podcast.
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  Speaker 1: The sound quality was terrible, the pacing was rough, and
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: the structure barely existed. But the fire was there, and
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: I was hooked from the start. I knew there was
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: more beneath the surface of this story. I could feel
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: it every time another strange detail surfaced. And walking away
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: has never been an option. Once you see something like
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  Speaker 1: this clearly, you can't unsee it. So I kept digging.
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  Speaker 1: I kept asking questions. I kept following threads wherever they led.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: As time went on, the story only got stranger. Every
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: answer raised three more questions. And the deeper I went,
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  Speaker 1: the more obvious it became that this wasn't just about
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  Speaker 1: one man. It was about systems, protection, and power. It
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: was about who gets shielded and who gets sacrificed. And
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: that realization changed everything for me. And what still amazes
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  Speaker 1: me is how many of you have been here for
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: the entire ride. Some of you have listened since those
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: early rough episodes. You stuck around through technical growing pains
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  Speaker 1: and evolving formats. You believed in the mission before it
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  Speaker 1: was polished. And that loyalty means more than I can
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  Speaker 1: properly express. And it's something that I certainly don't take lightly.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to give a special heartfelt shout out
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: to Cheryl and Candice. You've supported this show since the
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: very beginning. You believed in it when it was nothing
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: more than an idea. And my dumbass voice. And that
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: kind of faith is rare. And it's not something I'll
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: ever forget. Thank you for standing firm when it would
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: have been easy to just walk away. And look, it's
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: incredibly humbling to know how many of you find this
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: podcast helpful. Untangling this web is not easy. The information's heavy, complex,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: and oftentimes very disturbing. And knowing that you trust me
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  Speaker 1: to help you navigate it means everything. The hours that
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: you've spent listening are not lost on me. That time
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: is a gift. Because there are moments when I genuinely
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: struggle to find the right words to say thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Gratitude feels too small for what you've given this project.
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  Speaker 1: The only way I know how to honor that support
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  Speaker 1: is through continued effort. By going places others can't or
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  Speaker 1: won't go. By asking the questions that make people uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 1: By staying relentless. And for those of you who know me,
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: you know that I really don't do New Year's resolutions.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: I've never been good at promises with expiration dates. But
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: there is one commitment I renew every year without hesitation.
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  Speaker 1: I will continue pursuing the truth wherever it leads. I
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: will continue applying pressure where it's needed. That promise stands
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: as we move forward together. As we leave this past
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  Speaker 1: year behind, I want you to recognize your role in
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: all of this. This didn't happen because of one voice.
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  Speaker 1: It happened because many voices refused to stay quiet. Every share,
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  Speaker 1: every conversation, every message mattered. You are part of this story,
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: whether you realize it or not. And that's something to
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: be proud of. Because none of this would be possible
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  Speaker 1: without you, truly. The momentum, the awareness, the progress all
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: came from collective effort. This is what people power looks
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: like when it refuses to fade. You didn't just listen.
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  Speaker 1: You engaged. You cared. You stayed. So as we step
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  Speaker 1: into this new year, I want you to hold on
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: to that energy. Take care of yourselves. Protect your health
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  Speaker 1: and your peace. But don't lose that fire either. We
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  Speaker 1: still have a lot of work to do. And the
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  Speaker 1: road ahead matters. So from me to all of you,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. I wish all of you the happiest, healthiest,
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  Speaker 1: and strongest year yet. And I hope that this year
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  Speaker 1: brings clarity where there was confusion and strength where there
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  Speaker 1: was fatigue. I hope that you find moments of joy
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  Speaker 1: even while carrying the heaviest of truths. And above all,
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  Speaker 1: I hope you know how deeply appreciated you are. All
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: of you kick major ass and I'm grateful beyond words
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  Speaker 1: to be on this ride with you. And as we
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: move forward, I want you to remember that this isn't
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: just about a podcast or a story. It's about refusing
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: to accept a version of reality that was carefully constructed
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  Speaker 1: to protect the powerful. It's about honoring the people who
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: were harmed by insisting that their suffering wasn't disposable. Every
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: time that you stay engaged, you help chip away that
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: illusion that nothing can change. And I know that progress
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: often feels slow right up until it suddenly isn't. And
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: history shows us that pressure works when it's sustained. The
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: truth doesn't need to be loud if it's persistent. And
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  Speaker 1: persistence is something this community has in spades. That's why
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: I believe the coming year will matter more than any
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  Speaker 1: before it. We're closer than we've ever been. And that
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: should fuel us, not exhaust us. Because make no mistake,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: there will be moments ahead where frustration creeps back in.
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  Speaker 1: There's going to be days when it feels like institutions
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  Speaker 1: are stalling, deflecting, or playing for time. But I don't
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  Speaker 1: think that's a sign of failure anymore. I think it's
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: a sign that pressure is is being felt. Because power
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  Speaker 1: never gives ground willingly, it only moves when it has to.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: When you see resistance, understand what it really means. It
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: means that somebody doesn't want the next door opened. It
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: means accountability is no longer hypothetical. And those moments are
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: exactly when staying focused matters most. We don't respond with despair.
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  Speaker 1: We respond with consistency. That's how this keeps moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: I also want to say this clearly and without hesitation.
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  Speaker 1: Take care of yourselves along the way. Carrying heavy truths
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  Speaker 1: can wear people down if they don't pause to breathe.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay to step back for a moment when you
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: need to. It's okay to protect your mental and emotional health.
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  Speaker 1: None of this requires burnout to be legitimate. What matters
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: is that you don't abandon your principles even if you
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: rest your voice. The community has always understood balance better
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  Speaker 1: than most. Strength doesn't mean constant intensity. It means longevity.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: And longevity is what wins battles like this. And what
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  Speaker 1: gives me the most hope is knowing how grounded this
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: audience is. You don't chase easy narratives or convenient villains.
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  Speaker 1: You demand evidence, accountability, and clarity. You're willing to sit
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: with complexity instead of simplifying it away. And that's rare
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: in a time where outrage is often shallow and fleeting.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: You've shown patience where others demand instant resolution. You've shown
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: resolve where others lose interest. And that combination is powerful.
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  Speaker 1: It's the reason this work continues to matter. It's the
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  Speaker 1: reason the story keeps moving forward instead of being buried again.
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  Speaker 1: And it's the reason I remain as committed as ever.
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  Speaker 1: So as we truly close this chapter and step fully
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  Speaker 1: into the next one, know this. I see you. I
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  Speaker 1: respect you. And I'm deeply grateful for every single one
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  Speaker 1: of you. This fight continues, not because it's easy, but
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  Speaker 1: because it's necessary. We will keep asking the hard questions,
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  Speaker 1: we will keep refusing half answers and closed doors, and
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  Speaker 1: we will keep moving forward together, one step at a time.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate all of you walking this road with me,
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  Speaker 1: and I know that we're going to make this year count.
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