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The Most Transparent Administration? The Epstein Files Say Otherwise (Part 1) (9/11/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. Yo, for an administration that never shuts the
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  Speaker 1: fuck up about transparency, it sure has developed a strange
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  Speaker 1: affection for secrecy whenever Epstein enters the conversation. The White
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  Speaker 1: House has actually called itself the most transparent administration in history,
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  Speaker 1: which is a hell of a boast when you consider
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  Speaker 1: what we're watching happening in real time. Apparently transparency means
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  Speaker 1: releasing whatever you feel comfortable releasing, congratulating yourself for it,
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  Speaker 1: and then slamming the door when somebody asks for something
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  Speaker 1: you'd rather not hand over. That's not really transparency where
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  Speaker 1: I come from. That's, you know, public relations. You can
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  Speaker 1: put whatever shiny label you want on the bottle, but
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  Speaker 1: eventually somebody is going to open it up and smell
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  Speaker 1: what is actually inside. And when it comes to Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: the smell has been coming out of Washington for a
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  Speaker 1: long damn time. we've spent years being told that the
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  Speaker 1: government wants answers just as bad as everybody else does. Then,
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  Speaker 1: somebody asks for the records, somebody asks for cooperation, somebody
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  Speaker 1: asks for an actual investigation, and suddenly everybody in charge
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  Speaker 1: develops a bad case, a fucking lockjaw. If this is
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  Speaker 1: what historic transparency looks like, I would hate to see
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  Speaker 1: what they consider secrecy. Now, the latest example isn't coming
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  Speaker 1: from a bunch of anonymous accounts, digging through screenshots at
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  Speaker 1: 3 in the morning. It's coming from law enforcement agencies
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  Speaker 1: and allied European countries that are actually investigating leads, you know,
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  Speaker 1: connected to Jeffrey Epstein. Poland says it requested unredacted Epstein
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  Speaker 1: material from the US in April and hasn't received a response.
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  Speaker 1: Norway says the United States has not approved its request
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  Speaker 1: for information. Latvia says it sent several requests for mutual
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  Speaker 1: legal assistance and has received no response. British authorities have
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  Speaker 1: also sought unredacted material from the United States for an
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  Speaker 1: Epstein-related investigation. Yo, these are our allies asking our Justice
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  Speaker 1: Department to help them investigate crimes and possible wrongdoing connected
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  Speaker 1: to a man whose entire operation was rooted right here
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  Speaker 1: in the United States. They're not asking for nuclear launch codes.
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  Speaker 1: They're asking for Epstein information. Yet somehow the most transparent
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  Speaker 1: administration in history can't seem to find the fucking envelope.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that that should make every American mad,
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  Speaker 1: no matter who you voted for. Epstein wasn't some European
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  Speaker 1: problem that washed up on our shores one afternoon. He
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  Speaker 1: was born here, operated here, recruited here, trafficked here, accumulated
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  Speaker 1: his wealth and influence here, and spent decades rubbing elbows
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  Speaker 1: with powerful people right here. American prosecutors investigated him. American
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  Speaker 1: federal agents seized his records. American courts handled his cases.
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  Speaker 1: American institutions felt as victims over and over again. Now
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  Speaker 1: governments overseas are trying to chase down the pieces of
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  Speaker 1: this mess that landed in their countries, and they're asking
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  Speaker 1: us for help. What are we doing? Making them wait?
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  Speaker 1: After everything this country already fucked up, involving Jeffrey Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: apparently we still have not figured out how to simply
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  Speaker 1: hand investigators the information that they need. And Poland is
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  Speaker 1: not fucking around about this either. Polish authorities opened an
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  Speaker 1: investigation after information from the Epstein material raised questions involving
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  Speaker 1: their own country. Prime Minister Donald Tusk publicly said Poland
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  Speaker 1: would investigate possible connections involving Epstein, including questions concerning Russian intelligence.
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  Speaker 1: Prosecutors then sought unredacted American records dealing with Polish aspects
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  Speaker 1: of the case. Months later, they're still waiting. How many
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  Speaker 1: times have Americans been told that the reason more people
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  Speaker 1: were never held accountable was because prosecutors needed more evidence?
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  Speaker 1: Here you have prosecutors saying, fine, give us the evidence.
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  Speaker 1: And suddenly the government, holding that evidence, seems to have
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  Speaker 1: trouble answering the phone? Yo, you can't spend years telling
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  Speaker 1: people nobody can be prosecuted, and then drag your feet
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  Speaker 1: when another country actually wants to investigate. Now Norway has
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  Speaker 1: its own investigation moving forward, and again the United States
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  Speaker 1: possesses information Norwegian prosecutors want. Norwegian authorities have pursued cases
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  Speaker 1: involving prominent figures whose relationships with Epstein came under scrutiny.
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  Speaker 1: Their prosecutor says they're communicating with American officials, but that
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  Speaker 1: the United States still has not approved their requests. She
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  Speaker 1: called the situation very unfortunate for the investigation. No shit,
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  Speaker 1: it's unfortunate. Investigations tend to work better when investigators can
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  Speaker 1: obtain the evidence that they're asking for. We constantly hear
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  Speaker 1: politicians talk about standing shoulder to shoulder with our allies
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  Speaker 1: when it involves wars, sanctions, intelligence operations, trade agreements, and
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  Speaker 1: everything else Washington considers important. Apparently Jeffrey Epstein falls into
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  Speaker 1: some special category where everybody suddenly needs to move at
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  Speaker 1: the speed of frozen molasses. Funny how that keeps happening
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  Speaker 1: with this particular fucking case. And that of course brings
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  Speaker 1: us to Latvia. and Latvian police say that they have
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  Speaker 1: identified a Latvian victim connected to their investigation. They've sent
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  Speaker 1: several requests for mutual legal assistance to authorities in the
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  Speaker 1: United States. They say those requests have received no responses.
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  Speaker 1: There is an alleged victim sitting in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: that sentence, and somehow the government bureaucracy still manages to
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  Speaker 1: make itself the main character. How many decades do survivors
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  Speaker 1: have to spend waiting for powerful institutions to do the
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  Speaker 1: right thing, How many times do they have to watch
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  Speaker 1: governments talk about justice while information sits behind a desk somewhere?
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  Speaker 1: Epstein survivors already learn what government delay looks like the
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  Speaker 1: hard way. They lived through sweetheart deals, sealed agreements, hidden negotiations,
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  Speaker 1: and years when powerful men had every advantage in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Watching another government office sit on information while investigators ask
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  Speaker 1: for it is not going to inspire confidence in anybody
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  Speaker 1: who's followed the story for more than five minutes. Now
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  Speaker 1: Britain's dealing with the same bullshit from another direction. British
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  Speaker 1: authorities sought unredacted Epstein records connected to an investigation involving
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  Speaker 1: former ambassador Peter Mandelson. The formal request followed earlier discussions
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  Speaker 1: that did not produce the information investigators wanted. Stop and
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  Speaker 1: appreciate how ridiculous this looks. Governments in Europe are looking
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  Speaker 1: at American Epstein material and deciding there is enough there
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  Speaker 1: to warrant further investigation. Meanwhile, the country where Epstein built
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  Speaker 1: the damn machine seems determined to convince everybody that there's
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  Speaker 1: nothing left worth investigating, and that disconnect is impossible for
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  Speaker 1: me to ignore. Apparently Europeans can look at these records
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  Speaker 1: and see investigative leads, while DC looks at the same
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  Speaker 1: universe of evidence and somehow sees a closed book. Either
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  Speaker 1: our allies are wasting their time, or somebody in this
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  Speaker 1: country ought to explain why we're not showing the same
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  Speaker 1: curiosity that they are. Look, I've covered this case long
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  Speaker 1: enough to know what the government sounds like when it
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  Speaker 1: wants the story to go away. First comes the giant
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  Speaker 1: document dump. Then comes the victory lab. Then comes the
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  Speaker 1: declaration that everything important has been released. Then comes the
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  Speaker 1: chorus telling everybody there is nothing new here. Then comes
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  Speaker 1: the people online repeating that message so relentlessly you would
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  Speaker 1: think somebody was paying them by the syllable. The argument
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  Speaker 1: eventually becomes that continuing to ask questions is itself suspicious.
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  Speaker 1: You become the conspiracy theorist for noticing the holes instead
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  Speaker 1: of the government being held responsible for leaving the holes there.
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  Speaker 1: I've watched that trick play out with Epstein for years,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not buying it. Yes, millions of pages have
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  Speaker 1: been released, and I'm perfectly capable of counting. DOJ says
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  Speaker 1: it published nearly three and a half million pages under
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  Speaker 1: the Epstein File Transparency Act, along with thousands of videos
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  Speaker 1: and roughly 180,000 images. Great. Nobody gets a medal for
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  Speaker 1: complying with a law Congress passed specifically because the public
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  Speaker 1: demanded the records. Yo, page count is not the same
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  Speaker 1: thing as accountability. You could dump 10 million pages into
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  Speaker 1: the public square tomorrow and still leave unanswered questions sitting
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  Speaker 1: underneath the pile. I care about what is there, what's missing,
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  Speaker 1: who made the decisions, who was investigated, who was not investigated,
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  Speaker 1: and why. I care about why governments overseas seem more
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  Speaker 1: interested in following some of these leads Then the people
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  Speaker 1: sitting on top of the largest collection of Epstein evidence
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  Speaker 1: in existence and saying you released three and a half
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  Speaker 1: million pages doesn't answer any of that. And you know
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  Speaker 1: what else is wild? That people pretend that curiosity about
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  Speaker 1: Epstein somehow has become unreasonable. This is Jeffrey Epstein we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about. A convicted sex offender who surrounded himself with billionaires, politicians, royalty, academics, bankers, lawyers, businessmen, diplomats,
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  Speaker 1: and people with connections. to some of the most powerful
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  Speaker 1: institutions on earth. He got one of the most infamous
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  Speaker 1: sweetheart deals in modern American criminal justice. He returned to
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  Speaker 1: federal custody years later and died before his case ever
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  Speaker 1: reached trial. His associate, Glenn Maxwell, was convicted of helping
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  Speaker 1: recruit and groom minors for abuse. Banks paid enormous sums
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  Speaker 1: to resolve civil litigation tied to their relationship with him.
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  Speaker 1: Survivors fought for years just to drag pieces of the
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  Speaker 1: story into daylight. and I'm supposed to believe the crazy
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  Speaker 1: people are the ones who still have questions? Yo, I've
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  Speaker 1: said for years, the most important part of the story
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  Speaker 1: is not some mythical piece of paper with the words
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  Speaker 1: client list stamped across the top. That was always a
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  Speaker 1: convenient distraction. The real questions are sitting in the relationships,
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  Speaker 1: the money, the introductions, the travel, the recruitment networks, the
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  Speaker 1: financial institutions, the fixtures, the employees, the assistants, the lawyers,
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  Speaker 1: and the powerful people who kept showing up around Epstein
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  Speaker 1: long after nobody could claim they didn't know what kind
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  Speaker 1: of man he was. And reducing the entire scandal to
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  Speaker 1: whether somebody found a neat little list was a brilliant
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  Speaker 1: way to make the public argument stupid. If there's no list,
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  Speaker 1: then apparently there's no scandal. If there's no list, then
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  Speaker 1: apparently nobody else deserves investigation. If there is no list,
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  Speaker 1: then Epstein somehow trafficked girls into a fucking vacuum. That
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  Speaker 1: has never made sense, and it still does not make sense.
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  Speaker 1: Now throw the influencer world into the mess and tell
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  Speaker 1: me I'm supposed to pretend everything looks normal. For months,
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  Speaker 1: I watched supposedly independent political accounts carrying the administration's water
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  Speaker 1: on Epstein. And Data Republican was one of them. When
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  Speaker 1: the administration line hardened, the same voices hardened with it.
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  Speaker 1: When Trump wanted people to move on, they found reasons
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  Speaker 1: people should move on. When skepticism toward the official story
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  Speaker 1: became politically inconvenient, questioning the story suddenly became something to mock.
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  Speaker 1: Then we learned that Jennica Pounds, the woman behind Data Republican,
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  Speaker 1: was actually working for the federal government as a special
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  Speaker 1: government employee at the Pentagon? The Pentagon confirmed the employment,
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  Speaker 1: and Pounds herself said she began working there in July,
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  Speaker 1: after previously being part of the Pentagon press corps. I
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  Speaker 1: smelled something rotten with these people before that revelation ever
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  Speaker 1: came out, and I trust my nose a hell of
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  Speaker 1: a lot more today than I did then. Alright folks,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to wrap up episode one right here, and
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  Speaker 1: in the next episode, we're going to wrap this up.
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  Speaker 1: All the information that goes with this episode can be
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  Speaker 1: found in the description box.