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Survivors Speak Out as the DOJ Fumbles the Epstein Document Release · The Epstein Chronicles

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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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Epstein Chronicles. Over the weekend, the DOJ released roughly three
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million pages of Epstein related documents. And the reason that
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it took so long for these documents to be released,
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for them to be compliant with the law was because
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they said that they were going through the documents with
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a fine tooth comb so that they could make sure
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that the victim's privacy was respected. Well, lo and behold,
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we get the documents and they're just littered with names
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of survivors and people that accuse Jeffrey Epstein. Meanwhile, on
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the flip side of that, they made sure that they
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protected everybody that was even mentioned as part of Epstein's operation.
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And that, of course, is not what the law calls for.
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The law calls for transparency, The law calls for the
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people that were involved to be outed. But the Justice
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this department has made up their own rules once again
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and they're doing whatever they want so they can say
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that they're in compliance by releasing these files, but they're not.
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There's literally millions more documents that still need to be released.
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Now they're going to say that they're privileged, right, whether
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it's national security. How that could even be part of this,
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I have no idea, considering they told us that Epstein
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was just a loan predator, or whether it has to
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do with an ongoing investigation, which is BS as well,
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considering they've already told us that they weren't investigating this anymore,
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and obviously they don't care about the privacy of the victims,
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considering how many victims names were leaked. And when I'm
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talking about leaked names, I'm talking about the young girls
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from Florida, names I had never even seen before, which
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is wild considering how many core documents I've been through.
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So if I was one of these survivors, I'd be
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upset too. And in today's episode, that's what we're going
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to talk about. And to do that, we have an
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article that was published by The Guardian headline handling of
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Epstein files is outrageous, says attorney of his sex trafficking survivors.
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This article was authored by Edward Hellmore. Survivors of Jeffrey
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Epstein sex trafficking operation have reacted to the voluminous and
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possibly last tranch of government held investigative documents with calls
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for further accountability for the schemes allege clients. Put yourself
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in these women's shoes for a minute. If you can
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imagine all these years people ignoring you, nobody listening to
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what you have to say, and then finally the conversation turns,
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and then the Justice Department itself continues your trauma, continues
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to disregard you, continues to call it a hoax. How
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do you think that makes these women fuel? And then,
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of course you add to the fact that a lot
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of these women have never even come forward, and now
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their names are everywhere in these files. I'll tell you what,
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if I was one of these survivors or married to
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one of them, or their brother or whatever, I would
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advise them to set up a class action suit and
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go after the DOJ itself because this is egregious. It's
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without question that a significant piece of Epstein and is convicted.
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Associate Glenn Maxwell's vast sex trafficking operation was to provide
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young women and girls to other wealthy and powerful individuals,
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said Sigarett McCauley, a partner with Boys Schiller Flexner, a
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firm representing survivors of the scheme that practice. McCauley said
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gave Epstein and Maxwell control and power over individuals who
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were implicated in the sex trafficking typical compromise, Like we've
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been telling you for years. Now, the DOJ they have
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a different scenario, right, Epstein was just some diddler, some
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guy sitting around downloading all kinds of disgusting videos and
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you know, did people every now and again. That's really
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the narrative that they're trying to serve us, up and
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up until recently, a lot of people believe that. Well,
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now the curtains have been drawn back and people have
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had a look in the room for themselves, and people
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aren't happy with what they're seeing. McCauley added, Those who
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find themselves entangled in the mire of newly released information,
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no doubt, will play the deny and distance card. But
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that doesn't change the fact that this is exactly how
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the sex trafficking operation worked. Well, that's always what they're
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going to do. They're going to look to put as
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much distance between themselves and Jeffrey Epstein as possible. I
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call it running the Epstein Marathon. Bros out here like
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Jackie Joyner Cursey try to get away. But that doesn't
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work anymore. Right, we have all the information We've heard
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all the stories and a lot of the survivors have
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come out and out of these scumbags. So they can
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try and put some shine on it, they can try
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and explain it away, but that doesn't change the fact
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that they were all hanging out with the degenerate son
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of a bitch and enjoying his largess. And that goes
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for all of them, especially the people that were around
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them after the first conviction. Now previous to that first conviction,
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you can make the argument, I don't believe it, but
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you can make the argument, well, I had no idea.
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I didn't know he was a sick fuck. On the
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flip side of that, if you were with this dude
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after two thousand and eight, you have no excuse here,
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a scumback yourself. You're a fellow traveler and you should
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be brought in and put under oath. The comments came
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after the Trump administration Justice Department on Friday released about
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three million files related to the late financier and convicted
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sex offender. Some files were immediately appraised, including references to
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the correspondence with prominent individuals including multi billionaire business person
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Elon Musk and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik, who are at
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times associated with Epstein but have not been accused of
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any wrongdoing. Well, I've told you about Howard Lutnet before
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I worked for the Dude, when I worked for counter Gaming.
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Forget it. The whole entire thing was a shit show,
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and of course it came tumbling down around their ears
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because they can't keep themselves right, they can't keep themselves correct,
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they can't do the right thing, they can't be in compliance.
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And of course when the music stopped, the only person
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that was left hold in the bag was Mike Colbert,
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who was the mid level executive manager who was involved
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in the scheme. Nothing happened to Lutnik, nothing happened to Leomitas.
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They were able to just go on with their business.
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And why do you think that happened? Not because they're
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good guys, but because they have a lot of power,
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they have a lot of connections, and most importantly, they
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have a lot of money. The Deputy Attorney General Todd
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Blanche said several categories of pages were withheld from release,
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including per identifying information of the victims, victims, medical files,
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images depicting child's sexual abuse, and pages related to ongoing cases.
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What ongoing cases. We all read the memo. There's nothing
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to see here. Epstein and Maxwell were operating in a
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bubble and it was just them at least that's what
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the DJ told us. You know, I thought Merrick Garland
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was useless, but boy, this DOJ might be the worst
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DOJ in the history of the country. And that's saying
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a whole lot. And when all is said and done,
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Todd Blanche is going to have to answer for his bullshit.
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I promise you that there's going to be a reckoning,
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there's going to be hearings, and hopefully there's a special
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prosecutor that's installed to go after everybody that was involved.
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And I don't just mean in Epstein's operation at this point,
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I mean the cover up too, because anyone who's involved
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in this cover up, they're part of the bigger problem.
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They're a part of the systemic abuse and they need
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to be held accountable as well. Victim's attorney Brad Edwards, however,
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told ABC News that there had been errors in the
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release that identified victims. We're getting constant calls from victims
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because their names, despite them never coming forward, being completely
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unknown to the public, have all just been released for
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public consumption. Edwards said, it's literally thousands of mistakes. Look,
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I don't doubt that I found multiple pages with multiple
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names that shouldn't have been there. But they sure were
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able to make sure that they had Leon Black's name hidden.
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They made sure they had Jes Staley's name hidden, Les
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Wexner's name, Adriana Ross's name, Sarah kelln Vicker's name, all
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of those were hidden right. Victim's attorney Jennifer Freeman said
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the Justice Department's handling of the Epstein files has been
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a mess from the start, filled with hand fisted redactions
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while exposing the identities of survivors. Freeman also alluded to
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how Friday's release missed a congressionally said deadline that passed
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in December. She said that the victim, survivors and their
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advocates won't allow the federal government to simply dump a
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couple million documents and wash their hands of one of
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the largest law enforcement failures in US history. She also
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accused the Justice Department of hiding the names of perpetrators
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while exposing survivors. Well, that's because it's the truth. That's
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what the DOJ is doing. That's what they've been doing,
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and unfortunately, under this out of control regime, I expect
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them to continue to do so. There's no checks and balances,
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there's nobody keeping the DOJ in lind there's nobody stepping
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up and saying, look, enough is enough. You guys are
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going to face serious consequence here. Instead, they egg them on, right.
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They give these stupid ass press conferences talking about how
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the DOJ's in compliance and they're doing the right thing,
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when nothing could be further from the truth. Another attorney,
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Spencer Coven, cited victim testimony that Epstein provided girls to
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other famous and notable people, usually done so as favors,
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with a hope that he would get something in return
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from these people. The recent documents only confirm what the
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victims have been saying all along, Couvin said. Separately, a
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group of twenty Epstein survivors said the document dump served
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to shield powerful figures but expose those who had been harmed.
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And this is why the survivors should have been part
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of this, but instead the DOJ decided they wanted to
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get in bed with Maxwell instead, because remember, this has
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never been about the survivors. Instead, it's about Donald Trump's
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weak ass ego that's what the justice departments worry about,
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not about the survivors, not about their pain and suffering.
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That's not important to them. All that's important is what
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their dear leader wants. The files, they said, were being
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sold as transparency, but what they actually did was exposed survivors.
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As survivors, we should never be the ones name aimed, scrutinized,
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and re traumatized, while Epstein's enablers continue to benefit from secrecy.
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The statement said, Once again, survivors are having their names
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and identifying information exposed, while the men who abused us
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remain hidden and protected. That is outrageous. That position awkwardly
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aligned with that of Glenn Maxwell, who said, in court
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papers seeking to overturn her late twenty twenty one conviction
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on sex trafficking charges that a group of twenty five
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alleged accomplices of Epstein made secret settlements with their accusers. Well,
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that's a fact. This story is filled with NDAs, This
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story is filled with people who are paid to never
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talk about what happened. And the truth is a lot
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of those women aren't even from America. A lot of
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those women are from Eastern Europe or from South America.
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Central America wherever it might be. So not only do
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they have the insulation of the NDA, they also have
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the benefit of these women being from different countries that
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might not have the resources that are necessary to deal
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with this sort of thing. You know, we have to
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keep that in mind, right, Not everybody's culture is the same,
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and not everybody can come forward and say they were abused.
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Those papers say none of these men have been prosecuted
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and none has been revealed to Maxwell, who was sentenced
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to twenty years in prison in twenty twenty two. She
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would have called them as witnesses had she known the
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papers added in the political dimension by partisans. Sponsors of
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the transparency law that forced the release of the documents,
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sent a formal letter to Blanche demanding that they view
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the unredacted files to ensure Congress is fulfilling its oversight duties.
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Congress cannot properly assess the Department's handling of the Epstein
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and Maxwell cases without access to the complete record, wrote
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California Democrat Rocana and Kentucky Republican Thomas Massey of the
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US House. Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer, his Chambers minority leader,
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also accused Attorney General paum Bondi of failing to adhere
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to the law. Every member of this body voted that
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all the Epstein files should be released. Schumer said on
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the Senate floor on Friday, we're not satisfied that the
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law is being complied with. We believe it is not. Well,
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it's not. And man, I hate agreeing with Chuck Schumer
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because he's just an absolute unit, another piece of work,
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another guy who took money from Epstein. But he's not
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wrong about this because those files are lacking. Now, that
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doesn't mean that there's nothing in there worthwhile. There is,
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but it's not the complete record, and the law calls
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for the complete record. And if I have to follow
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the law, so does the DOJ. On Saturday, Bronx US
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House Democrat Alexandria Ocasio Cortes posted on Twitter, even with
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everything in this Epstein drop, remember this, this is a
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minority of the files. This is still just what they
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were willing to release, in violation of the law, which
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requires release of all files. Pambondi's Justice Department is still
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hiding most of them. We need them all. A Justice
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Department statement to the ABC News said that it had
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coordinated closely with victims and their lawyers to ensure that
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the production of the documents includes necessary redactions which victims
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and which lawyers, because all the lawyers and victims are
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coming forward and saying that that never happened. So is
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the DOJ just lying to us again? I mean, would
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that shock you? Wouldn't shock me. In fact, I'd be
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shocked if they told us the truth. At this point,
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we want to immediately correct any redaction errors that our
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team may have made, The Justice Department added, so the
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Department is established an email box EFTA at USDOJ dot
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gov for victims to reach us directly to correct redaction
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concerns when appropriate. Epstein died in federal custody in twenty nineteen.
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Before releasing the files on Friday, Blanche said, I think
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there's a hunger or a thirst for information that I
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do not think will be satisfied by the review of
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these documents. There's nothing I can do about that. Yes,
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there is. You can comply with the law and give
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us all the documents. You can quit playing games and
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acting Michael fool. You can stop being Glad Maxwell's buddy
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and start acting like a deputy Attorney general. That gives
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a fuck. How about we start there, baby Billy Blanche.
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I mean, it's obvious that Todd Blanche, the DOJ, and
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everybody involved is lying, and it's obvious that they're holding
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back the most damaging and damning documents. But the biggest
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issue here, in my opinion, the most damning issue for
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the DOJ, is they took all this time, wasted all
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that money, and they still didn't get the redactions correct.
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So do you really think that they were worried about
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redactions or do you think I think they were more
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concerned with protecting their friends. I'll leave that up to
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you to decide. All of the information that goes with
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