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Transatlantic Tensions: Trump Administration Limits UK Access to Epstein Evidence (4/28/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. As the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein in the
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  UK continues to grow, where getting reports that the Trump
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  administration is not willing to play ball with the UK
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  and help them with their investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. And
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  if these reports are true, would anyone be surprised considering
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  their lack of interest here in America, why would they
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  try and help the investigation move forward anywhere? The whole
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  idea is to kill the investigation. So if that means
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  giving the UK the middle finger and making them go
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  through official channels, then so be it. And it's kind
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  of the same situation that we saw with America asking
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  the UK for help with Andrew, and of course the
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  UK told America to kick rocks, and now the shoes
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  on the other foot, and it looks like America is
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  responding in kind. And I think the motivation here is twofold.
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  Most importantly to keep the cover up going, and second
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  to punish the Brits for not playing ball with Andrew
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  the first time around when Jeffrey Berman was hot on
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  his heels. And honestly, the cynic in me says that
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  This could all be part of the plan too. If
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  you have both governments acting like neither side wants to
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  give anything up, that provides both governments all the cover
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  in the world they need to kill the investigation right
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  if there is no evidence, then how could you possibly
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  continue with an investigation that would give them all the
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  cover they need? And I certainly don't put it above
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  the UK government. Let's not act like the UK government
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  is some great body of governance that truly cares about
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  their people. Either they don't. Now, some of them will
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  talk a big game like here in America, but the
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  truth is they don't care. Do you really think that
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  a guy that has Lord in front of his name
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  gives a goddamn about you? You think he cares about
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  anything going on in your life? Or do you think
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  think he only cares about your vote? Today's article is
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  from The Daily Beast and the headline trump Stonewall's British
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  probe into the Epstein scandal. This article was authored by
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  Mary Papenfuss. The Trump administration is scrambling to block British
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  investigators timely and full access to the unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files,
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  which could thwart potential prosecutions in the UK, including against
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  former Prince Andrew. Well, considering here in the United States,
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  they have no desire to push it forward. Why would
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  they want Prince Andrew giving up information that flies directly
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  into the face of what they're trying to do. And
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  for all their bluster, all their talk, all their tough
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  guy nonsense, what are we left with. We're left with
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  survivors not getting justice. We're left with Glenn Maxwell getting
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  the homy hookup treatment while the rest of us continue
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  to get shit on. And I don't know about you,
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  but I'm done with it. I'm done with these people
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  doing whatever they want with no consequences. Britain's Metropolitan Police
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  have sent a formal request to the Department of Justice
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  after the DOJ insisted to do so to obtain the original,
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  unredacted documents. The formal request was made after an earlier
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  UK attempt to obtain the document was ignored. The Guardian reported,
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  and look, there are plenty of things that the Trump
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  administration is doing that I do not like, but I
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  think this petty nonsense that we see time and time
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  again from the administration is just pathetic. What are you
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  twelve when you have relationships on the world stage, like
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  the United States has. Not every single conversation is going
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  to go the way you want it to go. Sometimes
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  your allies are not going to be in agreement with you,
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  and sometimes you're going to be forced to forge alone.
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  But that should have no bearing on this part of
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  the relationship, especially when we're dealing with a topic like this,
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  where it affects all of our lives citizens in the
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  UK and the United States. We're affected by this, So
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  our governments need to put aside their petty bickering and
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  work together. I mean, are we really gonna throw what
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  one hundred year relationship down the pish could do because
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  Donald Trump's wild and out? Are there no adults in
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  the room to take the temperature down anywhere? I mean,
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  enough is enough? Like it's one thing to have a
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  you know, issue with Spain as America. I get that,
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  but there should never be anything that breaks the bond
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  between America and the UK. We just have way too
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  many shared values and our perspective on the world is
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  pretty similar now. Of course, we have different traditions, you know,
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  different views about things like guns, et cetera. But when
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  you get down to it, we basically have all the
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  same goals, all the same issues, all the same desires
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  for our families. And the fact that the UK and
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  the United States can't get it together and work as
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  one when it comes to this issue really shows me
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  and tells me a lot about where the relationship is.
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  And I think the next administration is going to have
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  their hands full when it comes to trying to rebuild
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  these relationships and restore trust with our European partners. Now,
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  of course it is a two way street, and Europe
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  is going to have to tamp down some of the
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  rhetoric as well, But that's a conversation for another time.
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  Any resolution of the formal request process could take a
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  long time, and it's not immediately clear what other conditions
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  Trump officials may set before taking any action. Oh, you
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  know there's going to be some kind of hurdle to jump.
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  You know that there's going to be conditions to be met,
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  and you know that the Trump administration is going to
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  look to twist the knife because it's in their nature.
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  They can't help themselves. Frog and scorpion shit. The Daily
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  Beast has reached out to the White House for comment.
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  OK police are turning up the heat on both Andrew
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  mount Battan Windsor, who was stripped of his royal titles
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  in the wake of the Epstein scandal, and on the
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  former British ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelsson. And if
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  we can do anything in America to help that out,
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  we should be doing it. And if that means Congress
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  needs to get together and put together some kind of amendment,
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  some kind of new law that gives access to the
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  files that explicitly talk about Prince Andrew and Mandelsson to
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  the UK authorities, I'd be okay with that. I mean,
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  is this really the topic where you want to make
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  your stand? I mean, it seems like quite the hill
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  to die on, and under normal circumstances it would be
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  a death knell for a politician politically speaking. But under
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  the current environment in America, there's a lot of people
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  that just don't care anymore. There's a lot of people
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  that really, truly they believe that Jeffrey Epstein was just
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  this fictionalized character. At this point, he was a lone
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  wolf and he didn't do anything nearly as bad as
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  the moral panic police are making it out. That's really
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  the narrative at this point, and they're brazenly pushing it.
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  When you have members of Congress that are talking about
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  giving Glaane Maxwell, of all people, a pardon, How can
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  anyone take any of this seriously, like real talk. And
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  I'm certainly not a black pill kind of guy, right.
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  I like to offer solutions if I have them, But
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  when we're talking about this situation right here, besides a
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  Special Council, there's nowhere else to go, and all this
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  other stuff, I hate to say, is performative at best.
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  Thames Valley Police are currently investigating Mount bat and Windsor
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  over allegations of possible misconduct and public office concerning claims
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  that sensitive information may have been given to Ebstein while
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  the former Prince was a trade envoy for his country. Well,
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  we saw the emails. I mean, they exist, So I
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  think the only question now is if there's enough there
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  to charge them and prosecute. The MET launched a similar
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  investigation into Mandelson's activities when he was Cabinet Minister. The
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  European Anti Fraud Office has also reported that it's investigating
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  Mandelssohn during his time as EU Trade Commissioner. So this
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  guy was all over the place working for the EU,
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  working for the English government. You know, just one of
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  those guys, highly connected and completely screwed up. And unfortunately
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  that's the vast majority of these people that are in
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  this world. They're all degenerates. And I hate to say it,
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  but it's true. Every time you turn around, there's a
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  new degenerate story about one of these people. And then
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  just look at the emails. Look at how they were
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  talking about you, Look at how they talked about random
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  girls or random people, and you think these are the
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  people that care about you. You think these are the
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  people that should be righting our laws, controlling the financial sector,
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  controlling academia. The American Justice departments full documents are considered
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  critical to a successful prosecution of the two men and others.
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  As British investigators identify and interview key witnesses, it's difficult
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  to make anything stick without those documents. The US could
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  have handed them over without making British police go down
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  the formal route. A source told The Guardian, Well, Sam
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  could be said about Andrew. You guys could have given
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  us everything we wanted as well. Remember Jeffrey Berman was
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  looking for it. But they didn't want to make the
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  Queen mad, so they protected Prince Andrew instead, and that
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  of course let to Virginia Roberts never getting the justice
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  she deserved, and the UK authorities played a part in that.
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  They could have stepped up, they could have done the
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  right thing, but they didn't. Now does that mean that
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  America should play the same petty games. No, I'm calling
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  for a full release of whatever documents are related to Andrew.
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  The UK law enforcement team should be given that, and
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  they should be given whatever kind of help they need
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  if they're going to prosecute people connected to Epstein. And
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  it's wild that I even need to say that. That
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  should just be a foregone conclusion. Other British police forces
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  are probing other aspects of Epstein's activities in the UK,
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  including claims that he housed some of his victims in
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  London apartments. Virginia Roberts, who died by suicide in twenty
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  twenty five at the age of forty one, said that
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  she had been trafficked by Epstein in London. Other police
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  departments are investigating whether the disgraced financier used various local
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  airports in the UK to traffic girls and women. The
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  Epstein files are not fading away. The Inspector General of
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  the Justice Department has launched an investigation into the Trump
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  administration's failure to release all the files required by law. Now,
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  most people out there think that's a big deal, right,
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  They're like, yo, the OIG's involved, This is going to
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  be great. What's our experience with the OIG? Though? Not
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  very good, is it? So? I don't expect this report
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  to be any better. I expect another whitewash. Oh and
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  by the way, it'll be ready for us to read
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  in about three years, because that's how the OIG works. Now.
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  As far as helping the UK, that should be a
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  foregone conclusion. Like I said, there should be no discussion,
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  no debate. The stuff should be handed over. And if
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  that means you have to send a prosecutor with the
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  information to keep it sanitized, great whatever, But ignoring requests
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  for information about Epstein and Epstein's criminal empire, that's not
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  only unacceptable, but in my opinion, another smoking gun pointing
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  directly at a cover up. All the information that goes
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  with this episode can be found in the description box.