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Mega Edition: Judge Kaplan Warns Prince Andrew Not To Play Games In His Courtroom (4/25/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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Speaker 1: Quite some time, and he has attempted to use loopholes
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and technicalities to get it tossed. Thankfully, Judge Kaplan is
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not having it, and Prince Andrew is going to have
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to answer these accusations in a court of law. Now,
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of course, this is not a criminal case, right, so
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it's not like he's going to go to prison because
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of this. But at the very least he's being held
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responsible in some aspect of justice here, as opposed to
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him just sliding underneath the radar and never being held
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to account. At the very least, the spotlights being put
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on him, and people who might not have been aware
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of what was going on are going to become aware
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of what's going on very quickly, just like with Epstein
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and then the Maxwell trial. How many folks out there
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had no idea what was really going on with these two.
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I'm guessing a lot of people, and I'm guessing a
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lot of people that found their way to this podcast.
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I've got a lot of emails from a lot of
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listeners who really had no idea the true scope of
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what was going on here. You know, they heard the
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rumors and the innuendo, and then of course some of
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the more batshit crazy conspiracy theory stuff, and you know,
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that drives people away. They're like, oh, the whole thing's
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a conspiracy theory. But then they start to get some
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real information about what went on here, information backed up
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with sources from the media such as I DO, or
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with court documentation or whatever, and people start to realize
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that this was never a conspiracy theory. This was a
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criminal conspiracy from the very beginning. And somebody like Prince Andrew,
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of his status, of his wealth, of his power, being
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involved with someone like Jeffrey Epstein and Glenn Maxwell. It
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would seem absurd to people who are not following some
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thing like this closely. But the reality of the situation
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is the reality of life these so called elites. It
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seems like all of them are wired incorrectly and that
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all of them are fed up. Once you get a
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certain amount of money, you automatically become some kind of
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robber baron. It would seem now, when I talk about
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the rich, I'm not talking about people that are making
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you know, a couple of million dollars or anything like that.
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I'm talking about generational wealth, the kind of wealth you
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see with these hedge fund type people with the Maxwells
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of the world. Those are the uber elite, the super elite,
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not what I call the working rich. The working rich
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are the people who might have accumulated a few million
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dollars throughout their years of working. But they're not part
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of the party either, and they're not invited up to
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the top floor, no more than you or I are welcome.
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So when I talk about the rich, I'm talking about,
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you know, the Trumpian class of rich, the billions when
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you have that be after your name, even the hundreds
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of millions, right, These people are they're all wired funny.
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And then they'll get up there and they'll talk about, Oh,
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I give to this charity or I give to that charity,
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and then you hear two weeks later that they were
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involved in a trafficking ring, or they were involved in
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nexium or whatever it is. The truth of the matter
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is that these people, the so called elite, the robber barons,
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the people in the financial sector, they don't care about
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any of us. And if you think someone like Prince
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Andrew cares about, you know, the most vulnerable amongst us,
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or the poor or the downtrodden, he doesn't care. All
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he cares about is enriching himself, increasing his wealth and
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continuing to you know, climb that social ladder that all
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of them are trying to climb. And if anybody thought
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he was ever going to take responsibility what he did here,
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I mean for what he did here of his own accord,
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you weren't paying attention. I saw someone post earlier on
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Twitter talking about how it's time for Prince Andrew to
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hire some lawyers that are going to try and ruin
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Virginia Roberts breaking news, dumbass, He's already done that. What
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do you think Brettler is? What do you think Marty Singer?
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In the firm that they work at and that Marty
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Singer owns, does they specialize in this? I uploaded two episodes,
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one about both about Marty Singer, excuse me and Prince
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Andrew Episode one and two. Episode one will be uploaded
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at eight thirty and then episode two will come after that.
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But it's a look back episode of when Prince Andrew
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first announced that he was hiring Brettler and what my
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response to it all was. I knew exactly what the
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strategy was going to be then, because that's the kind
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of lawyers that these dudes are so there's so many
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people who have no idea about this case but who
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like to interject themselves into it. It's so beyond odd
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to me, Like, if you don't know about something, why
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are you popping off about it? You know, one thing
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I've learned in my forty one years on this planet
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is that I don't know anything. Barely know my name
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at half the time. Never mind you know, thinking I
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know everything about everything. But Prince Andrew hiring these lawyers
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signaled right away what his strategy was going to be,
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and this ruling today from Judge Caplan is also signaling
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that this strategy might not be the best one for
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him and might not be the way to victory. In fact, honestly,
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I don't think there is a way to victory for
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this dude. I think that he's going to have to
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pay up civilly here. There's going to be a judgment
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against him one way or the other. If it ever
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comes down, if he ever at pays it, that's a
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whole other matter. But I think the judgment eventually is
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going to go against him, and as far as criminally speaking,
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I highly doubt it. But this is this signals bad
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news for his civil case here with Judge Kaplan already
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basically saying, look, this getting off on the technicality stuff
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isn't going to work. You're going to have to prove
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it in the court of law and prove the merits
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of what you're saying here. So let's jump into this
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article from CNN and let's see what Eric Levinson and
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Lauren de Valley have to say. Headline. Judge rules sexual
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assault lawsuit against Prince Andrew can move ahead. A federal
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judge in New York on Wednesday denied a motion to
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dismiss laws a lawsuit against Prince Andrew filed by Virginia Roberts,
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who alleges she was sexually trafficked to the Royal when
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she was underage. Now, all of this alleges and this
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that the other thing. That's fine and well, when we're
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talking about the situation with Andrew, nothing has been proved.
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It has been proved in court, right, so of course
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it's alleged. But when we talk about Jeffrey Epstein, I
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don't know why they still say one of his accusers
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pretty obvious that Jeffrey Epstein did what these girls are
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saying to them, It's pretty obvious. He did it, or
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the estate wouldn't pay out all that money. He wouldn't
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have gotten arrested the second time. Maxwell wouldn't be indicted.
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You pick up what I'm putting down here, folks. So
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there's no alleged when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein. Come on,
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that's ridiculous. Miss Roberts's complaint is neither unintelligible, nor vague
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nor ambiguous. Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote in the ruling, it
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alleges discrete incidents of sexual abuse and particular circumstances at
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three identified and identifiable locations identifies to whom it attributes
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that sexual abuse. So basically, Caplin is saying there's grounds here,
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there is grounds here. She is saying that the exact
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spots where it took place, she's saying that the locations
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are identifiable, and she's identifying whom it happened with. So
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I don't know how anyone who's looking at this from
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a non biased view like a judge should be, could say, Ah, yeah,
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I'm gonna dismiss this. There's nothing there. And the fact
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that Andrew's two thousand dollars an hour lawyers thought that
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this strategy was gonna work is It's just crazy to me.
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It is just crazy to me that they can't read
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the temperature of the room. At this point, still Roberts
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alleged in the lawsuit that the late financier, the late financier.
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That's what they're still calling this guy, the late financier.
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But if it was one of their political opponents, they'd
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be calling him, you know, Himmler or or some other
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crazy insert name here. You see what they do, folks.
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They pick and choose what they want to pour down
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your throat, and they act like attacking their political opponents
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is more important than you know, naming Jeffrey Epstein for
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what he is, the late financier. What are you going
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to offend Jeffrey Epstein? What's he going to come back
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from the dead and sue you. Let's just call the
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guy what he is, okay, A pedophile, a human trafficker,
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a piece of trash, you know, all of that works.
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Trafficker enforced her to have sex with his friends, including
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the Prince, and that Andrew was aware she was underage
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seventeen in the US at the time. She alleges the
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Prince sexually abused her at Epstein's private island in the
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US Virgin Islands, at his mansion in Manhattan, and at
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his former girlfriend, co conspirator, fellow human trafficker, general all
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around scuzbag and bipudal serpent, Glene Maxwell's home in London.
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Prince Andrew has denied the allegation and had moved to
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dismiss the suit. CNN has reached out to his attorneys
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for further comment. You know, they're not going to comment.
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They have nothing to say. They don't want to say
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anything because they know the deal. What can they possibly
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say at this point that is going to help their cause.
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Everything they say they've said in the courtroom already, and
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it's not good. They're not out here to try and
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win a pr battle anymore. It's a hatchet job. That's
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why Brettler was hired. The ruling sets up a dramatic
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series of legal proceedings for Queen Elizabeth the Second's third
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child that could have major ramifications for Buckingham Palace. The
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long running allegations against Andrew sixty one have already dramatically
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tarnished his public standing, and he stepped back from royal
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duties in late twenty nineteen. Or did he they gave
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that perception, but it sure seems to me like he
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was still, you know, hanging out around Balmoral, hanging out
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with Mom. What did he really have taken from him?
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Some of those patronages still can come up with enough
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money to spend two grand an hour for lawyers. Right,
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Oh yeah, I know, I know Mom's not paying for that,
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right stop it. You know that the Queen is paying
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for his legal fees one way or the other. And
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you know that if there was a settlement here, she'd
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be paying for that as well. Andrew has until July
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fourteenth to potentially answer questions about the case under oath
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following a ruling made by Kaplan last year. If the
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case is not settled, Prince Andrew could face a trial
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date between September and December of twenty twenty two. So
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obviously not anytime soon soon, but it is on the horizon,
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and you know it's going to be keeping Uncle Touchy
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up that night sweating, even though he says he can't.
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This guy is really dug himself a hole, hasn't he?
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Going on to that Emily Maitliss interview was one of
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the worst decisions of this man's life. Well, besides, you know,
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hanging out with Epstein and abusing traffic girls, but going
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on to Emily maitlis As the show just made it
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so much worse for him because he can't even fall
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back on the I don't knows anymore or anything like that,
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because he was completely exposed in that interview and anyone
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who watches it can tell the dude's lion. It's not
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like he's up there being truthful with anybody providing receipts
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pointing to this or that to say, hey, look I'm innocent.
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You can talk to so and so. Has he ever
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done any of that? And you would think that if
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Buckingham Palace had evidence that would help exonerate him, they
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would bring it forward. I'm guessing none of that exists
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because when he was going to hang out with Epstein,
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I'm sure it was a wink, wink, nudge, nudge to
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whatever the security detail is to. You know, how about
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we keep this one off the books. Boys, let's keep
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this one off the record. Now. Do I have evidence
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of that? No? But you don't think that happens. You
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don't think these guys are buddy buddy with the Prince.
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You don't think his security detail wants to be boys
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with the prince, of course they do. Buckingham Palace declined comment,
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saying we would not comment on what is an ongoing
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legal matter, and that's been their approach pretty much throughout
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this whole thing, to not comment. But you would think
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that they'd come out and they'd show empathy towards the survivors,
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but they don't really care about that. It's all about
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protecting the firm, making sure the monarchy is protected, making
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sure the Queen isn't tarnished. Who cares about the girls
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that were abused by Jeffrey Epstein's BFFs, I mean by
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Prince Andrews BFFs. I mean, it's absurd, right, You would
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think that the monarchy, the Queen, they'd be coming forward
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and they'd be saying, look, we have a lot of
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empathy for what happened to these girls. We're gonna let
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this legal process play out and you know, we want
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everyone to understand that you know something, But no, it's oh,
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we have no idea, no comment. It's crazy. You people
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represent England and that's the you can do. Huh. Robert's attorney,
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Sigurd McAuley said the judge's ruling is another important step
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in Virginia's heroic and determined pursuit of justice as a
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survivor of sex trafficking. The civil suit stems from the
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sprawling and disturbing allegations against Epstein, the wealthy sex offender
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pedophile who befriended a series of powerful men despite a
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sketchy history, a group of powerful women as well. Let's
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not forget all of those powerful women that were around
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Jeffrey Epstein as well. Remember, folks, these everyone's a gray character,
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men and women alike, and Jeffrey Epstein sure had his
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collection of both. Ditney Epstein pleaded guilty in two thousand
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and eight the state prostitution charges, and July nineteenth and
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July twenty nineteen was indicted on federal sex trafficking charges.
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Prosecutors accused him of carrying out a decades long scheme
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of sexual abuse of underage girls, flying them on private
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planes to his properties in Florida, New York, New Mexico,
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and the US Virgin Islands. He died by suicide, allegedly
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in prison, before he could face trial. And it wasn't
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just him obviously, right, how about those pilots that were
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flying all those girls around, they just get carte blanche.
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They just get off because they go and give a
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few words at the trial. I want did they get
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an agreement? What kind of agreement did they get? Did
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they get clemency, did they get immunity for their testimony?
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Or did they just do it out of the kindness
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of their souls? Where were they after the first arrest?
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So what about all of the other people that were
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involved here? You know, you have sex trafficking and Epstein
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wasn't flying the plane, right, so everybody who was involved
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needs to be caught up in this net. Maxwell, his
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former girlfriend, a co conspirator, general all around scusbag and
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human trafficker, was arrested in twenty twenty and accused of
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facilitating the abuse scheme. A federal jury convicted her in
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December on five federal accounts, including sex trafficking a minor
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and conspiracy. Roberts was not one of the four women
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who testified Maxwell's trial that they had been abused. Still,
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she was mentioned in the trial when Carolyn, one of
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the survivors, testified that Roberts had recruited her to come
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to Epstein's home in Palm Beach, Florida. So again, I
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don't know how Virginia wasn't called at this trial. I
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don't know how some of the other survivors weren't called
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at this trial, but hopefully at the sentencing portion they
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will be called for those witness impact statements. Caplin's ruling
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Wednesday allowed the lawsuit to continue, but he did not
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determine the facts or validity of the case. So he's
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letting it continue, meaning he wants to see more. He
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didn't determine one way or the other what's true or
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what's not true yet, but there is enough there for
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him to want to see more and to get this
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ball rolling. The Prince's attorneys at argue that Robert's lawsuit
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violated the terms of her two thousand and nine settlement
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agreement with Epstein in Florida, in which she agreed to
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general release of claims against Epstein and others. That settlement,
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which was released to the public last week, shows that
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Epstein paid Roberts five hundred thousand dollars to drop the
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case without any admission of liability or fault. The Prince's
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name does not explicitly appear as a party, so again
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very vague. It goes against everything that Andrew was saying previously,
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so I'm glad that Kaplan recognized it as the bs
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that it is. However, Robert's attorney, David Boyce, argued the
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settlement is irrelevant to her claims against the Prince, noting
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Andrew did not know about it at the time and
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it didn't apply to him. In the ruling, Kaplan wrote
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that both sides put forth the reasonable interpretations of the
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settlement's meaning. So what that means is he wants to
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see more. He wants both sides to argue in front
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of him their case so he can get to the
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bottom of it. That's basically what Judge Kaplan is saying here.
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The agreement therefore is ambiguous. Accordingly, the determination of the
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meaning of the release language in the two thousand and
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nine agreement must have waited further proceedings, he wrote. Roberts
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broader case under the Child Victims Act, a New York
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state law enacted in twenty nineteen that temporarily expanded the
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statute of limitations in child's sex abuse cases to give
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survivors more opportunities to seek justice. Prince Andrew's attorneys argued
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that the law is unconstitutional, but the judge rejected the argument,
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citing another judge's analysis that this line of argument was
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creative but without merit. So again loopholes and technicalities. Oh
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the law is wrong. Oh, the law is unconstitutional. Not
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that I'm going to defend myself with evidence at trial.
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None of that what Roberts alleges and claims may. Prior
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to filing her lawsuit, Robert's alleged that in two thousand
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and one, Epstein brought her to London where she was
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introduced to Prince Andrew and went dancing at a nightclub
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with Epstein, Maxwell and the Prince. In a BBC interview
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broadcast in twenty and nineteen, Robert said she had been
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taken to the Tramp nightclub, where Robert's alleged Andrew asked
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her to dance and was sweating all over me. And
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now you know, Andrew says he can't sweat. He you know,
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he's not a sweater. He has a condition that makes
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it so he can't sweat. Who's ever heard of something
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so absurd? I know there's cases out there, right, but
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all of a sudden, Andrew's one of these people as well, right,
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He hits the lottery for genetics as far as being
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born a royal, and he just happens to have this
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condition too. Huh, the only one in the family with it.
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After Andrew has denied the claims, telling the BBC in
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twenty and nineteen it didn't happen. I can absolutely categorically
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tell you never happened. I have no recollection of ever
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meeting this lady, none whatsoever. Yes, see how the story
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has changed. Huh. Now it's wait, it's unconstitutional. Wait, wait
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a minute, Hold on a minute. I had no idea here.
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I'm protected. Oh, it's not that I don't know her.
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Because now at the trial, when he goes under oath,
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is he going to say the same thing he claimed
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in that same interview that he could not sweat due
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to a rare medical condition and that on the night
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he is alleged to have had sex assaulted. You mean
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with Roberts, he was in fact taking his daughter to
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a party at a Pizza Express restaurant and Woking, southwest
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of London. Imagine all of these scumbags using their kids
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and their families as some kind of alibi or a crutch. Oh,
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I was taking my daughter to get pizza. Meanwhile he's
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out molesting people and abusing people, absolutely disgusting. Robert's lawyers
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asked Andrew in court filings to provide documents proving both
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of those claims. Andrew's team responded that he was unable
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to do so because he has no documents proving a
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medical condition that prevents sweating and cannot identify anyone he
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encountered at the pizza restaurant. Now, remember he's super famous, right,
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if you were at the pizza restaurant that night, you
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would remember, if you know the queen's son was there.
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It would be like us going to a pizza shop,
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I don't know, a pizza hut and the Obamas are
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hanging out. You're gonna remember that. You mean to tell me,
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not one person remembers you at this party. You can't
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get one person to corroborate your story. Huh oh, yeah,
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we should all just believe you though. There should never
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be a trial here. You should never be deposed, not you,
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Prince Andrew, give me a break already. And thankfully, finally,
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after all this time, that's gonna change. And it looks
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like this dude's going to have to sit down under
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oath and answer questions, and we all know how well
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Andrew does when he's being interviewed. All right, folks, that's
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gonna do it for tonight. Tomorrow morning, we'll be back
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with a little bit more. Obviously we'll catch up on
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the Glenn Maxwell situation, and obviously tonight you can also
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expect more context episodes to see you through. If you'd
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So the phone call took place today between Prince Andrew's representatives,
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his new lawyers that are based in Hollywood, and the
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prosecutors and the judge. And it looks like from the
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reports we're hearing that the judge wasn't having any of
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Prince Andrew and his legal team's nonsense. In fact, when
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it's so far as admonishing them for making things way
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more difficult than they had to be. Pretty much figure
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that would be the case. Right. Look, these judges, like
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I said, earlier. They're like feudal wards, right, you mess
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with these dudes, it's like going into a badger den
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and taking a whiz on one and expecting it not to,
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you know, go crazy on you. So with Andrew and
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his team all of the bluster about how they were
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just going to ignore all of this, we knew that
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wasn't gonna be the case, because being tried in absentia
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is never the proper route to go if you're looking
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to you know, prove your innocence. So I figured that
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they'd be ready to feel this call. But it's nice
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to see the judge giving them a bit of a
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slap here and telling them that he's not playing games
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pretty much no more. Bs. Let's get down to it
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is basically what the judge is telling them. So let's
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jump into this article from Law and Crime and author
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Adam Klasfeld, and let's see exactly what in the hell
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went on today during that phone call. Headline Federal Judge
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Skewer's lawyer for Prince Andrew for making service more complicated
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than it is. And again, it really that's really what
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it comes down to, right, this guy is ducking and
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dodging like rip Torrents throwing wrenches at him and he's
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in dodgeball, when in reality he should accept this summons
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and come and challenge these accusations in court. He's such
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a big, tough guy, right, He's such a war hero,
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such an honorable dude. Then what are you running for? Bro?
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What are you hiding out at your mom's house for?
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Don't make it more complicated than it needs to be.
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Prince Andrew has disputed that the woman accusing him of
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sexually abusing her as a seventeen year old served him
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properly with a lawsuit. That argument appeared to land poorly
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in court on Monday, when a federal judge signaled that
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this is a losing battle. Look, there was no doubt
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in my mind that this was going to be the result. Right,
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he wasn't going to get off on the service of
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this warrant. They weren't going to be able to use
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that as a way for him to wiggle off the hook.
25:36
I was pretty confident that Boys and Schiller and the
25:40
rest of the legal team would have been very thorough
25:43
leading up to all of this. This is very high profile.
25:47
This isn't something you throw together in a day or
25:48
two right, and with the legal office. I am sure
25:52
that this is something they've been preparing for for quite
25:54
some time. So I am sure that they went through
25:57
everything they needed to go through, you know, had a
26:00
mock situation that they ran before them and came up
26:05
with the best way to go about serving this guy
26:08
that would have some weight with the court. It's not
26:12
like they just woke up one day and they were like,
26:14
all right, we'll show up at insert castle here and
26:18
we'll just do whatever we want and say we serve them.
26:21
There's a certain process that goes along with it, and
26:24
those steps have to be followed. And according to this judge,
26:29
those steps were obviously followed. And Andrew and his team
26:33
are the ones playing games. You have a pretty high
26:38
degree of certainty that he can be served sooner than later.
26:42
US District Judge Lewis Kaplan told the Prince's lawyers during
26:45
a telephone conference, let's cut out all the technicalities and
26:49
get to the substance. He added, Man, is this judge
26:52
hanging out listening to the podcast This me and this
26:55
guy might be kindred souls. I am so tired of
26:59
technicality when it comes to these trials and these situations.
27:03
Of law. How about we get down to who's innocent
27:05
and who's guilty. Shouldn't that matters? Shouldn't that be like
27:10
the most important thing? But it's really not right. It's
27:13
a game of technicalities and loopholes that these people are playing,
27:17
and the one who's the most proficient at that, the
27:20
one who is the most skilled at that, is going
27:23
to be the best lawyer in the room. It has
27:25
nothing to do with guilt or innocence anymore, and hell,
27:28
maybe it never has. Again, I'm not some kind of
27:31
expert in the field of you know, a judicial law,
27:36
most certainly am not. But I'm also not going to
27:39
be gas lit or bullshitted by these people. So when
27:44
it comes down to this kind of situation, it's nice
27:48
to see the judge himself bringing up technicalities and pointing
27:54
out that he's not going to stand for it. Let's
27:57
get to the substance, Let's get to the meat on
27:59
the bone. Why are we dicking around around the edges.
28:07
With that remark, the judge made clear that ducking service
28:10
is not likely to be a successful gambit to avoid
28:14
a lawsuit by Virginia Roberts, one of the most outspoken
28:18
victims of the now deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. And so
28:22
this can only be considered a w for Virginia here
28:25
in round one, right, So they're going to have to
28:29
answer for this. There's gonna be no running, there's gonna
28:31
be no avoiding the service. And if him and his
28:34
law team don't show up to any of these trials
28:39
or whatever, then this judge is going to render a
28:42
decision in absentia and it's not going to turn out
28:45
well for Prince Andrew. So, like I thought from the jump,
28:49
old boy is over the barrel. And all of those
28:51
people who thought, oh, because he's a royal, he's gonna
28:54
avoid this, well, a lot of people didn't have any
28:57
clue about what's really going on here. There are all
29:02
sorts of different levers and methods put into place via
29:07
treaties for these exact kinds of situations. Now, of course,
29:12
him being a royal definitely throws a wrench into things,
29:16
but obviously this judge and I'm sure other judges don't
29:20
really care about that, and pretty much proving it right
29:24
here by telling Andrew he's gonna have to answer for
29:26
this in court. You're not gonna get off on this
29:28
on a technicality. You're not gonna just push this away.
29:32
You're gonna have to sit down, and you're gonna have to,
29:36
you know, defend yourself here. Roberts alleges in her lawsuit
29:44
that the Duke of York sexually assaulted her as a
29:46
teenager in three places, Epstein's New York mansion and private
29:51
island in the US Virgin Islands, and to Ques sex
29:54
trafficking Gallaine Maxwell's London home. So Prince Andrew it wasn't
30:00
a one time thing either, right, multiple times he's accused
30:04
of this. You would think that a guy like Prince
30:09
Andrew wouldn't need to be hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein.
30:15
And furthermore, imagine Jeffrey Epstein or anybody showing up with
30:19
their buddy Glaine Maxwell and some little young girl who
30:22
looks like she's about oh, if you look at the
30:24
picture sixteen seventeen, maybe they show up with her in
30:28
tow and you're the Prince of England. You don't ask
30:30
any questions. You don't say, all right, hold up, who's
30:33
the kid? Guys? What's going on here? Is this someone's niece?
30:36
What are you guys doing with this kid here? She
30:39
on like a school field trip or something. Can I
30:41
see her parents' release for him that's allowing her to go.
30:47
I mean, nobody asks any questions with these all these
30:49
young looking girls hanging out. Oh it's not my business.
30:53
Oh it's not, bitch, it is your business. Do you
30:58
think that if you're hanging out at the dope spot
31:00
and it gets raided, you're not going to jail. So
31:03
why should these motherfuckers be allowed to get away with
31:05
enabling and in some spots even being an accessory. It
31:09
would seem because the law is not put on the
31:15
books for you or me. It's meant for people like
31:18
Prince Andrew. It's meant for people like his whole circle,
31:21
his whole entourage, all of his friends. Notice how long
31:26
they were able to get away with the shit they
31:28
were getting away with. Doesn't work like that for everybody else,
31:35
does it. So again, it's nice to see this judge,
31:38
at the very least make this guy wiggle on the
31:41
hook for a little while. Maxwell, whom Roberts claim turned
31:50
her into a sex slave, can be seen in the
31:52
background of a photograph showing the Prince's arm around the
31:55
then teenager's waist. Roberts made the same allegations against the
31:59
Prince during her since settled twenty fifteen lawsuit against Maxwell.
32:05
So this dude has been under the microscope for all
32:08
of this time, right, everybody has at the very least
32:12
gotten a whiff of what's going on, and still nobody
32:18
has forced him to speak to the authorities. So that
32:20
shows you what the royal family thinks about these survivors
32:23
of sexual abuse. It shows you what the Queen herself
32:27
thinks about these girls, and it's pretty pathetic. Sometimes you
32:34
have a defective child, and the Queen most certainly has
32:37
a defective child with Prince Andrew. Dude's head is not
32:40
right hanging out with Jeffrey fucking Epstein after he was
32:45
a convicted sex offender. Look, remember before you these guys
32:48
can make the excuse, oh, we had no idea what
32:51
he was, even though they did, right, but they can
32:54
at least make that excuse. Afterwards, Well, that excuse goes
32:58
bye bye. So there is no excuse for you hanging
33:01
out with him at that point. But Monday's hearing revolved
33:08
the less around the allegations of the lawsuit than the
33:11
proprietary of US courts to hear the case at all,
33:15
and that exactly was That was what the meat and
33:18
potatoes of today was. Will this case stand on its
33:22
own two feet here in America? Will this case be
33:26
something that is worth the court looking at? That's what
33:29
this whole entire thing was today. And it certainly looks
33:32
like the judge is signaling that Andrew better bring his lunch.
33:38
We believe that this is a baseless, non viable, and
33:41
potentially unlawful suit, argue the Prince's lawyer, Andrew B. Brettler,
33:47
a Los Angeles based attorney known for representing Hollywood luminaries
33:51
accused of sexual misconduct. Look at this cast of characters.
33:55
Armie Hammer, I mean, did his parents hate him? By
33:58
the way, who's gonna last name's Hammer? Already? Now you're
34:01
gonna name me Army dude who was bound to be
34:04
a sickle from the jump? Huh? Danny Masterson another fine
34:08
member of society, Brian Singer's gross disgusting close ass. Did
34:13
I say gross enough? And then Brett Ratner as well, Boy,
34:17
this guy has a nice stable, almost one to rival. Mister.
34:21
I kept my underpants on Dershowitz. Huh, pretty nice? How
34:25
that works? Look these lawyers. They're gonna do whatever they
34:29
possibly can to make sure that this case does not
34:32
go to trial. They don't want this in front of
34:35
a jury or a they don't want that. Everything that
34:39
they do, every move that they make, is to try
34:42
and set this up as an illegal service of this
34:46
warrant or the whole entire thing in general is illegal.
34:50
All about technicalities. You notice nobody's running around screaming from
34:54
the rooftops about how innocent Prince Andrew is. Right, where's
34:58
his legal team with a presser talking about here's this evidence,
35:01
that evidence, this and this and this is why our
35:04
client is innocent. They can't even do that. They can't
35:09
even bring that to the table and try and swing
35:11
the narrative in their way. That's how hard or pressed
35:14
they are here for the facts, and when the facts
35:17
are in short supply, it's probably a good idea to
35:22
keep you a yap shut. Robert's attorney, David Boys, insisted
35:28
that the service was proper. We've proceeded to serve Prince
35:31
Andrew in several ways pursuing to Article ten of the
35:35
Hay Convention. Boys said, and that's what I was talking
35:39
about a little bit ago. There's all kinds of different
35:41
conventions that have been signed by a treaties between the
35:44
United States and the UK and elsewhere obviously, but in
35:47
this case, specifically between these two nations. And to think
35:53
that David Boys and his team wouldn't know what they're
35:56
doing here as far as making sure all their ducks
35:59
are in a row and every things lined up correctly,
36:01
I just that that was a step too far for
36:04
me to take. I highly doubt that a legal team
36:08
such as this is not going to have everything in order, right.
36:13
So when people were talking about how it wasn't even gonna,
36:17
you know, get by the judge, the judge is gonna
36:20
get rid of it because it wasn't served correctly, I
36:23
just I had my doubts that would be the resolution
36:26
now from here. Who the hell knows, But I kind
36:32
of figured from the jump that he wasn't going to
36:35
be able to ignore this, right what I've been pretty
36:38
consistent in that messaging. He can't just ignore this. He's
36:41
going to have to face it one way or the other.
36:46
That is the treaty under which Prince Andrew disputes service.
36:49
But Judge Caplan skewered the Prince's lawyer for making matters
36:53
more complicated than they need to be. And that's the
36:56
mo of these guys right there, these high profile lawyers,
37:00
they're looking to make things way more complicated than they
37:03
need to be. The longer they can draw this out,
37:07
the more chance that the prosecution's case crumbles. That's exactly
37:11
how it always works with these guys, and that's what
37:14
you're seeing here. They want to battle over technicalities until
37:17
the cows come home. What they don't want to battle
37:19
over is truth and lies. I'm sure you know that
37:27
the Hague Convention is supplemental Caplin told Bretler, adding that
37:31
he can order service effected upon a foreign national under
37:34
federal rule for f three of the United States Code. Again,
37:41
anyone who thinks that the long arm of the federal
37:44
government can't reach out and touch you if you're in
37:47
a different country, they are sorely mistaken. It all comes
37:51
down to the will of the United States. If the
37:54
federal government wants to pressure allies into turning people over,
37:58
they're going to turn people over if they if they
38:02
want to press their allies into getting statements, they're going
38:05
to get whatever cooperation that they want. For the most part,
38:08
but the caveat is does the federal government have the
38:13
willpower to expend the political capital necessary to do so?
38:19
And in this instance, I do not think that we
38:22
will see that, right, the extra pressure, the you know,
38:27
complete tightening of the fist, if you will, because I
38:31
don't think it's going to be necessary. I think that
38:34
Andrew is in a position now, especially now, where he's
38:38
going to have to answer these charges, and all of
38:41
the technicalities, all of the loopholes, all of the slippery
38:44
slopes on Earth or in the universe aren't going to
38:48
be able to help him from the eventual reality that
38:53
the train of justice has left the station. That rule
39:00
offers wide latitude for serving a foreign person by other
39:03
means not prohibited by international agreement, as the court orders.
39:08
Judge Caplan indicated that he would likely grant that order
39:11
and is unlikely to change his mind on that front.
39:14
So Judge Kaplan is looks like he's gung ho here
39:18
on at the very least hearing all of the evidence
39:20
in this case. And at the end of the day,
39:22
that is exactly what you have to hope for. Right
39:24
It's the first step getting this through. The first barrage
39:29
of you know, anti aircraft fire that the defense is
39:33
going to throw up into the sky. And thankfully, it
39:37
looks like Judge Kaplan is seeing the bs here, has
39:40
seen the nonsense and doesn't want to deal with it
39:43
and wants to get right to the substance of the matter.
39:45
What kind of evidence do you have, Let's see it.
39:47
I'm busy, I want to go play golf. Me and
39:50
the rest of my soul called elite buddies have a
39:52
ten thousand dollars a day, a ten thousand dollars a
39:55
plate function to go to. Let's go. Let's get things moving.
40:01
So I don't think we'll see any sort of tom
40:05
foolery going on here with this. Judge seems like he
40:08
wants to streamline this and get it rocking and rolling.
40:13
The Duke of York denies the allegations. For years, federal
40:16
prosecutors in the Southern District of New York described the
40:19
Prince as unhelpful in their investigation into the Epstein case.
40:24
The district's former US attorney, Jeffrey Berman, released a statement
40:28
declaring that Prince Andrew provided zero cooperation in connection with
40:33
the matter, and when that happened, we discussed how irregular
40:38
that is. That is not the kind of thing that
40:41
the federal government usually does, especially in a high profile
40:44
case like this. What it looks like is they were
40:48
trying to leverage him. They were trying to use a
40:51
public opinion in their favor to get him to start
40:54
to yap. While it was a decent try, there's no
41:01
way that this guy is speaking to anybody at this point.
41:07
I mean, is there anybody out there listening that thinks
41:10
he's innocent of these charges? And if so, look I
41:13
would love to hear why you think he's innocent and
41:17
see some of the at least circumstantial evidence that points
41:19
in that direction. Because every path I take, every alley
41:25
I look down, every trail I traverse, I come to
41:32
the same destination. And that destination is this dude is
41:37
guilty as fuck. His successor, current US Attorney Audrey Strauss,
41:44
made a point to say that her office would like
41:47
to have the benefit of the Prince's statement when Maxwell's
41:50
charges were made public. Yeah, it would definitely help, right,
41:55
And it's another reason why he didn't give that statement.
41:59
Him and Glad and Maxwell are thick as thieves, aren't
42:01
They real close friends and they understand that their fates
42:06
are intertwined at this point, Andrew's more so than Gallan's,
42:11
because Glane's already rotting in a cell. So I would
42:16
not even think for a second that, you know, the
42:22
old princely boy here is feeling comfortable. Maxwell's criminal case
42:29
will go to trial in November inside the Southern District
42:32
of New York, the same courthouse where Roberts filed her
42:35
civil lawsuits against the Prince and Maxwell. All Right, folks,
42:39
well there you have it. Figured i'd hop in the
42:42
studio when we'd update that right now while it was
42:44
hot off the press, and then we'll move on tomorrow
42:47
morning and we'll add some meat to the bone, some context,
42:50
whatever it may be. But one thing you can guarantee
42:54
is that we will be back tomorrow morning and we
42:57
will do it all over again.