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Speaker 1: Let's go places, come back to the Epstein chronicles. Today,

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proceedings inside of the courtroom were cut short after one

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of the prosecutors came down with some kind of illness. Now,

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Judge Nathan says that the illness was not COVID related

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and that they will resume with proceedings tomorrow. So what

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I thought we would do today is go back to

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the vault and pull out an article that talks about

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how the media, the legacy media, whitewashed this whole entire

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story until Julie Brown came around. And I saw a

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lot of media types today being indignant talking about how, oh,

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there is so much coverage of this Galolean Maxwell trial.

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And I've heard people parrot that same stuff. But you're

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not going to gaslight me. I know what I see

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in front of my face. I know what's on the TV. Look.

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For instance, I very rarely watch the cable news stations

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very rarely, and if I ever do, it just happens

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to be I'm in passing and I might stop on

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one to see what kind of nonsense is being spit

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out of their mouths. But today I went there on purpose,

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right after I saw all the indignant journalist types complaining

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that people were saying that there wasn't as much wall

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to wall coverage of this trial as there were four

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cases such as Writtenhouse or even when Gabby Patito was missing.

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So when I went to CNN, Today, MSNBC, and Fox,

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they were all playing the same exact thing, Bob Dole

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lying in, stayed at the Capitol. And now, no disrespect

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to mister Bob Dole, but do we really need all

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three major news stations broadcasting the same exact thing some

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guy playing the bagpipes or whatever. I don't think people

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are understanding what wall the wall coverage is. Wall the

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wall coverage means, wall the wall coverage, all of these

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talk shows on TV panels, experts coming in and out

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discussing things, prosecutors, ex prosecutors, FBI agents, you know, like

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they do for all of these other cases that move

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the political needle. Now, on the flip side of that,

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I won't sit here and act like nobody's covering this

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or like there's no journalists on the ground covering it.

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That's not the case. There certainly is, and there's a

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lot of people doing really good work. But to act

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like this is getting wall the wall coverage. That's that's disinformation.

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We all know what wall the wall coverage is. And

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if that was the case, and this was wall the

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wall coverage, it would be on every single station. There

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would be fifteen to twenty minute segments on all of

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these talk shows about it. Well, you don't see that.

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So now when we talk about the print media, the

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print media has covered this case, there's no doubt about that,

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but it hasn't been the big outlets. It hasn't been

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the so called legacy media. In fact, like we're going

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to hear in this article, the legacy media was busy

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whitewashing the whole entire Jeffrey at Epstein escapade for years

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and years and years and years. So now that the

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trial is here, they're going to show up and start

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patting themselves on the back like they've been the vanguard.

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Just ask the survivors themselves what they feel about the

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legacy media. And again, don't get it twisted. I'm not

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talking about the actual reporters for the most part, who

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are trying to put these stories together and bring the news.

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I'm talking about the decisions that are being made in

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editorial rooms and by these absolute moron who are in

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control of these news stations. Is it not obvious what

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they try to do, what they're attempting to do every

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single time they have one of these, you know, big

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stories that they latch onto. But yet when there's a

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story like this Epstein, Maxwell, there's no interest in them

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digging deep. And then you have people like the jurors

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or some of you or just stumbling upon this story

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just recently. Don't you feel like the legacy media failed you.

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Isn't it their job to provide information about what's going

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on in the world that's impactful to you. You would

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think that that's what they should be doing, right, But

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that's not the case a lot of times. And as

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we all know, the narrative basically is controlled by a

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handful of people, and for these people, it's all about

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what kind of clicks they can get, and the best

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thing for them is divisiveness. Keep pumping out that rage porn,

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and meanwhile they're neglecting to educate people on very important

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stories such as this. So since we don't have anything

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to really go over as far as transcripts, or there's

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not even any really news to get to as far

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as updates of things that we might have missed, so

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I thought that we would jump into this article instead.

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And this article is from two thousand and nineteen and

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it's from the Guardian. The author is Ed Pilkington. Headline

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Jeffrey Epstein, how the US media, with one star exception,

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whitewashed the story. When Julie K. Brown of the Miami

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Herald approached a former police chief of Palm Beach, Florida

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in two thousand and seven, hoping to get him to

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open up about his investigation of the child sex crimes

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for which the wealthy financier pedophile Jeffrey Epstein had been

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fleetingly jailed a decade earlier. She was surprised by how

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unresponsive he was. Well, when you have dealt with the

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nonsense that Michael Ryder dealt with, when you have dealt

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with a legacy media that doesn't have the courage to

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go after somebody like Epstein, of course you're going to

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be a bit hesitant to deal with somebody coming to

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you from the legacy media. Michael Ryder told Brown he

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had been down this road many times and was sick

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of it. As Brown recalled in a WNYC interview last month,

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Ryder said he had talked to many reporters and told

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them precisely where to find damning evidence against Epstein, but

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nothing ever came of it. He was convinced that a

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lot of media had squashed the story, and he is

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fed up. She said, so again, Look, this is not

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me telling you this, right, and that's why I use

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these articles when we have these discussions, so you know

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I'm not just sitting here making up some wild nonsense.

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The fact of the matter is the people who were

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involved in this, people like Michael Ryder have said this

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over and over again that the legacy media had zero

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interest in diving in here. And that's a tragedy, isn't it,

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Because if they would have done their job right, if

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they would have listened, the voices were there, the stories

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were there, but they didn't have the willpower. And a

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lot of that, again has to do with the scumbags

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who are running these editorial rooms, the people who are

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making these decisions at the top, And who do you

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think that they're palaing around with at the country club.

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They're paling around with people like Jeffrey Epstein, So why

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would they want stories or why would they want to

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run stories of about their friends writer Warren Brown, that

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what would happen were she to continue digging, somebody is

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going to call your publisher and the next thing you know,

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you are going to be assigned to the obituaries department.

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And that's was the the mo right, That's what these

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guys were up to. Anytime there was any digging into

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Jeffrey Epstein or his behavior, he would respond by hiring

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security to go after you. In fact, he had security,

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private private investigators going through the trash of the police.

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Even so when we talk about this runs deep, this

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isn't you know, just that's not hyperbole, right, This is

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a guy who really had no boundaries when it came

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to keeping his activities out of the public eye, and

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he was never, ever, ever above trying to intimidate and

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threaten people. Brown did not heed his warning. She flung

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herself at the investigation and eventually persuaded Ryder to go

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on record. Her resulting award winning three part series last

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November exposed a vast operation in which eighty potential victims

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survivors were identified, some as young as thirteen and fourteen

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at the time of the alleged abuse. She persuaded eight

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to tell their stories. Now, think about that, all right?

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Eighty just eighty from this one expose that Julie K.

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Brown did. One lady right, one fantastic reporter who you know,

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dug deep here and got this story out there for

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people to see. But one person. You mean to tell

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me that the New York Times, the Washington Post, et cetera,

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et cetera couldn't have ponied up resources to dig deeper here.

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This has ever everything that they usually love, salaciousness, politicians, celebrities,

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you name it, the story has it. So again, I

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have to ask myself, and I'll ask you, why wasn't

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the big dogs in the legacy media willing to go hard?

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Brown also exposed a government cover up in which Epstein

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got away with an exceptionally light sentence that saw him

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serve only thirteen months in jail. She discovered that a

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non prosecution agreement had been negotiated secretly in two thousand

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and eight, then by the then top federal prosecutor in Miami,

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Alexandra Acosta, that gave Epstein and his co conspirators immunity

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from federal prosecutor, from federal prosecution. And to add a

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little more context there, sure it was Acosta who was

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the man on the ground, right, he was the quote

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unquote point man. But do you really think that had

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some attorney, federal attorney prosecutor from Florida, from Miami, has

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the ability to push this kind of prosecution on his own,

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this kind of indictment when you have somebody who has

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the ties that Epstein had and obviously the friends that

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Epstein had, of course not so Alexander Acosta, spineless worm

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that he is, was certainly the fall guy here when

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in reality, why weren't all eyes moved to Mukeesi who

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was the acting Attorney General at the time. His office

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had to sign off on this, and then when you

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go look at the paperwork, it shows you exactly who

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signed off on it. So it wasn't just a costa

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in a vacuum making this decision, right, But there's no

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doubt that he was a spineless worm. And if you

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had this kind of information in front of you, and

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your bosses from DC were pressuring you to not go

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after them federally and instead punk the ball to the state,

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which never happens in cases like this for the most part,

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wouldn't you say to your bosses, screw you. I'm going

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to become a whistleblower. At this point, we're not you know,

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we're talking about the most heinous of crimes, thirteen and

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fourteen year old kids. And then this guy gets this

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kind of immunity deal. And then it comes out later

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on that during this time where the negotiation between Acosta

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and Epstein's lawyers is going on about this immunity deal,

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well a year's worth of those emails just happened to disappear,

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just added to the coincidence box, just like the evidence

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from the first alleged suicide attempt at Epstein, just like

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the videos. Just coincidences, right, That's all it is. In

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twenty seventeen, Acosta was appointed by Donald Trump as Labor Secretary,

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a post that ironically is responsible for combating second trafficking.

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So again, Acosta, worm spineless, should have never been in

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that position because he obviously showed that he was a

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coward when he didn't stand up to Mukasey and the

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Department of Justice when they try to make him punt

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this ball away and serve it up to Krisher instead.

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So he is another coward, right, and he shouldn't be

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in a position that deals with human trafficking. The media

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is handling or mishandling of The Epstein affair is a

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story of extremes. It is a heartwarming success story of

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how one intrepid reporter pierced the veil of secrecy and

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found the truth. Brown's coverage has had consequences. Epstein was

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arrested remember this is from twenty nineteen last Saturday, and

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indicted on new sex trafficking charges by New York prosecutors

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who praised her work. In the fallout, Acosta was forced

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to resign. And now we know all of the other

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people who have fallen in the wake of this, at

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least professionally speaking for some of them, Glenn Dubin, Les Wexner,

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Leon Black, Prince Andrew We know that obviously Glenn Maxwell's

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on trial, Jean Luke Brunell is rotting away in a

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jail and of Paris as we speak. So there definitely

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has been some fallout here. But don't you question how

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it took Julie Brown to do this. The investigators in

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New York, they had a meeting in twenty sixteen with

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some of the survivors and the lawyers. They declined to

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pursue charges. Then even but all of a sudden, Julie K.

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Brown has this story, breaks this story, and now they're interested.

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Now the prosecutors are praising her work. You guys have

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had a mountain of evidence as high as Mount Everest

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that at least started when Maria Farmer called you clowns

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and told you what was going on, and none of

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you wanted to listen. So again, great job by Julie K. Brown.

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One of those you know jobs that I was talking

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the ground doing journalist work. Right now, the rest of

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these clowns in the legacy media, they had access to

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all of this, especially the ones in New York. The

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ones in New York are they cracked me up the most.

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epicenter of the world of information, and they want us

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to believe that they had just overlooked what was going

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on with Epstein. They just missed all of this. You

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know what, lies of a mission are still lies. But

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there is also a less cheerful narrative. Why do the

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police chiefs appeals to the media fall on deaf ears?

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Why would so many years pass before the shocking extent

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of Epstein's crimes and the costa sweetheart deal. Muchesi and

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acosta sweetheart deal were revealed by a local newspaper with

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severely limited resources. And again I ask you where the

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New York Times, Where was the Washington Post, Where was

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the La Times, the Chicago Times, any of these outlets

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with a tremendous amount of resources. None of them were around.

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In fact, the two extremes of the story are directly linked.

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Brown told w NYC one of the reasons she began

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looking into Epstein was that she was puzzled about the

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public silence surrounding him. There really was nobody pursuing this

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at all, she said. That was one of the things

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that intrigued me about this case. Why isn't anyone standing

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up and screaming facts? And it's one of the main

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reasons that I got interested in it as well. When

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you look at it, not only is it the absolute

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depravity that was showed by Epstein and his friends towards

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the treatment of these girls, but the way the government

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conducted themselves and the way the FBI conducted themselves. For me,

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that's what got me interested in this case. Originally, was

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the government malfeasance that was obviously taking place. That silence

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stretches all the way back to two thousand and three,

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when Vicky Ward wrote a profile of Epstein for Vanity Fair.

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During her reporting, she was introduced to a mother and

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her two daughters from Phoenix, Arizona, who alleged Epstein assaulted

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the girls, one of whom was sixteen at the time.

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Ward told The Guardian she spent a lot of time

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with the family discussing whether they should go public. They

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were frightened, she said. The mother told me that every

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night when she walked the dog, she looked over the shoulder,

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over her shoulder. Eventually the women agreed to go on record,

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Ward said, and when Epstein was told about their accounts,

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he went berserk. Epstein had already threatened to get a

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witch doctor to put a curse on wards on unborn children. Again,

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this isn't fantasyland. This is the kind of shit Jeffrey

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Epstein was into. It is a very weird dude, folks,

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a very weird dude. She was pregnant at the time

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with twins. And now we can't paign to stop Vanity

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Fair publishing the allegations. Even turning up unannounced at the

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office of the then editor Graydon Carter. Publication was delayed.

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Then Ward was told paragraphs of the abuse of the

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women had to be deleted. And again right there, that

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should stop you in your tracks. What sort of journalist

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does that? Oh, you're gonna lose your job? Who cares?

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I mean, really, you go find another job. You bring

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your story to another editor and I'm sure they'll run it,

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but instead decides to go along, get along, to go along,

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so you can, you know, continue to climb that ladder

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of success, right of personal and professional success. Doesn't matter

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that girls were being abused, doesn't matter that the people

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that they're talking about here were living in fear of

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their lives, as long as you still got a job. Right.

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I was extraordinarily upset, she said. I asked the woman

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what they were doing, what they were going to do,

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and they said they would lick their wounds and retreat,

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as this was exactly what they feared would happen. Should

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that ever be the case, ask yourselves that should we

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have a legacy media where a guy like Jeffrey Epstein

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is moving the dial like that? And if you think

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he's the only one you are sorely mistaken. It is

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absurd that this story wasn't told for this long. Ward

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believes Carter caved under Epstein's pressure. She recalls confronting the

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editor about the excised paragraphs and said she has a

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note in our archives that has Carter saying, I believe them.

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I'm Canadian. So it comes down to uh, he said,

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she said, right, And I'm sure what Vicky would say

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is well, he was the editor and that's fine, and

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I dig that I can okay, perfect, But are you

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working there as an indentured servant. You can't bring your

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story elsewhere? And that's really the rub for me. You know,

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there's always a choice, right, and sometimes it's a shit choice.

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Sometimes it's a choice that might come with a lot

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of personal sacrifice or professional steps back. But at what

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point do you say to yourself, not only do I

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have to respect my craft as a journalist, but I

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have to respect these girls who are abused. And as

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a reporter, the onus is on me to report this.

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And I think way too many of these folks have

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forgotten that. Way too many of these folks that are

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in the legacy media, they want to be the story.

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And I guess that comes with that hefty, hefty salary

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that all of them are getting to sit around and

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read off teleprompters. Carter remembers events very differently. In his account,

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there were legal issues around the women's stories that prevented publication,

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most significantly significantly, that the women themselves were unwilling to

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go on the record. Yeah, since that really matters now, Huh.

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How many nameless sources have we seen in the past

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five six years? And I'm talking huge blockbuster stories. Whole

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entire narratives have been framed around anonymous sources. We bitch

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as Graydon Carter too scared to go for the go

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for the kill here, too scared to run this story.

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We all know why they were running in the same circles.

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They had the same homies. One quick phone call, Hey,

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you know what, We'll make sure this goes away, Old Jeffy,

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old boy, don't worry. Make sure I can come to

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your next Edge dinner. In a statement to The Guardian,

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Carter said I respected the work Vicky Ward did at

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Vanity Fair, but unfortunately her recounting of the facts around

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the Epstein article is inaccurate. There were not three sources

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on the record, and therefore this aspect of the story

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did not meet our legal and editorial standards. Oh that's

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such bullshit. Wow. We could go through literally one hundred

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and fifty stories at this point of gigantic international and

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national narratives that have been crafted by people who wouldn't

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go on the record. But now what it has to

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do with Jeffrey Epstein and a story of sexual abuse.

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Now it's you know, we can't go off the record here.

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It's legitimately laughable, and they wonder why nobody trusts them.

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Ward says she had document documentary evidence that shows the

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women were emphatically prepared to go public, including fact checkers

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and legal emails to Epstein from Vanity Fair asking for

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his response to the allegations made by both sisters. The

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Guardian spoke to the mother of the girls, Janie Farmer.

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She said that all three did speak to Ward in

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two thousand and three and told her on the record

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what Epstein had done, including allegations he had invited her

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youngest daughter, then sixteen, to his new Mexico ranch and

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molested her. And now we're obviously talking about Maria Farmer

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and Annie Farmer. We're gonna hear from Annie Farmer tomorrow.

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She's going to give testimony. But Julie, I mean, Vicky

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Ward really did the Farmer sisters wrong and dirty, and

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to be honest with you, it's straight trash. So I mean,

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she could say whatever she wants, but this is a

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matter of public record, right, this is something that happened.

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She had the story. Let's look at the facts. Okay,

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you add the story, Vicky Ward, you and your company

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decided not to run it. Those are the facts. All

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of the other stuff, well, words are wind. Okay. I

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was hesitant to go public because I worried about the

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safety of my daughters. By that point, I didn't trust

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Jeffrey at all, Farmer said, But I did want him

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to be exposed. She said she recalls vividly agreeing with

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Ward along with her daughters, for their stories to be

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told in her Vanity Fair profile. She also said she

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recalls vividly her reaction when she learned that part of

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the piece was not to be published. I felt angry,

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she said. I felt like Jeffrey's money, power, connections, whatever

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had been put into play. Eh. No, no shit, that's

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exactly what happens. That's what they do. And over and

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over and over again. The men of always continue to

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have their foot on the throat of the children of never.

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There is another complicating element to the story. In two

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thousand and eleven, after Epstein had gone to jail, Ward

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wrote a blog post for Vanity Fair. In it, she

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used language that was strikingly uncritical of Epstein, referring to

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him as not without humor and praising him for being

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highly knowledgeable. She referenced Epstein's sex crimes as sexual peccadillos

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and referred to her two thousand and three Vanity Fair

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profile of him, saying it had alluded to his sexual

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relationships with young women, but didn't really go there, focusing

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on instead on how Jeffrey made his money breaking news.

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You did his shitty job at that too. Nobody knows

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how Epstein really made his money, And you clowns in

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the legacy media. You ain't doing anyone any favors unearthing anything.

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So Vicky Ward's whole shtick is bs folks, all right,

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that's just the way it goes. Just the facts, you know,

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And all you do is read what she says her

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own words. Epstein's crimes were sexual peccadillos. That's what you

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call assaulting young girls and saying it was prostitution. Those

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are sexual peccadillos to you. Huh boy, We certainly live

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in way two different worlds. The piece went on, this

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is not to say I didn't hear stories about the girls.

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I did, but not knowing quite whom to believe, I

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concentrated on the intriguing financial mystery instead, so basically saying

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that she didn't believe the Farmers. And the evidence for

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that is the story wasn't run. So let's just get

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down to it, right, Let's trim the fat. We don't

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need all the bs. The facts are the facts, and

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that's what they are. And Vicky Orr decided not to run,

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not to run the story, her and Graydon Carter. And

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then when you know, it came out that Epstein was

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this sick bastard that they obviously knew. Oh well, it

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wasn't my fault. Well it wasn't my fault. It's nobody's fault, folks,

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just the way it goes, nobody's ever going to be

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held responsible here. Put this blog post toward and she

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said she regretted writing it. At that point, she said

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the victims she had interviewed were not willing to talk.

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But nonetheless, this blog did not need to be written. Here,

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I am towing the Vanity Fair party line and again

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not taking responsibility. Oh it's the Vanity Fair party line. Well,

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you're the one towing it. You're the one's been towing

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it for years. They've been paying your bills, haven't they.

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But you know, I guess when it comes to stuff

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like this, it's more important to make sure you're locked

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and loaded and got your job a safe at Vanity Fair.

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My journalism benefited from hashtag me too. Fast forward to

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two thousand and seven, when Acosta reached his bizarrely lenient

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plea deal with Epstein. Let's say, when the Department of

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Justice did. Okay, let's be honest. By then, the investigators

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had identified thirty five potential victims who said they had

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been lured into Epstein's Palm Beach mansion and sexually assaulted.

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Yet records obtained by the Miami Herald showed prosecutors, led

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by Acosta, actively worked with Epstein's attorneys to minimize media coverage,

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and they were good at it. Right look, Jay Lefkowitz

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Alan Dershowitz, Ken Starr, several other people, and we're talking

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about some of the most high profile lawyers in the world.

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Jay Lefkowitz is very good at what he does, one

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of Acosta's prosecutors. One of Acosta's prosecutors wrote in an

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email to Jay Lefkowitz and Epstein lawyer on and avoid

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the press. Note, I can file the charge in district

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court in Miami, which will hopefully cut the press coverage significantly.

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Do you want to check that out? That's what the

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prosecutor for Acosta wrote to Lefkowitz, Epstein's lawyer, running it

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by him. You want to check that out? Like he

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has an option? Do you think me or you would

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have an option if we were being prosecuted. Yeah, Now

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there's no malfeasance here, man. The government was right online.

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Anybody questioning the institutions in this country is crazy. You

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conspiracy theorist. Anyone who's saying that, anyone who's saying well,

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I don't know how people question the institutions. I don't

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trust anything they have to say. They were probably the

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same people that are still trying to peddle that there

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were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. That a Costa

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felt that he had to resign on Friday was an

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indication that the collective failure of US media to grapple

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with the story of serial sex trafficking and abuse that

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had been hiding in plain sight for years no longer

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holds true. In the wake of Brown's exemplary reporting, the

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rest of the American media has fallen in line, and

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the Costa paid the price. Look, no, I guess what

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he paid the price for his own actions. Now he

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is somebody who is a small part of this, right,

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a small player. They focused on them because the media

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at that time it was politically expedient, But they didn't

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go any deeper. Right, did they tell you about Mukasey?

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Did they tell you about the Department of Justice and

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their meddling as far as this prosecution goes. Nah, they

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didn't tell you any of that, did they. That may

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be in part thanks to the me Too movement that

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had not erupted when Brown began her investigation, but did

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draw attention to her work when it was published. As

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she told MSNBC after Epstein's arrest last weekend, my journalism

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benefited from me Too as we started giving these case

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is much more scrutiny. Mary Angela Bach, Associate professor in

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the University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism, said

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hashtag me too had dented the prevailing patriarchy that had

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existed in newsrooms for decades and that had led to

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sexual crimes being overlooked as merely the way of the world.

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Me too has led to greater awareness among journalists that

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this is not okay, she said, This is not boys

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being boys. This is rape and sexual exploitation of children.

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So we're gonna give them a pass right because they

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just they were just ignorant up to that point. Sorry,

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not gonna do it. They all knew what was going on.

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George Stepanopolis, Katie Kirk, Mike Wallace, Charlie Rose, and that's

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just a few of them, all going over to Epstein's

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for a little bit of chow, little party, to hang

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out with the prince. Meanwhile, you got outlets like Vanity

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Fair who buried this story, other outlets that had no

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desire in covering it, and now some of these very

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same outlets are showing up like they're the ones who are,

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you know, the saviors of the story. Meanwhile, I'm just

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sitting back, taking it all in and shaking my head

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as these knuckleheads continue to expose themselves. All right, folks,

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that's gonna do it for this episode. So tomorrow morning

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we'll be right back at it, you know, getting ready

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for the day, discussing what might be coming next, taking

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a look at some of the headlines that might have

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cracked off overnight, and we will buckle our seat belts

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and see where the prosecution goes in what looks like

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their final days. If you'd like to contact me, you

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can do that at Bobby Kapuchi at ProtonMail dot com.

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That's b O B B Y c ap you c

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c I at ProtonMail dot com. You can also find

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me on Twitter at Bobby Underscore c A p U

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C c I. All Right, everybody, the link that we

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discussed will be in the description box as for me,