Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. After years of tough talk, after years of
saying that they cared about Epstein and what Epstein was
doing and the crimes he was committing, the Republican led
Congress has decided that they'd rather go on vacation than
force a vote on releasing the Epstein files. But according
to Speaker Johnson, it's more important for the administration to
have some space than it is for us to know
anything more about Jeffrey Epstein. So for anybody out there
thinking that these people cared about you, that these people
cared about what Jeffrey Epstein was up to, they don't.
And this is what I've been telling you for years now.
The only time either side cares about what happened with
Epstein is when they think they can make political hay
of it. But if there's no political points to be scored,
none of these people are anywhere to be seen. Up
until a few weeks ago, a lot of the people
on the left, especially people on the left and leaders positions,
acted like Jeffrey Epstein was just some big Magle hoax,
like it was Pizzagate, or like it was the wayfar situation.
But now miraculously, when they feel like they can make
some political inroads here, all of a sudden, Jeffrey Epstein's
all they can talk about. So for those of us
who have been following along, it comes off as disingenuous
as hell. And during the Biden administration, we never heard
shit about Jeffrey Epstein, even though Biden's own CIA director
had ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Even though we brought in
Bill Richardson to go and work on the Britney grinder situation,
nobody had anything to say. But now, all of a sudden,
all these people are experts, and all of a sudden,
everybody wants transparency. If you want a transparency so bad,
why didn't you call for it for the past four
years or how about the four years prior to that,
or the four years prior to that. See where I'm
going with this. A lot of these politicians have been
in office for how long, so for them to act
like this is something new is super disingenuous. And that's
really where my beef is. If these people really cared,
they'd be talking about the survivors having a committee with
the survivors coming up and talking about what they know,
but instead we get political grandstanding and more delays. Today's
article is from CNN and the headline Johnson shuts door
on House vote before September on releasing the Epstein files.
This article was authored by Manu Raju, Sarah Faris, and
Alison Maine. Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday said he does
not plan to allow votes on any measures related to
the Jeffrey Epstein case in the House final week in
Washington before a week long recess, despite intense pressure from
some of his own GOP members to go on the
record on the issue. Well, of course he's not going
to call the vote. This man is in lockstep with
Donald Trump and everything Donald Trump wants and says. It
doesn't matter what the other members want, It doesn't matter
what the constituents want. It only matters what Donald Trump wants.
I guess. Some of President Trump's most loyal supporters in
Congress have been pressing party leaders to allow for a
vote to show that they support transparency around the Epstein saga,
an issue that continues to animate the magabase, even as
Trump has repeatedly sought to blame Democrats for fanning the flames. Yo,
I am anything but a Democrat, and anyone who's ever
listened to this podcast knows that in about five minutes.
But I'm certainly not one of these died in the
wool maga folks either. Where Donald Trump can do no wrong.
The guy has never been wrong in his life. Everything
he does is better than everybody else. In fact, he's infallible,
and if you criticize anything, he says, well, you're just
a crazy lib. That's the kind of bullshit these people
are trying to push these days, and it's not gonna
work because, like I was saying in the previous episode,
Donald Trump won that election not just by maga votes,
by creating a coalition, and a lot of people in
that coalition are disillusion now, and a lot of it
has to do with the situation we're talking about right
now with Jeffrey Epstein the House forcing the Trump administration
to turn over materials against its will would represent a
remarkable rebuke of the President by his base, but the
push has shown little forward momentum among the party's leadership
on Capitol Hill because it's all about politics. Can't give
anyone any inroads here. The last thing you want to
do is give your political opponents some ammunition. See the
problem though, and the reason why neither side will release
these documents is because it's mutually assured destruction. They both
understand what's inside of those documents. They both understand, meaning
both sides of the aisle, and they both understand how
devastating it will be to their narrative. And that's why
these documents in these files are never going to come out,
and that's why nobody has ever released them up until now.
And the biggest problem with Donald Trump is he ran
his big fat yep talking about Epstein, this and Epstein
that he's going to release this, He's going to release that,
and now that he's in a position to do so,
he falls directly on his face. And this whole entire
situation is a problem of his own making. This could
all go away tomorrow if they would just release the documents.
And that right there should tell you just how damning
these documents are. That Donald Trump is willing to risk
this whole entire fiasco to keep them secret. And I
think that's a bigger part of the story that needs
to be talked about a little bit more. Johnson told
CNN on Monday the full House would not vote on
a pending measure from members of his own party, a
non binding resolution calling for the release of additional Epstein
files before the Chambers August recess, which is slated to
begin at week's end. These people get more vacations than
anybody imagine working in Congress and living the life that
these people live. Show up to work a few hours
a day, have a few votes, get on Twitter, talk
some shit, go home, enjoy the benefits of being a
congressman or a senator. Meanwhile, the rest of us go
into the store and wondering how the fuck we're paying
for groceries. But sure, enjoy your little recess, buddy. My
belief is we need the administration to have space to
do what it's doing, and further congressional action is necessary
or appropriate, then we'll look at that. But I don't
think we're at that point right now because we agree
with the president. He said, well, yeah, he doesn't want
to miss out on the next UFC fight. He wants
to make sure he stays in Trump's good graces. Who
cares if people who are hurting children and young women
get a pass? No big deal. And considering that Congress
has its own slush fund that they use to pay
for all kinds allegations made against them using your money.
By the way, is anybody shocked that they're trying to
protect other predators as well? I'm not, and from the
reaction I'm seeing from people, most of you aren't either.
As part of the deal to approve the White House
Recisions package last week, Johnson reached in accord with GOP
holdouts that allowed the House Rules Committee to advance that
non binding resolution calling for the Epstein files release. But
it's unclear if that measure will make it to the
House floor. With Johnson firmly standing behind Trump on the matter,
there is no daylight between the House Republicans the House
on the President on maximum transparency, Johnson said, adding that
Trump wants all the credible files on Epstein to be
released and asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to produce grand
jury testimony related to the case, and all of that
is in process right now. This is nothing more than
a stall tactic. I told you from the jump, that's
what they're doing. They know that the process is arduous,
and they know that it's going to take a long
time for a judge to make a ruling one way
or the other and then go through all the files.
So let's kick it down to the court and let's
try and blame them. Oh, the court's taking a long time.
The court doesn't want to release the files, and that'll
be their excuse. We can't release this because the court
told us no. Still, a bipartisan group of House members
led by Kentucky Representative Thomas Massey, is seeking to circumvent
Johnson and force a vote on a separate bill calling
for the release of the files. Massey will need a
majority of House members to sign on to what's known
as a discharge petition to force a floor vote. That
measure wouldn't be considered by the full House until after
Labor Day at the earliest if Massey is successful. Johnson's
leadership team has been privately signaling that they would not
bring up any Epstein measures this week. Two Republicans familiar
with the matter told CNN, now they have much bigger
things to talk about, right, much bigger things to do.
Ten House Republicans have now signed onto Massey's measure, a
level of GOP support that would trigger a full vote
by the GOP controlled House on the measure if all
Democrats supported it as expected, but don't expect a new
tranch of documents to immediately be made public. And these
Democrats that are out here talking about, yeah, let's get
on board, let's get this released. Great, but I don't
think they truly understand what's inside of those files. And
in the words of Nancy Pelosi's daughter, some of our
faves are gonna be caught up. All vote to compel
the full House to consider the effort can't come until
after Labor Day at the earliest, when lawmakers return from
their five week summer recess. What are they high school kids,
here's an idea. No more five week breaks. Keep your
ass in DC and get to work. That procedural maneuver
requires seven legislative days before House lawmakers can formally collect
the necessary signatures. Once they prove they have support from
two hundred and eighteen members, it would force party leaders
to bring it to the floor. Trump's Attorney general is
asked for Grand Jerry material to be made public, which
also is likely to be a slow moving effort and
one that requires court approval. But the Massi and Connor
of measure goes significantly further. Requiring the Trump administration to
release all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials related
to Ebstein within thirty days. Yo, I'm all for that.
Let's get it all out there. Let the chips fall
wherever they fall, and whoever gets caught up gets caught up.
It would also require the White House to release a
list of all government officials and politically exposed persons named
or referenced in the release materials, a list that Trump's
base has been demanding. So what's the problem here. All
of a sudden, you don't want it. All of a sudden,
you don't want any information about Jeffrey Epstein, and we
should just move on. Sorry, you kick the door open.
Now we're walking in Conna. Previously told Jay Tapper that
he would deliver all two hundred and twelve Democrats on
the measure. While men Democrats previously decry the promotion of
conspiracy theories about Epstein, they have in recent days pushed
for a greater transparency, arguing Trump is trying to protect
himself and aiming to further drive a wedge between Trump
and his base. And that's really what it comes down to.
They're just trying to sow seeds of discontent. The Democrats
don't really care about this. Anybody thinking they do is
being hustled. They care about politics, they care about optics,
they care about winning seats. They care about getting Trump
into a position where he's playing defense. That's all they
care about. But guess what, we can utilize that fake
outrage to try and muscle our way in and get
some of these documents released. So if they want to
be useful idiots and help us get these documents released,
then so be it. But I promise you they're not
gonna like what's in them. With all the Democrats behind
the effort, ten Repblicans would be more than enough to
meet the necessary two hundred and eighteen threshold. Along with Massey.
The Republicans already on board are Representatives Marjorie Taylor Green
of Georgia, Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Eric Berlason of Missouri,
Lauren Bobert of Colorado, Jeff Vandrew of New Jersey, Eli
Crane of Arizona, Corey Mills of Florida, Tom Barrett of Michigan,
Max Miller of Ohio, and Nancy Mace of South Carolina.
I think momentum will build for transparency. I don't think
this is going away, Massy told CNN on Monday. And
I think when we return in September, will get phase
two of the Epstein files. Boy. I hope so, and
I fully support mister Massey and his efforts. But I
also think that we're dealing with an uphill battle. I'm
not naive. I know that the powers that be they
don't want this information out there. The move, of course,
could end, as many things in Congress do, with a
lot of talk but little corresponding act. Last week, Republicans
held a vote to approve a nine billion dollar package
of spending cuts to foreign aid and public broadcasting, something
Trump wanted. As they debated what to do on the
Epstein case, they settled for the non binding resolution calling
for the release of additional files, which doesn't immediately force
any action, and to which Johnson has been noncommittal. What
a coward. Mike Johnson's a straight up coward, Just another
one of these talking heads that talks the talk but
refuses to walk the walk. Even continued talk of the
Epstein case, though, is likely to irge Trump. Over the weekend,
the President seemed to acknowledge the intractability of the subject,
as he noted he had ordered the release of grand
jury material. With that being said, and even if the
court gave its full and unwavering approval, nothing will be
good enough for the troublemakers and radical left lunatics making
the request. It will always be more and more and more,
maga Trump brot in his truth social platform. What does
that even mean? Sounds like the ramblings of a madman.
More and more and more. How about some sum sum
Nobody asked you for the grand jury documents? That was
your idea. Don't try and act like everybody's been out
here clamoring for that and you decided to just you know,
give it up. What you're doing is stalling. Just release
the document to be done with it. Either that or
prepare for more criticism, because it's certainly coming. But a
chorus of conservatives and moderate Republicans, including some of the
president's closest allies like Green, ratcheted up their demands for
the release of more information on Monday. Good for them.
Not everybody has to walk and lockstep with a president,
especially when he's wrong. And folks, I'm telling you right now,
when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein. Donald Trump is wrong.
People want the information, they don't want things covered up,
especially when it comes to the most well known convict
pedophile in modern day history. Green told CNN noting that
the highest volume of recent constituent calls to her office
have been about Epstein. Good for you, folks, keep calling,
keep the pressure on, and look, we're not asking for
anything crazy, just whatever documentation you have for an investigation
that's already closed. They've given up the documentation on MLK,
They've turned over a bunch of stuff on John F. Kennedy.
Why not Epstein? The case is closed, right, nothing left
to see here? So what are you protecting and what
are you hiding? Because the previous mattro was, oh, well,
this is an ongoing investigation and we can't give you
any information. Then it was a national security issue. Now
nothing exists and there's no documents for us to see.
And if that's the case, then they've been lying about
the information this whole entire time, saying that it was
national security, saying that it was an ongoing investigation, when
in fact no files even existed. So either way, you
chi they're lying to you. The question is which liar
you willing to accept. Responding to Trump's frustration with even
his own supporters for not moving on from Epstein, Green
said she really likes Trump and thinks he's a great
pulse on things, but on this issue, the American people
really want to see transparency. I think sunlight's a good medicine.
Representative Don Bacon, a Swing district Republican who recently announced
his retirement, concurred, telling CNN he would vote for a
standalone bill to press the administration to release more Epstein information.
I think there's too much conspiracy theory and it's just
better to put light on it. And that's what it
should be. A standalone bill. Let these members of Congress
vote on the merits of this information alone. Don't try
and pack it with other nonsense. Don't put any pork
in it. Standalone bill. That way, you don't give anybody
an out. Nobody has any excuse. Well, I didn't vote
for this because such and such was at it to it. Nope,
nothing added to it. Standalone bill. Do you or do
you not support the release of Jeffrey Epstein information, Yes
or no. Bacon said that he thinks the Trump administration
misled Americans into believing there was more to the Epstein case,
adding it's a good lesson for everybody. It's better to
keep your powder dry and don't speak until you've got
the facts. The problem is Trump has the facts. He
was president already, They already knew what was in the files,
and they still went on talking all that bullshit he
happened in yapping on the campaign trail about Epstein this
and Epstein that. So, no, we're not going to forget
about it, and nobody's moving on. Release the files. If
that happens, then we can talk about moving on. But
until then, sorry. The Justice Department announced earlier this month
that there is no Epstein client list, even after Bondy
teased having that information on her desk and that the
accused sex trafficker was murdered in jail. The Nebraska Republican
noted that Congress has oversight authority, and those who are
interested would have an opportunity to question Bondi when she
appears before the committee's overseeing the Department of Justice. Oh,
that's gonna work out. She's gonna have a lot of
answers for everybody, right, because you know, Pam Bondi is
so trustworthy when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein, especially, I
just put all my faith in Pam Bondy and the
current administration to give us the truth. Are there really
people out there who say that, now, after all we've
just witnessed after this historic meltdown over Jeffrey Epstein, people
really think they're gonna get transparency? And people really think
that Barack Obama's gonna be arrested or that anybody who
was involved with that Steele dossier in any regard is
gonna go to prison. You really think that's gonna happen,
And miraculously we just start talking about that again when
the Epstein files are dominating the news. Seems like a
classic case of wagging the dog. But that misdirection doesn't
work around these parts, because we're going to continue swimming
through all that muck looking for the clarity. All of
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in the description box. What's up, everyone, and welcome to
another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. Yo. Step right up,
ladies and gentlemen, and behold the greatest show in Washington,
the Congressional Traveling Circus. The lights are bright, the cameras
are rolling, and the performers are praying at full volume
about how they these fearless defenders of the innocence are
here to save the children. Watch as they pound podiums,
clench their fists, and deliver fiery sermons about pizza parlor dungeons,
ikea wardrobes, stuff with toddlers and satanic elites sipping adrinochrome
cocktails on secret islands. They howl like prophets in the desert,
warning us of a shadowy cabal that only they can see.
Their voice is trembling with foul conviction. It's theater, pure
and simple, a morality play perform for television cameras and
fundraising blasts, and the audience, hungry for heroes, claps along,
convinced that the loudest prayers must also be the bravest.
After all, who else would dare to call out the
demons supposedly lurking in every Pepperoni pizza. Who else would
draw battle lines against haunted furniture and demonic memes. The
lawmakers play the part of avenging angels with gusto weaving
tell so absurd they make bad pulp fiction read like
the Gospel of John. And yet this is the con
They pour all their energy into fighting phantoms because phantoms
can't fight back. But then comes the test. Then comes
the evidence that is real, heavy, undeniable flight logs, bank wires,
sworn testimony from survivors who risked everything to speak. Now,
this is where you would think that the roaring lions
of Congress should bear their teeth. This is where the
self anointed guardians of innocence should rise up and prove
their words have weight. Instead, this is where the transformation begins.
Their thunder collapses into murmurs, their fists on clench, their eyes,
dart nervously towards donors, colleagues, and lobbyists. Suddenly the brave
warriors look less like gladiators and more like children caught
cheating on a test. And it happens every time. Face
with ghosts, they howl like profits. Face with predators in suits,
they mumble like interns caught in the wrong meeting. They'll
rage for hours about pizza ovens and haunted wardrobes. But
when the names of real institutions, real executives, real enablers
at the table, Suddenly it's complicated. Suddenly more time is needed.
Suddenly the guardians of morality are too busy protecting themselves
to protect a single child, And so the curtain rises
on the ugly truth. These aren't guardians, They're performers. Their
battle cry of protect the children is not a mission,
but a marketing strategy. It's a brand, a bumper sticker,
a slogan polish for TV spots and town halls. Their
supposed war against evil is just another act in the
endless play of politics, loud, distracting and utterly useless when
the real monsters step into the light. So let's talk
about it. Lawmakers love nothing more than braying like circus
donkeys about saving the children, as though they've stumbled upon
a satanic Scooby Doo plot inside a chuck e cheese.
The spectacle is always the same, faces, flush, red, voices
cracked from overhearsed outrage, microphones practically melting from the heat
of their supposed moral fury. Oh, they shriek about pizza
parlors doubling as child dungeons, about IKEA catalogs concealing dark secrets,
about Wayfair bookshelves arriving with three toddlers tucked inside the packaging.
They summon images of elites and cloaks, drinking adrinochrome cocktails
on mythical islands as though they themselves are starring in
a low budget horror flick, and every time their followers
cheer like they've been handed the script to revelation itself.
But here's where the curtain gets yanked back. The instant
actual evidence shows up. Their thunder collapses into the squeak
of a balloon, losing error, survivor testimony, financial records, flight logs,
court filings with real names. Suddenly, these warriors of innocence
lose their tongues. They shuffle their papers, stall for time,
mumble about jurisdictional hurdles, and look for the nearest exit.
The pizza goos vanish in a puff of smoke, and
so does their courage. The heroic posturing shrivels faster than
a campaign promise. After election day, we got guys out
here like Tim Burchett, Bless his heart, one of the
most consistent characters of them all. This dude rides around
on his skateboard and roar with old testament fire about
shadowy cabals, wagging his finger at demons only he can see.
But ask him about tangible evidence or about the billion
dollar institutions that actually move the money, enable the crimes,
and protect the abusers. Suddenly he's blinking like a deer
on a six lane highway. Watching the transformation is almost
slapstick Rambo one second, Ned Flanders the next. This shit
would be hilarious if it weren't nauseating. And then, of
course we ought Mike Johnson, my man who treats protect
the children like it's a bumper sticker that he can
slap on everything from speeches to press releases to fundraising letters.
He delivers his lines with the smarmy sincerity of a
Christmas movie, full of heartwarming phrases and empty promises. But
when pressed to take on the ugly reality the power brokers,
the banks, the very system that allowed abuse to flourish,
he collapses like wet cardboard. More time is needed, he mutters,
More time to do nothing, More time to protect donors,
more time to polish excuses, while children are left to
rotten silence. Theatrics are always safer when the enemy is imaginary.
Pizza ovens don't have lawyers, Ikia Furniture doesn't bank roll campaigns.
Demonic memes can subpoena Congress. That's why lawmakers love to
fight shadows. They carry no risks. Point out a real name, though,
or a real boardroom with power, and suddenly the flames
of justice fizzle into nervous laughter. It's almost as if
these crusaders aren't crusaders at all, but props in their
own puppet show. And look, the spectacle borders on absurdist theater.
They charge onto podiums like wrestlers in a rigged match,
flexing for cameras, snarling about demons, promising despite the evil
lurking under your local strip mall. The crowd roars, the
donor's cheer, the headlines right themselves. But when the lights
come up and the monsters are revealed, they're not wearing
horns or capes. They're wearing our Moani suits. They're sending
campaign checks, and they're sitting just a few doors down
the hall. Suddenly are conquering heroes retreat backstage, whispering excuses,
waving their hands and pleading for patients, And what fills
the void is the echo of hollow outrage. The phrase
protect the children becomes less emission and more a slogan
costume jewelry for political cosplay. They put it on for
photo wops, wear it to town halls, flaunt it at rallies,
and then stuff it back into the drawer. When confronted
with something heavier than a sound bite. At the first
whiff of actual accountability, these mighty warriors collapse like scarecrows
in a thunderstorm, loaded stuffed with straws, and incapable of
holding up under pressure. Now, the cost of their cowardice
isn't theoretical, it's measured in human lives. Survivors who speak
out are left screaming into a void while lawmakers chase
pizza shop phantoms. Every hour wasted on phantom tunnels beneath
suburban restaurants is an hour stolen from investigating real predators.
Every meme inspired hearing is another smoke screen shielding billion
dollar enablers who keeps getting untouched, and effectively they become
thieves of time, and time is one thing that the
survivors don't have the luxury of wasting. Yo. The hypocrisy
is galling. Years ago, when people actually doing the work
pointed to Epstein, Maxwell Wexner and the financial networks that
shielded them, the same lawmakers ignored the facts, They smeared investigators.
They basically spat in the faces of survivors. Now with
evidence unavoidable, once again, they're the moral crusaders, hoping the
public's memory is as short as their attention span. We're
talking about gas lighting at a national scale, and the
hearings are less about justice and more about performance. One
shrieks about Satan hiding in a pizza box, another warns
about IKEA closets doubling as child coffins, and not a
single one addresses the Wall Street bankers who process predator
money like it was just another Tuesday. The clowns take
their bows, the cameras cut away, and the ring masters.
Those with real power, laugh all the way to the bank.
Like Scrooge McDuck, ask what truly frightens them, and it's
not the demons they invent with so much flair. It's
the thought of standing up to someone who can actually
hurt their careers. Shadows are safe enemies, donors, lobbyists and
judges or not. So they flinched, they deflect, They drown
their cowardice and excuses about process and time. The goal
is for justice not to die with a bang, but
with the committee hearing all these big mouths puff up
like action heroes, full of bluster and brimstone, roaring about
shadows and the balls. But the second that reality knocks
on the door, they shrink in the mall cops patrolling
a food court, plastic badges, plastic authority, plastic courage. Now,
make no mistake, they loved to role play being warriors,
but the real battlefield terrifies them. They don't want justice,
they want applause. And the patriotism they wrap themselves in
is just camouflage for fear. Scratch the surface of all
their grand standing and you'll find not conviction but terror.
Terror of lobbyists, terror of donors, terror of career ending
headlines that cut too close to home. Protect the children
isn't about the kids. It's about protecting themselves. And nothing
makes that clearer than their endless refrain of more time.
And we all know that their favorite magic trick is misdirection.
Shout pizza often enough and maybe the public will forget
about stealed depositions and Jeffrey Epstein scream cabal loud enough,
and maybe no one asks why plea deals keep being
handed out like Halloween candy, wave around the specterru of demons,
and maybe no one notices the predators shaking hands with
power brokers in plain daylight. It's a con, and they
run it with all the grace of carnival barkers selling
snake oil, and like all snake oil shows, the collateral
damage is real. Survivors get lumped in with lunatics, Real
evidence is dismissed as conspiracy fodder. Genuine investigators are mocked
his cranks. The line between truth and fantasy gets blurred
until the only people who benefit are the very monster is.
Congress tends to fight, and make no mistake about it.
It's not just negligence we're talking about here. We're talking
about sabotage. When pressed, when the spotlight burns too bright,
they don't roar, They hiss, They slither. Fork tongue's dart.
Excuses multiply, and cowardice drips from every syllable. If you
want to know why predators keeps getting free, look no
further than the serpents in suits, too busy protecting their
hides to protect a single child. It's disgusting this charade
they build. They've taken crimes against children the most horrifying
reality imaginable and turned it into a fundraising gimmick. Protect
the children is an a vow considering their behavior. When
it comes to Epstein, it's obviously just a bumper sticker,
a T shirt slogan, a chief slogan for campaign rallies,
while the real work of justice rots in a lock
filing cabinet. Every speech these brain clowns deliver is another betrayal.
Every slogan is another stab in the back of survivors.
Every fake perform pformance of outrage is another signal to
predators that the system still has their back. So remember
this every time they thunder about saving the kids. Their
enemies are imaginary, their fury is staged, and their courage
is counterfeit. When the real evil shows up, these brand
donkeys aren't warriors, They're collaborators. They don't protect children, they
protect the system that destroys them. All of the information
that goes along with this episode can be found in
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