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Speaker 1: And welcome back to The Michael Cohen Show on our

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continued journey to half a million subscribers. Look, we got

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Because the insanity, the luncy, the daily chaos, we need

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to make it stop now. Yesterday the House Oversight Committee,

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they released part of the Epstein file that they received

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via subpoena from the Epstein Estate, not from the President

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or the Attorney General. From the Epstein estate. The documents

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released were from the infamous birthday book with notes from

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friends and business associates. Now, I want to show you

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the infamous letter with the drawing that seriously critically doesn't

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look like a woman. It looks more like a girl.

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Right now, I also want to show you the letter

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from a gentleman, a mar Lago member named Joel pashcal

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mentioning a fully depreciated woman. Let me show you what

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it says in it. In fact, let's let's concentrate on

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the check that seems to be the thing that everybody's

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talking about. You got twenty two thousand, five hundred dollars. Now,

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by the way, this has nothing to do with Trump.

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This was a stupid stunt by this guy pashcal with

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Jeffrey Epstein. It's to Jeffrey Epstein for twenty two thousand,

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five hundred dollars. And what it says there in the

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memo is the depreciation of a woman signed by DJ Trump. Now,

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the notion is that Trump knew about it. He does

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not know about it. He probably didn't know about it.

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It was somebody else's the whole thing. But about the

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depreciation of a woman, I want you to think about

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how just disturbing that is that anybody would even think

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that that's funny. Now, as we know, Trump sued the

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Wall Street Journal for their initial reporting on this birthday letter.

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This is what Caroline Leavitt had to say after it

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was ultimately released. The latest piece published by the Wall

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Street Journal proves this entire birthday card story is false.

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As I've said all along, it is very clear President

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Trump did not draw this picture and he did not

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sign it. President Trump's legal team will continue to aggressively

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pursue litigation. Furthermore, the reporter Joe Palizzolo who wrote this

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hatchet job, reached out for comment at the exact same

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minute he published his story, giving us no time to respond.

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This is fake news to perpetuate the Democratic Epstein hoax. Now,

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let me go on to turn around to say the following.

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First and foremost, there is no lawsuit that's there. Moreover,

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does Trump really want to be deposed on this? Is

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it his signature? I don't know. Maybe the answer is yes.

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Certainly it looks like it looks like the signature I've

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seen Donald Wright when he doesn't write his full name,

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but only his first name. More importantly, why does he

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even care? I'm going to get into that in a

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little bit presentative James Comer. He goes on air and

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claims that the Democrats are cherry picking documents. Really in it.

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He turns around and he writes, it's appalling. Democrats on

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the Oversight Committee are cherry picking documents and politicizing information

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received from the Epstein estate today. Overside Committee Republicans are

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focused on running a thorough investigation to bring transparency and

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accountability for survivors of Epstein's heinous crimes and the American people.

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President Trump is not accused of any wrongdoing, and Democrats

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are ignoring the new information the committee received today. The

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Committee will pursue additional Epstein bank records based on the

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new information we receive today, Democrats have to decide if

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their priority is justice for the victims or politics. Now,

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let me be very clear, there is so much wrong

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that's in that I can't even get into it because

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it is so stupid. It's beyond ridiculous. But you know

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who countered that Representative Rocanna who explained that the lawyers

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are still actually going through all of the files play

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the clip.

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Speaker 2: Well, candidly, the lawyers are still going through it, and

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they first looked for the birthday book. Obviously they found

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the letter that the Wall Street Journal reported on. I

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think the vice president Vice President Vance should be asked

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to retract what he said defaming the Wall Street Journal reporter.

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He said it was fake. And now we have the letter.

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And I also hope that the lawsuit will be with

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draw on against that journalist ten billion dollar lawsuit now

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that there is the letter.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, look, let me be very clear, that letter

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was found in a bound book that was in the

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possession of the estate. The argument, what are they going

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to make that it was slipped in, that it was somehow,

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you know, put in post Trump's presidency. Again, it's such

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a ridiculous argument on a document that doesn't even really say.

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This whole book doesn't really say anything. It just shows

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a It shows a proclivity by this group of elites,

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but it doesn't actually as actually, I hate to say it,

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as the previous member of Congress turned around and said,

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there is no wrongdoing here by putting out a stupid

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birthday letter. I mean, marga reps. They're out there trying

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to spin that this isn't even Trump's signature and that

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it's all forged. Now, look, I want to show you

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what Representative Tim Burchett said, But first before I do that,

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I want to show you a post explaining how crazy

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this theory is. In it, it turns around and it says,

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wait a minute. Burchett's argument is somebody used an auto

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pen to set Trump up in two thousand and three

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when he was still a i'm a crat, before he

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ever considered running for president as a Republican. Just in case,

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it's no wonder they call him the dumbest man in Congress.

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It's true. It's the stupidest tart and the fact that

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this guy is a member of Congress. Let me show

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you what he said. Play the clip.

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Speaker 3: I mean, anybody can do a signature that we've seen.

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the Biden administration. So I've never known Trump to be

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much of a of an artist either, so I kind

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of draw that into question. There's a history of him.

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The thing is, it's it's been there for four years

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and now it's just come out. I just don't do

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you think really someone might have just forged this somehow

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and somehow it's so easy to do. I just I

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just don't buy any of it right now, because it's

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we have an administrative prior administration that's had a history

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of dishonesty, and they bring something like this out now

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to why wouldn't they bring it out during the campaign.

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Speaker 4: And of course these documents were from the Epstein State,

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not from the Biden administration, but.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're from the Epstein estate. Honestly, if you're going

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to try to put a spin on this, how about

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just turn around and say it was a stupid card

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that means absolutely nothing where is shown me where the

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wrongdoing is in here with this card. In fact, there

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is so much more disturbing stuff which I write about

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in my sub stack today. There's so much more like

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from this guy Johnny Boy KOFKA, where he talks about

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how Jeffrey Epstein was brought into this world in the

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most vile, heinous, and disgusting way. If this was a

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Comedy Central roast, it would be the most vile Comedy

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Central roast ever in history. Meanwhile, of course Eric Trump,

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he had to weigh in on his father's cartoon play

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that clip.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, you know it's something also beyond all this stuff.

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The news story today is that the stupid drawing you

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know that your dad allegedly gave to Epstein. And you

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and I actually were sitting around joking about this a

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while back when it first came out. We're like, this

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is the most absurd stuff in the world. But Mike

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Johnson is like walking back. He last week he said, oh,

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you know, he was an FBI asset in the whole

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prosecution this. Then he tried to walk it back. So

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this is like the dumbest thing in the world.

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Speaker 4: I can tell you my father does not sketch out

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cartoon drawings. I mean, it's saying not to mention. Epstein's

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lawyer said he asked specifically about Donald Trump, and Donald

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Trump never once came up, and there was no correlation.

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And as ironic, given that my father was the very

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guy that threw him out of the club because he

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thought he was a scumbag, my father's intuition was actually

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incredibly right.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, first of all, there's other reasons why he

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got thrown under the club, and you know that too.

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But as I write, and I really want to bring

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up this point, if you're going to argue that it's

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not real when it was in the book with everybody else's,

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you're saying that the whole book is ay or is

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it just Donald Trump's as I wrote into it, you know,

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you got to put this into perspective of the book.

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And one of the opening letters is from a guy

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named Johnny Boykofka, one of Epstein's circle of grotesques, who

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thought that it would be hilarious to start his letter

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off by describing in truly pornographic detail the sex act

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between Epstein's parents that created him. Not a metaphor not

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vile wordplay, but an actual graphic accounting, as if writing

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a blue movie script about conception was somehow birthday card material.

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This isn't roasting, it's reveling in vulgarity, launching Epstein's depravity,

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as if the abuse was I don't know, part of

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the punchline. I mean, Kopka's bile sets the tone for

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a scrap book that reads less like a celebration and

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more like a confessional booth where predators winked at each

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other in code. Now, if that's what the Democrats are

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trying to put out there, fine, I get it. Yeah,

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Others like Alan Dershowitz that turns out and puts stuff

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in there. The only one that actually had the brains

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within which just to write, Hey, happy birthday, right Bill Clinton?

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Imagine that one? Now? Mind you? Representative Jasmine Crockett, she

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went on CNN talking about how the White House denied

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even the drawings existence. Play that clip.

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Speaker 6: I mean, it's hundreds of names, as you know, on

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the drawing itself. The White House has denied that the

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drawing existed. They denied that it was Trump's signature. Tonight

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they are denying it, saying that releasing it is proof

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that it's not his signature. I mean, we showed obviously

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examples that mirror it. What do you make of the

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White House's defense here?

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Speaker 7: The fact that the president is a liar, He's consistent.

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I mean, that's all I really got for you.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, let me be clear about something. Here's

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the problem, and again I know Trump better than all

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these people combined. It actually looks like his signature. I've

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seen it, especially as I said before, the ones when

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he signs only his first name. The part that's puzzling

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to me is why deny it at all? Given that, again,

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his page in the book is tame. It's actually tame

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compared to the vile and the graphic entries from others

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like the one I just read to you from Kafka. Meanwhile, again,

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while all this is going on, right, Crockett also goes

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on and she reiterates the point that we've all been

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saying that this letter does not directly implicate Trump, but

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the continuing of the denial, denying its existence just makes

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him look guilty. Play the clip.

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Speaker 6: Do you agree that even if that is his signature,

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having his signature on the letter doesn't constitute any wrongdoing

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or a leaf.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 7: I think the biggest issue is the fact that he

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cannot be honest about it right, Like the while I

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because it doesn't implicate, right, but the fact that you're

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lying makes it look like, what else are you lying about?

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Those are the questions that we have if you'll lie

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about your.

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Speaker 1: Look, she's not wrong. I don't understand it myself. Now. Lastly,

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I also want to end on a clip from Todd

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Balanche's interview of Gallaine Maxwell, where she says that the

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letter doesn't exist. Well, I wonder now if that constitutes perjury.

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Play the clip.

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Speaker 6: We talked to minutes ago about this birthday book that

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they're impress about.

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Speaker 1: I understand you don't remember.

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Speaker 6: Anything with President Trump or a lot about the book anyway.

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Do you remember asking President Trump to submit a letter

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for that?

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Speaker 1: I do not really really think about even the way

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that they asked the question. Look, I want to finish

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it by saying, as I finished to my substack this

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birthday book. It's a grotesque artifact. It also proves what

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we already knew. Epstein's crimes were not secrets. They were celebrated, mocked,

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and shared in plain sight by men who thought themselves untouchable.

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Now the roast is over, survivors deserve the reckoning, and

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until Pambondi, based upon the Trump statements, unlocks her desk,

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releases the entire unredacted file well, I just say that

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we Americans, we just remain complicit in the punchline. It's

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nothing funny here and as always, thanks for listening. Hey everyone,

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