WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:02.919 What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the 2 00:00:02.960 --> 00:00:08.199 Epstein Chronicles. Alex Acosta recently appeared before Congress and gave 3 00:00:08.359 --> 00:00:11.240 his version of events when it comes to his role 4 00:00:11.919 --> 00:00:16.120 in Jeffrey Epstein's non prosecution agreement, and according to reports, 5 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:20.920 alex Acosta didn't show any kind of empathy, any kind 6 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:25.679 of regret that this Plea deal was initiated in the 7 00:00:25.719 --> 00:00:29.559 first place. And that's because alex Acosta is and always 8 00:00:29.559 --> 00:00:33.840 will be an absolute coward. You want to talk about 9 00:00:33.880 --> 00:00:37.679 somebody that was built to be a yes man, to 10 00:00:37.759 --> 00:00:41.000 be the fall guy, you're looking at him. Because as 11 00:00:41.079 --> 00:00:45.399 much as I find alex Acosta to be reprehensible, I 12 00:00:45.439 --> 00:00:48.640 don't hold him directly responsible for that Plea deal. And look, 13 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:51.039 I know that goes against the narrative that Julie K. 14 00:00:51.200 --> 00:00:54.359 Brown pitched, but I don't agree as far as alex 15 00:00:54.399 --> 00:00:58.799 Acosta's role, Like I always say, he was middle management, right, 16 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:01.439 he wasn't the guy really pull in the strings. He 17 00:01:01.560 --> 00:01:04.000 wasn't the guy behind the curtain. And what's the best 18 00:01:04.040 --> 00:01:07.840 evidence for that. Well, now we're talking about alex Acosta, 19 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:12.200 and we're not talking about Mukasey and Phelipe because when 20 00:01:12.239 --> 00:01:14.719 you cut away all the fat of the bureaucracy. Those 21 00:01:14.719 --> 00:01:17.640 were the two people who were in charge. There was 22 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:21.560 nothing like this happening without those dudes signing off, especially 23 00:01:21.599 --> 00:01:24.599 considering who we're talking about here, when we're talking about 24 00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:28.840 Jeffrey Epstein. We've already seen the proof, don't you remember 25 00:01:28.840 --> 00:01:32.120 in the OIG report itself, where they talked about how 26 00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:35.840 Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers reached out to Maine Justice to get 27 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:38.599 a deal and to get things worked out. What do 28 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:41.120 you think they're talking about. They most certainly weren't talking 29 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:43.760 about the weather. They were figuring out how to make 30 00:01:43.799 --> 00:01:47.280 the best deal possible to keep everything quiet and make 31 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:50.280 sure that their boy and their asset, Jeffrey Epstein, was 32 00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:53.359 able to keep it moving. And please make no mistake, 33 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:56.599 alex Acosta didn't have that kind of power. He couldn't 34 00:01:56.599 --> 00:01:59.599 pull those kinds of strings now in his local little 35 00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:02.920 district there with regular people. Yeah, the brass on the 36 00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:06.159 seventh floor isn't going to worry about a case that 37 00:02:06.319 --> 00:02:09.639 alex Acosta brings against a regular person. But once you 38 00:02:09.639 --> 00:02:12.000 flip that script and they start getting calls from the 39 00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:14.840 kind of lawyers that they were getting calls from Well, 40 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:20.680 things change, and that's not speculation, that's fact. Today's article 41 00:02:20.719 --> 00:02:24.240 is from CNN and the headline former US attorney defends 42 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:27.039 Epstein's two thousand and eight plea deal in hours long 43 00:02:27.080 --> 00:02:30.319 appearance on Capitol Hill. I cannot wait to get my 44 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:33.240 hands on these transcripts, and of course, the same way 45 00:02:33.240 --> 00:02:35.479 we're going through the Bill Barr transcripts, we're going to 46 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:37.919 go through these ones as well, because I can only 47 00:02:37.960 --> 00:02:40.520 imagine what this slinky spine son of a bitch had 48 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:46.360 to say. This article was authored by Annie Grayer, the 49 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:49.800 former US attorney who negotiated a controversial two thousand and 50 00:02:49.840 --> 00:02:53.000 eight plea deal with Jeffrey Epstein. Defended that agreement in 51 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:56.719 a closed door meeting with House investigators on Friday. According 52 00:02:56.759 --> 00:03:00.599 to democrats in the room, I cannot even imagine how 53 00:03:00.599 --> 00:03:04.080 you could defend that non prosecution agreement. And furthermore, the 54 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:06.159 DOJ CO get rid of that thing tomorrow if they 55 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:09.199 really wanted to. They don't want to. They have no 56 00:03:09.319 --> 00:03:13.280 desire to remove the MPa because if they did, that 57 00:03:13.479 --> 00:03:16.479 is the quickest way to unravel everything that happened here. 58 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:19.960 You start bringing in people like Sarah Kellen Leslie Groff 59 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:23.280 and putting the screws to him. Watch how quickly everything 60 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:26.879 starts to tumble, And watch how quickly that amnesia leaves people. 61 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:30.080 Nobody's trying to go away for forty to fifty sixty 62 00:03:30.159 --> 00:03:34.360 years on a rico charge. Certainly not these people. It's 63 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:37.879 very clear that alex Acosta ran a deeply flawed investigation 64 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:42.159 of the Epstein case. Representative Robert Garcia, the top Democrat 65 00:03:42.199 --> 00:03:44.919 on the panel, told reporters during a break in the 66 00:03:44.919 --> 00:03:48.439 meeting he also would not admit that mister Epstein received 67 00:03:48.439 --> 00:03:52.960 a sweetheart deal, which has been widely reported and agreed upon. Now, 68 00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:55.560 if you can't even admit that fact, then I don't 69 00:03:55.560 --> 00:03:58.759 even know what to tell you. Because it's relatively apparent 70 00:03:58.800 --> 00:04:03.319 to anyone who is in blind and moronic that this 71 00:04:03.560 --> 00:04:06.159 was the deal of a century, the deal of a lifetime, 72 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:08.960 the deal of one hundred lifetimes. Nobody else has ever 73 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:11.360 gotten a deal like this, But all of a sudden, 74 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:15.240 this degenerate fuck comes storming in and gets this great deal. 75 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:18.720 We're gonna need more from you, alex Acosta. Starting with 76 00:04:18.759 --> 00:04:23.800 an explanation. According to a readout from the panel, Acosta 77 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:27.120 expressed concern over the hours long testimony to the House 78 00:04:27.160 --> 00:04:30.879 Oversight Committee that had prosecutors lost a trial, it could 79 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:33.720 have sent a message that the late convicted sex offenders' 80 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:39.000 crimes could continue. Imagine that bullshit. Meanwhile, the sentence he 81 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:41.839 did catch he was still molesting girls while he was 82 00:04:41.839 --> 00:04:46.120 supposedly locked up. So Alex Acosta up here talking this 83 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:50.439 bullshit is something else. This is a man that really 84 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:53.519 has a lot of audacity, a lot of gall to 85 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:55.240 get up here and say this kind of shit. A 86 00:04:55.319 --> 00:04:58.839 key issue in the US Southern District of Florida's handling 87 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:01.279 of the case was we whether it should be prosecuted 88 00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:05.319 federally or locally? He said, per the readout, I mean, 89 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:07.639 why would you want to prosecute it locally when you 90 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:10.160 can do it on a federal level and really hammer 91 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:12.759 this son of a bitch. And for all the morons 92 00:05:12.759 --> 00:05:15.759 in the back, these were little fourteen fifteen year old girls, 93 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:20.000 so they're not adults. They can't even consent. But according 94 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:24.160 to Alex LaCosta, that shouldn't be a federal case. And again, 95 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:27.279 we're not talking about one or two. We're talking about 96 00:05:27.839 --> 00:05:31.040 over one thousand, according to the DOJ's own report, and 97 00:05:31.079 --> 00:05:36.040 we're also talking about numerous financial crimes. I'm talking about numerous, 98 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:38.680 but sure, let's kick it down to the state level, 99 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:41.399 where Jeffrey Epstein has some pull and where he can 100 00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:44.079 make things move in a direction he wants them to move. 101 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:48.759 Oh what he could do that federally as well. Yeah, true, 102 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:51.560 but not without the same level of scrutiny. And that, 103 00:05:51.680 --> 00:05:54.079 of course, is all part of it. They wanted to 104 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:57.240 keep it quiet, so keep it contained locally, as opposed 105 00:05:57.279 --> 00:06:01.120 to making it a federal case where it's nationwide. And 106 00:06:01.240 --> 00:06:03.480 it worked out great, right. They were able to keep 107 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:07.079 it quiet for how long? And then eventually when the 108 00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:11.199 floodgates opened, everybody just pointed to everybody else and to 109 00:06:11.279 --> 00:06:16.600 the system itself and said, look, everything failed, but not me. Meanwhile, us, 110 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:20.879 the citizens, the taxpayers, and the survivors are left holding 111 00:06:20.920 --> 00:06:23.279 the bag. So anyone who thinks we should move on, 112 00:06:23.639 --> 00:06:26.800 and I mean this as respectfully as possible, can go 113 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:32.360 fuck themselves because we're not moving on zero chance. It 114 00:06:32.439 --> 00:06:36.120 is time for some accountability. It's time for some answers. 115 00:06:37.519 --> 00:06:40.319 I testified for six hours. I'll let the record speak 116 00:06:40.360 --> 00:06:44.079 for itself. Acosta, the former US attorney in Miami, said 117 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:46.879 when he left Capitol Hill. Oh yeah, we'll let the 118 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:49.480 record speak for itself. Huh. Well, if that's the case, 119 00:06:49.879 --> 00:06:52.399 then not only are you a coward, but you're a 120 00:06:52.439 --> 00:06:55.600 gigantic failure as well, because you didn't stop any crimes, 121 00:06:55.600 --> 00:06:58.839 did you. You didn't stop Jeffrey Epstein from hurting anybody, 122 00:06:58.839 --> 00:07:02.800 did you. Instead, he continued to hurt people, He continued 123 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:05.759 to abuse people, and he continued to commit all kinds 124 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:08.639 of other crimes that we have no idea about. So 125 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:12.160 I have zero idea what mister Charminhart over here is 126 00:07:12.160 --> 00:07:16.160 even talking about, because he played a gigantic part and 127 00:07:16.199 --> 00:07:19.800 all these other women who got abused after this first sentencing, right, 128 00:07:20.199 --> 00:07:22.560 because if he did the right thing and he manned up, 129 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:26.120 no matter what justice said, then things could have been different. 130 00:07:27.480 --> 00:07:30.560 But that's not what he did. Instead, he got along 131 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:33.120 to get along, and he just went with the program. 132 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:36.439 Emerging from the room part way through the transcribed testimony, 133 00:07:36.600 --> 00:07:40.480 Democrats on the panel dismissed Acosta as not credible and 134 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:43.079 said they left the first round of questioning with more 135 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:47.160 questions than answers. Well that's always nice, huh. You have 136 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:50.720 this whole panel wasting tax payer dollars wasting all kinds 137 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:52.839 of time and you're not even getting the answers you're 138 00:07:52.879 --> 00:07:55.279 looking for. And that's because you're not talking to the 139 00:07:55.360 --> 00:07:57.800 right people. I've said it once and I'll say it again. 140 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:02.079 Bring in Villa Fauna, bring in Lily Sanchez, bring in Mukhesy, 141 00:08:02.319 --> 00:08:07.160 bring in Philippe, bring in all the lawyers, everybody involved, Menchel, everybody. 142 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:10.920 But no, you want to bring in Alberto Gonzalez. Now 143 00:08:10.959 --> 00:08:12.879 I know they got rid of that subpoena, but come on, 144 00:08:14.079 --> 00:08:15.680 that dude had zero to do with any of this. 145 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:18.720 And again, that's why I call it political theater. All 146 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:20.519 of this is meant to give us the illusion that 147 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:23.920 they're doing something that they care. But all that really 148 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:29.439 matters is results, and so far, like usual, we've had none. Acosta, 149 00:08:29.480 --> 00:08:32.480 they said, told investigators he didn't see sufficient evidence to 150 00:08:32.519 --> 00:08:35.519 move forward with the case, even though approximately forty women 151 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:38.399 had come forward to share their accounts of sexual assault. 152 00:08:38.679 --> 00:08:40.639 How does this man look at himself in the mirror 153 00:08:40.840 --> 00:08:44.039 and not get ill? Can you imagine being this big 154 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:46.639 of a coward, this big of a punk ass bitch. 155 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:50.279 I can't even imagine, Like, bro, have a little bit 156 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:53.039 of courage in your life? It's okay, we're gonna get 157 00:08:53.080 --> 00:08:55.480 knocked down every now and then, but life samash Pit, 158 00:08:55.639 --> 00:08:59.080 get back up and get back to it. If he 159 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:01.120 would have done the right thing and stepped up and 160 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:04.159 told his bosses at Justice Department to go get screwed 161 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:06.200 and he was going to prosecute this case the way 162 00:09:06.200 --> 00:09:09.360 he saw fit, bro would be a hero. But instead 163 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:12.799 he's just another villain and there is no amount of 164 00:09:12.879 --> 00:09:16.399 testimony or deposition that's ever going to change that. He 165 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:19.799 seems to be pretty dug into the decisions that he made. 166 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:24.039 Democratic Representative Jasmin Crockett said of Acosta, well, I agree 167 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:26.320 with that. He's not going to admit to anything. And 168 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:28.600 that's why I said from the jump, no point even 169 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:31.440 bringing him down and putting him under oath, because he's 170 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:33.799 just going to be evasive. He's just going to avoid 171 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:37.000 any serious questions and he's not going to give us 172 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:41.320 any kind of measurable information with his answers. So what's 173 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:44.240 the point. The point is to make you think that 174 00:09:44.279 --> 00:09:46.799 they're doing something. That is the whole point, and I 175 00:09:46.919 --> 00:09:49.120 want you to keep that in mind as this process 176 00:09:49.159 --> 00:09:54.240 continues to play out. Epstein, a well connected multimillionaire, avoided 177 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:56.799 a federal trial at the time of the plea deal 178 00:09:57.039 --> 00:10:00.200 and served just thirteen months in prison for stay prostitution 179 00:10:00.320 --> 00:10:06.159 charges over his involvement with underage girls, prostitution and underage girls. Huh, 180 00:10:06.559 --> 00:10:09.879 how do you square that fucking circle? Considering underage girls 181 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:14.919 can't consent? A Miami Herald investigation described the plea deal 182 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:19.080 negotiated by Acosta as the deal of a lifetime. No, 183 00:10:19.399 --> 00:10:25.919 not negotiated by Acosta, negotiated by Mukhesie, by Philippe, by 184 00:10:25.960 --> 00:10:31.080 the bosses at the DOJ. In July twenty nineteen, the 185 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:34.960 financier Pedophile was arrested and charged in connection with having 186 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:38.720 operated a sex trafficking ring. The next month, Epstein died 187 00:10:38.759 --> 00:10:42.720 by suicide, allegedly at a New York Metropolitan Correctional Center, 188 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:47.200 the federal detention facility where he was being held. The 189 00:10:47.240 --> 00:10:52.519 committee's chairman, Representative James Comer of Kentucky, however, described Acosta 190 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:55.960 as cooperative and helpful throughout his appearance. Oh, I'm sure 191 00:10:55.960 --> 00:10:59.919 he did. Does anyone really think that the GOP wants 192 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:03.440 to go any further? I mean, come on, they have 193 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:06.960 all the power at their fingertips. They're stalling that's what 194 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:11.039 they're doing. And the Democrats they're no better. They're trying 195 00:11:11.080 --> 00:11:13.799 to use this as a political football now and they're 196 00:11:13.799 --> 00:11:17.000 trying to nuke the Republicans with it, and it's going 197 00:11:17.039 --> 00:11:19.519 to backfire because what we do is we lose support 198 00:11:19.519 --> 00:11:22.399 then right people are like, Oh, it's a political hit job, 199 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:26.240 it's a hoax, it's this, it's that, when anybody who's 200 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:30.240 paying attention knows it's something much deeper and something much 201 00:11:30.279 --> 00:11:33.279 more dangerous. So as disgusted as I am by the 202 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:36.440 GOP and their cowardice when it comes to this issue 203 00:11:36.519 --> 00:11:40.320 and their hypocrisy, I'm equally disgusted with the Democrats and 204 00:11:40.360 --> 00:11:42.960 the way they're trying to politicize this after not caring 205 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:45.559 about it for all these years. Now, Look, if these 206 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:48.120 Democrats were in the trenches for all these years and 207 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:51.080 they were fighting for justice and truth, I'd be right 208 00:11:51.080 --> 00:11:54.080 there with them, shoulder to shoulder. But they've shown up 209 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:57.279 recently like some Johnny com latelies, and now they're acting 210 00:11:57.320 --> 00:12:00.600 like they've cared this whole entire time. I'm here to 211 00:12:00.639 --> 00:12:03.559 tell you they haven't. And when we used to reach 212 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:05.360 out to them, when we tried to get their help, 213 00:12:05.480 --> 00:12:08.360 they ignored us, but now all of a sudden they've 214 00:12:08.360 --> 00:12:12.000 had this big revelation. Don't fall for it. Folks, do 215 00:12:12.120 --> 00:12:14.519 not fall for it. If they really wanted the truth, 216 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:17.679 that truth would have been out a long time ago. 217 00:12:19.559 --> 00:12:24.480 Alex Acosta cooperated with our questions and today provided information 218 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:27.639 that will help advance our investigation into the federal government's 219 00:12:27.679 --> 00:12:30.799 handling of the Epstein and Maxwell cases. Comer said in 220 00:12:30.840 --> 00:12:34.399 a statement. This information will guide our next steps as 221 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:37.639 we work to bring accountability, and we expect to announce 222 00:12:37.679 --> 00:12:41.080 new actions soon. Oh okay, great new action. So what 223 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:45.039 does that mean? More subpoenas, more arguing, more calling at 224 00:12:45.080 --> 00:12:48.159 a hoax because so far all we've had is a 225 00:12:48.159 --> 00:12:51.720 bunch of words, right, and words are wind. There's been 226 00:12:51.799 --> 00:12:55.200 zero action Acosta. Comer said told the committee he never 227 00:12:55.240 --> 00:12:58.279 met Epstein nor Glenn Maxwell, and testified that he never 228 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:02.120 saw President Donald Trump's name on any document related to 229 00:13:02.159 --> 00:13:06.759 the late financier. Comer knocked Democrats line of questioning related 230 00:13:06.759 --> 00:13:10.039 to Trump during the interview, saying they were batting around 231 00:13:10.039 --> 00:13:13.840 so many questions about Trump. The members were talking over 232 00:13:13.879 --> 00:13:17.000 each other. It was all about Trump, and that's not 233 00:13:17.039 --> 00:13:19.440 what it should be about. Here Acosta's about the Plea 234 00:13:19.519 --> 00:13:22.000 deal that's before Trump. Now, if you want to get 235 00:13:22.039 --> 00:13:24.360 to the bottom of the cover up that is underway 236 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:26.600 right now, we have to get rid of this Plea deal. 237 00:13:27.759 --> 00:13:29.440 So we have to eat the elephant one bite at 238 00:13:29.480 --> 00:13:32.399 a time. Right But if the Democrats on the committee 239 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:34.440 aren't even interested in that, and all they want to 240 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:37.039 do is find some you know, dynamite to blow Trump 241 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:40.080 up with, then we're not going to get anywhere. Then again, 242 00:13:40.440 --> 00:13:44.200 maybe that's the whole last Dawn point. Acosta, who also 243 00:13:44.240 --> 00:13:47.240 served as Trumps Secretary of the Department of Labor during 244 00:13:47.240 --> 00:13:51.559 his first term, resigned in twenty nineteen amid renewed scrutiny 245 00:13:51.559 --> 00:13:54.440 over the plea deal he had negotiated with Epstein a 246 00:13:54.519 --> 00:13:58.559 decade before. On Friday, he reiterated that it was his 247 00:13:58.679 --> 00:14:01.840 decision alone to resign, According to a readout from the 248 00:14:01.879 --> 00:14:04.919 House Committee, Oh, I'm sure there was no pressure whatsoever. 249 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:07.840 I mean, you almost have to admire the blind loyalty 250 00:14:08.039 --> 00:14:10.879 that Alex Acosta has to people who really don't give 251 00:14:10.879 --> 00:14:14.519 a fuck about him. It's truly my numbing to see 252 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:18.000 because if I got thrown over the side of the 253 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:21.200 boat like Alex Acosta did, Yo, it would be fire 254 00:14:21.240 --> 00:14:24.519 and motherfucking brimstone for everybody involved. Your boy can be 255 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:27.960 petty as fuck when he wants to be. The two 256 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:30.159 thousand and eight Plea deal has come under scrutiny yet 257 00:14:30.159 --> 00:14:34.120 again amid the House Oversight Committee's ongoing investigation into the 258 00:14:34.200 --> 00:14:39.639 Epstein case. Earlier this week, testimony from FBI Director Cash 259 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:44.120 Valhalla Patel underscored how some of the Trump administration appear 260 00:14:44.159 --> 00:14:47.559 to be pointing the blame at Acosta, as the President 261 00:14:47.799 --> 00:14:49.919 and his team are being pushed by members of their 262 00:14:49.960 --> 00:14:53.120 own party to be more transparent and release all of 263 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:57.600 the Epstein case files. During his Tuesday hearing on Capitol Hill, 264 00:14:57.720 --> 00:15:01.399 Patel twice brought up Acosta on prompt, including in his 265 00:15:01.480 --> 00:15:05.519 opening statement, Yo, he's looking to do anything he can 266 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:09.159 to get the spotlight off of him. But Cash Betel's 267 00:15:09.159 --> 00:15:11.279 the one who opened his own mouth, right. Nobody told 268 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:14.080 him to talk about this, Nobody told him to make 269 00:15:14.120 --> 00:15:16.440 things up and act like this was bigger than it 270 00:15:16.519 --> 00:15:21.000 is according to him anyway. So every bit of criticism 271 00:15:21.039 --> 00:15:24.279 coming Cash Betel's way, he's earned every last bit of it, 272 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:29.759 at least when it comes to Epstein. The Oversight Panel, meanwhile, 273 00:15:29.919 --> 00:15:32.720 has been plowing ahead with its investigation into the so 274 00:15:32.879 --> 00:15:36.519 called Epstein files. The panel subpoenaed a group of high 275 00:15:36.519 --> 00:15:41.519 profile Democratic and Republican figures for information and interviews between 276 00:15:41.559 --> 00:15:45.519 August and mid October, including Acosta, and have so far 277 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:49.039 released former Attorney General Bill Barr's deposition on the matter. 278 00:15:49.879 --> 00:15:53.080 The Republican led committee has also received two batches of 279 00:15:53.120 --> 00:15:56.440 documents from Epstein's estate as a result of a subpoena, 280 00:15:56.600 --> 00:15:59.679 including a collection of letters gifted to Epstein for his 281 00:15:59.720 --> 00:16:03.919 fiteth birthday. The panel has subpoenaed the Department of Justice 282 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:07.080 for all of its Epstein related files and made public 283 00:16:07.080 --> 00:16:10.200 the documents it's received so far, most of which were 284 00:16:10.240 --> 00:16:13.639 already public in recent days. The committee also met with 285 00:16:13.679 --> 00:16:17.080 Epstein abuse survivors and is working with the Treasury Department 286 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:21.559 to turn over certain bank activity reports. The lawmakers have 287 00:16:21.639 --> 00:16:25.759 with john subpoenas for former Attorney Generals Alberto Gonzalez and 288 00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:29.600 Jeff Sessions. A committee a told CNN after both men 289 00:16:29.679 --> 00:16:33.720 stated and sworn letters that neither possessed any information related 290 00:16:34.039 --> 00:16:38.480 to the Committee's investigation into Epstein. So I had no 291 00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:41.240 idea why those two guys were being brought in anyway 292 00:16:41.919 --> 00:16:44.559 seem like some window dressing or people that had no 293 00:16:44.639 --> 00:16:48.279 idea what they were doing making these decisions. But if 294 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:50.279 they really want to get down to it, bring in 295 00:16:50.320 --> 00:16:54.919 Lily Sanchez, bring in Marie Villafauna, bring in a Philippe, 296 00:16:55.080 --> 00:16:59.279 bring in Mukhesy, bring in everybody that was involved, everybody 297 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:02.240 we've talked about at nauseum for the last six years. 298 00:17:02.480 --> 00:17:05.160 Because if you're really looking for a roadmap to justice, 299 00:17:05.240 --> 00:17:09.799 if you're really looking for a roadmap to accountability, it 300 00:17:09.960 --> 00:17:15.119 starts and it ends with that NPA. All of the 301 00:17:15.119 --> 00:17:18.200 information that goes with this episode can be found in 302 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:21.519 the description box. What's up, everyone, and welcome to another 303 00:17:21.559 --> 00:17:25.319 episode of the Epstein Chronicles. Over the past few days, 304 00:17:25.319 --> 00:17:28.839 we've been taking a look at the alex Acosta interview 305 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:32.880 with the OIG Inspectors and now that all of you 306 00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:35.319 have had a chance to listen to it or take 307 00:17:35.319 --> 00:17:38.400 a look at it, and in this episode, I'll let 308 00:17:38.440 --> 00:17:40.519 you know why I think that the whole entire thing 309 00:17:41.240 --> 00:17:45.400 was nothing more than a farce. The alex Acosta interview, 310 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:48.400 conducted by the Department of Justice and the Inspector General, 311 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:51.200 stands as one of the most glaring failures of internal 312 00:17:51.240 --> 00:17:56.799 oversight in modern prosecutorial history. It was billed as a 313 00:17:56.799 --> 00:18:00.000 serious examination of how Jeffrey Epstein secured one of them 314 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:04.279 most grotesquely lenient plea deals ever granted to a serial 315 00:18:04.359 --> 00:18:08.440 sex trafficker. In practice, it functioned as a containment exercise 316 00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:14.160 designed to limit institutional exposure rather than uncover it. I mean, 317 00:18:14.200 --> 00:18:18.519 the tone of the questioning was deferential, cautious, and strategically 318 00:18:18.519 --> 00:18:22.359 incurious from the outset. Instead of treating a costa as 319 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:25.359 a decision maker whose actions caused a men's harm, the 320 00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:29.519 OIG framed them as a passive participant trapped inside an 321 00:18:29.599 --> 00:18:35.400 unfortunate process. That framing alone doomed the inquiry. Oversight that 322 00:18:35.480 --> 00:18:40.119 begins by absolving authority figures cannot meaningfully interrogate abuse of power. 323 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:45.119 The interview was less an investigation than a rehearsal of excuses. 324 00:18:46.440 --> 00:18:50.200 It reflected a system more concerned with preserving credibility than 325 00:18:50.240 --> 00:18:55.519 administering accountability. Anyone familiar with federal prosecutorial norms could see 326 00:18:55.519 --> 00:18:59.240 the failure immediately. The OIG did not miss the truth, 327 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:05.079 actively stepped around it. Alex Acosta entered the interview armed 328 00:19:05.079 --> 00:19:08.039 with a narrative that had already been publicly rehearsed and 329 00:19:08.119 --> 00:19:13.119 politically sanitized. Bro claimed that the Epstein non prosecution agreement 330 00:19:13.400 --> 00:19:18.039 was imposed on him by circumstances beyond his control. He 331 00:19:18.079 --> 00:19:24.680 emphasized inherited cases, alleged evidentiary weaknesses, and pressure from higher authorities. 332 00:19:25.319 --> 00:19:29.200 The OIG allowed him to present these claims largely unchallenged. 333 00:19:29.799 --> 00:19:33.799 This was not ignorance, folks, It was accommodation. A competent 334 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:39.680 investigative body understands that subjects will minimize agency and diffuse responsibility. 335 00:19:39.880 --> 00:19:43.440 The OIG's job was to dismantle that strategy not validated. 336 00:19:44.160 --> 00:19:47.720 Acosta was the US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, 337 00:19:47.880 --> 00:19:51.480 not a junior assistant bound by inertia. He had the 338 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:56.039 authority to reject the deal, renegotiate it, or prosecute Epstein aggressively. 339 00:19:56.759 --> 00:20:00.519 The interview treated his authority as theoretical rather than real, 340 00:20:00.839 --> 00:20:04.119 and that choice was made in an attempt to rewrite 341 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:07.759 history in real time. And One of the most offensive 342 00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:11.240 aspects of the interview was its casual acceptance of the 343 00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:16.599 word complexity. Complexity was repeatedly invoked to excuse extraordinary departures 344 00:20:16.920 --> 00:20:21.599 from prosecutorial norms. The Epstein deal was not complex in 345 00:20:21.640 --> 00:20:26.319 any meaningful legal sense. It was unprecedented, sweeping, and deliberately 346 00:20:26.359 --> 00:20:31.160 constructed to shield Epstein and unnamed co conspirators. The immunity 347 00:20:31.200 --> 00:20:35.519 provision alone should have triggered intense scrutiny. Instead, the OIG 348 00:20:35.920 --> 00:20:39.759 allowed a Costa to frame those provisions as pragmatic compromises. 349 00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:46.359 That framing is dishonest. Prosecutors don't accidentally grant blanket immunity 350 00:20:46.480 --> 00:20:52.200 to potential accomplices. Such decisions require intent, deliberation, and approval 351 00:20:53.039 --> 00:20:56.799 at the highest levels of an office. The interview never 352 00:20:56.839 --> 00:21:00.240 forced a Costa to explain why such extreme concessions were 353 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:05.480 even considered. Complexity became a euphemism for corruption, and the 354 00:21:05.519 --> 00:21:09.000 OIG allowed the euphemism to stand. And the treatment of 355 00:21:09.039 --> 00:21:12.720 the survivors during the interview was nothing short of contemptuous. 356 00:21:13.319 --> 00:21:15.839 The Crime Victim's Rights Act was in full force at 357 00:21:15.839 --> 00:21:20.079 the time of Epstein's plea negotiation. It imposed clear obligations 358 00:21:20.119 --> 00:21:23.720 on prosecutors to notify victims and allow them to be heard. 359 00:21:24.200 --> 00:21:29.119 Acosta's office to the opposite, they concealed the deal, delayed notifications, 360 00:21:29.640 --> 00:21:33.720 and actively misled victims to prevent interference. We're not talking 361 00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:38.599 about clerical errors here, of folks, These were deliberate, tactical decisions. 362 00:21:39.079 --> 00:21:41.960 The OIG knew this, yet framed the issue as poor 363 00:21:41.960 --> 00:21:47.480 communication rather than intentional evasion, and that distinction matters legally 364 00:21:47.640 --> 00:21:51.920 and morally. The interviews language softened conduct that should have 365 00:21:51.960 --> 00:21:55.839 been condemned, and by doing so, the OIG perpetrated the 366 00:21:55.920 --> 00:22:00.440 same harm it was supposedly investigating. Survivors were it's sielined 367 00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:04.039 again in the name of institutional comfort. The interview also 368 00:22:04.160 --> 00:22:08.240 failed to grapple with Epstein's unique power profile. Epstein wasn't 369 00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:12.279 a typical defendant negotiating from a position of vulnerability. He 370 00:22:12.359 --> 00:22:17.880 was a wealthy financier with political, academic, and intelligence adjacent connections. 371 00:22:18.799 --> 00:22:21.920 Any serious inquiry would have examined how the power influence 372 00:22:21.960 --> 00:22:26.960 prosecutorial behavior. Instead, the OIG treated Epstein as an abstract 373 00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:31.680 case file rather than an active force exerting pressure. Acosta 374 00:22:31.799 --> 00:22:36.119 was never meaningfully questioned about external influence, reputational fear, or 375 00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:42.039 political calculation. The interview avoided probing whether Epstein's connections altered 376 00:22:42.079 --> 00:22:47.000 decision making, and believe me, that avoidance was not accidental. 377 00:22:47.920 --> 00:22:51.319 It reflects a long standing reluctance within the DOJ to 378 00:22:51.400 --> 00:22:55.400 confront elite influence directly. By refusing to name power, the 379 00:22:55.440 --> 00:23:00.240 OIG normalized its effects, and that normalization is the backbone 380 00:23:00.440 --> 00:23:05.240 of impunity. Equally disturbing was the OIG's handling of internal 381 00:23:05.240 --> 00:23:10.480 dissent within a Costa's office. Career. Prosecutors reportedly objected to 382 00:23:10.480 --> 00:23:14.799 the Epstein deal and raise concerns about its legality and morality. 383 00:23:15.400 --> 00:23:21.039 Those objections were minimized or overridden. The interview treated internal 384 00:23:21.039 --> 00:23:26.519 disagreement as routine friction rather than a warning sign. In reality, 385 00:23:26.759 --> 00:23:30.240 internal resistance is often the clearest indicator that a decision 386 00:23:30.480 --> 00:23:34.640 has crossed ethical lines. The OIG failed to examine how 387 00:23:34.680 --> 00:23:38.400 a Costa responded to those objections. They did impress them 388 00:23:38.559 --> 00:23:43.480 on whether dissenting voices were marginalized or ignored. That omission 389 00:23:43.599 --> 00:23:48.079 protected management at the expense of truth. Oversight that refuses 390 00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:51.880 to listen to internal whistle signals is oversight and name only. 391 00:23:52.279 --> 00:23:55.839 The interview missed on the opportunity to expose how hierarchy 392 00:23:55.880 --> 00:24:02.000 suppresses accountability and that failure speaks volumes. The OIG also 393 00:24:02.079 --> 00:24:05.359 accepted Acosta's claims that the deal was driven by fear 394 00:24:05.799 --> 00:24:11.279 of losing a trial. This argument collapses under even minimal scrutiny. 395 00:24:12.039 --> 00:24:16.640 Epstein faced multiple victims, corroborating evidence, and a documented pattern 396 00:24:16.799 --> 00:24:21.519 of abuse. Federal prosecutors routinely take cases to trial with 397 00:24:21.680 --> 00:24:26.000 far less. The suggestion that this case was uniquely unwinnable 398 00:24:26.240 --> 00:24:30.240 is implausible. The interview never forced a Costa to reconcile 399 00:24:30.319 --> 00:24:35.440 that claim with prosecutorial reality. Instead, it allowed speculation to 400 00:24:35.480 --> 00:24:39.359 masquerade his judgment. Fear of loss is not justification for 401 00:24:39.440 --> 00:24:44.119