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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the

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Epstein Chronicles. Listen, there's a certain kind of theater that

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plays out in Washington. When we've all seen so many times,

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it should almost feel routine, but somehow it never seems

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to lose its sting. Politicians thunder on the campaign trail,

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waving their fists and promising that they'll tear down the

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corrupt and defend the innocent. They wrap themselves in the

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mantle of justice as though it were a costume pulled

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from a trunk ready to be discarded. When the scene changes,

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the rhetoric is loud, the indignation rehearsed, and the applause

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lines carefully crafted to land us right. And yet when

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the stage shifts to the halls of power, when words

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are sworn into the record and actual accountability hangs in

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the balance, the volume drops. The bravado vanishes, and in

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its place comes a slick, calculated retreat into evasions and hedges.

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You know and I know that it's the classic bait

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and switch, the oldest trick in the Beltwagh playbook. Out

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on the trail. Outrage is free to sell. Outrage is currency.

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Outrage gets the cameras rolling, but under the harsh fluorescent

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lights of the Senate Chamber, outrage suddenly morphs into denial,

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as though the same facts that were once so damning

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are now somehow irrelevant or unproven. The very testimony that

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was paraded as evidence of corruption is suddenly deemed unworthy,

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not credible, unfit to shake the halls of power. And

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in that whiplash inducing pivot, you see the game for

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what it is, because make no mistake, this is not

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about discovering new evidence or reevaluating the facts. The facts

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have always been there, staring anyone with eyes straight in

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the face. This is about convenience. Outrage is convenient when

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it fills stadiums or fires up a base, when it

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makes the politician sound like a warrior for truth. But

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when that same outrage threatens to rattle the foundations of

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the very institutions at grant them the power, suddenly the

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mass slips and the outrage gets downgraded into dismissive talking points.

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It's a performance that's designed to protect, not expose. It

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doesn't matter how many survivors spoke, how many documents have surfaced,

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how many times the truth clawed its way into the

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public record. The script says, to feign moral clarity when

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it costs nothing, and to retreat into empty legalisms when

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it costs everything. And in that switch, in that very hypocrisy,

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the truth about priorities become undeniable. So when you hear

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the words, when you watch the performance, you can't help

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but ask yourself, was any of it ever about justice?

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Or was it always just another act in the long

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running play to shield the powerful from consequence. The more

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you see it, the clearer the answer becomes. And that

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right there is the backdrop to what unfolded here, a

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moment when the act fell apart, the mass slipped, and

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the hypococracy practically shouted its own name from the Senate record.

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So let your boy get this straight. Cash Valhalla Patel,

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who spent the better part of the campaign trail thundering

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about Jeffrey Epstein's crimes like he was auditioning for a

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true crime podcast, is going to now sit in front

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of the Senate and Congress and deadpan that there were

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no credible evidence Epstein traffic girls to anyone. Ha Haul bravo, Cash,

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truly Shakespearean in the art of hypocrisy. One minute Epstein

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is the boogeyman you used to rile up the base.

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The next minute, he's just a misunderstood financier with a

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taste for massages. The gall is breathtaking. This is the

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same dude who wants practically shouted from the rooftops that

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Epstein's operation was the embodiment of elite corruption. He preamed

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about it on podcasts, fundraisers and campaign stops, clutching his

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pearls about how the American people had been betrayed, But

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face with the record where words actually matter, he suddenly

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decides that survivors are not credible. That's not just a

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flip flop. We're talking about a full Olympic level backflip

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into a pool of sewage. Imagine how the survivors must

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feel listening to this dude, the guy that milked their

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trauma for political capital, dangling their pain as evidence of

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swamp corruption, and then, when given the chance to stand

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up for them, he chose to kick them in the teeth.

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It's almost as if their testimony only matters when it

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can be weaponized for applause lines, not when it threatens

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actual institutions of power. And let's not forget that Bettel

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used Epstein as shorthand for everything wrong with Washington, New York, Hollywood,

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pick a target. He had Epstein's name on his lips.

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Epstein was his prop, his rhetorical punching bag, his boogeyman

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of choice. And now now Bettel is suddenly the arbiter

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of credibility, dismissing sworn testimony as though it's gossip overheard

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in a nel salon Homie, give me a break. Chasm

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almost writes itself Cash battel, defender of truth and scourge

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of the elites, until, of course, defending truth means standing

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behind women who actually testified about being trafficked. At that point,

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Cash folds like a cheap hand of cards in Las

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Vegas at two AM and three hundred milligrams of edibles. Suddenly,

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the man who never missed an opportunity to moralize about

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Epstein on the stump is just another government mouthpiece pretending

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the record doesn't exist. What happened to all that righteous indignation? Cash?

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Where did all the fire go? Was it misplaced in

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some senate cloak room before your testimony? Or was it

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always a stick a way to rile up crowds while

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never actually intending to confront the real machinery that enabled

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Epstein's crimes. You know the answer is obvious. It was

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theater all along. And here's the thing, My mockery is

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almost too kind for this. Pateel's hypocrisy isn't just embarrassing,

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it's disgusting. He turned Epstein into a campaign prop and

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then turned his back on survivors the second his word

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might inconvenience the powerful. He's like the dude that rails

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against pornography in public, but behind the scenes he's out

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here acting like Chuck Rhodes. And the survivors, I can

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promise you they're shaking their heads. They've listened to Betel's

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fiery stump speeches where he condemned Epstein as a monster,

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and they might have thought, finally someone gets it. Instead, well,

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they get the same old baitens, which we got by

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another operator whose loyalty lies not with them but with

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protecting the system. And considering all that we've seen, he

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didn't just fail them, He used them. Cash didn't even

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bother to deny that there was evidence. He said there

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was no credible evidence. That weasel phrase is a lawyer's trick.

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It's not about the absence of facts. It's about branding

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facts inconvenient to your narrative as unreliable translation. The testimony

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of women who survived Epstein's trafficking ring doesn't count because

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it doesn't fit the script anymore. But let's be real.

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If Bateell truly believed Epstein never traffic girls to anyone,

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then why did he spend so long beloviating about Epstein's

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network in the first place. Did he not read the depositions,

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Did he not see the settlements JP Morgan and Deutsche

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Bank paid out? Did he miss Maxwell's conviction? Or does

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he think that all of that just happened in a vacuum.

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Maybe Epstein traffic girls only to the air molecules floating

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around Little Saint James, and it's like being on an

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acid trip on the campaign trail. Epstein proves the corruption

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of the elites in front of Congress survivors. Oh sorry,

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not credible? Yoh? Which is it? Cash? Either Epstein was

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a monstrous trafficker who catered to the powerful, or he

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was just some lonely guy with a massage fetish. You

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can't have it both ways. And here's where the sarcasm sharpens.

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Cash Bettel is not stupid. He knows exactly what Epstein

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was and what survivors testified to. He knows the record

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is full of corroboration. But in the arena where accountability

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lives Congress, in the Senate, he chose to discard truth

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for spin. He chose to discard survivors for expedients. He

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chose the cover up over the victims. Let's pause and

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appreciate the irony of a man who wants promise to

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drain the swamp now acting as a swamp creature's defense attorney.

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If Betel had shown up in a pinstriped suit with

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epstein legal defense embroidered on his lapel, the performance couldn't

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have been more obvious. My man wasn't speaking to Congress.

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He was speaking to the powerful man trembling at the

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thought of what those unsealed documents might show and for

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what to look like, the royal soldier, the man who

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can be trusted to tow the line and bury inconvenient truths.

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This shit is the oldest game in town. Pretend survivor

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testimony doesn't exist, label it as not credible, and hope

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the public drugs and move on. Spoiler, the survivors aren't

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moving on, and neither are we. And look, wish this

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mockery didn't right itself, but it does. Cash. You built

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your brand on epstein outrage, and now you're back pedaling

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so fast you might as well enter the Tour de

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France and reverse. How long before you start telling us

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Epstein was just a misunderstood philanthropist who liked to fly

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friends around on his private jet for charity work. What

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Betel's testimony really revealed is this. His indignation was never

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about the survivors. It was never about justice. It was

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always about utility Epstein. The talking point was useful Epstein,

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The scandal with consequences, well, that shit's dangerous. Ptel isn't

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brave enough to confront the latter, so he hides behind

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the farce of no credible evidence. The congressional hearing exposed

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the truth, but not in the way Patel hoped. It

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showed that Cash Patel is no warrior for justice, no

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defender of truth. He's a man willing to use the

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pain of survivors when it serves them and discard them

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when it threatens them. He is hypocrisy and car it.

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So let's mock this shit for what it is, a

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performance of cowardice. Cash Betel wants the loudest voice condemning Epstein,

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now's the quietest shill for his enablers. Survivors are left

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once again as a powerful circle the wagons, while the

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Lord of Valhalla plays his part in the cover up

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chorus history. You won't forget this pivot, Cash, The hypocrisy

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is too glaring, the betrayal too loud. You went from

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crowing about Epstein's crimes to sneering at survivor testimony. And

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when the record's written, and you better believe it will be,

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your name's going to sit where it belongs among those

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who chose cover up overtruth. All of the information that

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goes with this episode can be found in the description box.