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

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Epstein Chronicles. According to the director of the FBI, Cash Bettel,

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there is no credible information that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked women

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to anybody else but himself. And just like the Las

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Vegas shooter, Jeffrey Epstein is now just a lone wolf,

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just a guy that did everything on his own. That's

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the narrative they're trying to pitch to you. That's what

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they want you to believe. And why do they want

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you to believe that? Because it's convenient politically, that's why.

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Not because they truly believe that, not because there's no evidence.

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It's because they refuse to act on the evidence that

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they already have. And what they'll say is, oh, there's

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nothing to see here. There is no credible information that

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the FBI is holding or that the FBI's in possession

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of when we all know that's a bunch of bullshit,

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And whenever he was pressed about it, he just turned

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the conversation somewhere else. Oh, look what we're doing about crime.

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Look what we're doing about insert topic here, And hey,

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that's great. I'm not going to sit here and tell

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you that you know those other stories aren't important. They are.

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Anytime we can get a human trafficker off the street,

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no matter who it is, that's a victory, right And

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I don't care who's in power. But that's not what

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we're talking about here. And although what aboutisms in the

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world isn't going to change the fact that the FBI

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is not being truthful with the American people, and the

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fact that they keep doubling down is just bananas to me.

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The fact that they keep trying to tell us that

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there's nothing more to see here when we all know

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that there is is crazy. But unfortunately they're getting away

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with it. There's really nothing anyone can do to force

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the issue. They're going to do whatever they want to do.

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Congress can play their games, they can stomp their feet

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and act the fool. But the truth is this, All

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those saying people you see in Congress right now, wagging

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their fingers, acting crazy, yelling and screaming, none of them

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could have been bothered to lift a finger during the

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original fight against Epstein. They were nowhere to be seen.

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In fact, they were calling us conspiracy theorists. And not

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only that, For all you people out there that are

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bummed about Jimmy Kimmel. Well, I hate to tell you

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what these people were doing to people like me trying

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to tell the truth about Jeffrey Epstein. I've had three

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different podcasts censored. I've been shadow band, and these lamb

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fucks even went so far as to threaten me. But

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now they're the arbiters of truth. They're the people who

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really care about Jeffrey Epstein. That shit falls flat for me.

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And look, I'm not talking about regular citizens. I'm talking

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about the lawmakers who are standing atop these ivory towers

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talking down to the rest of us like they weren't

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the ones who were in power who could have stopped

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this previously, But now they want to get up there

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and be all indignant and act the fool. So yeah,

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the whole entire thing is a circus. It's a shit show,

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and it's disgusting, from Cash Btel to the people asking

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them the questions, because the truth is, none of these

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people cared unless it was police expedient Cash Btel previously,

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and all these Democrats now, whether it's lawmakers or people

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in the media, because they had no interest in what

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was going on either, zero interest no matter what they

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could have broke stories. They could have ran the Amy

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Robock story, they could have exposed what was going on. Instead,

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they were writing all kinds of puff pieces and hanging

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out with their boy over at his house. You know,

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Katie Kork, George Stepanopolis, Charlie Rose, all these big news

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people covorting with Epstein. I'm sure that had nothing to

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do with the favorable coverage he was getting, right, So

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they can save the bullshit for somebody else. They can

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try and rewrite history all they want, and they can

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try and cast this one as a villain or that

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one as a villain, But the truth is they're all villains.

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Today's article is from People and the headline Epstein survivors

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blast FBI director Cash Battel for claiming no credible information

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financier you mean pedophile traffic women to others. This article

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was authored by Ben Brockfield. Several survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's

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abuse signed a statement on Thursday, September eighteenth, blasting FBI

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director Cash Pattel for claiming that there was no credible

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information the pedophile financier had trafficked women and girls to

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other powerful men. Well, isn't that interesting certainly goes against

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what Cash Betel was telling us for all those months

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on the campaign trail. Huh, remember how he was playing

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this all up? Oh, Epstein's this He's that Bill Clinton's

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gonna have a lot of problems. This one's gonna have

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a lot of problems. Now, all of a sudden, nothing

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happened here and everything was just a big mistake. Nobody

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was on the island, nobody was traffic, nobody was abused.

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Is that what you're telling us, mister cash Pattel. Pattel

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made the claim during testimony to the US Senate Oversight

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Committee on Tuesday, September sixteenth, remarking that despite having seen

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a good amount of the Bureau's Epstein files, there was

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an evidence that the notorious child sex predator had Ashley

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trafficked women to anyone but himself. Well case clothes, folks,

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Ragnar Patel has told us that everything is on the

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up and up. So we can all just kick back

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and relax and wait to go to Valhalla. Right, nothing

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left to see here, nothing left to do, nothing left

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to experience. We can all stand down. Cash Patel has

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the watch. Maybe he should try and be a little

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bit less. Jon snow and more. FBI director, probably a

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good idea. On Thursday, ten Epstein survivors, plus the brother

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and sister of late Virginia Roberts, said in a statement

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that they were shocked by Patel's comments. They specifically cited

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Robert's deposition in her sin settled civil suit against Clann Maxwell,

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Epstein's convicted madam, co conspirator, general, all around scumbag and

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bipedal serpent. That's what you mean, right, in which Roberts

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brought up several rich and famous men she alleged Epstein

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and Maxwell trafficked two and nothing ever came of it.

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No investigations. That's all I've ever asked for. How about

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an investigation. I'm not going to sit here and tell

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you this one's guilty, that one's guilty. The problem is

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we've never had a robust investigation, So how do we

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know what's what? We should? Just believe Cash Betel, I

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mean cool. If that's what you want to do, great,

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go for it. I'm not doing that. I need evidence,

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and the best way to get that evidence is to

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release the files. I mean, that's the simple fix that

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fixes it for everyone. If there's nothing to hide, great,

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If there is something to hide, then the people that

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are responsible not only for enabling or taking part, but

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the people who hid this information, they should be on

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the clock too. If you're getting some kind of pension,

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well that might have to go away. Why should the

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American people pay people pensions and the rest of it

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who did nothing but light of them and cause grief.

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They also brought up a claim by Representative Thomas Massey,

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Republican of Kentucky, who said it a separate hearing Wednesday

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that FBI had a list of at least twenty people

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Epstein had allegedly trafficked women and girls too, including a

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Hollywood producer, a rock star, a prince, a high profile

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former politician, and at least six billionaires compile from witness

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interviews with the bureau, and no investigations. And if you

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did do an investigation, let's see the paperwork. Especially if

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the survivor signs off, what excuse do you have? Then

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who are you gonna blame? Then at some point the

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blame game has to end and somebody has to step

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up and do the right thing. And with all the

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talk that Cash, Battell and company were doing, a lot

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of people thought that this is going to be the

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time they thought that Cash Battel and Donald Trump and

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Pam Bondi and the rest of them were gonna come

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and give that transparency that they talked about, only to

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end up not only being lied to, but being defamed, demeaned,

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and called all kinds of names because they wanted people

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to stand behind what they said on the campaign trail.

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No way, man, It's about accountability, and if you can't

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be accountable for the shit you say, then how can

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you be accountable for anything. So it's their own fault

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if they didn't run around talking about how they were

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going to release all this stuff. Sure I'd be critical,

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but nowhere near as critical. And that's because there's truth

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to what he's saying when he says the other administrations

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didn't do shit about this either. They didn't. They didn't

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do a thing, and that goes all the way back

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to the first Clinton administration all the way through. But

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that's not the topic here, is it. And I'm really

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tired about what about ism. We'll get to that later on.

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We've been talking about that for years. But right now,

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in this moment, you're the one in control of mister Pttel.

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You're the one that can change things. You could be

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a hero. Instead you turned heel and now you're the villain.

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Director Petel's testimony, he raises more questions than answers, the

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survivors wrote in the statement. For years, he's railed about

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the incompleteness of previous investigations, and he's right about that

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previous investigations were indeed incomplete. So what's his plan to

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make sure that a thorough and unbiased investigation is conducted

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at last? And is that too much to ask? Come on, folks,

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they're not asking for too much here an investigation. No

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one's asking for public lynchings. No one's asking for anybody

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to be dragged from their home and you know, brought

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to the gallows. I'm asking for a robust investigation, the

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same kind of investigation we'd all want if it was

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our daughter, or our wife or our sister. And look,

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a lot of people out there might have grown up

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differently than me, and I get that. But when I

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look at these girls, these women, now I see a

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lot of people that I grew up with. I didn't

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grow up with money. I didn't grow up, you know,

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running around in some suburbs somewhere your boy was born

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in the South Bronx, then he lived in Yonkers and

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then east side of Las Vegas. So the places I've

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lived in my life, my friends, a lot of them

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have come from broken homes, a lot of them have

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been vulnerable, and I see a lot of them in

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these girls. So maybe that's why I take it so personally,

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because these women could have easily been some of my

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best friends that I grew up with that I'm still

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friendly with today. But even putting that aside, right is

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right and wrong is wrong. An investigation is necessary, and

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if cash Bettel doesn't want to engage in one, then

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we have to go over his head. We need a

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special counsel. I've already called for that. Now's the time.

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I think that's the best way to shine some light

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on what happened here. Right, let's figure it all out,

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who was involved, when were they involved, what did they

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know and when did they know it? And then from

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there let the chips fall wherever they're going to fall. Right,

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people are going to get in trouble, so be it.

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People are going to be embarrassed, so be it. The

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survivor suggested that Bettel could release a series of witness

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interviews known as FD three to zero two's that were

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taken during the investigation leading up to Epstein's twenty nineteen indictment,

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which are not subject to the broad non prosecution agreeing

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in Epstein and his co conspirators reach with the Justice

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Department in two thousand and eight. That has to be

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the first thing that gets tackled. How many times do

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I have to say it? And you notice nobody's talking

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about the NPA and going after it and dismantling it. Right, Well,

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this is why they understand that if the NPA goes away,

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this whole entire thing gets blown out of the water.

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That's why the government acquiesced to it. They could have

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their asset blown, right, they can have his cover blown.

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They couldn't have anyone know that Jeffrey Epstein was working

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in a clandestine manner for the US government god forbid.

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Under questioning by Massy, Petel evaded answering whether the Bureau

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would release those files or whether the individual's referenced would

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be investigated or prosecuted. Asked if the FBI deemed the

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witnesses not credible, Petel said that wasn't his opinion, but

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the opinion of previous US attorneys that had investigated Epstein. Well,

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if that's not your opinion, then bring them in and

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talk to them. Just keep in mindful, folk, that Colain

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Maxwell was talked to, but not any of the survivors.

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They didn't bring the survivors in for a little fireside

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chat with Todd Baby Billy Blanche, did they? No, that

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was only for the bipedal serpent who ended up getting

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accommodations for nothing. Another thing that they need to be

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accountable for and explain. Those previous administrations are the ones

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that cash Ptel spend years accusing of a cover up,

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The statement continued, Now he will pass the buck to

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them to decide that information about other men in the

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Epstein Maxwell trafficking ring is not even worth following up on.

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There are victims and witnesses who to this day have

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still not been interviewed. Will they continue to be ignored? Unfortunately?

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I guess so. The statement signed by Epstein survivors Jess Michaels,

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Rachel Benavidez, Danielle Bensky, Margique Shartouni, Annie Farmer, Marina Leserta,

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Laura Bloom McGee, Charlene Rochard, Ashley Ruber, and Liz Stein,

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plus Robert's brother Sky and sister Amanda as head of

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the FBI Director Pttel can work now to remedy that

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in a way that finally centers survivor of voices and

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finally pursues the whole truth. The statement reads, the public

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demands it, the victims deserve it, and our system of justice,

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without fear or favor, requires it. The Justice Department did

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not immediately return a request for comment. Well, of course not.

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They're not going to say anything about this. They'll just

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ignore it and hope it goes away. The Trump administration

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has come under intense scrutiny in recent months after the

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Justice Department made a sudden about face on the Epstein files,

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from Attorney General Pambondi claiming the disgraced child molester's client

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list was on her desk to claiming it did not exist. Well,

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we all know that story, and I told you all

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the way back when people were first talking about a

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list that one didn't exist. There was never going to

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be some kind of list that was revealed that was

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going to be a roadmap to justice. That was never

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going to happen. The saga has raised further questions about

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President Donald Trump's on involvement with Epstein, with whom he

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was associated for years until a falling out. Those questions

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reached a fever pitch when Congress released a letter allegedly

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sent by Trump to Epstein for the financier Pedophiles fiftieth birthday,

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written in the outline of a naked woman, where Trump

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allegedly said that the two have certain things in common,

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that whole entire letter is creepy as fuck, and if

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it's from Trump, like they say, it is even creepier.

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Trump denied writing the letter and sued the Wall Street

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Journal for ten billion dollars after the newspaper first reported

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its existence. Epstein first faced sex crimes in mid two thousands,

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but ended up serving only a year in jail after

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reaching a controversial non prosecution agreement with the FEDS, which

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require him to register as a sex offender and plead

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to state prostitution charges. He was under a new sex

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trafficking indictment in twenty nineteen when he died in a

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Manhattan Jel cell in what was ruled a suicide by hanging.

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So look, real talk. Betel's declarative line is not neutral observation.

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It's a challenge. There's the public to accept an incomplete story,

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there survivors to accept dismissal, and there's history to forget.

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We shouldn't accept that there. We should demand documents, interviews,

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and accountability until every question has been tested in every claim,

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either confirmed or disproved in the light. Because if we

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let a single smug, politically convenient line be the final

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chapter on a scandal this large, we're all complicit in

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the erasure and to cash Betel personally, if you want

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to wear the hat of an investigator, wear it honestly.

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Don't pick and choose your credibility like you're choosing filter

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settings for a propaganda reel. Investigators ask, they pry, they release,

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They don't declare sweeping absolutes while files remain sealed and

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witnesses say otherwise. If your premise is nothing to see here,

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then the honest compliment would be to step aside and

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let actual transparency do its job. If you're committed to

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protecting the institution, fine, at least be honest about it,

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but don't dress protectionism up as impartiality. That's the sort

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of clownish theater that erodes trust and embolden's cover ups

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and so cash. Betel leaves us with a parting gift,

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the smug illusion that Epstein with some loan pervert in

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a vacuum, a one man crime syndicate, floating untethered from

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the powerful friends who lined up for his hospitality. It's

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the kind of fairy tale you tell when your job

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isn't to pursue the truth, but to protect the club,

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you know, the one, the velvet rope Society of Untouchables.

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But the record won't stay buried no matter how many

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dismissive sound bites but Tell tosses into the fire. The

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survivor of voices are louder than his denials. The evidence

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outlives his spin, and history will remember his performance for

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what it was achieved, shield held up in front of

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a crumbling wall of lies. All of the information that

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