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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. Yesterday,

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when we were talking about how Jeffrey Epstein tried to

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get his tentacles into Donald Trump's campaign in twenty sixteen,

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we were also talking about a man named Reid Hoffman. Well,

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today that's who we're going to talk about a little

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bit more at length. Considering this dude visited Epstein's island

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and then poured thousands of dollars into the Democratic Senate race.

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I mean, how many more examples do we need that

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both sides are absolutely corrupt and the fact that a

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guy like Reid Hoffman, who was obviously close to Epstein,

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is still able to just slide around without any real

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questions is bananas. And then you wonder why I say

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the whole entire political class is bought and paid for, Well,

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here it is. A guy like Reid Hoffman has no

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business donating seven hundred thousand dollars to Biden's reelection effort

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or to end any of these Senate campaign races, you know,

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like Epstein himself did with Stacy Plaskett. This article is

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authored by Jessica Chasmar, the Democrat tech billionaire who helped

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rehab Jeffrey Epstein's image and visited his island. Has poured

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thousands in donations into several vulnerable senate races across the country.

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You know, you talk about demons, people talk about the

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wef or all this other nonsense that really doesn't affect

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our lives. You know what really affects our lives people

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like Greed Hoffman, people in the financial sector who are

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literally guiding the course of our future with their donations

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to these politicians. Do you think they just give this

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money up and then they're like, oh, you know what,

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I don't expect any favors for it. Or do you

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think that this money buys them entry into the senator's office.

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LinkedIn co founder Reid Hoffman recently gave the maximum donations

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of sixty six hundred each to the campaigns of Senator

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John Tester Montana, Jackie Rosen Nevada, and Bob Casey in Pennsylvania,

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according to Federal Election Commission records. And I'll be reaching

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out to Jackie Rosen later on today to see if

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she's going to return Jeffrey Epstein's buddy's money. We'll see

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what she has to say. All three races are considered

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battlegrounds going into election day twenty twenty four And now, look,

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if he wants to donate money, fine, But the fact

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is people need to be aware that Reid Hoffman was

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somebody that was certainly in Epstein's circle, somebody who had

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been to the island, somebody who broke bread with Epstein,

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and somebody who was playing a part in Epstein's gigantic wheel.

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News of the donations came after The Wall Street Journal

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reported in May that Hoffman visited Epstein's private Caribbean island

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called Little Saint James, part of the US Virgin Islands

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on at least one occasion in twenty fourteen. Hoffman and

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the now deceased convicted pedophile were planning to return to

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the island in November of twenty fourteen and then travel

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to Boston. The report said, So not just showing up

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for dinner. They're gonna travel together. Yeah, let's go to

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the island, then we'll go to Boston. Well, what were

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you guys doing? How many massages did you get? Read Hoffman.

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It's unclear what the intent was for those planned trips,

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but the report also revealed Hoffman was planning to stay

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at Epstein's luxury Manhattan townhouse in December of twenty fourteen,

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after a late arrival in New York City. Oh, isn't

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that nice? After Epstein was already a sexual offender. Mister

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big shot money bags, who's dumping a bunch of dough

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into the Democratic Party. Ah, he thought it would be

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a good idea to go have a sleepover. And I'm

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sure that they were just discussing, you know, the local news.

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I'm sure nothing was going on that was untowards. I'm

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sure there were no massages being given. Hoffman also sent

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the maximum sixty six hundred dollars donation on June fourteenth

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to the campaign of California Democrat Will Rollins, who is

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again trying to grab a congressional seat after a narrow

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loss during the twenty twenty two elections, Fox News Digital

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reported on Tuesday. Fox News Digital also reported this week

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that the Biden Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee authorized

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by the Biden campaign, received a whopping six hundred and

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ninety nine thousand, six hundred dollars donation from Hoffman on

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April twenty sixth, and a maximum donation of sixty six

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hundred went directly to Biden's campaign. Yesterday we were talking

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about Glenn Dubin giving money to Vivid Ramaswami, and now

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on the flip side, we see the same people giving

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money to the Democrats. And you wonder why I say

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they're all in on it, And you wonder why I

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say you shouldn't be cheering for any of these politicians

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or certainly arguing with your love ones about it, because

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they don't care about you. They're both getting money from Epstein.

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None of them did anything about it, and anybody who

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says any different is a liar. Show me the proof

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that you did something about it while you were in power.

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None of them did. Oh, they all found a way

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to take money from him, though right. Hoffman recently made

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headlines after Biden attended a fundraiser the billionaire hosted on

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behalf of the Biden Victory Fund at the private residence

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of Shannon Hunt Scott and Kevin Scott in Los Gatos, California.

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Hoffman told the journal in May it gnaws Adam that

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his association with Epstein helped his reputation and thus delayed

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justice for his survivors. My last interaction with Epstein was

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in twenty fifteen. Still, by agreeing to participate in any

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fundraising activity where Epstein was present, I helped to repair

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his reputation and perpetuate in justice. Hoffman said in twenty

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nineteen for this, I am deeply regretful. And you know

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the truth. The truth is this, guys like Reid Hoffman,

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Leon Black and the rest of them, they're the reason

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we didn't see Rico here. All your favorite politicians that

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you love so much. They could have forced the issue.

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They could have made the DOJ play ball. Did anybody

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do it? And if they did, they would have found

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that all of these people that were paling around with

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egg Dick himself, they all had financial dealings with him

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as well. So if Epstein was making his money from

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ill gotten games and there was a Rico charge, everybody

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who was involved with him financially would be hit with

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the same charges. Now we can't have that, can we

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Who would pay the bills for the politicians if their

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banker buddy's got in trouble. The twenty fifteen interaction was

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when he invited Epstein to a Silicon Valley dinner with

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tech industry leaders after he was already convicted of sexual

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crimes in September that same year, Hoffman attended a state

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dinner hosted by then Vice President Biden at the White

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House in honor of Chinese President Jijinping. Fox News Digital

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has previously reported that Hoffman's money also goes into non

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traditional groups that aren't mandated to reporting their funding and

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often operate in the shadows. He was forced to issue

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an apology in twenty eighteen for funding a group that

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falsely tried to give the impression that the Russian government

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was supporting Alabama Republican Roy Moore in a twenty seventeen

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special Senate election. So just your usual typical scumbag, has

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no idea about what's going on really, but knows that

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he has a lot of money, and hell, why not

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try and get things shaded in the direction I want

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them shaded in. Meanwhile, while he's interfering in our elections,

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he's also breaking bread with Jeffrey Epstein. Why the hell

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would President Biden take money from this guy? Does anybody

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plan on asking junior Soprano Biden if he's going to

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give this money back or are we just going to

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shrug our shoulders and be like, ah, you know what,

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it's not alex Acostas, So let's move on. Biden has

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benefited from Hoffmann's lavish spending on campaign contributions, donating one

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and a half million dollars to a superpack that supported

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Biden's candidacy in the twenty twenty elections, as well as

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the maximum individual dollar amount allowed to Biden's campaign according

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to FEC records. Dudes out here throwing money at all

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kinds of politicians, And again I ask you, do you

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think he's doing that because he's a kind man and

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just wants to give him some money, or do you

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think he's doing that because he wants something on the

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back end from them. He expects something on the flip side,

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whether that's regulations that help his companies or whatever it is.

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Please don't be a naive and think that these people

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are just so politically motivated that they want to donate

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millions in millions of dollars. Once they start donating that money,

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the people they are donating that money too, understand exactly

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where the money's coming from. And now they understand that

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that person, whether it's Reid Hoffman or whoever else, well

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they need access to you now or that money's gonna

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dry up and if you don't have that kind of money,

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you don't have that kind of backing, you are not

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gonna win office in America because it's all a fucking

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scam these days, folks, It's all a scam. It's not

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about your neighbor going to DC to argue what's best

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for the community. It's about some lawyer, some doctor going

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to DC so they can increase their wealth and get richer.

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So please pass me by when you're gaslighting and talking

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about how any of these politicians are or de care

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about us, because I do not believe it. And you

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know the proof of that is my forty three years

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on this earth watching them move. Such spending can come

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with certain perks, such as access. According to White House visitors,

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Hoffman visited the White House five times last year. Remember

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Epstein visited Bill Clinton over seventeen times while he was

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in the White House. I'm sure that was just because

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Clinton loved Epstein's company, right, had nothing to do with

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what Jeffy boy was bringing to the table. One visit

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appears to have been for the state dinner with French

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President Emmanuel Macron. The other four trips were for meetings

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with Madeline Strasser, who at the time was an advisor

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to the White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, Kimberly Lang,

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who at the time was the executive assistant to Biden's

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National security advisor, and Jordan Finkelstein, a special assistant to

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Biden and chief of staff to the President's senior advisor.

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Hoffman and the campaigns for Tester, Rosen and Casey did

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not respond to Fox News Digital requests for comment. Oh,

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of course they didn't. But if it was alex Acosta,

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the legacy media would be a buzz. The bad news

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for them, meaning the legacy media and these people who

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are trying to craft narratives, is we're not gonna play ball.

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We're gonna follow the evidence and we're gonna follow the truth.

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And the truth is none of these scumbags on either

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side of the aisle give one single damn about you.

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that's gonna do it for this one. All of the

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information that goes with this episode can be found in

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the description box. What's up everyone, and welcome back to

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the Epstein Chronicles. One thing that we know is that

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all of the so called elite, basically we're in bed

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with Jeffrey Epstein at the very least, they were breaking

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bread with them. And that goes for Reid Hoffman as well. Now,

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Reid Hoffman is one of these big shots in Silicon Valley,

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another one of these gigantic bundlers too politicians, but at

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the same time was somebody that was very close to

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Jeffrey Epps and who even went to the island in

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twenty fifteen. Now, there are no allegations that have been

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made public of reid Hoffman taking part in the abuse himself,

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but the fact that he was hanging out with Epstein,

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the fact that he was on the island with Epstein,

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and the fact that he was doing all these other

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activities with Epstein should really raise some eyebrows. And thankfully

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for the shareholders at Microsoft, it started to raise those

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eyebrows a bit. And now you have people who are

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demanding that Reid Hoffman get booted off the board of directors.

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So let's dive into this article and let's see what

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news direct has for us. Headlined shareholder urges Microsoft to

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boot Jeffrey Epstein Palell from board of directors. The author

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of this article is news direct staff. In a letter

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to the lead independent director for Microsoft Corporation National Legal

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and Policy Center, has asked for the removal of billionaire

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Reid Hoffman from the company's board of directors due to

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his hyperpartisan political activities and his connections to the late

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convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, whose private island Hoffman visited in

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twenty fourteen. This should be a problem for people that

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take money from Reid Hoffman, but it won't be, you

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know why, because the legacy media refuses to dig in

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and really a report on it. This guy was bundling

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all sorts of money to all sorts of politicians. How

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much money did this guy give to Joe Biden? How

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much money did he give to insert politician here? But

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Jeffrey Epstein's funk isn't going to be on this dude.

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Why not because his politics might align with yours. And

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what's so disgusting about all of that, honestly, is that

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during the last administration, you had a whole bunch of

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people that were demanding accountability from a whole lot of

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other people. Now that the roles are reversed and their

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team is in office, that accountability is right out the window. Oh,

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there's no more accountability. It's all about holding on to power.

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It's all about making sure our guy gets elected. Meanwhile,

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Jeffrey Epstein's survivors continue to get stepped on. How do

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you think it feels to wake up, look at the

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news and see a guy like Reid Hoffman who was

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paling around with Epstein, who the survivors saw on the island,

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and now they hear that he's a gigantic bundler for

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insert politician here, that he's donating a bunch of money

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to insert cause here. I'm sure that makes them feel great,

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and maybe as a nightcap they can watch Prince Andrew

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being welcomed back to the Royal family. NLPC owns stock

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and Microsoft, and is also sponsoring a shareholder proposal at

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this year's annual meeting, which will be held on December seventh,

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twenty twenty three. LinkedIn, which was co founded by Hoffman,

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was acquired by Microsoft in December of twenty sixteen. He

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joined Microsoft's board in March of twenty seventeen. So yeah,

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this guy should go. There's no doubt that Ried Hoffman

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should be forced off the board. They're not going to

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do it though. They don't have that kind of courage,

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and there's not that kind of cry from the media.

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Imagine the outcry if alex Acosta joined one of these boards.

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It would be insane, right. But nah, Reid Hoffman, no

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big deal. Who cares that he was in bed with Epstein?

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Who cares that he gave Epstein a bunch of money?

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Not like he's ever going to be held accountable. I mean,

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look at Bill Clinton, look at Hillary Clinton. Have either

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of them been held accountable for their time with Jeffrey Epstein.

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The answer is no, And the answer is they're never

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going to be held accountable. As nlpc's Paul Chesser wrote

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in his letter to the company's top independent director, Sandra Peterson,

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Hoffman has shown poor discernment in his associations, poor judgment

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in his political and social actions, and utter disregard for

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Microsoft's reputation and shareholder value. And if you recall, we

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saw a similar thing happen over at Barclay's Edward Brampson

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went on an absolute warpath to get rid of Jess.

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He eventually was successful as well. So if I was

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Reid Hoffman, I wouldn't be too confident that this is

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a nothing burger and it's all just gonna blow over,

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because when somebody who holds a lot of shares of

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a company starts wild and out, it causes some issues,

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and you better believe the people in the boardroom start

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paying attention. Reid Hoffman's wealth and arrogance have clearly gone

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to his head, and he appears to think he doesn't

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have to be accountable to anyone, said Chesser, who is

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director of nlpc's Corporate Integrity Project CIP. Whether it's visiting

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Pedophile Island with Jeffrey Epstein, or calling the likely twenty

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twenty four Republican presidential nominee the disease President, or simply

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advising aspiring entrepreneurs to ignore your customers. Hoffman obviously would

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rather satiate his sensual impulses than properly oversee the fiduciary

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responsibilities of a major technolology company, said Luke Purlott, Associate

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director and chief researcher for the CIP. Some pretty heavily

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charged stuff. And look, if you have a bunch of

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money invested somewhere, do you want somebody out here playing games,

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running around like an activist. If I wanted to join

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a group of activist investors, that's what I would do

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when you're joining Microsoft. That's not what you're looking for.

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You're looking for a solid company that's going to handle

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their business and you're going to get a ton of

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return on your investment. Save all the other stuff for

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somebody else. In the heavily footnoted letter to Microsoft, NLPC

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pointed out three major reasons that make Hoffman unsuitable for

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the board. His close association with Epstein, his unrestrained hyperpartisan

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political urges, and his hypocritical views regarding civic participation and

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his own companies censorship practices. And I'm sure that there's

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some political animis here with NLPC, but the fact rem

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that Jeffrey Epstein's buddy, Reid Hoffman shouldn't be on the

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Microsoft board. And I don't care what his political affiliations are.

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Save that for all the other people that want to

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tear this country apart at its very seams, I won't

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take part in it. And that's because I know the

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whole entire thing is a big ass hustle. The whole

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entire thing is meant to divert your attention from the

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bullshit that they're up to. And it's sad to see

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how many people have fallen for it hook line and sinker.

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And you know now that we're going into the election

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year that the bullshit is gonna be piled on thick.

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They're going to be promising you the whole entire world.

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But keep in mind, how many of them ever fulfill

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those promises. The answer is, according to Axios, mister Hoffman

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and mister Epstein both aggressively fundraised for the MIT Media Lab,

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and mister Hoffman also inviting mister Epstein to join them

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at in August twenty fifteen dinner in Silicon Valley that

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included tech entrepreneurs Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Peter Thiel.

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You know, the thing with Elon Musk that cracks me

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up is, all of a sudden, he's some kind of

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hero for people, some kind of guy that should be,

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you know, looked at as some sort of role model.

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Bro's out here hanging out with Glenn Maxwell, paling around

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with Jeffrey Epstein and god knows how many other undesirables.

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So yeah, if you want to worship them, that's fine,

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but me no thanks. In an email to mister Thiel,

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according to The Wall Street Journal, Hoffman wrote that Epstein

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was a mostly fun, very interesting guy. You may find

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him perverse, but very smart on biology, computation, and macroeconomics.

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And because of that, it's okay that he's perverse. It's

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okay that he's a molester, that he's a human trafficker,

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because you know, he likes to have some decent conversations.

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Mister Hoffman's extremely poor judgment leaves many unanswered questions. Recognizing

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mister Epstein as perverse, how did mister Hoffman justify ongoing

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collaboration with the convicted pedophile who maintained his own luxury

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island to traffic underage girls to fulfill the sexual desires

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of himself and his associates. How could a highly educated, savvy,

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and instinctive tech billionaire agree to visit such a place

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with such a person with such a detestable reputation unless

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it was intentional showing utter disregard for his own image

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and that of the business and organizations with which he

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is identified. That is pretty much the long and short

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of it. This man knew what he was doing, just

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like the rest of them. All of the nonsense of

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I had no idea who Epstein was. I had no

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idea what he was doing. I don't buy any of that,

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and all the people that are pitching that to us,

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they really think we're stupid. But the jokes on them,

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because we're not going away. We're going to continue to

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beat the drum of justice from every damn mountaintop that

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I can get my feet on. Motiv Ai, another firm

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credited with backing from billionaire LinkedIn chairman Reed Hoffman, ran

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at through associated limited liability companies that featured offensive content

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and disinformation. Facebook pages with motive Ai associations made sexist

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comments about former Congresswoman Tulcy Gabbard and Republican mega donor

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Rebecca Mercer. One such page called Gabbard a CWILF, which

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stands for Congresswoman. I'd like to f well, that's NICEA

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Mister Hoffman could easily advocate for LinkedIn to remain open

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for all reasoned political debate, but there is no evidence

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that he does. In fact, his own history indicates that

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he encourages such snubs. As a self styled expert on

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venture capital funded startups, mister Hoffman recommends one counterintuitive business

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practice for an alleged path to success, ignore your customers.

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Is this an image that Microsoft wishes to project. NLPC

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called for Peterson to ask for Hoffman's resign and if

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he refuses to do so, then to seek his removal.

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Hoffman is listed as a nominee for reelection to the

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board on the company's proxy statement. Reid Hoffman has been

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very successful in business. Buddy has shown very poor judgment,

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said Peter Flaherty, chairman of NLPC. Wealth should not be

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an exemption from decent behavior. Microsoft will be a better

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company when Hoffman leaves the board. Well, there's that they

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didn't mince any words about how they feel and guess what,

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I'm on board. Reid Hoffman should step down and he

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shouldn't have anything to do with Microsoft. The sad truth is, though,

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that will never happen, and people like Reid Hoffman, people

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who help Jeffrey Epstein along the way by enabling him

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and by helping him to refurbish his image, are never

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going to be held accountable. And that's because you have

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a legacy media that's complicit. All of the information that

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goes with this episode, including my contact information, can be

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found in the description box QUI Lucky Lan. What's up everyone,

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and welcome to another episode of the Epstein chronicles. In

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this episode, we have a quick article from Business Insider

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talking about Reid Hoffman, and as soon as we finished

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the article up right after it, I'll have a few

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closing statements about what I think about this article and

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read Hoffman himself. So let's get right to it. Like

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I said, this article was published by a Business Insider

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and the headline LinkedIn co founder Reid Hoffman says he

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learned a lesson from a visit to Epstein's island. Note

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to self, Google before going Yeah, we all believe that, buddy.

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This article was authored by Alice Takotski, LinkedIn co founder

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read Hoffman said he wishes he'd known a little more

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before agreeing to spend the night on Jeffrey Epstein's island.

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A little bit different than just showing up to the island, right,

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spending the night and you've nothing creepy about what was

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going on? Huh okay. On the December first episode of

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Eric Newcomers podcast, Hoffman said that he visited the island

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as part of his fundraising work for the MIT Foundation

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and was told the visit would make Epstein more likely

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to donate to MIT. Bro, you have so much money.

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Why do you need Epstein to donate? And this is

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the excuse they use. And I said I'd talk about

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it afterwards, but this is ridiculous, So we have to

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talk about it now and then I'll give you my

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closing monologue as well, because this is ridiculous. I mean,

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does this guy really think we're stupid? He was just

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on this island. He didn't explore, he didn't go and

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check anything out. He didn't hear anything, he didn't see anything.

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He knows nothing. Okay, note to self google before going.

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Hoffman said on the podcast, he said he stayed on

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the island for one night and that there was a pool,

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a bunch of guest rooms and a courtyard and no women. Huh.

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No Nadia Marsenkova, no Sarah Kellen, no Virginia, no unnamed

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girl from Eastern Europe. I call bullshit. I don't believe

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that for a second. Hoffman has maintained that he only

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interacted with Epstein, who's twenty nineteen death while awaiting trial

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on sex trafficking charges was ruled to suicide, through his

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work fundraising for the MIT Media Lab. On the Newcomer podcast,

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he called Epstein a masterful networker and were called to

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twenty fifteen dinnery hosted for an MIT researcher in Palo Alto, California. Well,

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they were all hanging out together, and Silicon Valley might

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be the worst of the worst. These people, Peter Teeluh,

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the other guy, what's his name, Lucky Palmer. There's a

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whole lot of these people that really give me the willies.

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And these are the new masters of the universe. And

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we're all over here worrying about nineteen eighty four becoming

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a reality. But while we were worrying about that, these

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rotten bastards flipped the script and now it's like a

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brave new world. Hoffman said that joy Eto, formed director

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of the MIT Media Lab, asked him if Epstein could

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attend the dinner, which was also attended by Meta CEO

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Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, similar to his

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visit to the island. Hoffman said he was later told

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that the financier had said he was more likely to

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donate if he attended the dinner, So again, it's all

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about the money. We're talking about somebody who was already

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a registered sex offender in twenty fifteen so reied Hoffman

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can save the bullshit. Everybody knew what Jeffrey Epstein was

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and what he was up to, and I know it

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sounds like a broken record at this point, but it

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has to be said again. I guess he's kind of

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going through the network trying to meet people and so forth,

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Hoffman said on the podcast. Hoffman also reiterated previous apologies

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for his involvement with Epstein. In twenty nineteen, a spokesperson

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for Zuckerberg confirmed the dinner to Business Insider and said

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it was the only time the Facebook co founder met Epstein.

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A spokesperson from Musk also confirmed the Tesla CEO's attendance.

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And there's a lot of other meetings and events that

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Elon Musk was at with Jeffrey Epstein, and he still

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hasn't answered for any of that. In a twenty nineteen

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email to Axios, Hoffman acknowledged multiple interactions with Epstein, which

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he said worse strictly for fundraising purposes, and said he

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had been told MIT had vetted and approved the convicted

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sex offenders participation. He said in the email he was

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deeply regretful of the involvement. I mean that really strange credulity.

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You're one of the rich men in the world, and

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you don't google who you're dealing with. Nobody says to you, Hey, reed,

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this guy's a little bit odd. Bro. He was busted

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for so and so. I don't believe that for a second,

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because I know that when I've been invited onto podcasts,

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people have reached out to me and said, hey, do

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you know about so and so or blah blah blah,

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or I've looked at, you know, their content or whatever

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and said to myself, Yeah, that's not for me. Not

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that difficult. Right. You don't have to put yourself in

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a situation where you're associating with somebody you don't want

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to be associating with, especially when you have the kind

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of money that Read Hoffman has. Do they really need

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Jeffrey Epstein's donations? I went and kind of made a

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you know, very public apology because it was like, Okay,

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I realized this, and I'd already at that point had

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ramped down connection with them, right, so, like no meetings

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and all the rest of the stuff under any context,

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Hoffman said on the podcast. And I think he still

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would drop me an email every so often, and say hey,

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can we get on the phone. I say, oh, maybe sometime,

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which is you know, code for never, right, No, I

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don't know that never means never. Maybe means sometime, and

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it means maybe. Don't try and parts words and tell

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me what I know and what I don't know, read Hoffman.

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Hoffman said the justice for the late pedophiles survivors is

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important and urged the government to release, unreadacted, every single

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piece of intel that they have about Epstein. In November,

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President Donald Trump signed a bill that will release the

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Department of Justice files on Epstein after months of pressure

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from Congress, including some fellow Republicans. The Department has until Saturday,

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December nineteenth to comply with the order. I have my doubts.

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I have my doubts about that. But we'll wait and see.

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I don't want to be one of those black pill people,

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so we'll wait and see what happens on the nineteenth.

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But I will tell you this, I have my doubts.

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Trump has also ordered the DOJ to investigate Hoffman, along

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with other individuals he views as political enemies, including former

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President Bill Clinton and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, over

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their ties to Epstein. Well, he has the right idea

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as far as the people, but the motivations all bad,

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and that's how you end up getting a prosecution to

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be doa. And maybe that's Trump's whole entire purpose, right,

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talk all this shit and make these cases impossible to prosecute. Hoffman,

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a billionaire and major Democratic donor, has previously said that

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he had the higher security after Musk fuel conspiracy theories

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about his relationship with Epstein. All right, so that's the article.

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Here's my opinion about all of it. Imagine being a

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billionaire like read Hoffman and expecting people to take I

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didn't know it faced value. That might work for a

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guy who lives off coupons, not someone embedded in the

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most information rich social class on Earth. Hoffman didn't clause

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his way to the top of Silicon Valley by being oblivious.

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He made his fortune by understanding people, incentives, and networks.

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He built an empire on mapping relationships and leveraging proximity.

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So when he suddenly becomes incurious, the performance rings hollow.

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The richest men in the world don't lack information. They

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outsourced discomfort, and Epstein was discomfort incarnate. Read Hoffman. Is

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the textbook. Not me, a billionaire, the kind who always

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has a prefabricated excuse ready. It's never denial outright, just

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soft deflection wrapped in reasonableness. He speaks in calibrated and ambiguity,

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the language of people who fear specifics. Every statement feels

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engineered to be technically true while practically useless. The goal

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is in clarity, its survivability. That's how power communicates when

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it doesn't want to confess or confront. Epstein thrived exactly

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in this kind of fog. Let's be explicit and responsible,

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because the distinction matters. There's no evidence read Hoffman participated

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in abuse. The public record does not accuse him of crimes.

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Saying that clearly is not charity. It's accuracy. But accuracy

519
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doesn't mean absolution. No one ends their responsibility at not

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criminally charged. The Epstein story is not just about perpetrators.

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It's about enablers, shields and silencers. It's about who tolerated

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what and when. That's the conversation Hoffman can't dodge. Hoffman

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has acknowledged knowing Jeffrey Epstein. He acknowledged traveling to Epstein's island.

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Those aren't rumors or hostile interpretations. Those are admissions. Once

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those facts are on the table, the conversation changes permanently.

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This is no longer about whether they cross paths. It's

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about how deliberate those paths were. Little Saint James was

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not a neutral venue or a casual hangout. It was

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already infamous long before the world pretended to notice. You

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don't visit that island without hearing things unless you actively

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choose not to listen. And inevitably, the defense always circles

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back to timing, because timing is the last refuge of

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the cornered elite. I didn't know then is treated like

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an escape patch, as if Epstein's crimes manifested suddenly in

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a single news cycle. Survivors were speaking years before journalists

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were brave enough to amplify them. Law enforcement knew far

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more than it acted on wealthy circles, whisper earlier, not later.

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Claiming ignorance requires believing that the wealthiest social tier was

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the least informed. That is the opposite of how power

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works read. Hoffmann's entire professional identity is built on understanding

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net works LinkedIn itself is a monument to relational awareness.

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Context proximity and information flow are the currency he monetized

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that makes selective blindness incredibly difficult to believe. You can't

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be hyper literate and human connection while socially illiterate in

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elite circles. Epstein didn't move invisibly through high society. He

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was discussed, warned about, joked about, and quietly avoided by some.

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Choosing not to hear is not the same as not knowing.

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Billionaires left to cite busyness as an alibi. Too busy

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to pay attention, too busy to notice red flags, too

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busy to ask follow up questions, yet never too busy

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to accept invitations that benefit them, never too busy to

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board private jets or attend exclusive gatherings. There are time scarcity,

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somehow only applies to moral curiosity. It's not by accident.

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Epstein counted on that exact hierarchy of concern, and it

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served them well for decades. The island detailed does not

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go away, no matter how carefully it's contextualized. You don't

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accidentally end up on Little Saint James. It's not a

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layover destination or a happy coincidence. It requires invitation, transportation,

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and consent. Each step involves awareness. Each step carries implicit endorsement.

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Pretending it was just another stop stretches credibility beyond repair.

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Geography matters when crimes cluster around the location. And we

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all know that Epstein curated a social circle with precision.

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Everyone who visited was a signal to everyone else. Smart

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people conferred legitimacy. Cautious people provided insulation. Well known names

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discouraged scrutiny. That wasn't random socializing, it was strategic placement.

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Epstein's access depended on the presence of the powerful. He

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built a moat out of reputation. People like Reid Hoffman

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were bricks in that wall, whether they intended to be

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or not. Intent does an erase effect, and the question

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has matured past childish framing. No longer did Read Hoffmann

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know Jeffrey Epstein. That question has been answered. The meaningful

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question is depth and duration, How often, how close, and

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under what circumstances. Relationships or patterns not snapshots. Every continued

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association after new information emerges is a decision. Silence after

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suspicion is also a choice. Choices accumulate consequences, whether acknowledged

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or not. Hoffman's public statements rely heavily on narrow constructions.

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They're carefully worded, legally cautious, and emotionally neutral. This is

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the tone of someone answering the safest possible question. It

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avoids grappling with uncomfortable implications. What did you hear? What

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did you dismiss? What did you rationalize a way? These

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are not legal questions, but they are historical ones, and

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history is less forgiving than the courts. Elite culture specializes

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implausible deniability. Everyone knows just enough to maintain distance and

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just little enough to deny a responsibility. Epstein exploited that

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culture mercilessly. He didn't need universal ignorance, he needed selective disbelief.

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He needed powerful people who would not ask inconvenient questions,

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not because they were evil, but because they were comfortable.

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Comfort is a real accomplice in most large scale abuses.

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And look, let's be real. The tech elite love disruption

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until disruption threatens them. Then all of a sudden, stability

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00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:34,320
become sacred. Questions are reframed as hysterias, scrutiny becomes persecution.

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Patterns are dismissed as coincidence. Epstein operated comfortably in that

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protective field. He depended on it. He was insulated by

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the reputations of others, and those reputations did real work

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on his behalf. Look, no one's demanding a confession or

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00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:54,519
a scarlet letter. What's being demanded is honesty without choreography.

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Stop hiding behind steril phrasing. Stop pretending the air was clean.

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Acknowledged discomforting existed and was ignored. That admission costs nothing now. Refusal,

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on the other hand, deepens sustain Silence always compounds over time.

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Survivors understand this dynamic. Intimately, they were disbelieved, not because

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evidence didn't exist, but because disbelief was easier. Powerful acquaintances

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may doubt respectable. Respectability is a powerful shield, and Epstein

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00:37:25,119 --> 00:37:28,800
wore like armor. He didn't manufacture it alone. It was

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lent to him repeatedly, often by people who told themselves

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they were staying neutral. When billionaires plead ignorance, what they're

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00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:41,119
really asking for is exemption, exemption from judgment, exemption from

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moral memory, exemption from follow up questions. Wealth does not

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grant that privilege. Access does not erase responsibility. Silence is

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not neutral when it protects predators. History records silence carefully

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now reed, Hoffmann may regret proximity today, for regret is

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not reckoning. Reckoning requires detail and vulnerability. It requires timelines,

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not platitudes. It requires answers that do not flatter the speaker.

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Carefully sanded statements are not courage. Look, this is not

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about inventing crimes where evidence does not exist. It's about

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refusing fantasies where facts clearly do read Hoffman knew Jeffrey

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Epstein read Hoffman visited his island. Those realities are not

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up for debate. What remains is a depth of that relationship,

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and the choice is made within it. History is going

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to keep asking that question, and if they continue with

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their silence, they'll keep answering it poorly. All of the

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