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

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Epstein Chronicles. Alex Acosta recently appeared before Congress and gave

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his version of events when it comes to his role

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in Jeffrey Epstein's non prosecution agreement, and according to reports,

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alex Acosta didn't show any kind of empathy, any kind

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of regret that this Plea deal was initiated in the

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first place. And that's because alex Acosta is and always

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will be an absolute coward. You want to talk about

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somebody that was built to be a yes man, to

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be the fall guy, you're looking at him. Because as

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much as I find alex Acosta to be reprehensible, I

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don't hold him directly responsible for that Plea deal. And look,

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I know that goes against the narrative that Julie K.

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Brown pitched, but I don't agree as far as alex

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Acosta's role, Like I always say, he was middle management, right,

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he wasn't the guy really pull in the strings. He

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wasn't the guy behind the curtain. And what's the best

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evidence for that. Well, now we're talking about alex Acosta,

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and we're not talking about Mukasey and Phelipe because when

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you cut away all the fat of the bureaucracy. Those

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were the two people who were in charge. There was

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nothing like this happening without those dudes signing off, especially

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considering who we're talking about here, when we're talking about

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Jeffrey Epstein. We've already seen the proof, don't you remember

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in the OIG report itself, where they talked about how

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Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers reached out to Maine Justice to get

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a deal and to get things worked out. What do

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you think they're talking about. They most certainly weren't talking

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about the weather. They were figuring out how to make

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the best deal possible to keep everything quiet and make

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sure that their boy and their asset, Jeffrey Epstein, was

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able to keep it moving. And please make no mistake,

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alex Acosta didn't have that kind of power. He couldn't

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pull those kinds of strings now in his local little

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district there with regular people. Yeah, the brass on the

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seventh floor isn't going to worry about a case that

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alex Acosta brings against a regular person. But once you

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flip that script and they start getting calls from the

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kind of lawyers that they were getting calls from Well,

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things change, and that's not speculation, that's fact. Today's article

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is from CNN and the headline former US attorney defends

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Epstein's two thousand and eight plea deal in hours long

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appearance on Capitol Hill. I cannot wait to get my

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hands on these transcripts, and of course, the same way

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we're going through the Bill Barr transcripts, we're going to

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go through these ones as well, because I can only

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imagine what this slinky spine son of a bitch had

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to say. This article was authored by Annie Grayer, the

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former US attorney who negotiated a controversial two thousand and

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eight plea deal with Jeffrey Epstein. Defended that agreement in

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a closed door meeting with House investigators on Friday. According

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to democrats in the room, I cannot even imagine how

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you could defend that non prosecution agreement. And furthermore, the

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DOJ CO get rid of that thing tomorrow if they

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really wanted to. They don't want to. They have no

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desire to remove the MPa because if they did, that

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is the quickest way to unravel everything that happened here.

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You start bringing in people like Sarah Kellen Leslie Groff

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and putting the screws to him. Watch how quickly everything

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starts to tumble, And watch how quickly that amnesia leaves people.

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Nobody's trying to go away for forty to fifty sixty

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years on a rico charge. Certainly not these people. It's

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very clear that alex Acosta ran a deeply flawed investigation

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of the Epstein case. Representative Robert Garcia, the top Democrat

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on the panel, told reporters during a break in the

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meeting he also would not admit that mister Epstein received

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a sweetheart deal, which has been widely reported and agreed upon. Now,

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if you can't even admit that fact, then I don't

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even know what to tell you. Because it's relatively apparent

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to anyone who is in blind and moronic that this

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was the deal of a century, the deal of a lifetime,

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the deal of one hundred lifetimes. Nobody else has ever

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gotten a deal like this, But all of a sudden,

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this degenerate fuck comes storming in and gets this great deal.

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We're gonna need more from you, alex Acosta. Starting with

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an explanation. According to a readout from the panel, Acosta

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expressed concern over the hours long testimony to the House

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Oversight Committee that had prosecutors lost at trial, it could

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have sent a message that the late convicted sex offenders'

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crimes could continue. Imagine that bullshit. Meanwhile, the sentence he

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did catch he was still molesting girls while he was

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supposedly locked up. So Alex Acosta up here talking this

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bullshit is something else. This is a man that really

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has a lot of audacity, a lot of gall to

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get up here and say this kind of shit. A

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key issue in the US Southern District of Florida's handling

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of the case was whether it should be prosecuted federally

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or locally. He said, per the readout, I mean, why

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would you want to prosecute it locally when you can

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do it on a federal level and really hammer this

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son of a bitch. And for all the morons in

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the back, these were little fourteen fifteen year old girls,

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so they're not adults. They can't even consent. But according

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to Alex LaCosta, that shouldn't be a federal case. And again,

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we're not talking about one or two. We're talking about

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over one thousand, according to the DOJ's own report. And

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we're also talking about numerous financial crimes. I'm talking about numerous,

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But sure, let's kick it down to the state level,

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where Jeffrey Epstein has some pull and where he can

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make things move in a direction he wants them to move.

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Oh what he could do that federally as well. Yeah, true,

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but not without the same level of scrutiny. And that,

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of course, is all part of it. They wanted to

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keep it quiet, so keep it contained locally, as opposed

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to making it a federal case where it's nationwide. And

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it worked out great, right. They were able to keep

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it quiet for how long? And then eventually when the

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floodgates opened, everybody just pointed to everybody else and to

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the system itself and said, look, everything failed, but not me. Meanwhile, us,

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the citizens, the taxpayers, and the survivors are left holding

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the bag. So anyone who thinks we should move on,

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and I mean this as respectfully as possible, can go

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fuck themselves because we're not moving on zero chance. It

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is time for some accountability. It's time for some answers.

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I testified for six hours. I'll let the record speak

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for itself. Acosta, the former US attorney in Miami, said

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when he left Capitol Hill. Oh yeah, we'll let the

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record speak for itself. Huh. Well, if that's the case,

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then not only are you a coward, but you're a

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gigantic failure as well, because you didn't stop any crimes,

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did you. You didn't stop Jeffrey Epstein from hurting anybody,

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did you. Instead, he continued to hurt people, He continued

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to abuse people, and he continued to commit all kinds

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of other crimes that we have no idea about. So

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I have zero idea what mister Charminhart over here is

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even talking about, because he played a gigantic part and

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all these other women who got abused after this first sentencing, right,

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because if he did the right thing and he manned up,

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no matter what justice said, then things could have been different.

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But that's not what he did. Instead, he got along

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to get along, and he just went with the program.

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Emerging from the room part way through the transcribed testimony,

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Democrats on the panel dismissed Acosta as not credible and

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said they left the first round of questioning with more

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questions than answers. Well that's always nice, huh. You have

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this whole panel wasting tax payer dollars wasting all kinds

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of time and you're not even getting the answers you're

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looking for. And that's because you're not talking to the

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right people. I've said it once and I'll say it again.

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Bring in Villa Fauna, bring in Lily Sanchez, bring in Mukhesy,

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bring in Philippe, bring in all the lawyers, everybody involved, Menchel, everybody.

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But no, you want to bring in Alberto Gonzalez. Now

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I know they got rid of that subpoena, but come on,

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that dude had zero to do with any of this.

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And again, that's why I call it political theater. All

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of this is meant to give us the illusion that

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they're doing something that they care. But all that really

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matters is results, and so far, like usual, we've had none. Acosta,

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they said, told investigators he didn't see sufficient evidence to

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move forward with the case, even though approximately forty women

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had come forward to share their accounts of sexual assault.

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How does this man look at himself in the mirror

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and not get ill? Can you imagine being this big

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of a coward, this big of a punk ass bitch.

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I can't even imagine, Like, bro, have a little bit

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of courage in your life? It's okay, we're gonna get

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knocked down every now and then, but life samash Pit,

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get back up and get back to it. If he

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would have done the right thing and stepped up and

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told his bosses at Justice Department to go get screwed

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and he was going to prosecute this case the way

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he saw fit, bro would be a hero. But instead

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he's just another villain and there is no amount of

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testimony or deposition that's ever going to change that. He

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seems to be pretty dug into the decisions that he made.

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Democratic Representative Jasmin Crockett said of Acosta, well, I agree

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with that. He's not going to admit to anything. And

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that's why I said from the jump, no point even

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bringing him down and putting him under oath, because he's

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just going to be evasive. He's just going to avoid

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any serious questions and he's not going to give us

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any kind of measurable information with his answers. So what's

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the point. The point is to make you think that

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they're doing something. That is the whole point, and I

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want you to keep that in mind as this process

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continues to play out. Epstein, a well connected multimillionaire, avoided

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a federal trial at the time of the plea deal

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and served just thirteen months in prison for stay prostitution

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charges over his involvement with underage girls, prostitution and underage girls. Huh,

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how do you square that fucking circle? Considering underage girls

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can't consent? A Miami Herald investigation described the plea deal

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negotiated by Acosta as the deal of a lifetime. No,

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not negotiated by Acosta, negotiated by Mukhesie, by Philippe, by

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the bosses at the DOJ. In July twenty nineteen, the

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financier Pedophile was arrested and charged in connection with having

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operated a sex trafficking ring. The next month, Epstein died

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by suicide, allegedly at a New York Metropolitan Correctional Center,

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the federal detention facility where he was being held. The

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committee's chairman, Representative James Comer of Kentucky, however, described Acosta

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as cooperative and helpful throughout his appearance. Oh, I'm sure

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he did. Does anyone really think that the GOP wants

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to go any further? I mean, come on, they have

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all the power at their fingertips. They're stalling that's what

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they're doing. And the Democrats they're no better. They're trying

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to use this as a political football now and they're

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trying to nuke the Republicans with it, and it's going

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to backfire because what we do is we lose support

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then right people are like, Oh, it's a political hit job,

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it's a hoax, it's this, it's that, when anybody who's

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paying attention knows it's something much deeper and something much

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more dangerous. So as disgusted as I am by the

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GOP and their cowardice when it comes to this issue

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and their hypocrisy, I'm equally disgusted with the Democrats and

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the way they're trying to politicize this after not caring

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about it for all these years. Now, Look, if these

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Democrats were in the trenches for all these years and

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they were fighting for justice and truth, I'd be right

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there with them, shoulder to shoulder. But they've shown up

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recently like some Johnny com latelies, and now they're acting

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like they've cared this whole entire time. I'm here to

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tell you they haven't. And when we used to reach

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out to them, when we tried to get their help,

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they ignored us, but now all of a sudden they've

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had this big revelation. Don't fall for it. Folks, do

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not fall for it. If they really wanted the truth,

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that truth would have been out a long time ago.

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Alex Acosta cooperated with our questions and today provided information

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that will help advance our investigation into the federal government's

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handling of the Epstein and Maxwell cases. Comer said in

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a statement. This information will guide our next steps as

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we work to bring accountability, and we expect to announce

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new actions soon. Oh okay, great new action. So what

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does that mean? More subpoenas, more arguing, more calling at

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a hoax because so far all we've had is a

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bunch of words, right, and words are wind. There's been

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zero action Acosta. Comer said told the committee he never

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met Epstein nor Glenn Maxwell, and testified that he never

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saw President Donald Trump's name on any document related to

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the late financier. Comer knocked Democrats line of questioning related

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to Trump during the interview, saying they were batting around

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so many questions about Trump. The members were talking over

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each other. It was all about Trump, and that's not

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what it should be about. Here Acosta's about the Plea

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deal that's before Trump. Now, if you want to get

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to the bottom of the cover up that is underway

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right now, we have to get rid of this Plea deal.

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So we have to eat the elephant one bite at

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a time. Right But if the Democrats on the committee

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aren't even interested in that, and all they want to

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do is find some you know, dynamite to blow Trump

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up with, then we're not going to get anywhere. Then again,

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maybe that's the whole last Dawn point. Acosta, who also

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served as Trumps Secretary of the Department of Labor during

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his first term, resigned in twenty nineteen amid renewed scrutiny

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over the plea deal he had negotiated with Epstein a

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decade before. On Friday, he reiterated that it was his

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decision alone to resign, According to a readout from the

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House Committee, Oh, I'm sure there was no pressure whatsoever.

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I mean, you almost have to admire the blind loyalty

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that Alex Acosta has to people who really don't give

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a fuck about him. It's truly my numbing to see

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because if I got thrown over the side of the

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boat like Alex Acosta did, Yo, it would be fire

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and motherfucking brimstone for everybody involved. Your boy can be

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petty as fuck when he wants to be. The two

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thousand and eight Plea deal has come under scrutiny yet

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again amid the House Oversight Committee's ongoing investigation into the

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Epstein case. Earlier this week, testimony from FBI Director Cash

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Valhalla Patel underscored how some of the Trump administration appear

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to be pointing the blame at Acosta, as the President

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and his team are being pushed by members of their

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own party to be more transparent and release all of

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the Epstein case files. During his Tuesday hearing on Capitol Hill,

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Patel twice brought up Acosta on prompt, including in his

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opening statement, Yo, he's looking to do anything he can

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to get the spotlight off of him. But Cash Betel's

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the one who opened his own mouth, right. Nobody told

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him to talk about this, Nobody told him to make

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things up and act like this was bigger than it

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is according to him anyway. So every bit of criticism

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coming Cash Betel's way, he's earned every last bit of it,

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at least when it comes to Epstein. The Oversight Panel, meanwhile,

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has been plowing ahead with its investigation into the so

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called Epstein files. The panel subpoenaed a group of high

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profile Democratic and Republican figures for information and interviews between

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August and mid October, including Acosta, and have so far

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released former Attorney General Bill Barr's deposition on the matter.

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The Republican led committee has also received two batches of

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documents from Epstein's estate as a result of a subpoena,

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including a collection of letters gifted to Epstein for his

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fiteth birthday. The panel has subpoenaed the Department of Justice

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for all of its Epstein related files, and may public

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the documents it's received so far, most of which were

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already public in recent days. The committee also met with

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Epstein abuse survivors and is working with the Treasury Department

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to turn over certain bank activity reports. The lawmakers have

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with john subpoenas for former Attorney Generals Alberto Gonzalez and

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Jeff Sessions. A committee a told CNN after both men

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stated and sworn letters that neither possessed any information related

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to the Committee's investigation into Epstein. So I had no

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idea why those two guys were being brought in anyway

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seem like some window dressing or people that had no

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idea what they were doing making these decisions. But if

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they really want to get down to it, bring in

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Lily Sanchez, bring in Marie Villafauna, bring in a Philippe,

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bring in Mukhesy, bring in everybody that was involved, everybody.

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We've talked about ad nauseum for the last six years,

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because if you're really looking for a roadmap to justice,

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if you're really looking for a roadmap to accountability, it

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starts and it ends with that NPA. All of the

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