Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. If there's one thing that Americans can agree
on these days, it's that they don't agree on much.
But one topic that the vast majority of us agree
on is that the powerful have a different set of
rules in this country and that they get a pass
when they commit crimes. And according to a new poll
by Reuters, is telling us that, no matter what your
political affiliation is, you're not happy with the way things
are going. And I think that the only place where
their support for the way the administration is handling these
files is online, because I've yet to meet somebody in
person that's happy about how this is going down. And
I'm not talking about people with Trump de arrangement syndrome.
I'm talking about people that voted for Trump. I'm talking
about people that have supported them for all these years.
And those people certainly aren't happy that Donald Trump and
the administration is covering the sub and I think that's
something that we should exploit. I think that we should
be working to build a gigantic coalition of people who
are disgusted by this and who are demanding justice. And
I don't think it should matter what your political affiliation is,
if you're disgusted by what's going on and you're disgusted
by the lies being told to us by the current administration,
then welcome to the team, because at this point we're
going to need a very large coalition to challenge the
bullshit and the narratives that are being pitched by the
White House and their allies. So that signals to me
that it's time to turn up the heat. And according
to these poll numbers and according to the eye test,
I think that we have the numbers on our side.
And at this point we might have to think about
organizing in one way or the other. And that's coming
from somebody that doesn't even like to coll elaborate with people.
But this is not a battle that one person's gonna win.
It's going to take all of us collectively to continue
pushing for full transparency and for justice. And anybody who's
standing in the way of that obviously has some sort
of motivation to keep what Jeffrey Epstein was up to
secret and private. So the question is what is that motivation?
Is it money? Is it? Status? Is it you were involved?
Can only be one of a few things, right, because
most normal people take a look at this and they
are absolutely disgusted. So today we have an article from
Reuter's and the headline, Americans believe Epstein files show the
powerful get a pass, according to a Reuter's an Ipsos poll.
This article was authored by Jason Lang. Americans believe that
the wealthy and powerful are rarely held accountable, according to
a new Reuter's pull found after the release of millions
of records on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's connections
in elite US business and political circles. I think most
people knew this, but this is a little bit different,
right because you can see it for yourself. It's one
thing hearing me blab about it for years. It's another
thing to see the receipts. Because when something is this devious,
when people are this evil, it's hard to wrap your
mind around it. I get it. And it's not like
I had some kind of you know, inside track here.
I just did the legwork. I looked at all the
core documents. I've looked at the testimony, and you start
putting it together. And when you start putting together all
the circumstantial evidence, what you have is a gigantic case,
and that's how every single investigation in history has been
put together and has been run. But you don't see
that here. I don't see the circumstantial evidence piling up.
In fact, what you see is people trying to discount
that circumstantial evidence and act like it's not a smoking gun. Well,
I have news for you. There's not going to be
a smoking gun. So it's going to be up to
you to put everything together, weigh the evidence for what
it is, and then decide if you believe the allegations
that Jeffrey Epstein was a human trafficker and somebody that
was engaging as a middleman and fixer for a lot
of powerful people around the world. And if you don't
want to believe that, that's cool. I'm not here to
convince anybody as shit. I think the evidence speaks for itself.
And I see all these people out here talking about, oh,
debate me, Oh, Michael Tracy and Dave Smith should have
a debate about what? What is there to debate? This
isn't the topic for that. You guys want to debate
fucking Iran, cool, go for it. You want to debate
some culture war bullshit, Great, we're talking about real people here,
young ladies whose lives were destroyed. And I also want
you to keep in mind that the women that you
see coming forward, they're only a small representation of the
women who were abused. There's a lot of women and
girls that are never going to come forward. So you
can't look at one survivor's story and transpose that to
the next survivor. It's all unique. They all had their
own experiences, their own nightmares, and what one might have
went through, the other might not have. So that's why
I find it's so disgusting when you see people out
here saying, oh, these survivors were a part of it. Oh,
they were human traffickers themselves. Yeah, you have the documentation
on over a thousand girls. You can prove that. Oh no,
you can't, right, So shut your yap. And isn't it
interesting the same people that are so worried about these
disgusting ass perverts and their identities being sprayed across the media,
they don't have the same concerns about the survivors right now.
Those girls are all grifters. Now, they're all just looking
for a bag. None of this happened. Jeffrey Epstein, great dude,
anybody talking like that. Anybody who is being contrarian just
to be contrarian is an absolute dickhead. There's no debate needed.
You have no idea what you're talking about. You're just
popping off at the lip because it's driving some engagement
and because you think you're gonna score some points with
the Epstein administration. Because look, it's one thing to have
serious questions and to pursue a serious investigation and try
and punch holes in what people have been putting forth.
And I totally agree with that. People should be punching
holes in what we're talking about. Every angle should be covered.
But there's a way to do that without being an
absolute piece of shit. I mean, we're talking about real
people here, and when you just start labeling people all
across the board as this, that or the other thing,
it's not gonna end up working out well for you.
And if I was one of these survivors and these
dickhead pundits were out here talking all kinds of stupid,
I'd sue them. Everybody loves to sue, right, I'd sue them.
Imagine what kind of jerk off you have to be
to try and put these girls who were abused in
the same category as somebody like Sarah kell and Vickers,
or somebody like Adriana Ross. It is just absurd. Some
sixty nine percent of responders in the four day poll,
which concluded on Monday, said their views were captured very
well or extremely well by a statement that the Epstein
files show that powerful people in the US are rarely
held accountable by their actions. Another seven percent said that
statement describe their views somewhat well, while eleven percent said
it didn't reflect their thinking. Among Republicans and Democrats, more
than eighty percent said the statement described their thinking at
least somewhat well. I think this is one of those
topics that transcends politics for the most part. Now, of course,
there is going to be people who are so dug
in to their ideological camp that they can't find the
forest through the trees. So they're just gonna go with
whatever the party tells them to do. And there's always
a group of people such as that, and it happens
on both sides. Those are the loyalists right the base.
And that's what roughly twenty percent or so, no matter
what we say, no matter what evidence is produced, they're
not gonna believe that Donald Trump is covering this up
no matter what. But I think that the vast majority
of Americans, no matter their political affiliation, are disgusted by
what's going on here, and they know for a fact
that the Epstein class gets away with all kinds of
bullshit all the time. Under congressional orders, the US Justice
Department has released trove after trove of documents that tie
the late financier pedophile to a prominent people in politics, finance, academia,
and business, both before and after he pleaded guilty in
two thousand and eight to prostitution charges, including soliciting an
underage girl. Oh yeah, that's all that happened, one girl.
And this is where people are intellectually dishonest about this story.
Oh yeah, well it was only one girl, no big deal,
there's no serial predation going on. But if you look
at the documents and you know the story, you know
that that's false, and you know that there was over
forty young girls high school age who came forward. And
of course people will say, well, a lot of those
girls they didn't want to prosecute Epstein. Yeah, they got
paid off or their families got paid off. We have
to be honest about what happened here. What you think
We're just going to sweep it under the rug and
act like Epstein really wasn't guilty of what he was doing.
I mean, come on, if that's what you're looking for,
you're in the wrong place. The scandal has proven a
persistent political headache for President Trump, who long fan the
flames of suspicion around Epstein and has been dogged by
criticism that his administration was failing to fully disclose all
the US government knew about the case. Well, that's because
they were and are and continue to cover this up.
And it's not even a debate, at least not in
my mind. What we're seeing here is a cover up
in real time, and it's wild to behold, and the
fact that so many people are willing to go along
with it is crazy. The disclosures started to cause the
downfall of prominent people. Executives at Goldman, Sachs and Hyatt
hotels have resigned, meanwhile others have retained powerful posts. Trump's
Commerce Secretary Howard Nutleck I mean ut Nick apparently visited
Epstein's private island for lunch in twenty twelve and invited
him to a fundraiser in twenty fifteen for Hillary Clinton,
Trump's Democratic rival. In the twenty sixteen presidential election email show,
how much more evidence do you need that it's a
big ass club and you're not invited? The whole thing
is rotten both sides of the aisle. Doctor Mehmet Oz, Trump,
administrator of the US Centers for Medicare and Medical Services,
emailed an invitation to a Valentine's Day party in twenty
sixteen to Epstein. The Justice Department document show, what do
you know? Another reality TV star in our government? Boy,
isn't that nice? Imagine thinking that doctor Oz is an
authority on anything? Maybe we should have Jerry Springer as
social media manager. Neither Nutlick nor Oz is accused of wrongdoing.
A Republican president, who socialized extensively with Epstein in the
nineteen nineties and two thousands, has denied any knowledge of
the financier's crimes and says he broke off ties in
the early two thousands before Epstein's plea deal. While Americans
generally have low expectations at elites will be held accountable,
they are somewhat split among partisan lines on how much
longer the nation should dwell on the Epstein affair, asked
if the views were well described by the statement that
it's time for the country to move on from talking
about the Epstein files. Sixty seven percent of Republican respondents
in the polls said that they captured their thinking at
least somewhat, while only twenty one percent of Democrats said
the same. Well, because Republicans feel like it's politically damaging
for them, Let's be honest. They had no problem talking
about this previously. Hillary Clinton, this, Bill Clinton, that the island,
Tom Hanks Adrenochrome, everyone's being eaten, the whole thing. But
now when their worst fears are realized, Ah, well, you know,
it's really not that big a deal. Let me explain.
We don't want your explanations. What we want is justice.
The Reuter's poll, conducted online and nationwide, gathered responses from
one thousand, one hundred and seventy seven US adults and
had a margin of error of three percentage points. Now,
of course, what they'll say is all these poles are
never right, they're all skewered. But I think that this
is a good representation of how people feel. People don't
think that anything's going to happen here and that anyone's
going to be held accountable, and why should they? History
has shown us that people like this always find a
way to wiggle off the hook. And look, I get it.
I understand the cynicism, and I think that it's well placed.
I mean, how many times do we see powerful people
end up getting off or getting a slap on the wrist. Meanwhile,
the rest of us we have to play by the rules, right,
So when I talk about a two tier justice system,
this is what I'm talking about. And it's not that
the American people as a whole don't understand it or
don't see it. It's that they think that we can't
do anything about it. And that's because we haven't in
the past. And they know the strategy has always been
just to wait it out, because they know that the
populace is going to move on to the next disaster,
to the next issue. But I don't see that trending
this way this time. And I think that if they're
relying on people being exhausted and people getting bored, they're
going to be sorely disappointed. Now, does that mean that
we're going to end up in a place where there's
justice and full transparency. I don't know, but I think
it's worth fighting for. And I'll be damned if I
go quietly into the night, because if these gumbags want
to fight, they're gonna get it. All of the information
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