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

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Epstein Chronicles. If there's one thing that Americans can agree

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on these days, it's that they don't agree on much.

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But one topic that the vast majority of us agree

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on is that the powerful have a different set of

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rules in this country and that they get a pass

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when they commit crimes. And according to a new poll

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by Reuters, is telling us that, no matter what your

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political affiliation is, you're not happy with the way things

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are going. And I think that the only place where

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their support for the way the administration is handling these

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files is online, because I've yet to meet somebody in

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person that's happy about how this is going down. And

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I'm not talking about people with Trump de arrangement syndrome.

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I'm talking about people that voted for Trump. I'm talking

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about people that have supported them for all these years.

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And those people certainly aren't happy that Donald Trump and

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the administration is covering the sub and I think that's

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something that we should exploit. I think that we should

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be working to build a gigantic coalition of people who

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are disgusted by this and who are demanding justice. And

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I don't think it should matter what your political affiliation is,

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if you're disgusted by what's going on and you're disgusted

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by the lies being told to us by the current administration,

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then welcome to the team, because at this point we're

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going to need a very large coalition to challenge the

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bullshit and the narratives that are being pitched by the

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White House and their allies. So that signals to me

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that it's time to turn up the heat. And according

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to these poll numbers and according to the eye test,

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I think that we have the numbers on our side.

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And at this point we might have to think about

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organizing in one way or the other. And that's coming

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from somebody that doesn't even like to coll elaborate with people.

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But this is not a battle that one person's gonna win.

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It's going to take all of us collectively to continue

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pushing for full transparency and for justice. And anybody who's

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standing in the way of that obviously has some sort

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of motivation to keep what Jeffrey Epstein was up to

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secret and private. So the question is what is that motivation?

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Is it money? Is it? Status? Is it you were involved?

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Can only be one of a few things, right, because

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most normal people take a look at this and they

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are absolutely disgusted. So today we have an article from

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Reuter's and the headline, Americans believe Epstein files show the

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powerful get a pass, according to a Reuter's an Ipsos poll.

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This article was authored by Jason Lang. Americans believe that

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the wealthy and powerful are rarely held accountable, according to

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a new Reuter's pull found after the release of millions

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of records on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's connections

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in elite US business and political circles. I think most

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people knew this, but this is a little bit different,

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right because you can see it for yourself. It's one

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thing hearing me blab about it for years. It's another

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thing to see the receipts. Because when something is this devious,

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when people are this evil, it's hard to wrap your

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mind around it. I get it. And it's not like

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I had some kind of you know, inside track here.

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I just did the legwork. I looked at all the

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core documents. I've looked at the testimony, and you start

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putting it together. And when you start putting together all

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the circumstantial evidence, what you have is a gigantic case,

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and that's how every single investigation in history has been

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put together and has been run. But you don't see

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that here. I don't see the circumstantial evidence piling up.

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In fact, what you see is people trying to discount

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that circumstantial evidence and act like it's not a smoking gun. Well,

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I have news for you. There's not going to be

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a smoking gun. So it's going to be up to

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you to put everything together, weigh the evidence for what

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it is, and then decide if you believe the allegations

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that Jeffrey Epstein was a human trafficker and somebody that

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was engaging as a middleman and fixer for a lot

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of powerful people around the world. And if you don't

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want to believe that, that's cool. I'm not here to

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convince anybody as shit. I think the evidence speaks for itself.

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And I see all these people out here talking about, oh,

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debate me, Oh, Michael Tracy and Dave Smith should have

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a debate about what? What is there to debate? This

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isn't the topic for that. You guys want to debate

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fucking Iran, cool, go for it. You want to debate

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some culture war bullshit, Great, we're talking about real people here,

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young ladies whose lives were destroyed. And I also want

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you to keep in mind that the women that you

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see coming forward, they're only a small representation of the

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women who were abused. There's a lot of women and

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girls that are never going to come forward. So you

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can't look at one survivor's story and transpose that to

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the next survivor. It's all unique. They all had their

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own experiences, their own nightmares, and what one might have

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went through, the other might not have. So that's why

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I find it's so disgusting when you see people out

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here saying, oh, these survivors were a part of it. Oh,

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they were human traffickers themselves. Yeah, you have the documentation

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on over a thousand girls. You can prove that. Oh no,

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you can't, right, So shut your yap. And isn't it

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interesting the same people that are so worried about these

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disgusting ass perverts and their identities being sprayed across the media,

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they don't have the same concerns about the survivors right now.

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Those girls are all grifters. Now, they're all just looking

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for a bag. None of this happened. Jeffrey Epstein, great dude,

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anybody talking like that. Anybody who is being contrarian just

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to be contrarian is an absolute dickhead. There's no debate needed.

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You have no idea what you're talking about. You're just

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popping off at the lip because it's driving some engagement

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and because you think you're gonna score some points with

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the Epstein administration. Because look, it's one thing to have

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serious questions and to pursue a serious investigation and try

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and punch holes in what people have been putting forth.

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And I totally agree with that. People should be punching

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holes in what we're talking about. Every angle should be covered.

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But there's a way to do that without being an

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absolute piece of shit. I mean, we're talking about real

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people here, and when you just start labeling people all

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across the board as this, that or the other thing,

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it's not gonna end up working out well for you.

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And if I was one of these survivors and these

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dickhead pundits were out here talking all kinds of stupid,

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I'd sue them. Everybody loves to sue, right, I'd sue them.

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Imagine what kind of jerk off you have to be

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to try and put these girls who were abused in

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the same category as somebody like Sarah kell and Vickers,

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or somebody like Adriana Ross. It is just absurd. Some

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sixty nine percent of responders in the four day poll,

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which concluded on Monday, said their views were captured very

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well or extremely well by a statement that the Epstein

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files show that powerful people in the US are rarely

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held accountable by their actions. Another seven percent said that

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statement describe their views somewhat well, while eleven percent said

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it didn't reflect their thinking. Among Republicans and Democrats, more

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than eighty percent said the statement described their thinking at

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least somewhat well. I think this is one of those

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topics that transcends politics for the most part. Now, of course,

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there is going to be people who are so dug

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in to their ideological camp that they can't find the

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forest through the trees. So they're just gonna go with

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whatever the party tells them to do. And there's always

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a group of people such as that, and it happens

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on both sides. Those are the loyalists right the base.

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And that's what roughly twenty percent or so, no matter

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what we say, no matter what evidence is produced, they're

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not gonna believe that Donald Trump is covering this up

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no matter what. But I think that the vast majority

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of Americans, no matter their political affiliation, are disgusted by

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what's going on here, and they know for a fact

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that the Epstein class gets away with all kinds of

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bullshit all the time. Under congressional orders, the US Justice

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Department has released trove after trove of documents that tie

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the late financier pedophile to a prominent people in politics, finance, academia,

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and business, both before and after he pleaded guilty in

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two thousand and eight to prostitution charges, including soliciting an

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underage girl. Oh yeah, that's all that happened, one girl.

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And this is where people are intellectually dishonest about this story.

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Oh yeah, well it was only one girl, no big deal,

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there's no serial predation going on. But if you look

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at the documents and you know the story, you know

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that that's false, and you know that there was over

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forty young girls high school age who came forward. And

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of course people will say, well, a lot of those

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girls they didn't want to prosecute Epstein. Yeah, they got

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paid off or their families got paid off. We have

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to be honest about what happened here. What you think

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act like Epstein really wasn't guilty of what he was doing.

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I mean, come on, if that's what you're looking for,

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you're in the wrong place. The scandal has proven a

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persistent political headache for President Trump, who long fan the

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flames of suspicion around Epstein and has been dogged by

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criticism that his administration was failing to fully disclose all

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the US government knew about the case. Well, that's because

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they were and are and continue to cover this up.

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And it's not even a debate, at least not in

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my mind. What we're seeing here is a cover up

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in real time, and it's wild to behold, and the

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fact that so many people are willing to go along

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with it is crazy. The disclosures started to cause the

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downfall of prominent people. Executives at Goldman, Sachs and Hyatt

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hotels have resigned, meanwhile others have retained powerful posts. Trump's

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Commerce Secretary Howard Nutleck I mean ut Nick apparently visited

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Epstein's private island for lunch in twenty twelve and invited

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him to a fundraiser in twenty fifteen for Hillary Clinton,

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Trump's Democratic rival. In the twenty sixteen presidential election email show,

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how much more evidence do you need that it's a

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big ass club and you're not invited? The whole thing

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is rotten both sides of the aisle. Doctor Mehmet Oz, Trump,

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administrator of the US Centers for Medicare and Medical Services,

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emailed an invitation to a Valentine's Day party in twenty

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sixteen to Epstein. The Justice Department document show, what do

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you know? Another reality TV star in our government? Boy,

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isn't that nice? Imagine thinking that doctor Oz is an

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authority on anything? Maybe we should have Jerry Springer as

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social media manager. Neither Nutlick nor Oz is accused of wrongdoing.

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A Republican president, who socialized extensively with Epstein in the

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nineteen nineties and two thousands, has denied any knowledge of

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the financier's crimes and says he broke off ties in

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the early two thousands before Epstein's plea deal. While Americans

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generally have low expectations at elites will be held accountable,

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they are somewhat split among partisan lines on how much

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longer the nation should dwell on the Epstein affair, asked

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if the views were well described by the statement that

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it's time for the country to move on from talking

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about the Epstein files. Sixty seven percent of Republican respondents

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in the polls said that they captured their thinking at

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least somewhat, while only twenty one percent of Democrats said

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the same. Well, because Republicans feel like it's politically damaging

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for them, Let's be honest. They had no problem talking

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about this previously. Hillary Clinton, this, Bill Clinton, that the island,

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Tom Hanks Adrenochrome, everyone's being eaten, the whole thing. But

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now when their worst fears are realized, Ah, well, you know,

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it's really not that big a deal. Let me explain.

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We don't want your explanations. What we want is justice.

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The Reuter's poll, conducted online and nationwide, gathered responses from

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one thousand, one hundred and seventy seven US adults and

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had a margin of error of three percentage points. Now,

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of course, what they'll say is all these poles are

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never right, they're all skewered. But I think that this

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is a good representation of how people feel. People don't

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think that anything's going to happen here and that anyone's

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going to be held accountable, and why should they? History

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has shown us that people like this always find a

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way to wiggle off the hook. And look, I get it.

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I understand the cynicism, and I think that it's well placed.

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I mean, how many times do we see powerful people

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end up getting off or getting a slap on the wrist. Meanwhile,

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the rest of us we have to play by the rules, right,

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So when I talk about a two tier justice system,

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this is what I'm talking about. And it's not that

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the American people as a whole don't understand it or

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don't see it. It's that they think that we can't

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do anything about it. And that's because we haven't in

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the past. And they know the strategy has always been

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just to wait it out, because they know that the

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populace is going to move on to the next disaster,

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to the next issue. But I don't see that trending

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this way this time. And I think that if they're

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relying on people being exhausted and people getting bored, they're

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going to be sorely disappointed. Now, does that mean that

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we're going to end up in a place where there's

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justice and full transparency. I don't know, but I think

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it's worth fighting for. And I'll be damned if I

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go quietly into the night, because if these gumbags want

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to fight, they're gonna get it. All of the information

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that goes with this episode can be found in the

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description box