Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. Seven fucking years since Jeffrey Epstein was found
Speaker 1: dead inside of a federal jail cell in Manhattan, and somehow,
Speaker 1: after all this time, the people who were supposed to
Speaker 1: provide answers still expect us to accept the story held
Speaker 1: together with missing footage, institutional and competence, bureaucratic finger pointing,
Speaker 1: unanswered questions, skilled records, redactions, and the same tired assurances
Speaker 1: that everything important has already been explained. No, absolutely fucking not.
Speaker 1: August tenth, twenty nineteen was supposed to be the beginning
Speaker 1: of a reckoning. Epstein had finally been arrested again. This time,
Speaker 1: there was no sweetheart non prosecution agreement waiting to save them.
Speaker 1: There was no quiet deal in Florida. There was no
Speaker 1: work release arrangement that turned the jail sentence into something
Speaker 1: resembling and inconvenience. His bitch ass was sitting in federal
Speaker 1: custody facing sex trafficking charges, and for the first time
Speaker 1: in years, the possibility existed that Jeffrey Epstein might actually
Speaker 1: have to stand in a courtroom while prosecutors publicly unpacked
Speaker 1: the machinery surrounding them. Then he died, and nearly everything changed.
Speaker 1: The criminal case against Epstein disappeared with him, The possibility
Speaker 1: of putting them under oath disappeared. The possibility of forcing
Speaker 1: him to explain the money, the properties, the recruiters, the employees,
Speaker 1: the flights, the financial relationships, the political relationships, the social relationships,
Speaker 1: and the people orbiting his world disappeared. The man at
Speaker 1: the center of one of the most notorious sex trafficking
Speaker 1: scandals in modern American history was suddenly unavailable for questioning forever,
Speaker 1: and from that moment forward, the public was essentially told
Speaker 1: trust us, trust us. You had one of the most
Speaker 1: high profile prisoners on planet Earth sitting inside a federal
Speaker 1: detention center, and somehow the safeguard surrounding him collapsed at
Speaker 1: exactly the moment those safeguards mattered. Most guards failed to
Speaker 1: perform require checks, records were falsified. Staffing was a disaster.
Speaker 1: Surveillance became an issue. Procedures broke down. Supervisory failures stacked
Speaker 1: on top of operational failures. The Justice Department's own Inspector
Speaker 1: General would later document an astonishing catalog of negligence and
Speaker 1: misconduct surrounding the conditions that allowed Epstein to be left
Speaker 1: unmonitored for hours. And then Washington looked America straight in
Speaker 1: the face and acted surprised when people had questions, what
Speaker 1: the fuck did you expect? You can't build a mountain
Speaker 1: of institutional failure and then ridicule people for noticing the mountain.
Speaker 1: You can't spend decades showing the public that Epstein received
Speaker 1: extraordinary treatment from powerful institutions and then suddenly demand unquestioning
Speaker 1: faith when the most consequential moment of the entire case arrives.
Speaker 1: Remember who we're talking about. This wasn't some anonymous defendant
Speaker 1: waiting range on a minor charge. Jeffrey Epstein had spent
Speaker 1: decades collecting powerful people. Presidents, princes, billionaires, financiers, lawyers, academics,
Speaker 1: political figures, celebrities, executives, people whose telephone calls got returned,
Speaker 1: people whose names open doors, people who could hire armies
Speaker 1: of attorneys and public relations professionals. Before breakfast, and Epstein
Speaker 1: didn't just know powerful people. Power was the fucking architecture
Speaker 1: of his entire existence. His wealth gave him access, His
Speaker 1: access gave him legitimacy. His legitimacy brought him more powerful relationships.
Speaker 1: Those relationships brought him more protection, more opportunities, more introductions,
Speaker 1: more insulation from the normal consequences that would have crushed
Speaker 1: an ordinary person long before twenty nineteen. And that's why
Speaker 1: his death mattered so much, because the Epstein's story was
Speaker 1: never simply about Jeffrey Epstein. It was the story of
Speaker 1: the ecosystem that allowed Epstein to exist, And seven years later,
Speaker 1: that ecosystem remains the question. Who enabled them, who financed them,
Speaker 1: who facilitated them, who recruited for them, who protected them,
Speaker 1: who ignored warning signs, who looked the other way? Who
Speaker 1: benefited from his relationships? Who knew what? And when did
Speaker 1: they know it? Those questions aren't conspiracy theories. Those are
Speaker 1: the fucking questions investigators are supposed to ask when confronted
Speaker 1: with an operation that stretched across states, countries, properties, financial institutions, corporations, employees, recruiters, pilots, assistants, lawyers, associates,
Speaker 1: and some of the most influential social circles in the world. Instead,
Speaker 1: what have we gotten? Fragments documents dumped years later, names
Speaker 1: blacked out, names, unsealed depositions, civil lawsuits, bank settlements, congressional inquiries,
Speaker 1: government reports, contradictory statements, endless arguments over what constitutes a
Speaker 1: client list, endless semantic games about but the government supposedly
Speaker 1: possesses or does not possess unless attempts to reduce a
Speaker 1: sprawling criminal network into the smallest possible frame. And every
Speaker 1: time the public starts asking the bigger question, somebody appears
Speaker 1: with a smaller answer. That's the game. Shrink the question.
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein abused girls. Yes, Gwyn Maxwell helped them. Yes.
Speaker 1: Epstein died by suicide. The medical examiner rule that he did.
Speaker 1: Case closed, not even fucking close, because those answers do
Speaker 1: not explain the system. They don't explain how a registered
Speaker 1: sex offender walk back into elite society after his Florida
Speaker 1: conviction like he had gotten a parking ticket. They don't
Speaker 1: explain why prestigious institutions continued accepting his money. They don't
Speaker 1: explain why wealthy and influential people continued visiting him. They
Speaker 1: don't explain why financial institutions continue doing business with them
Speaker 1: despite glaring reputational risk. They don't explain the extraordinary prosecutorial
Speaker 1: deal that protected potential co conspirators in Florida. They don't
Speaker 1: explain why so many people surrounding Epstein were never dragged
Speaker 1: into interrogation rooms and asked the basic questions that ordinary
Speaker 1: suspects and witnesses face every single day. And they sure
Speaker 1: as held didn't explain why seven years after Epstein's death,
Speaker 1: the American public is still digging through records trying to
Speaker 1: reconstruct a story the federal government had enormous investigative resources
Speaker 1: to uncover itself. And that's what makes this seven year
Speaker 1: anniversary so fucking infuriating. The Passage of time has not
Speaker 1: made the questions disappear, It's made the failure to answer
Speaker 1: them more obscene. Seven years is enough time to investigate
Speaker 1: bank records. Seven years is enough time to trace financial transactions.
Speaker 1: Seven years is enough time to interview witnesses. Seven years
Speaker 1: is enough time to examine immigration records. Seven years is
Speaker 1: enough time to analyze corporate structures. Seven years is enough
Speaker 1: time to map travel. Seven years is enough time to
Speaker 1: investigate recruiters. Seven years is enough time to determine who
Speaker 1: facilitated what. Seven years is enough time to follow the
Speaker 1: fucking money. And if some of those things were done,
Speaker 1: then show us explain it lay out that investigative record,
Speaker 1: tell the public what was examined, who was questioned, what
Speaker 1: evidence was developed, what allegations were substantiated, what allegations were rejected,
Speaker 1: and why prosecutors made the decisions that they made. That's
Speaker 1: how trust works. Trust isn't a press release. Trust is
Speaker 1: not a government official standing behind a podium telling everyone
Speaker 1: to stop asking questions. Trust is earned through transparency, and
Speaker 1: that is precisely what's been missing from the Epstein story
Speaker 1: from the beginning. The public remembers the sweetheart deal. The
Speaker 1: survivors remember it even better. They remember watching a man
Speaker 1: accused of exploiting vulnerable girls receive treatment unavailable to virtually
Speaker 1: anyone without wealth, influence, and elitelylegal representation. They remember being
Speaker 1: denied the accountability they deserved. They remember years in which
Speaker 1: Epstein moved through the world while his victims carried the damage.
Speaker 1: And then, in twenty nineteen, when it finally appeared that
Speaker 1: the machinery of justice might grind in the motion, Epstein
Speaker 1: was dead before the trial ever began. So spare us
Speaker 1: the lectures about skepticism. Skepticism didn't appear out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: Institutions created it. Secrecy created it. Contradictions created it, Failure
Speaker 1: created it, redactions created it. Decades of preferential treatment created it,
Speaker 1: and every unanswered question added another brick to the wall.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean that every theory circulating on the Internet
Speaker 1: is true. Of course it doesn't. Some claims are unsupported,
Speaker 1: some are exaggerated, some are complete bullshit. But here's the
Speaker 1: part the government officials and institutional defenders repeatedly failed to understand.
Speaker 1: Defeat misinformation by withholding information. You defeat it with evidence.
Speaker 1: You defeat it with transparency. You defeat it by opening
Speaker 1: the record and demonstrating exactly what happened. When government institutions
Speaker 1: instead retreat behind secrecy, they create the perfect environment for
Speaker 1: suspicion to metastasize, and then they blame the public for
Speaker 1: being suspicious. That's gaslighting. We're told not to speculate about
Speaker 1: Epstein's death, while simultaneously being asked to accept the detension
Speaker 1: scenario so catastrophically mismanaged that it sounds unbelievable, precisely because
Speaker 1: it was unbelievable. We're told the important questions have been answered,
Speaker 1: while survivors continue asking questions. We're told there's nothing larger
Speaker 1: to uncover, while civil litigation continues exposing relationships, transactions, institutional failures,
Speaker 1: and previously unknown details. Years after Epstein's death, we're told
Speaker 1: to move on, Move on to what. Another scandal, another
Speaker 1: promise of true transparency, another round of politicians pretending they
Speaker 1: suddenly discover Jeffrey Epstein existed yesterday. Some of us have
Speaker 1: been here the entire fucking time. We watched the documents,
Speaker 1: we watch the lawsuits, We watched the depositions. We watch
Speaker 1: the names emerge. We watch powerful institutions distance themselves. We
Speaker 1: watch powerful people suddenly struggle to remember relationships that once
Speaker 1: had been perfectly convenient. We watch reputations get sanitized, we
Speaker 1: watch responsibility get compartmentalized, and most importantly, we watch survivors
Speaker 1: spend years screaming into a system that repeatedly demonstrated that
Speaker 1: protecting institutional credibility was easier than providing complete accountability. So
Speaker 1: today is not simply the anniversary of Jeffrey Epstein's death.
Speaker 1: It's the anniversary of unfinished business. It's the anniversary of
Speaker 1: institutional failure. It's the anniversary of questions that were never
Speaker 1: properly answered. It's the anniversary of a justice system that
Speaker 1: managed to imprison Jeffrey Epstein but failed to deliver him
Speaker 1: to the jury, And it's an anniversary of something Washington
Speaker 1: still seems incapable of understanding. We remember, we remember the deal,
Speaker 1: We remember the victims, We remember the powerful friends. We
Speaker 1: remember the missing accountability. We remember the failures inside that jail.
Speaker 1: We remember the question surrounding the investigation. We remember every
Speaker 1: time someone told us there was nothing else worth seeing.
Speaker 1: And after seven years, our answer remains exactly the same.
Speaker 1: We don't fucking believe you. Not because disbelief is entertaining,
Speaker 1: not because conspiracy is fashionable, not because we desperately need
Speaker 1: some cinematic explanation for what happened. We don't believe you
Speaker 1: because you have not earned belief. Show us the evidence,
Speaker 1: Show us the investigative work. Show us who is questioned,
Speaker 1: Show us what money was followed. Show us which allegations
Speaker 1: were investigated. Show us why certain people were charged and
Speaker 1: others weren't. Show us how a criminal operation that function
Speaker 1: for years around one of the most connected men in
Speaker 1: America somehow produced such a remarkably small universe of criminal accountability.
Speaker 1: Stop asking us for trust, instead, produce receipts seven years ago,
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein died in that jail cell. Seven years later,
Speaker 1: his survivors are still waiting for the full truth. The
Speaker 1: public is still waiting for the full truth. And those
Speaker 1: of us who have followed this case year after year
Speaker 1: are still standing here looking at the same institutions that
Speaker 1: told us they had everything under control. You didn't, You
Speaker 1: clearly fucking didn't. And until the unanswered questions are confronted
Speaker 1: with evidence instead of slogans, until transparency replaces damage control,
Speaker 1: and until accountability reaches beyond the easiest names to prosecute,
Speaker 1: this story is not over, not today, not tomorrow, Not
Speaker 1: because seven years is passed, not because officials are tired
Speaker 1: of hearing about it, and certainly not because somebody in
Speaker 1: Washington decided the public should finally shut up and move along.
Speaker 1: Seven years of questions, seven years of excuses, seven years
Speaker 1: of institutional ass covering, seven years of being told what
Speaker 1: we could see with our own eyes was somehow not
Speaker 1: worth questioning, And seven years later, here we still are watching, reading, digging, remembering,
Speaker 1: and saying the same thing we said when this whole, rotten,
Speaker 1: fucking structure began revealing itself. We still don't believe you.
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