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

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Epstein Chronicles. So Peter Mandelssohn was arrested yesterday and now

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he has been released on bell and that follows the

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same pattern that we saw with Prince Andrew, who was

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also recently arrested and released after about twelve hours. Now.

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The investigation obviously is ongoing, and they haven't confirmed one

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way or the other which way they're leaning, but just

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from the emails themselves, it's rather obvious that these two

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dudes passed on confidential information to Jeffrey Epstein. And I

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know some people act like it's no big deal, but

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it most certainly is. I mean, how much more evidence

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is needed that Jeffrey Epstein was collecting information, was using

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that information for his own ends, for his own benefit

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and for the benefit of whoever else than what we've

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seen already. I mean, we have confirmation right here that

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two high ranking members of the English government were passing

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classified information to somebody that's been called an intelligence asset.

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Do you think Epstein was just collecting that information for

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fun or do you think that he had a purpose

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for it, that he had a use for it, Because

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I don't think there's any doubt that Jeffrey Epstein was

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collecting this information for a specific purpose. What that purpose is,

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I have no idea. Sell it to somebody, use it

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to benefit for himself, whatever it might be. He wasn't

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just collecting this information to collect it though, that's for

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damn sure. And I think that this really throws cold

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water over the narrative that Jeffrey Epstein is just some

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kind of pervert, because it was obviously a lot more.

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In the previous episode we talked about the DEA investigation

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that included Jeffrey Epstein. That's never been explained. We've talked

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about how many different money laundering situations, and it doesn't

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just stop at money laundering. If there's a financial crime

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that could be committed, these people were committing them. You

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have to remember people like Epstein, they wrote the book

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on how to commit crimes in the financial sector. His mentors,

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the people that showed him the ropes, they knew exactly

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what buttons to push. And Epstein himself getting all that

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experience at bear Stearns and running his own financial scheme

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over at Tower Financial. Epstein had everything that these people

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were looking for. And then you add the proclivities to

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that his sick, disgusting, deviant desires and it was a

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match made in heaven. So if anybody thinks that Jeffrey

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Epstein was just some pervert who might have hooked up

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with a seventeen year old girl one time, congratulations, you're

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the exact kind of moron they're counting on. Today's article

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was published by AP and the headline former UK Ambassador

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Mandelsson released on Bell after arrest and Epstein probe. This

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article was authored by Pan Pylos and Jill Lawless. Police

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in Britain said Peter Mandelson, the former UK Ambassador to

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the United States, has been released on Bell after he

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was arrested in a misconduct probe stemming from his ties

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to the late Jeffrey Epstein. It came days after a

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friendship with Epstein landed the former Prince Andrew in police custody,

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and the writing was on the wall right once Prince

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Andrew was arrested, I knew that Mandelshn was next, and frankly,

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I thought that Mandelson would have been arrested first. But

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once Andrew was arrested, you knew that Mandelsyn was going

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to get hemmed up. A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said in

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a statement issued just after two am Tuesday, a seventy

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two year old man arrested on suspicion of misconduct in

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public office has been released on bell pending further investigation.

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So this isn't going away, and I think that Mandelson

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is facing a lot of exposure here. Now. We always

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have to keep in mind is this all just for show?

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Are they acting like they're just absolutely mortified by Mandelssohn's

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actions and then they're gonna go light on them because

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you know, he's one of us. That's how it's always been.

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Is the UK going to change course and actually treat

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mandelssn like they would anybody else. Imagine if Mandelssohn was,

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I don't know, a lieutenant in the navy, an he

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passed nonsensitive information to anybody, how would that be dealt with?

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We all know that it would be dealt with swiftly

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and brutally, So the same should be true for Peter

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Mandelsson and people like him when they find themselves in

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the crosshairs of an investigation. The man was not named,

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in keeping with British police practice, but the suspect in

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the case previously was identified as the former diplomat who's

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seventy two. Mandelssohn was filmed being led from his London

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home buy a car by playing clothes officers on Monday afternoon.

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And I know people wanted like a dramatic arrest, but

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that was never going to happen. The fact that they

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even arrested Mandelssohn and Andrew is gigantically huge. Now, of

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course I'm not naive it could all be performative. Certainly

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wouldn't be the first time, and it certainly won't be

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the last. But I have a feeling that the people

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of the UK have had enough and I think that

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Mandelssh and Prince Andrew or the former Prince Andrew are

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a good start. But of course the million dollar question

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is does the British establishment have the backbone to see

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this through? And I guess we'll have to wait to

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see what goes down, but certainly a good start. Both

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Mandelsson and Andrew Mountbatten windsor the former Prince Andrew are

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suspected of improperly passing UK government information to the disgraced financier,

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and the high profile British arrests are some of the

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most dramatic fallout from the trove of more than three

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million pages of Epstein related documents released last month by

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the US Justice Department. Well, no doubt about that. I mean,

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here in America, we're sitting on our hands, no big deal.

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Come on, this is all just overblown. You're just a fableist.

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This is a moral panic. Jeffrey Epstein not really that

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bad of a guy. What he likes seventeen year old girls,

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So what that's the kind of bullshit we're dealing with

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here in America. Meanwhile, over in the UK you got

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a principal blood getting him up and one of the

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most powerful politicians in the whole last country. Like you,

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dudes in America can't find one financial crime to arrest

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anybody on Well for them to do that, that have

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to upset their donors and the Epstein administration, I mean,

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the Trump administration is never going to do that. Police

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are investigating mandelsinn overclaimed that he passed sensitive government information

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to Epstein a decade and a half ago. He does

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not face allegations of sexual misconduct. Yeah, I've never heard

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anything about mandelssin diddling anybody, so certainly not in that realm.

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But when it comes to other things enabling Epstein and

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helping Enrich Epstein, there's no doubt that Mandelssyn is a

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co conspirator. His arrest came four days after in Mount Batten,

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Windsor was arrested in a separate case on suspicion of

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a similar offense related to his friendship with Epstein. He

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was a released after eleven hours in custody while the

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police investigation continues. Yeah, I didn't think they were going

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to hold them. I mean, they'll keep them there, interrogate

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them and then release him after he sees a judge

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or makes bail or whatever. But there was no way

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that they were going to hold him indefinitely. There's no

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capital crimes committed here. But I will say this, the

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fact that they're even talking about treason is a big deal.

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Do I think they're going to go that route? No,

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but they should. Anybody who's passing classified information to anybody

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else is putting the whole nation in jeopardy. And I

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know if I was a British citizen, I wouldn't be

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happy about any of it. And you can say that

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is taking it too far, or it's overblown, whatever, but

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I don't agree. Once you start talking about state secrets

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and passing those along to other people, especially people like Epstein,

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we're talking about big trouble and we're literally talking about

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treason because you don't know what Epstein's going to do

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with that information. Is he going to sell it to whoever?

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Probably either that or he's going to enrich himself, and

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either way it's bad news. Mandelsson served in senior government

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roles under previous Labor governments and was UK Ambassador to

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Washington until Prime Minister at Kurras Starmer fired him in

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September after emails were published showing that he maintained a

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friendship with Epstein after the Fier Pedophiles two thousand and

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eight conviction for sex offenses involving a minor. And this

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is the big problem because it says involving a minor.

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It was a lot more than that. And I think

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that Barry Krisher and the State of prosecutors that are

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responsible for this should have to answer for it, because

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there's no way in hell that with what Epstein was

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up to, he should have only received the sentence that

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he received. My man was looking at a life sentence

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on those federal charges to go from a life sentence

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to thirteen months only for a guy like Epstein. Certainly

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not for me, Certainly not for you. The files released

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in January contained more explosive revelations about Mandelson's ties to Epstein,

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whom he once called my best pal. Messages suggests that

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Mandelssohn passed on sensitive and potentially market moving government information

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to Epstein in two thousand and nine, when Mandelssohn was

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a senior minister in the British gouvern. That includes an

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internal government report discussing ways the UK could raise money

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after the two thousand and eight global financial crisis, including

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by selling off government assets. Mandelssohn also appears to have

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told Epstein he would lobby other members of the government

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to reduce a tax on banker bonuses. And remember, Jeffrey

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Epstein benefited from the financial collapse by being made whole

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by the taxpayer. So if you're not mad about that,

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I don't think there's any help for you. How can

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you not be mad that you are being robbed by

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Jeffrey Epstein? Please explain that British police launched a criminal

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probe earlier this month and searched Mandelssohn's two houses in

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London and Western England. The decision to appoint Mandelssohn nearly

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cost s Armer's job earlier this month, as questions swirled

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around his judgment about someone who has flirted with controversy

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during a decade's long political career. Though he acknowledged he

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made a mistake and he apologized to victims of Epstein,

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Starmer's position remains precarious. His future may rest on the

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release of files connected to Mandelsson's appointment. The government has

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pledged to begin releasing those documents in early March, though

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the timeline may be complicated by his arrest. Mandelssohn has

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been a major, if contentious figure in the center left

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Labour Party for decades. He's a skilled, critics say, ruthless

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political operator whose mastery of political intrigue earned him the

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name Prince of Darkness. While not that great, huh was

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sending emails to Jeffrey Epstein audition off state secrets and

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not even protecting those communications. Not so savvy after all.

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Lizzie the grandson of former Labor Cabinet minister Herbert Morrison.

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He was an architect of the party's return to power

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in ninety seven as centrist modernizing new labor under Prime

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Minister Tony Blair. Mandelsson served in senior government posts under

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Blair between ninety seven and two thousand and one and

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under Prime Minister Gordon Brown from two thousand and eight

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to twenty ten. In between he was the European Union's

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Trade Commissioner. Brown has been particularly angered by the revelations

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and has been helping police with their inquiries. Mandelsson twice

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had to resign from government during the Blair administration over

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allegations of financial or ethical impropriety, acknowledging mistakes but denying

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any wrongdoing. Oh, just a big mistake. I had no idea. Well,

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if you're that dumb, you shouldn't be in government. Pretty simple.

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And how many times are you guys going to throw

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this dude out of government and then let him back in?

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What he's a change man? Oh, I've turned over a

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new leaf. I only take money from pedophiles now, not

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arms traffickers. Oh wait, Epstein's both. He later returned to

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government and was back on the political front line when

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Starmer named him Ambassador to Washington at the start of

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US President Donald Trump's second term, Mandelssohn's trade expertise and

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comfort around the ultra rich were considered major assets. He

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helped secure a trade deal in May that spare Britain

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some of the tariffs Trump is imposed on countries around

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the world. Oh well, in that case, let's just forget

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everything else he was up to. No big deal, got

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us a couple of trade deals, So no big deal.

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The status of the deal is now up in the

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air after Trump announced a new set of global tariffs

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in the wake of a US Supreme Court decision quashing

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his previous in poor tax order. Earlier this month, Mandelssohn

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resigned from the House of Lords, Parliament's upper chamber, to

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which he was appointed for life in two thousand and eight.

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But he still has the title Lord Mandelsson. That went

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with it, all, right, So there's where we're at with

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Lord Mandelsson and his arrest. And obviously when we have

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some more information one way or the other, we'll get

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an added to the catalog. As far as this one, well,

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that's going to do it. All the information that goes

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with this episode can be found in the description box