The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1345
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In this episode of The Lotus Eateries, Carl and Harry discuss the new documents released by the government regarding the Epstein scandal, and the political connections that have been revealed. They discuss who is implicated, who has been exposed, and who has not.
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Good afternoon, folks. Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for Monday the 2nd of February
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2025. Today I'm joined by Harry and Farras, and we are going to do a deep dive into what has been
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revealed from the Epstein files. We're going to be talking about who is implicated and how,
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as far as we can tell, what are the depths of the depravity that have been revealed,
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and what are the political connections that are also exposed by all of this. And honestly,
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I think that's the more interesting part, believe it or not, because actually, in much of the other
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stuff that has been revealed, there's a lot of things that are confirmed, but we kind of already
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knew it. And it's actually in the political angle that we didn't know. The extent of Epstein's
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connections and his role as a facilitator, which actually was really fascinating, frankly.
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Um, before we go on, uh, we will be talking about things that are, um, difficult to talk about.
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Controversial, and not our opinion, but the opinions of the people who, uh, we are reporting on. So,
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just to be clear, we do not endorse anything that is in these files. We don't want to, um,
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have to go into terrible depth in them. We're going to try and use euphemisms where we can
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to spare you the worst of it. Um, so anyway, right, let's begin.
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Just one more thing. Half an hour after this show, we're talking about the possible bombing of
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Iran and what it means on RealPolitik, and, uh, there will be an Epstein angle there as well.
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Really had fingers in every pie imaginable, by the sounds of it.
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And that's the truth. So the first question, we've done a number of episodes in the past on
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this show about who Epstein was, all of the history of these Epstein files following his,
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uh, his death whilst in, uh, federal custody in, uh, in the United States and New York.
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Um, so we, we don't need to go over all of that ground again. There was a huge drop of these files
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over the weekend. That was about three million new pages have been dropped alongside 180,000
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images and 2000 videos, which I think brings the total amount of files released by the U S government,
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the department of justice following the whole Epstein, um, uh, scandal and Donald Trump's new
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administration into about three and a half million files. So what that means is that frankly, just for
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any one individual or even for a team of people, it is almost impossible to go through the whole
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thing. Certainly impossible to have gone through the entire thing by now. We're only two days out
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from all of these dropping. So information is still being filtered through as we are speaking.
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There could be more revelations as people, um, online investigate what's in there and take real deep
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dives and make connections between what we find, um, what we find in there. But for right now,
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the question is going to be who is implicated, who's actually implicated in these new files?
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Is there anybody new who's been implicated who we didn't know about before? Is there any new
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information that we can take from them and any new connections that we can make as well? Now,
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when you go to the scandalous, sordid details that are in there, because there is plenty of that,
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But Firaz, he offered, he volunteered, so that's on him.
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Well, I felt I had to take the worst of it. Like, I'm like, right, Harry, this is your business.
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Well, I mean, I'm going to have to sit through it anyway, so it doesn't really save me anything
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And Firaz is going to be covering the political stuff. So let's just go over a, a surface level
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look at who is, that we know of, implicated right now in these new document drops. One
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thing to note as well is the files are including Jeffrey Epstein's time in prison, including
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a psychological report. There's some very interesting documents in there and his death
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while incarcerated, along with investigative records on Ghislaine, Ghislaine, however you
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pronounce her name, Maxwell, Epstein's associate, who is also convicted of helping him traffic
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these girls. They say in this article, it's uncertain if this is the end of the road for
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the Epstein document saga, mainly because as many documents as we have right now, some
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officials are indicating we may only have about half of all of the total documents that they
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have. And they're saying that the ones that have been released are the ones that are most
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relevant for public consumption, and that the ones that have been withheld also include
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a lot of things that are unfit for public consumption, including a lot of adult material and things
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like CP that you don't want to be floating about on the internet and give people direct
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access to on the government website. But the Assistant Attorney, Deputy Attorney General in
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America, Blanche, has said that Friday's drop marks the end of a very comprehensive document
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identification and review process, which signals that as far as the US Justice Department is
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concerned, its job is over. Democrats are still going to be using this as a cudgel to try and beat
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the Republicans with coming up to the midterms later this year. But from what we can see thus far,
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this is what we're getting. That is liable to change in the future, however, given how many times
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this administration has frankly flip-flopped on this issue. So we'll see if anything new comes out
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in the future. But let's just get on with who is in there. So we've got a lot of people who
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who we already knew, who we already knew were heavily involved with Epstein and have already,
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frankly, had their careers ruined through their association with Epstein. So there are a number
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of new emails released as part of this. And that's where a lot of this is focusing on as well, by the
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way. A lot of it is the emails. If you go onto the website, which I will go onto here, you have to,
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one, you have to sign here saying that you are 18 or older. Very, very in-depth age checking process
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there. You just click yes. And then you scroll down. And this was all as a result of Thomas Massey's
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bill that got past the Epstein's discovery stuff. And it means that as part of that, you are able to
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now search for people's names, any identifying key terms that you want to look for. And you've got
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access to all of it through these links as well. But what most people are focusing on for a lot of
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the juicier details is the emails, where a lot of this information is coming from. So these emails
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are between Epstein and a man called the Duke. Everybody is assuming the former Duke of York,
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the now disgraced former Prince Andrew, where they discussed having
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dinner at Buckingham Palace, where there was lots of privacy. Messages between the two of them
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including an offer to introduce the Duke to a 26-year-old Russian woman. Emails are signed
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with A, where the signature appears to read HRH, Duke of York, KG. They were exchanged in August of
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2010, two years after Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor. There are also emails they say
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here between Epstein and Mountbatten-Windsor, dated February of 2011, which is actually after the time
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in interviews where Andrew had said he had cut off contact with the two of them. One of the things
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that you'll notice throughout all of these, even in the non-incriminating conversations that Epstein
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was having with a lot of people at this time, is that a lot of them overlapped with his time in
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prison for his first conviction in 2008, when he got a very sweetheart deal for the trafficking and
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prostitution of a 14-year-old, a minor, where he got 18 months in prison.
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It wasn't a lot of house arrest as well. It was kind of, he could work from prison,
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access emails from prison. No, no, no, he could work from home and only have to spend his nights
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in prison. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Which is a ridiculous deal to be able to get a hold of,
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and one of the whispers that went around in the behind the scenes at the time was the reason that
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the prosecutor had gone with that deal and the judge had gone ahead with that deal,
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because they were warned that Epstein was in bed with the intelligence services. He might have
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been... Turns out it was Dershowitz who told Jim Acosta that Epstein was intelligence and a friend
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of intelligence. Don't touch him. Dershowitz pops up everywhere. Dershowitz pops up everywhere. He pops
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up here again in a lot of these emails. There are also mentions, hundreds of mentions of Richard Branson,
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the British founder of Virgin Group in the files, in an email exchange from 2013. Doesn't he have an
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island of his own in the... I believe he does. They may have even been neighbouring.
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Yeah, in an email exchange for 2013, Branson appears to tell Epstein that it was really nice
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seeing him adding, anytime you're in the area, would love to see you, as long as you bring your
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harem. And to clarify that, the Virgin Group has clarified that harem referred to three adult
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members of Epstein's team, adding, any contact Richard and Joan Branson had with Epstein took place
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on only a few occasions more than 12 years ago and was limited to group or business settings,
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such as a charity tennis event. And I'm sure it was all just as innocent as raising money for charity.
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Other foreign figures, and this is where it becomes like who was implicated, literally everybody,
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Yes, across the entire global spectrum, include a national security advisor to Slovakia's prime
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minister, Miroslav Ladjak. He resigned after text messages between him and Epstein came to light in
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the files, including from 2018, when the two light-heartedly discussed women and a forthcoming
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meeting with foreign Russian minister Sergei Lavrov. Epstein, furthermore, made 75,000 euro,
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otherwise known as 55,000 pounds worth of payments, to accounts connected to Lord Peter Mandelson,
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which has been discovered because there are bank statements released with these files.
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And they were between 2003 and 2004. Epstein was sending three separate 25,000 euro payments
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referenced to Lord Mandelson and his husband, boyfriend, whatever their arrangement was at the time.
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Mandelson, in an amazing coincidence of just, he must have knocked himself on the head.
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Because I, personally, I'd remember that amount of money just dropping into my account.
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He said he has no record or recollection of receiving the sums and did not know whether
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the documents were authentic. Okay, buddy. All right, pal. You already got in a massive amount
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of trouble back in September for a load of the email leaks that came out along with the,
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it was the birthday card that had been signed for Epstein, who, again, a real who's who.
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Everybody had signed that birthday card. That was released along with a lot of correspondence that
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Epstein and Mandelson had had over the years. Again, a lot of it overlapping with his time in prison,
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which, again, seems to suggest that... One detail about Mandelson, if you'll permit me.
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Of course. There was a discussion between Gordon Brown when he was prime minister at the time
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and his team over what to do about raising funds. And one of the suggestions from, I believe, Nick Buckley
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was to sell state assets. Mandelson then takes that email and forwards it to Jeffrey Epstein.
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And Epstein replies, what assets are saleable? So what Mandelson was doing was providing
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a high-level secret internal government communication to Jeffrey Epstein about Britain's finances
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and Britain's financial state and passing it on to this guy. And as I'll discuss in my segment,
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pretty much all the world's financiers had some kind of touchpoint.
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It's the network. It's the network. Putting assets into the network.
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Which casts a very different light on the sale of Britain's gold.
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And why any of this money would be being transferred from Epstein to Mandelson,
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it seems like a cash for favours. Except this is payment for really big favours to do with a
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huge financial giant of a country and what they are doing with their own assets. There's also
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evidence that I'll get onto later related to Peter Mandelson's resignation from the Labour Party
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that seems to suggest that he was actively trying to interfere in policy writing on the behalf of
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financiers like Epstein. So this is, it's kind of exactly what you would expect from high-ranking,
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powerful financiers, that they just have lines to people in government, important people in
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government, where they can buy them off to get what they want for favourable policies for these
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Think about it further. Britain lost billions as a result of these kinds of arrangements,
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all for Peter Mandelson to end up making a grand total of £55,000.
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Well, we don't know what else he might have got from Epstein as well,
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Before we go on, can we also talk about, very briefly, the tone and tenor of the language?
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Because one thing I couldn't help but notice is, like,
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there's something Norwegian princess or something.
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Like, European royalty business magnates speak to Epstein in a deeply respectful way.
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In a very humble way, in the sort of way that, you know, you very rarely have to talk
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And then Epstein, his responses are just one line, just, no, you're the minimum possible
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You speak to me respectfully, I send you one line in return, and I will never have to worry
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about that or anything like this, but you will always have to speak.
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That's something that really stuck out to me, how secure Epstein seems in this network.
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They're approaching him as though he's some kind of great, powerful, intellectual sage.
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Or like he's the viceroy of India or something, right?
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They're approaching him as supplicants, and he is sort of...
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He's too busy doing weird baby farm eugenics experiments to be able to...
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Wasn't that his Texas ranch or something like that?
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Yeah, his New Mexico ranch, which is still questions over what's going on with it since he died,
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who bought it, people have gone to take a look over there, and immediately been caught
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up by security and told them to go on their way.
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And yet people have flown drones over, and there is construction work or something like
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But the thing is, people are going to have to remember that all of these assets are just
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going to stay within this network, and that's the issue.
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And, like, somebody will take Epstein's place, or a couple of people will take Epstein's
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place, and it will be the same thing all over again.
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It's that he was the center of an oligarchic network that had fingers in pretty much every
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country, and was able to reach out for influence on financial deals.
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And speaking of influence going to the top, you're probably all wondering, is Trump's
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I've seen some people say upwards of 3,000 times.
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If you actually go onto the web page and search up Trump's name, I did, it comes up maybe slightly
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But there are lots of repeat documents in this as well.
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So it's doubling up a lot of these documents and adding to that.
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But it is important to know, as Sky News very tactfully did right here, that just because
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you're mentioned does not necessarily mean that you have done anything wrong.
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You can't just hear that somebody's been mentioned in it and automatically go,
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Because it could just be that you're mentioned in emails where they're talking about you.
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Because if you go and you look at some of the documents that are sent related to Trump,
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for instance, and I'm not saying this is like a number one Trump supporter or anything.
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I think people don't know that I'm not that anymore.
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And I'm not trying to say this to try and excuse anything.
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But if you go in, you can find that some of the documents are, say, for instance, around
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2016, Epstein and a lot of the others sending each other the odds of particular political
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So it can be somewhat innocent and excusable like that.
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You have to really go into the documents themselves and read about it, which is why I'm saying,
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you know, be careful before we know everything that's in there and the context for it.
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But what we do know already does look quite bad for some people.
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But related to Trump, they say among the new documents is a list compiled by the FBI last
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year of allegations made against Trump by callers to its National Threat Operations Center tip line.
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Many of these appear to be based on unverified tips received by the agency and were made without
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This list includes numerous allegations of sexual abuse made against Trump, Epstein and other
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And what you may see is a lot of the allegations of sexual abuse related to Trump that people
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are putting in their headlines related to this drop of documents.
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I'm sure Carl will go into it in the next segment as well.
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A lot of those, if not all of them, are coming from those documents.
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So it's important to know that these allegations are coming from unverified phone calls from
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people just calling up and saying, so-and-so did this to me.
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So, you know, they might be true, they might not.
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One of the interesting connections, given that he went so hard on this in the first place as well,
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Who, despite having said in the past that he was invited to Little St. James Island, Epstein Island,
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actually in these emails it comes across more like he's kind of like an autistic loser trying
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Like, he's begging, like, hey, what day and night will be the wildest party on your island?
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Again, after his conviction, his very public conviction, everybody in these circles and networks
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would have known, I'm talking to a guy who was convicted for bad behaviour with a minor.
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November 2012, Epstein asked how many people Musk would need transporting on a helicopter
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ride to the island and Musk replies that it would only be himself and his then wife.
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An email from Musk to Epstein on Christmas in 2012 includes Musk inquiring whether the financier
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had any parties planned because he needs to let loose.
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You've got to, um, this will be interesting when you get into it.
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There is also further contact between Epstein and Bill Gates.
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Now, related to those, which I'm sure you'll get into what was said about, uh, about Gates.
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Yeah, it's, it's not that deep though, to be honest.
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I was just saving the lurid details for yours, but I'll go into it here.
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Uh, basically Epstein sent an email to himself related to Bill Gates, which seemed to have
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Maybe he was threatening that he would send the email so there would be an electronic record
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But we have access to it anyway, wherein Epstein is one, reprimanding Gates for being a bad friend
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And then two, threatening to spill the beans on the fact that Gates allegedly had contracted
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an STD or STDs from Nights with Russian Girls, had potentially passed on one of those STDs to
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his then-wife, now ex-wife, shockingly, Melinda Gates, um, and was trying to secure drugs so
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that he could slip them into her drinks or give them to her surreptitiously, so she didn't
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realise she had an STD that he'd given her that he'd got from sleeping with Russian Girls
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Weirdly, in the same year, Bill Gates put out an appeal for someone to create a super condom.
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Science has not yet found one strong enough for the Goliath, Bill Gates.
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I don't know if it's about size, I think it's about prophylactic quality.
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As in, you know, I get the feeling that, I mean, what, like, with the Prince Andrews,
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So, a large amount of what they do is just soliciting prostitutes, which, okay, gross,
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Well, I mean, it depends on where you are, I suppose, in the world, right?
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But, yeah, okay, maybe illegal, but, like, not like...
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But nowhere near as immoral as trafficking minors.
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So, it's, you know, gross, but not the same level, and so it becomes a bit more comical
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that it kind of implies that, yeah, Bill Gates...
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Hugely immoral, and either way, I don't like the idea of being governed or being socially
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Yeah, but I kind of assume that rich and powerful guys solicit prostitutes.
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I just wish that it were not the case that we're living in a truly godless world.
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Yeah, I agree, but, like, I think that's a level of, like, corruption and depravity
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that's kind of expected, you know, that, yeah, okay, it's probably the case that very rich
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guys spend a lot of money on women to shag, right, okay, you know, not the end of the
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world, not great, but not the end of the world, and it's just kind of funny...
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By the way, it's completely humiliating, and just association with this sick freak in the
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first place is bad enough, as well as all of the favours and political influence that
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he's getting as a result of this, because whether or not they're doing something illegal,
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the humiliation, embarrassment, immorality of it is enough that Epstein can then use that
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Having your pimp responsible for your finances and political connections is deeply degrading
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Even if men who are powerful tend to do certain things sometimes.
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It's still a funny story that Bill Gates, you know, ultra-billionaire shanked a Russian
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prostitute in the condom split, and then he caught an STD.
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And then he gave it to his wife, and he's like, Epstein, what can I do?
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Yeah, they probably already have, you're right.
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In a lot of ways, they're not actually terribly different to idiots who do things they shouldn't
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Either way, a spokesperson for Microsoft has said that these allegations are completely
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So if you want more information on just who's who in this, there are already articles like
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this, which were accurate up to the time, but there might be more names being added to
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Obviously, shock of all shocks, Harvey Weinstein's in there.
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Yeah, Pusha T, Bill Clinton, Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Chris Tucker.
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Chris Tucker flew on the Lolita Express loads of times.
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Obviously, Richard Branson, Diana Ross, pictured with Clinton and Michael Jackson all at the
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I don't know what the black marks are here for.
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So one wonders who was she grabbing by the neck.
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Democrat nominee, and then Secretary of State, and then the guy in charge of all the environmental
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But the thing is, when we say mentioned, we don't know what the context of these is, right?
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Yeah, again, like Liz Hurley, for instance, Austin Powers alumni.
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For all I know, it might just be, she was great in Austin Powers, in an email.
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Like, the thing to remember is that these boomers were using emails in the same way you use social
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As in, you'll just talk about whatever, as well as anything that you think is important.
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So, there are going to be loads of references to just things that have happened, that they're
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like, oh no, Courtney Love's died or something.
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It'll be something along those lines, probably, for most of them.
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That's not to say that there aren't going to be ones who are obviously more implicated
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But it's one of those things where it's like, okay, you can't draw that much from an individual
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But, happily, because the documents are all so available to you, if any of these numbers
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Sorry, these names do jump out at you, you can just quickly go into the webpage and search
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So, that is one of the successes of this whole thing, if you ask me.
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There are also a lot of the photos that are available now, that people have been drawing
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Peter Mandelson, for some reason, in his underwear, speaking to a faceless woman in the
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These creepy ones have been going around of Prince Andrew with some blacked-out faces,
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a woman on the floor, who I presume is alive, because there's another version of the picture
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If nothing else, this should always just confirm to you that the people who rule us are degenerate
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freaks, outside of anything else that they are involved in, and how bad and how deep the
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Outside of all that, these people are freaks, and very, very strange people.
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Again, they're interesting, and there's a salaciousness to all of this, but by itself, the photos aren't
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incriminating the ones that they have released thus far.
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Like the one here of Bill Gates in this framed photo.
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This just means that they're all associates of Epstein, which we all already knew.
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Where the weird stuff starts to come in is where you get to, again, the stuff with Mandelson,
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Like, some of the weird discussions in these emails, and the way that they're talking to
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somebody who is very powerful, was a major part of a government.
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This would, I believe, be when Mandelson was still in the Labour government during the first
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This is a discussion with Ghislaine Maxwell, where he's saying that he's feeling starved
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Now you're impatient and beginning to get some sense of what you were like as a child.
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Okay, mind you, my plans for Thailand and Bali at the beginning of September are now firming
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Behave or you'll be punished like the bad boy you are.
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With someone like Peter Mandelson and connected in these sort of circles, I'm actually kind
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of reluctant to put a box around their sexuality.
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I imagine a lot of these people have done a lot of things with a lot of, you know, victims
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that they do to be part of the club rather than because this is like a genuine expression
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There's now questions of whether he's going to be able to keep his peerage.
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He might no longer be Lord Mandelson by the end of this.
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Because, I mean, this is just following on from a lot of the controversy around September
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when all of the stuff with the birthday card came out.
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And I was almost certain, didn't he resign then as well?
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Yes, he resigned as ambassador and now he's fully resigned from Labour.
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Which must be his, what, third or fourth time doing that?
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But the thing is, and that's the point, music keeps coming back.
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Like, it's been well known that Mandelson is basically a weird perv
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and that he has been friends with Epstein for a long time.
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And so it was really weird when Starmer was like,
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It kind of implies Starmer was like, okay, tap into the network.
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And with, I mean, there is more to it in terms of Mrs. Starmer
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and in terms of Mandelson being, you know, like Epstein
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and in terms of all of these other connections that make you wonder
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The most interesting thing that I found from this article
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showing that Mandelson tried to change government policy
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on a planned tax on bankers bonuses following requests from Epstein.
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Trying hard to amend, Lord Mandelson wrote to Epstein in December 2009,
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The policy introduced after the financial crisis meant that bonuses
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over £25,000 would be liable for an extra 50% tax rate.
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At the time, Lord Mandelson was business secretary
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Any real chance of making the tax only on the cash portion
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of the banker's bonus, Epstein wrote in an email on the 15th of December.
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Mandelson's told the BBC that, oh, every UK and international bank
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And he said that my conversation in government at the time
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reflected the views of the sector as a whole, not a single individual.
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But the fact that he had such close ties and was such good friends with Epstein
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and received money from him, at least money that we know he received
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between 2003 and 2004, does suggest that Epstein bought and blackmailed his way
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into influence in this particular government and many others
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Who knows what other benefits he was getting from this?
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But in this case, it seems that he was trying to exert influence
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just to get a bit of a tax break for any bonuses that he would get
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or bonuses for his other pals within the broader financial network.
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So that's an introduction to a lot of this stuff right now
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Doomhand says, we don't hate these people enough.
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And Mason Royce points out the Lord Acton power corrupts absolutely.
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But the thing is, I think we're way beyond this kind of framing, right?
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Because, I mean, like Lord Acton is assuming a kind of, you know,
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Britain and England where actually corruption is assumed to be bad
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And what we're seeing from this is it's just not the paradigm
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I mean, corruption is the nature of the network
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Unfortunately, Calvin has kind of stumbled into this.
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So this is someone that is a member of the public
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that has been interviewed by the FBI in New York
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that is making claims that are, frankly, a bit outlandish.
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at the time that the allegations are being made.
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He was the victim of a type of ritualistic sacrifice
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vile things that you'll see come from these emails.
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I think these are sent after Epstein was already dead as well,
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subject interview of a purported Epstein victim.
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So it's not like these are emails from Epstein,
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Everything is done by implication and innuendo,
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but it does give a sort of conspiratorial aspect to it.
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and this is being reported by the FBI in New York, right?
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when a certain mass of allegations reaches a critical point,
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it does lend an extra weight to what's being said.
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But we already know that Epstein was involved in a load of crazy stuff.
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and it's a lot of the time just coming from people who,
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aren't necessarily subject to privilege and information, right?
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It could just be some sort of rand off the street,
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making lunatic allegations about George H.W. Bush,
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I don't know if I'm going to put it on the screen like that,
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but then you'll see lots of people posting underneath.
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The complainant was spoken to and deemed not credible.
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Additional research showed three separate incidents involving police,
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which requested mandatory psychiatric evaluations.
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about how Donald Trump has raped and tortured girls,
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this is all coming after Trump's presidential bids,
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we don't have proof of that from the Epstein files.
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where because of all of these political connections
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but the files don't actually prove anything at that stage.
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They prove that these business connections are real.
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They prove that the elites operate in these circles
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that we would have got these things out of them either.
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I know, half of the files that haven't been sent,
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So anyway, you've got these extremely wild allegations
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just so you know that I've seen it sort of thing.
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he was clearly very moved and bothered by this.
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having been jailed for being a child trafficker
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having all of the weird stuff on this St. James,
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And clearly being a kind of supplier of these things
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unlike in a regular sort of DMing conversation.
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our spy was captured after completing a mission.
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Just saying there's a lot of references to torture.
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Sorry, I have no stomach for even the slightest.