Patrick Lawrence: Epstein & the Age of Unreason

By Patrick Lawrence

The Floutist

 

As we read revelations of the sordid, bottomlessly rank doings of Jeffrey Epstein and the vast circle of elites with whom he managed to surround himself—and god knows how immense the inventory of “redacted” material, how many the names and crimes that will never come to light—we read of the collapse of our world, nothing less. Our world: the Western world, the Atlantic world, the world wherein humanity began, in the eighteenth century, to bring modern democracies and republics into being.

Yes, much has been written over many years of the decline of the West. We have remarked upon this countless times in these pages. But we are confronted now with more, far more, than questions of national power, shifting geopolitics, the rise to prominence of the non–West, and the new world order these nations, their turn now come, are intent on bringing into being. 

Questions of power and politics figure prominently in the Epstein affair, certainly. But even the partial release of the Epstein files takes us well beyond such matters, large as they are. As the rock is lifted, we find beneath it the rot of our foundational institutions and the beyond-belief nihilism of those who control them—altogether the worms that have eaten into any semblance of order, law, or justice to which the West’s democracies and republics may once have had a purchase.

Toynbee warned of this in A Study of History, the 12 volumes of which he produced from 1934 to 1961. Civilizations decline and fall, he asserted in his most famous thesis, not primarily due to external forces but in consequence of internal decadence and lapses of spirit among societal elites. 

What had served as “creative minorities” devolve into “dominant minorities” that no longer believe even in themselves. They then take to glorifying what elites once were but are no longer. Toynbee is out of fashion now, but I find in the books a mirror of our circumstance as we have them all these years later.

Meaning, truth, reason, language, purpose, social relations of all kinds: What is left of these in this, our post–Epstein era? Tomorrow will give the appearance of today and yesterday, but no, Toto, we are very far from Kansas now. And the point to be grasped as we manage the shock of the Epstein revelations is that there is no longer any going back to Kansas. Kansas is gone.

As others have remarked in recent days, for Americans, and by extension all those who have thought of themselves as citizens elsewhere in the West, there is nowhere else to turn now but to themselves.

“A Republic, If You Can Keep It.”

On Sept. 17, 1787, a prominent Philadelphia salonnière named Elizabeth Willing Powel put a blunt question to Benjamin Franklin. The Constitutional Convention drew to a close that day, its business complete; Franklin was 81 and infirm. “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” Willing Powel asked.

“A republic, if you can keep it,” was Franklin’s famous reply.

We have failed to keep it: This is the truth of our moment. Now what? This is the question of our moment.

“There has always been a privileged class, even in America, but it has never been so dangerously isolated from its surroundings,” Christopher Lasch wrote as he began The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy (Norton, 1995). It was the great social historian’s last book, published posthumously. I wonder if Lasch, prescient as he often was, could have imagined the dangers with which these elites have since come to confront us. 

A refusal to accept limits of any kind, the abandonment of all notions of moral conduct, indifference to all others not of their status, the rejection of any of the responsibilities attaching to positions of influence and power: These manifest now as grave dangers across the Western post-democracies.

As Lasch wrote in the just-noted book, the elites of the past understood that their places in society imposed upon them “civic obligations”—Lasch’s term. There were social contracts, in plain language. With privileges came duties, and a certain pride was taken in fulfilling these duties. 

Hold Epstein and those around him up to this light and you instantly recognize a fundamental change of ethos among the elites of our time: Arrogance has replaced any such pride. This, too, we can count a danger.

How do we account for the depravity to which the West’s elites have sunk—their endless derelictions, their celebrations of a shared narcissism, the strange absence of any kind of order within the bubbles, the many-gated cities, inside of which they live and move?

“[I]ndifference to all others not of their status, the rejection of any of the responsibilities attaching to positions of influence and power: These manifest now as grave dangers across the Western post-democracies.”

Who are these people? Who? The question leads us into a history we might call psycho-social, and it is well we understand it.

We must go back to Emmanuel Kant to address our present properly. It was Kant who emerged among the great apostles of the Enlightenment, a.k.a. the Age of Reason, during the 1780s, when he wrote the books for which he is best known. In 1784 he published a brief essay—it prints out today at seven pages—called “What Is Enlightenment?” 

Kant’s answer turned on the liberation of the individual. It was the free-standing individual, capable of discerning, reasoning, and judging for himself or herself without reference to the coercive relations of the past, who would announce the enlightenment of humanity from the reigning state of “immaturity,” as Kant called it.

From the opening lines of this famous essay:

“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.”

A few paragraphs in, Kant wrote aspirationally of “a few who, after having themselves thrown off the yoke of immaturity, will spread the spirit of a rational appreciation for both their own worth and for each person’s calling to think for himself.”

Stirring, of course. And how thoroughly has this accolade to individuality permeated Western culture from Kant’s day until ours.

Monsters of Boundless Subjectivity

But over time this idealization of the individual produced—and I am not first to use this term—a monster. Who could possibly have anticipated this as the outcome of so salutary a breakthrough in the human consciousness? Let us call it the monster of boundless subjectivity.

The thinking-for-himself individual—discerning, reasoning, judging—came subliminally to conclude that he or she was capable of discerning, reasoning through and judging any event, circumstance, course of action, or phenomenon and getting it right without reference to the learning, knowledge, or expertise of anyone else. An ethos of all-knowingness, made of sheer presumption, came to prevail. 

What had long served as external sources of order and guides to conduct were in one or another way discredited. Morality—essential point here—was internalized. Even law, which is by definition an altogether public agreement among those in a given polity, was internalized.

There is no walking around anywhere in the Western world without encountering a person of these subconscious convictions. He is not well-read but thinks he is well- read, not well-informed but certain he is. He has an opinion about everything and it is a worthy opinion because it is his opinion. He is, borrowing and bending a phrase from John Ralston Saul, one of Kant’s bastards.

It is but a few short steps to the more diabolic presumption, and this, too, is essential to our grasp of power and how it is exercised in our time: If I think something is right for me it is altogether right because I think it is right. In this way the Age of Reason Kant celebrated has given way—a gradual process, Jeffrey Epstein merely a thoroughly unconscious exemplar—to an Age of Unreason, as I call our time. I dilated on this topic in a lecture delivered in Switzerland last summer. I subsequently published it in Consortium News, and it is here.

The elites described in the Epstein files, such as we have them, are best understood as people of this kind. They are among Kant’s bastards, extreme as their case may be. And we know by now that President Trump, via the thousands of mentions of his name in the documents, is through and through one of Kant’s bastards. This is not a matter of whether Trump dropped his drawers with one of Epstein’s underage victims: It is a question of his consciousness.

In early January four Washington correspondents from The New York Times conducted a lengthy interview with Donald Trump. During it they asked the president whether there were any limits on his exercise of power in the global context. The coup in Venezuela was but a few days previous.

“Yeah, there is one thing,” Trump replied. “My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.” As if this were not enough he added, “I don’t need international law.”

“This is not a matter of whether Trump dropped his drawers with one of Epstein’s underage victims: It is a question of his consciousness.”

The Times’s report then continued:

“‘When pressed further about whether his administration needed to abide by international law, Mr. Trump said, ‘I do.’ But he made clear he would be the arbiter when such constraints applied to the United States. ‘It depends what your definition of international law is,'” he said.”

This is well beyond the narcissism commonly ascribed to Donald Trump. It tilts to sheer solipsism.

James Marriott, one of the only interesting voices in the Times of London’s otherwise dull opinion section, published “Jeffrey Epstein circle’s ‘big ideas’ were vacuous guff.” It goes straight to my earlier point: The monster of boundless subjectivity is ever to be found among Kant’s bastards, empty minds ever to be dressed up as high intellects.

 

Marriott writes in part:

“Contemplating their ranches, private islands and jets, the Epstein set managed to convince themselves that all this wealth was not evidence of anything as prosaic as birth or luck or hard work—rather, these were the rewards of intellect, ‘superforecasting’ and “pattern reading.” …

The men in Epstein’s circle continually congratulate one another on their intelligence: ‘U r wall st tough guy w intellectual curiosity,’ Larry Summers told Epstein. 

‘And you an intellectual with a Wall Street curiosity,’ Epstein replied…. Prince Andrew was still at this when he told Emily Maitlis that he didn’t regret his friendship with Epstein because of ‘the opportunities that I was given to learn either by him or because of him.’ 

Did it occur to nobody in this world that when Andrew is praising you as an intellectual something has gone horribly wrong?

Never in history has so much money surrounded itself with so much pseudo-intellectual guff. Gusts of it drift annually through Davos with its seminars on the power of dialogue and the meaning of tipping points. 

The spirit is institutionalised in the large companies which, no longer content with merely making money, adopt ‘corporate philosophies.’ It is all-pervading in the tech industry, with its pseud0 meditations on consciousness. Sam Altman boasts that he ‘consulted, like, hundreds of moral philosophers’ when developing ChatGPT.”

I quote this passage at length because Marriott reminds us in it that the delusions and corruptions evident within Epstein’s circle are not confined to it. No, they are typical, if less sordid, of power elites across the Western post-democracies—in politics, judiciaries, finance, the universities, corporate media. 

And I have to add: We will be reminded of this once again, bitterly, as it becomes evident that few of those implicated in the Epstein scene—if anyone, indeed—will be charged, tried, sentenced, or otherwise held to account for crimes that in some cases seem to verge on the unspeakable.

On the same day Marriott’s piece appeared, Alastair Crooke published another in Strategic Culture and, subsequently, Eurasiareview under the headline, “The Slow Epstein Earthquake: The Rupture Between the People and the Elites.” Crooke, going straight to this last point, begins just where we all must:

“After Epstein, nothing can continue as before: Neither the post war ‘never again’ values—reflecting sentiment at the end of bloody wars—and the widespread yearning for a ‘fairer’ society; nor the bipolar economics of extreme disparities in wealth; nor trust—after the exposed venality, rotted institutions and perversions that the Epstein files have shown to be endemic amongst certain of the western élites.

How to speak of ‘values’ against this background?”

Crooke addresses how the Epstein affair looks to young people—but not to the exclusion of the rest of us—as he concludes with his reflections on the world that has so spectacularly collapsed all around us:

“If protest has no effect in changing the status quo, and elections remain between the Tweedle Dee and Dum parties of the existing order, the young will conclude that ‘no one will come to save us’—and they may conclude in their despair that the future can only be decided on the streets.”

I don’t see why, Alastair, this judgment is the purview of the young alone. It is there for anyone paying attention to make. History, including America’s, is replete with examples of how the street figures when let-them-eat-cake elites prove as indifferent to the commonweal as those who now hold power.

Patrick Lawrence, a correspondent abroad for many years, chiefly for the International Herald Tribune, is a columnist, essayist, lecturer and author, most recently of Journalists and Their Shadows, available from Clarity Press or via Amazon.  Other books include Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century. His Twitter account, @thefloutist, has been restored after years of being permanently censored. 

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Leon Black HORRIFIC Epstein Crimes!

 

schools across the US to cancel picture day due to Leon Black's Epstein file
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involvement. Pretty sad when local schools are more aware of doing more than our own government. Honestly, so
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pathetic. Leon Black through Apollo Global Management owns Life Touch, the
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company that dominates school photography in America. of all the businessmen the businesses
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someone with Epstein ties could own a company with direct access to children's
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photos is probably the most alarming. So, this is Leon Black
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and Life Touch ownership that group Apollo, they do own Life Touch uh
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photos, but that's not even the most damning thing when it comes to Leon Black,
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right? So, we talked before about the company Lifeouch, how they're in the
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Epstein files, and there is this allegation that this could have been
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used as some type of catalog, like taking these pictures, storing that information, and have basically having a
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catalog of of children. But, let me show you something else that
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Leon Black did. It's probably the most uh damning here.
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We also get into this about here the database again. Power to the people is talking about that your children's
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photos are being uploaded to a database that is owned by a pedophile. Again,
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Leon Black. And I'm going to say this for all the parents who are watching um as well. Hear me loud and clear.
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Please do not post your children's faces on social media.
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Um, a friend of mine who has multiple kids, when she takes a picture with her
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kids, if she puts it on social media, she blurs their faces. Don't put your kids' faces on social media
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because predators have been known to use that, too.
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You thinking it's just a family photo, predators look at it as something else.
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Leon Black in the Epstein files. I'll make this bigger for you so you can see this along
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with me. This is May 26th of 2023.
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Call with Jean Christensen. Wigdor LLP referral. Leon Black, Wall
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Street person, 72 or 71 year old now, founded largest private equity global
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fund that exists today that's publicly traded. One of Epstein's friends, very
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powerful. Another reason why you don't want to like this guy freaking runs
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Private Equity Global Fund. We've talked about the dangers of private equity on this show before, how they've come for
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the housing market and more. 7 to 8 years
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black was sexually violent with her. 7 to 8 years old. The name here is
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redacted. So again, for people like Megan Kelly,
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there are different ages all throughout the Epstein files.
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It is alleged that Leon Black bit parts of her, we will say female anatomy on
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this show. Violence was something that was arousing
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for him, very painful for her. JC represented victim for civil
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defamation case, not sex abuse case. Went to USAO in Manhattan May or June of
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2021. JC doesn't represent her anymore. Let's
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go on. Here's another one. got a call from a victim woman who said that she heard about lawsuit against black.
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Victim said black assaulted her around 20 years ago, 2001 or 2002 in Epstein's
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townhouse. And this is why I continue to say stop buying the narrative of someone
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saying they didn't go to the island. Epstein had multiple properties. There were things that were done on these
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other properties as well. So this incident is alleged to be 2001 2002.
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victim described it. Felt pain, something sharp inserted in the female
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anatomy. I'm trying to be as pissy as possible here. On a massage table with the head on the floor, legs on his
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shoulders. Excruciating pain. Spoke with blank at the Manhattan DA's office.
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Blank at DA's office. Substance abuse problems in 1990s. Prayed on by Epstein.
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Gave massages to Epstein and Black for money. Lives in blank now. abuse happened in New York.
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So, there needs to be something said for those crimes that took place in New York.
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Here's another one. Minor victim at Epstein's townhouse was told to give Leon Black a massage, violently
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assaulted by black. 16-year-old when assaulted by black. Uh, there's a lot of
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redactions here. Biological mother is blank. Biological father is blank. Both
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alive. has lived with them since 2012 when attending blank where a counselor
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in charge of the students with blank. Black uh used adult toys
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um and inserted into the victim's areas. Victim felt severe pinching
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on her female anatomy and obviously began to bleed.
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Black and others at Epstein's house would not take her to the doctor and instead flew her out of New York the
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next day. Victim did not go back to New York after that. Next few years was in Palm Beach or the US Virgin Islands.
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Multiple alleged incidents against Leon Black in the Epstein files.
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This man should have been thrown under the JM jail.
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Miss Pam Bondi, who told you months ago there was nothing to see here. They all saw this. It all knew this. They knew
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it. And they're still trying to protect
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people. Even when this was revealed, the Epstein
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files show prosecutors investigated Leon Black for sexual abuse allegations, but they didn't charge him. Of course, they
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didn't charge him because he's rich. This is why I'm trying to tell you guys
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goes on here. Neither the local Manhattan District Attorney's Office nor
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the federal US attorney's office for the Southern District of New York, the two departments examining the accusations
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against Leon Black, brought charges against him. The newly public files
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include dozen of emails, internal memos, and records of calls with lawyers for
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blacks accusers going back to 2019. They include the first known instance
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that prosecutors investigated whether there was wrongdoing related to black.
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Two of the women who drew the attention of prosecutors alleged that he assaulted them in Epstein's Manhattan mansion in
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2002. So when you hear Trump say, "I didn't go to the island." When you hear Bill Gates
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say, "I didn't go to the island." They are trying to mislead you and
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everyone else. It's not just about the island. Notice you never hear them say, "I didn't go to that townhouse.
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I didn't go to Zoro Ranch."
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Young girls, very sad. Very sad. They did nothing.
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Nothing. Again, children. You hear that, Megan Kelly? Children. Let's get into the
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payment controversy. Leon back Black Black's payments to Jeffrey Epstein and leadership
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transition. In 2021, Apollo co-founder and then CEO Leon Black stepped down
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amid scrutiny over his financial relationship with financeier Jeffrey Epstein, including reporting that Black
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paid Epstein 158 million for tax and estate planning advice and related
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services. The episode drew broader attention because Epstein was later
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federally charged in the Southern District of New York with sex trafficking related expenses.
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One of the things I want you to pay attention to is this idea of we just had
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a financial relationship. Bill Gates said that, "Oh, it was
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financial or we were talking about philanthropy.
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Everyone's trying to say it was just finance or it was just business as if they had nothing to do or knew
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anything about any of this." And that's crazy considering some of these people
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started hanging out with him after he was charged.
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Leon Black has a son. His name is Benjamin Black. He's considered to be an
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investor. This guy right now is a part of the Trump administration.
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So when you heard Marjorie Taylor Green say that Donald Trump is trying to protect his friends, he said that my
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friends would get hurt. Here's one of those friends.
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Benjamin Black is an American investor and chief executive officer of the US International Development Finance
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Corporation. That's him.
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He is the son of Leon Black. See how this works?
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Another reason to despise this dude. Again, worked in private equity.
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worked for Daddy at Apollo Group Management. Also worked for Goldman Sachs,
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Sullivan and Cromwell. Let's go on more. Uh here,
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Epstein correspondents and family financial ties. Jeffrey Epstein's executive assistant,
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Leslie Grath, emailed Black and his brother, Joshua Black, about Epstein commissioning painted portraits of the
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brothers as a gift for their father, stating that Epstein had co-signed an artist at the New York Academy of Art
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and that each would need to meet with the artist. In the same email exchange, Benjamin Black replied, "Sounds good to
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me." So, do you see now? Here's the nomination nomination for the Trump
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administration. On June 18th of 2025, President Donald Trump nominated
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Benjamin Black to serve as the CEO of the US International Development Finance
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Corporation, succeeding Scott A. Nathan following his resignation. In announcing
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the nomination, President Trump said Black would apply his financial and dealmaking experience to advance US
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interest abroad. The nomination drew attention due to his limited background in foreign policy and legislative
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affairs. On October 7th, 2025, he was confirmed. He just got in there.
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Another person with limited experience, but also pro-Israel.
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Interesting how a lot of these people that were friends with Epstein just seem
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to make their way as part of Trump's administration, whether it's Benjamin Black or Howard Lutnik,
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almost as if they're protecting and looking out for each other, isn't it?
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When we look here, there's other troubling things about Leon Black.
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Gen Xirl pointed out that folks are discovering lots about Leon Black today, but some of us have been posting about
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him and his partner Mark Rowan. C7C's post in December about Leon Black
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and Lifeouch. I've also posted a lot about Mark Rowan, who Trump recently appointed to the board of peace.
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Another one of Epstein's friends, Mark Rowan, is a billionaire Zionist
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appointed to the Trump Board of Peace is in the Epstein files where he met with Epstein several times along with the
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Rothschild bankers. His partner, Leon Black, was also involved with Epstein
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and sued for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl. Here's a piece of the article here.
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So you have someone that's a part of the peace board which isn't really peace
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also connected to Jeffrey Epstein and of course a Zionist. Now this is Mark
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Rowan. Mark Rowan worked with Leon Black. We'll go on to show more here.
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Think we'll go to the next part here. More about Mark Rowan.
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Trump appointed swamp creatures to his Gaza Board of Peace. But let highlight one you may not know about. Mark Rowan,
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Zionist billionaire Apollo Capital, paid for Eric Adams $34,000 Israel trip
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bullied schools to censor anti-Israel speech. Partner Leon Black Epstein
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associate of course assaulted the 16-year-old girl with autism and mosaic
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down syndrome. These people are evil. Received Jerusalem Post award for his Israel
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efforts. So top executives at group that paid for Mayor Adams $34,000 Israel trip
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have business interest before his administration. So remember when uh Eric
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Adams made that expensive trip to Israel, Mark Rowan paid for that.
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These people don't pay for trips. They don't spend 30 or $40,000 for you to go
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on a trip just because they like you. They want something in return. Now you see why Eric Adams went as hard in the
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pain as he did for Israel when he was mayor of New York City. They're all connected.
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Two top executives at the philanthropic organization that bankrolled Mayor Adams recent trip have significant business
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and lobby interests before his administration. The matter involves Mark Rowan and Eric
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Goldstein, respectfully the chairman and the CEO of the United Jewish Appeal Federation of New York, which picked up
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the tab for Adam's stay in Israel.
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All of it. All connected.
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And then you see why they don't serve us.
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We go on to show you something else because they think we're stupid.
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Look at what was sent one month before Trump was inaugurated his first term. Here's another one
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from Epstein to Bill Gates. This is December 20th, 2016.
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Come to visit the island. New administration people visiting.
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I'll say it again for the people in the back. Come to visit the island. New
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administration people visiting. That was December of 2020 2016, Trump's first
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term. That was Jeffrey Epstein announcing to Bill Gates that the new administration was coming to visit
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the politicians in bed with the bankers and buddy buddy with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Why would new administration need to go visit Jeffrey Epstein's island?
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That's how deep this corruption goes. That's going back to 2016.
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Trump been knew. They all knew.
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I'mma share this with you um with you guys in the chat. So, you can look at that one on your own if you want to as
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well. Bill Gates also, again, it was sent to
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him. So, Bill Gates knew too. See how that work?
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Now, I just want to take you back to what Jeffrey Epstein
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Butler said. Again, this was years ago. Years ago, Epstein Butler's caught on
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FBI sting in TW 2009 trying to sell the little black book.
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Listen to what he said. Me, too. Come on in. How are you? Good. Good. Good.
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You have the documents. who created this book intensity himself. I have it there
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and also my computer but just in case power failure he was very organized was supposed to be this every plane and
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every there's the computer with water first I saw that to keep it
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cool because they used to download pictures like this just like that kind of pictures naked naked girls from from
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Sweden from Romania from Czechoslovakia from Brazil from
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Romania Sweden Brazil. Romania.
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Sound familiar? Romania. Slovakia. From Brazil. From Myers. All young girls.
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Very young. Very young. When you say very young, how young are you? 16, 17. The teenagers. They have braces
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mostly. Younger. Younger than that though. Yeah. Yeah. And they used to go out to comedy shops or or ice cream pars
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movies. a lot of movies because
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ice cream and coffee and and and movies that they would stay even if you erase
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them. I know what the rest will say there. He might as former companion, a very
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powerful lady from England. She would go to the former east eastern countries in
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Europe and find girls. And I knew that because I went she would go to the former those those
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um eastern countries in Europe to recruit girls. Now again, remember when
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we all brought up that that nonprofit that Erica Kirk had in Romania that some of those people came forward and said
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that they were abused and that they were trafficked. Remember that?
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Now, do I have proof that Erica knew about that? No, I don't have proof that she was actually physically a part of
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that. I don't have proof about that. But it's just interesting. Again, Romania, Gelain Maxwell just happened to be out
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of all the countries, she just happened to make sure she picked that one.
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Let's continue. Uh I think this is where he said, "Yeah, she would go to those Eastern block countries in Europe and
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find her as well." And I knew that because I went with my wife. They used to have a computer so powerful. They
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used to have a water radiator to cool the computer because I used to download pictures like that so fast because she
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has nice press. She has this and that. You saw that stuff? Yeah. Computers pictures of it and stuff
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like that. Yeah. He testified the FBI first interviewed
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Rodriguez in 2007. 2007. Jeffrey Epstein could have been
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they could have been seriously, you know, jailed these people if they
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wanted to. Now, just imagine that it's not Epstein and this socialite from the UK and
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imagine that it's Rosco working at, you know, Dunkin' Donuts. Or imagine that is
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Suzanne like waiting tables at I don't know the Olive Garden. Y'all would have
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been in jail. You see what I mean? But because it's wealthy people, you know, we turn a blind eye yet. And then it
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doesn't help that you also have people that as again was alleged via Maria
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Farmer that were CIA and also NYPD which
21:27
is revealed in the Epstein files. Recently, we talked about when you had people that worked for the NYPD, worked
21:33
for the FBI, also CIA. Maria Farmer said Epstein was also CIA. You're protected
21:40
because you got people on the inside. You don't get away with this for this long without having some type of
21:45
protection in the system.
22:01
They would forward my minister for help. This secret service was there.
22:11
So all these people knew they were all involved in the cover up and there's a
22:18
lot of blackmail that was going on. And let me tell you, the DOJ, they trying to be sneaky. They think they're slick. So, they dropped this list, right? They
22:26
released this list of a bunch of names. And so, I think they're trying to be a
22:31
smartass. They put people on the list that had nothing to do with the files. And then
22:38
they they added names and then made sure that they protected some names. Right?
22:45
So, like at one point, here we go. Janice Joplin. Janice Jop Joplin was dead.
22:51
You see what I mean? So they trying to be funny and adding all these other names while still protecting other
22:57
names. So these people are these people are corrupt. Aaron Parn has shared it. The
23:03
DOJ has sent over a letter to Congress outlining why it made redactions to the
23:08
Epstein files. The six-pay later letter, excuse me, also includes a list of all government officials and politically
23:15
exposed persons in the files. But then Aaron came back and said, "Breaking one
23:21
Epstein survivor tells me this evening that this letter released by the DOJ is
23:27
missing a few names. A few? Really? Just a few?" So, they're literally laughing
23:34
and playing in our faces. Thomas Massie was recently on ABC News
23:41
uh this morning. I want to show you what he said here. Sentence. And finally, I know the DOJ
23:47
wants to say they're done with this document production. The problem, Here we go.
23:54
sentence. And finally, I know the DOJ wants to say they're done with this document production. The problem is
24:00
they've taken down documents before we were able to go over to the DOJ and look at the unredacted versions. They took
24:07
down some of the most significant documents. two of them involving Virginia Gery's um case and other
24:16
things. The picture of of Epstein at in a room where it's got CIA written on the
24:23
boxes that's been taken down. We want to be able to look at all these files. They can't keep those documents down after
24:29
they've already produced them. I I so again definitely
24:37
hiding still hiding information. Eric, can we go to the the next part here uh
24:44
about uh Marjorie Taylor Green? Um let's go ahead and bring that in.
24:50
Still hiding information again because they're still protecting people like Leon Black, like Benjamin Black. These
24:58
are corrupt, powerful people and they're still trying to protect them. Like the
25:05
magician, everybody keeps saying the magician. There's a magician. There's a magician. Everybody knows the magician
25:11
you're talking about is David Copperfield. But for some reason, I don't know, people feel like they got to
25:17
protect his damn name. What's done in the dark will come to
25:24
light. You'll see here even so-called
25:29
independent media is trying to protect the administration. They're trying to protect Donald Trump. They're using the
25:36
same freaking words. These so-called new media accounts or
25:43
they're saying we are the truth. Alex Jones, watch this.
25:59
They're all using the same words. Alex Jones. This backfired bigly on the left.
26:05
Powerful Dems like Bill Clinton mentioned 1,193 times and others busted
26:12
Alex Jones. Eric Dory. Epstein has backfired on the
26:20
left. Multiple powerful Democrats have been exposed and Trump has been vindicated. These people just bend over
26:27
and kiss Trump's ass. Like literally, Donald Trump can stand there, bend over, put out the two cheeks, and they would
26:34
happily bend over and kiss his ass. So the so-called new media, new independent
26:42
media, some of these people are not independent from the establishment.
26:47
They're still very much corrupt. So you have to be very careful about that too. There are people going around saying
26:53
that they're independent and they're doing the bidding of the establishment.
26:59
Eric Dory is probably one of the worst.
27:05
This Gunther Eagleman guy also a professional Trump ass kisser. This backfired bigly on the left. Powerful
27:13
dims like Bill Clinton. literally the exact same verbiage as Alex Jones. I
27:19
wouldn't be surprised if all these people are not in like um a Twitter DM group and they all come up together like
27:26
this is what we are going to say. They tweet it out at the same time so that way it gains traction in the algorithm
27:33
and that's how they get millions and millions of views on Twitter.
27:38
It's all coordinated. These people ain't worth [ __ ] And I I've been saying this for the
27:44
longest time. Don't be fooled by the so-called independent truth media that
27:51
still bends over to kiss Trump's ass.
27:57
So there you go. So you got to be careful there. And Marjorie Taylor Green, she came forward also uh recently
28:03
on another podcast and she made it very clear that Donald Trump was the one who
28:08
was trying the hardest to stop these files from coming out. Listen closely.
28:13
That thought, that fight to release the Epstein files came directly from
28:19
President Trump. And I know a lot of people have a hard time with that, but that is the truth. He fought the hardest
28:25
to stop these files from being released. That thought, that fight to release the Epstein files came directly from
28:33
President Trump. And I know a lot of people have a hard time with that, but that is the truth. He fought the hardest
28:40
to stop these files from being released. So for again,
28:47
he fought the hardest to stop those files from being released because all his friends are in there.
28:54
His buddies are there. I think I want to sum it up with what
29:00
this guy said here. I think he he hit the nail on the head about the disgust that we've seen. Well, I just made the
29:06
biggest mistake uh probably that I've ever made in my life. Last night,
29:12
uh couldn't sleep, looked at the files, started with documents, moved on to video, and my god. My god, bloody hell.
29:23
We're living in bloody hell. I saw I I had to stop because I can't unsee what I
29:29
saw. I watched I mean, in my life, I watched horror movies. Not even close.
29:34
um blood curdling screams of young kids, the fear
29:40
in these children. These people are the devil walking earth.
29:45
The devil is on earth. It was horrible.
29:50
Unaliving as children. Um, the idea that they've been unaliving children, uh,
29:56
cutting up intestines and eating them, unaliving babies, um, violating, essaying these children.
30:04
I mean, I've never in my life, if you had told me in my wildest dreams, I swear maybe I'm naive. Am I naive? But
30:13
if you told me my wildest dreams that this kind of thing was happening in this country,
30:19
probably would have never um believed it. Probably would have never believed it
30:26
because the reality is at the end of the day.
30:34
Some of the things that I saw I can't show on here. I told you guys it's really bad. I'm actually surprised the
30:41
Leon Black one was not completely removed uh because of the age um of the
30:48
uh victims and um
30:54
there it's it's it's far worse. There are far worse things in there.
31:00
And that's why I say it's not for those that have a a weak stomach.
31:06
There are definitely multiple pieces that I've seen in the files that talk about cannibalism.
31:13
These are evil people and they they did these kind of things in the dark for so long. But it's like
31:19
like I said, what's done in the dark will eventually come to light. And we go back to what Eric said before
31:26
too about it's gotten to the point now where they're not able to keep things secret.
31:32
the establishment, the billionaires, the the corrupt people, they're not able to keep things
31:37
secret anymore. And that's why you see them trying to silence people.
31:43
That's why they're trying to take over and shut down these platforms because
31:49
the best detectives are the grassroots, not the FBI.
31:58
But um really disgusting things
32:03
and um I don't know you guys
32:12
for people who tell you for years that they care so much about children to just say look the other way that should tell
32:18
you everything. But I I end this segment
32:23
with this. This is the same government that aided
32:28
and emedded a genocide. Both parties did that.
32:33
And this is where the crimes of the empire come home. Yeah, they don't care
32:39
about the kids in Gaza, but they don't care about kids here either. Think about that.
32:46
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