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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: Is the Epstein Scandal an Outlier or America’s Oldest Crusade Laid Bare?

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

Congress, Economics, Climate Change, The Hartmann Report, Debate, Democracy, America, Thom Hartmann, News

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

How a single predator exposed a centuries-old system built to shield wealthy white men from accountability and forced the country to confront a truth its institutions have long concealed...

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Was the Epstein scandal an outlier?

1:03.0

Or America's oldest crusade laid bare?

1:07.0

The Jeffrey Epstein scandal stripped away the polite fiction that wealthy white men in America are held to the same standards as everyone else.

1:14.9

Epstein wasn't an exception. He was the rule laid bare.

1:20.2

From the first day of European, days of European settlement, powerful white men have moved throughout this country with a kind of immunity that would be unthinkable for anyone else.

1:30.5

That isn't just a cultural habit.

1:32.5

It's the residue of the original architecture of America.

1:37.8

We built a nation on the belief that white men were entitled to rule,

1:41.2

entitled to take, entitled to decide whose lives mattered and whose didn't.

1:46.7

And today it animates a political movement that has captured one of our two major parties.

1:51.7

The root of the problem goes all the way back to the doctrine of discovery,

1:54.8

a European decree announcing that white nations had a God-given right to seize any land they encountered became the legal

2:02.9

and moral starting point for American expansion. The Supreme Court wrote it into our

2:08.3

jurisprudence in the 19th century, and we really never let it go. From that twisted foundation

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