Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things. This is Amanda. My you're not going to believe this bullshit

episode this month is a special series, including another special drop Thursday, on everything

you need to know about the Epstein files. I have spent the last three weeks immersed in

everything Epstein. Today I'm bringing you the

facts that the survivors and their advocates and journalists fought for decades to bring to

light against an overwhelmingly powerful force intent on burying it. There are plenty of conspiracy

theories swirling about Epstein, and in the fullness of time, I have no doubt that a fair number of

them will bear out as true. But we are not talking about that today. We don't need a conspiracy

theory. We have a conspiracy confirmed by existing verified facts, which is that for more than a

decade, our justice system colluded with an ultra-rich,

deeply connected predator to ensure this system was deployed only to protect him and his associates,

and that it still is. The story is very long and complicated, and when you pair that with the fact

that it was intentionally, forcefully, and expensively squashed, it is hard to know what the hell is going on, how we got here and why exactly

we were all fighting about the Epstein files. My goal has been to organize and synthesize

decades of information and to present everything you really need to know in a comprehensible,

chronological way in one place.

That's what we're doing here today. Laying out what happened from 1953 when Epstein is born

to the testimony Galane Maxwell will give Congress this week. Our next show, a special drop this

Thursday, February 12th, I speak to Brad Edwards, one of the heroes, who has represented

over 200 of Jeffrey Epstein survivors and has been vital in going to the mat against him to bring

the truth to light and about what is happening and the fight still ahead. Two quick notes.

This is commentary. I'm not a reporter and I'm no longer a practicing lawyer. What you're about to

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