Can I just start this hot take with the way I'm going to end it?

We're just watching a slow motion pardon for Elaine Maxwell.

We're just watching a slow motion pardon of a child sex trafficker by Donald Trump and a judge sex offender.

That's what we're watching.

So all the data points I'm going to give you on this hot take all lead inexorably to that conclusion.

I've been warning it. I've been talking about it. I've been saying the bridges out ahead. And now we've got the brand new data points. What am I talking about? A couple of things. Of course, we got the new filing by Galane Maxwell, which is, I'm alive and Epstein's dead and I'm the victim. I'll talk about that in a minute, Ben, just did a

nice video about it. But I'm going to focus on the new reporting, just as I expected, that

Todd Blanche, Donald Trump's favorite criminal defense lawyer and number two in the Department of

Justice is going to be releasing the audio and videotapes of the nine hours of depositions that he took of

Galane Maxwell when he went to a prison first time in history that a Department of Justice leader

went to a prison to take the deposition or statement of a convicted child sex offender.

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channel. Okay. I said at the time that he, this whole kabuki theater, pitch and catch,

whatever you want to call it,

between Todd Blanche and his buddy, David Oscar Marcus, the lawyer for Galane Maxwell,

and their relationship goes back several years.

He appeared on David Oscar Marcus's podcast.

Nobody watches it.

I did giggling and laughing their way through their podcast.

So here's how it went.

Maxwell called Oscar Marcus, who was brought into the case by Dershowitz.

Right? Dershowitz, Harvard Law Professor represented Epstein at the time.

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