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Fren's avatar

So pathetic. Cooper sounds like a 23-year-old Tumblr poster — “Mr. MartyrMade” playing the victim. Instead of addressing a single substantive point — he retreats into tone-policing. The posture amounts to: “I will not defend the integrity of my work to reward your endless microaggressions.” It’s difficult to imagine a more feeble evasion.

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Pete McCutchen's avatar

This is kind of “am I the asshole” moment. If he legitimately had a sudden an unexpected death in the family, you could have just given him a couple of weeks and refrained from contacting him. This isn’t time-sensitive.

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Tim N's avatar

But he did do that, and Cooper said he'd get back to him, and then didn't, and started in on the emotional blackmail. The fact is, Cooper got caught out by Tracey and has no answer for him.

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KVV's avatar

Yeah, I agree. Michael wasn’t aggressive in his emails, but Daryl did say he had a sudden death in the family, so Michael should have given him at least a few weeks, maybe even a month. I love how dogged and relentless he is, but there are some situations where the breaks should be pumped.

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Magic Girl's avatar

His dog died. They had a funeral.

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Menachem's avatar

Arguably, refuting lies spreading moral panics to millions is more time sensitive than giving a grifter more time to obfuscate

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Woman in tech's avatar

Respectfully disagree with you.

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Pete McCutchen's avatar

Will it make a difference? The people convinced the Joooos are running a giant pedophile blackmail scheme that ensnared Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, and Bill Richardson are gonna believe what they want to believe.

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Magic Girl's avatar

Cooper replied to MT to go ahead with his story without having a discussion on the questions. He said it would be fine. He said he had no comment.

You're way too emotional about this, but of course you've been lied to for well over a decade about the Epstein Saga by a dozen or so purported experts, and when they're exposed as fraud hoppers you experience a painful cognitive dissonance that knocks you off your chair, so it may take you some time to unwind from that type of shock. I hope you'll be able to heal.

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Gail's avatar

Cooper, Whitney Webb and Tucker are all completely full of shit. There are some exceptionally qualified known entities who have their own info and theories about Tucker that go in depth and aren’t of the usual self anointed “ expert” idiocy. And are actually viable. Tucker’s a shit, opportunistic bad actor and always has been. Webb and Cooper are grifters. As is Candace Owens. I had her number the moment she burst into the scene and became the darling of the right, who invariably get it wrong. Like Tucker, she always on to the next grift. Unlike Tucker, she’s been at it since her early teens and had any done a deep dive, they’d have found some of her greatest hits. Including destroying innocent classmates and the reputation of her entire high school, formerly the rightfully earned reputation for excellence . She’s forever desperate for relevance and each time she fades or fails, she reinvents herself, but not before destroying everyone who gave her tremendous opportunities. She’s wicked and was always unlikable and avoided by anybody with a scintilla of good judgment. That ship sailed. Tucker is equally despicable and is more than likely an IV opposition asset. Like the rest of his CIA tied family. As well as a foreign paid shill and a narc bitch.

Whitney Webb is a plagiarist who takes long exposed info , mixes it up, plucks out juicy tidbits, twists them and adds her own fiction. All one needs to do is look at her. She is the quintesstial nerd who nobody but a few noticed existed and those who noticed, made fun of. But being a geek can pay off later in life. It becomes confused with intellectualism and honesty. I highly doubt Jeffrey Sachs, Norm Eisen, Jen Rubin , Chomsky and David Corn.. to name a few, ever were invited to parties, picked for any sort of team aside from dissecting a cat, pithing a frog or being promised a party invite if they let them copy their test answers.. and then reneged on. They get even. Hopefully, they’ll get what they got in high school. On steroids.

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JayBee's avatar

What a superb description of Webb - thanks Gail, really enjoyed reading that.

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Gail's avatar

You’re quite welcome. She’s a pathetic fraud, but even pathetic frauds, given a broad platform have the capacity to do enormous harm.

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Chuck Campbell's avatar

Luckily for humanity, you have no such platform

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Gail's avatar

Luckily for humanity, neither do you. But for the record, I hate most everybody. Especially globalists.

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Chuck Campbell's avatar

Common ground. 😘

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gpj2736's avatar

When Webb showed up five or six years ago with the Epstein series I could not understand the big "to-do" about her. If you read the series and the footnotes you could see that all of this information had been written before in various publications (she even included Lyndon LaRouche's publication which I'd always "understood" was to be avoided). But readers treated her like this was all the BIG REVEAL with some even saying things like, "oh watch your back, girl", etc.

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Gail's avatar

She is so completely off base about Epstein it’s a wonder she made it out of the starting gate.But it suits the popular narrative . He wasn’t working for Mossad or Israel. He was working as a CIA asset with US Deep State leftist admins, billionaires, NGOs and corrupt Israeli traitor counterparts within AGAINST Israel’s elected admin in a decades long effort to oust Netanyahu /Likud Party and install a Far left puppet who will give away the entirety of Israeli sovereignty. Case in point, Ehud Barak or his ilk. He was the original puppet pick. Epstein was a socialist . He was a creation gone awry.

Webb’s every high school nerd classmate from back in my day with a grudge who went on to become an editor/“ journalist”. For a lefty schlock rag.

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Steven S's avatar

Yeah, you sound completely hinged, alright.

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Chuck Campbell's avatar

Your Zionism is showing, sweetie. You should edit “schlock” out of your mouth vomit.

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Gail's avatar

Eff off. I’m from Miami. It’s as common a term as mierde, bece me culo and bro’. There are plenty of ethnic slangs that apply to you as well, but they’re really over the top gross.

And yeah, I’m “ hinged”. You, however, are dumb as a post.

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Chuck Campbell's avatar

You’re responding to the wrong person. You seem like a stupid old cunt . The fact that you’re from Miami is circumstantial evidence of your Zionist beliefs.

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Gail's avatar

Why thank you, Upchuck! The “ ists “ that I’d apply to myself are deist, artist, pragmatist, realist,Nationalist,Constitutionalist, adventurist, anti-globalist, anti-interventionist, anti-Marxist,anti-Islamist,anti-kleptocorporate multinational monopolist,anti-Trilateralist, anti-Collectivist and Leave Me The Fuck Alonist

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Gail's avatar

Amen! I was at Mar a Lago when Trump publicly expelled and banned Epstein and Maxwell from Mar a Lago. He also helped the plaintiffs and attorneys with the prosecution voluntarily. Not a single other private citizen stepped up.Oh yeah! It was none other than Robert Mueller who issued the stand down order to Acosta. And what was done to him when he was given the case to prosecute was unbelievable. He was stalked by hired thugs, ditto his wife and children with death threats , kidnappings, raping his wife if he continued with the prosecution and it wasnt just the thugs.. who were IC assets. The “ defense team”, Dersh, Lefcourt and Ken Starr also shadowed him and appeared wherever he went, within eyeshot and earshot, staring him down, smiling,talking about the “danger” he was setting himself up for. Epstein was a US DeepState asset , Was used in regime change coups, weapons transfers including Libya,Ukraine,Egypt,Niger and his “dealings with Israel” or Mossad’s as they so love to parrot was to coup Netanyahu and the Likud admin. Since the Clinton admin. It’s disgusting.My guess is that all will be exposed if the war ever ends. The current inner turmoil in Israel would devastate a nation that is divided as never before thanks to the Biden/ImObama globalist admin /Deep state /NGOs big money donors and Israeli traitor counterparts.Its despicable.Pity Israel doesn’t have the death penalty. There are people who deserve to be publicly hanged. Ehud Barak first.

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mn's avatar

Israel has the death penalty - ever heard of Eichmann

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Gail's avatar

I’m not a fan of the death penalty.The arranged time and setting is grotesque.I understand not wanting to become what you revile.Though I wouldn’t hesitate to kill anybody or any living being that presented an immediate or planned to harm anybody or any living being that I love or is helpless to defend their own being. Or had inflicted pain or harmed my own. I would have no problem putting down a torturer of any living being who was helpless and undeserving.Their is such wickedness in people who derive pleasure by inflicting terror and pain on captive animals. Children. Humans whose only crime is being. I wouldn’t flinch in seeing Fauci Biden, Bill Gates on the receiving end.Theyve been on the giving end for a very long time and are global serial killers with body counts that are incalculable. But what to do with an Ehud Barak?At the very least, put him behind bars without any creature comforts for the rest of his days usurping oxygen.At this point, it’s moot.I wouldn’t flinch to see Soros finally be sent back to where he came from.Id not seen his ‘98 Sixty Minutes interview until a decade ago.A fucking unrepetent Nazi!” The best years of my life”. “It’s like the markets. If I hadn’t done it, somebody else would have”.Steve Kroft was drained of color, of life.He saw the face of evil.And it was the new leader of the Democrat Party!This is what the dumbass American Jews were okay with? I was done w/ the Dems by then, regardless.Post Bush, I was done with both parties. 2008 was the first time I couldn’t force myself to vote.McCain was a monster.Nobody believed me.Obama was completely “off”. I had a visceral bad feeling.Either one would blow up the world.And they did. Together. Because Soros owned McStain. Bought him when Keating was exposed.A deal w/the devil was sealed. More like Rosemary’s Baby meets his real Daddy..Brennan,Pritzker, Omar, Gutierres,Francesca Albanese, Khomeini , Comey, Mueller, Weissman,Klaus,Carney, Starmer,Kerry,Brennan,Cheney,Nadler , Macron, Lula,Mugabe, TedrasEngeron, half the bastards in Congress, Senate, Deep State bureaucracy or pulling the strings put down and knowing the moment it was coming.

But how and why the hell Ehud Barak, who flaunted how very evil and destructive he has been for as long as he’s been to go unpunished is anathema and extremely disturbing It’s caused me to lose respect for and faith in what I considered one of very few beacons of virtue in a largely morally bankrupt supposedly civilized free world .When I saw that POS screaming like fucking Hitler calling his elected leader a fascist and a Nazi before a frenzied crowd of Israelis who no longer were recognizable as Israelis.. telling them to not respond if they were called to duty, it was the most astonishing an appalling act of outright treason I’d ever seen or heard. And the fact he was not arrested and ever allowed to see the light of day without bars was beyond conceivable. It was at that moment everything changed. It didn’t matter whatever political crap side of the ideological spectrum, it was an abandonment of soul. And it was weakness. And very shortly thereafter, 1200 + Israeli citizens were tortured.. dehumanized and slaughtered and 250 + taken like disposable rags into the lions den.. in the bowels of the earth.And that evil little elf who had collaborated w/the American evil trash for 3 decades has never been punished.My American nephew will suffer every day for the rest of his life. He watched his wife, her mother and sister get ripped to shreds by savages for forty minutes recorded and posted to the Internet. Because she had the audacity to choose that week to visit her mother and sister in Israel. Her father was killed by a terrorist a few years earlier in Tel Aviv. My nephew isn’t Jewish and had more respect for Israel than what has been displayed by the swath of Israelis who have forgotten what the hell they stood for.Tearing the fiber of their own community apart. Leaving it vulnerable.For the world to see. Especially the enemies at the gate. And the contagion of psychopathy that has lain dormant the world over, but for where it’s a religious Medeival ideology,That have not only been welcomed into every western outpost of the civilized”enlightened” world, but invited. And given deference.And awakened a dormant beast.. on Oct 8th. Globally.Brought to you by Killary.

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Gail's avatar

Eichmann, of course

.Have you followed history since?Perhaps you might want to read the link attached. Since Israel’s establishment, the Death Penalty was used twice.And revoked. It was re-legislated In 2023 solely applying to terrorists.And then shelved.I can’t imagine any greater qualification for terrorism than a citizen who has betrayed the entire citizenry of the nation it is their duty to protect. Especially their own people who have been the single most targeted of all people globally for time immemorial and having finally been given a minuscule strip of land to self govern, sell out the minuscule remaining members of their own tribe that has the determination to carry the torch of survival. Ehud Barak is the Judas of modern day.

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mn's avatar

I don’t care how often they use it, they have it

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Sera's avatar

Priceless. And worth every penny. Could you repeat the middle part?

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Gail's avatar

They should give it a test run. Baharat -Miara would be a good candidate.

https://worldcoalition.org/2023/05/22/how-likely-is-the-return-of-the-death-penalty-in-israel/

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Gail's avatar

Is there one?🤪

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Emerson Korum's avatar

I initially thought you were latching on to the Epstein thing as a way to grow your audience but from the X comments on this post I get the sense that everyone hates you because of it. Why are the people so committed to action on Epstein so disinterested in verifying the factual bases for the case? Please ask Darryl in your next inquiry

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BookWench's avatar

But what if Darryl doesn't like his tone?

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Andrew Dolgin's avatar

In fact, in Cooper's latest piece he writes about how he is permanently retired from ever speaking publicly about politics again because of how deeply traumatized Tracey's words and actions have made him.

Tracey literally one-shot Cooper into spiraling out.

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BookWench's avatar

Seriously?

That is bizarre.

Michael wasn’t even all that rough on him. He was actually very polite, albeit persistent.

“Permanently retired,” eh? What a weeny!

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Andrew Dolgin's avatar

A choice quote for you from the piece -

“From now on, I’m not doing anything but the next history episode, and, to be honest, it’ll be the same after that. I’m tired of politics, and of all this bad-faith, vulgar bickering. I’m tired of the nastiness, the hostility, the vulgarity. I’m tired of having to be exposed to people like Michael Tracey.”

- “Martyr Made” Cooper

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BookWench's avatar

Wow!

What a little girl!

I actually liked some of Cooper’s material. He certainly did some deep dives on various issues, but to not even bother to respond to legitimate questions — and then have a complete meltdown. . .

Thanks for the update, Andrew.

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Emerson Korum's avatar

Actually liked Cooper before all this. Cannot believe how petty and emotional and unprofessional he has handled it. His Substack post was unreal

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HaveyouBeanthere.com's avatar

Tracey’s content is worthless and terrible compared to Cooper’s actual writing. Let the man finish his series. Cant stand slobs like Tracey

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Andrew Dolgin's avatar

Hi Darryl.

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Tim N's avatar

Sounds like Michael Tracey and Cooper are done communicating.

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Rob (c137)'s avatar

Narcissists and sociopaths love to claim that you're the problem when you ask them to explain their stories.

Why? Because a lie requires character assassination.

Gaslighting is the weapon of the emotionally dead zombies like him.

I find it crazy that he couldn't just take a few minutes to answer your simple questions and instead had time to write his bullshit.

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Andrew Murphy's avatar

Exactly. And we all know from our experience with the 2006 Duke lacrosse rape hoax, questions needed to be asked

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Magic Girl's avatar

Even more so with the experience of the McMartin Preschool Case in CA in the 1980-90s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_preschool_trial

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Douglas Levene's avatar

The conspiracy freaks, the Jew haters, the Nick Fuentes love boys, the Epstein fanatics, the Pizzagate fans, the white nationalists, the whole lot of them (including, without limitation, their media allies like Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Daryl Cooper, et al.,) are all uniformly garbage. They are still a minority within the GOP, but Gresham’s Law (the bad drives out the good) seems to be working its magic.

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Shawn Truax's avatar

Thank You for the TIL - turning me onto Gresham’s Law!

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bad vassal's avatar

I appreciate all the work you've done on the Epstein story. At the risk of sounding condescending, I think there is a lesson to be learned here.

When you catch someone spreading false claims to a large audience, the goal is to get them to refute your argument, admit they were wrong, or otherwise advance the discourse. You say your interactions with Darryl were polite, but to my eyes you came off as somewhat pushy and unsympathetic. In a normal business, none of that would matter. Someone conducting themselves with a minimal amount of professionalism would look past any issues of "tone" or whatever, and actually send a reasonable response to your inquiry. However, this is not a normal business; this is social media. If Darryl can ignore your inconvenient questions without suffering a hit to his credibility in the eyes of his fans, that is what he will do (and exactly what he did).

By being pushy an annoying, you gave him an easy cop out.

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Boris Petrov's avatar

You suck at self-marketing

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Steven S's avatar

I enjoy watching you right wing nuts take each other apart. Please continue.

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Magic Girl's avatar

You know it was his dog that died.

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JayBee's avatar

MT - Appreciate your indefatigable scrutiny of the bogus claims being disseminated re Epstein. Webb and Cooper clearly rattled by your persistence. All strength to you, my friend.

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Love's avatar

I appreciate your diligence Michael. Tweeting away and not replying is rude and unprofessional. There are so many people who believe everything the man says.

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Sweatpants's avatar

You’ve literally said you won’t engage with people who write “seriously dude,” and then write thousands of words mocking Cooper for not engaging with you because of your tone. You hold others to a standard you won’t live by yourself, and it makes every claim you make about “substance” ring hollow.

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Chuck Campbell's avatar

I have posted this now for the third time. You have failed to respond. I think it’s because you are a fraud.

Why do you appear to be defending the honor of a man who plead guilty to pedophilia, in spite of his legion of amazing defense attorneys?

Was serial fabulist Virginia Giuffre a horrible lying whore? If so, one would think his defense team would have blown her to pieces. Instead, according to recent stuttering defense of Epstein on your pod cast with Thad Russell, you assert she was awarded between 10 -30 million dollars. How do you explain that? Is she a whore or a criminal mastermind? A Robin Hood for sluts! She took Dershowitz’s most famous client down, but couldn’t take a dime from Dershowitz?

Then in the same rambling pig of an interview, you got mixed up about “which” 14 year old girl you were smearing. So now we know that there were at least two 14 year old girls doing god knows what with a guy who recruits girls from high schools. But to suggest that he didn’t know their ages? The problem isn’t that he didn’t know. The recruiting girls from high schools would be the thing that triggered alarm bells. Also, you defending or parsing the crime seems creepy as fuck. If I were casting a creepy pedo for a movie, your physical appearance would make you a natural candidate.

You asking for a definition of “Epstein space” is childish and inconsistent with “polite E-mail”. You will recoil and feign indignation at my assessment. Because you pretend to be autistic and lacking in social awareness. Which is why I will never write you a “polite” anything. But while we’re on the subject, where have you been with your mad journo skills for the last 20 years pertaining to this story.

When “you think about it for five minutes, because Acosta in fact did not leave Epstein alone”? In the first 5 seconds I’m wondering why the fuck the feds were even involved? Additionally, I’m wondering “why the light sentence” and what the fuck did he “actually” do if that is what he plead to with Dershowitz as his attorney. How would you possibly know the extent of their efforts to thwart Acosta or their sincerity? Maybe they knew they were going to get off easy at sentencing. Maybe the proceedings were intended to pacify locals in the community who were asking too many questions and the feds were afraid of disclosure at a hearing.

You whine like a broken record about how the women involved got so much money for being sluts. But cling to Guiffre like a life preserver because if you get too far down the road of credibility the numbers are overwhelming. Both in girls/women and settlement dollars.

Why bring up Podesta? The FBI wants the Seth Rich laptop sealed forever. The pizza gate reference seems like you’re trying to defame cooper broadly instead of staying with the topic at hand. Like if I inserted something about your beheaded babies lies.

Tracey concerning Acosta calling Epstein an intelligence asset:

“Acosta replied under penalty of perjury, “The answer is no.”

Hey retard! Politicians and government officials lie under oath all the time. That’s sort of the whole Epstein thing. Lying, obfuscations, way too many questions and very ridiculous answers.

The suicide. The broken cameras and “lazy” guards. The release of dubious footage 5 years later. The odd autopsy protocol.

The shear number of girls and the money they received when a super sleuth like Micheal Tracey could have sent those scandalous whores packing. Which is really odd given his superstar defense attorneys.

Dershowitz introduction to Epstein through lady Rothschild. Bill Barrs daddy hiring him at his school without a teaching certificate. Maxwells daddy’s intelligence and media ties. His mysterious death. A virtual who’s who of powerful turds wrapped around the axels of this bullshit. And don’t forget the weird stuff at his home. Including a first edition of “Lolita”. Which you conveniently left out of your article when you referenced the “Lolita Express”. Wasn’t that the kind of omission you were whining about?

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/jeffrey-epstein-manhattan-house-interior-b2802203.html

In case your garbage isn’t gross enough, there’s a real jealousy thread about the girls. Is it because they have lots of money by virtue of tricking filthy rich motherfuckers and their incompetent attorneys? Face it. You’re a shitty journalist, and you will always be broke. That’s not the fault of either of the 14 year old girls you mixed up. Or anyone else. Maybe find another profession.

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obscuantism66's avatar

His response makes it clear that he cannot answer the questions you've asked him.

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Melodic's avatar

These alt media people are easily the most dishonest and manipulative people I have ever witnessed in media but will be the first to bemoan about the “evil lying mainstream press”. Dude, your sh*t is much worse!

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