January 1, 2026 • 39 mins
Alan Dershowitz quietly dropped his defamation lawsuit against Netflix, ending a legal fight he launched over his portrayal in the Epstein-related documentary series. Dershowitz had claimed the program falsely implicated him in Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes and damaged his reputation, but the decision to abandon the case brought the dispute to an abrupt close without a courtroom reckoning over the underlying allegations. The withdrawal spared Netflix from discovery and testimony that could have further widened the Epstein record, while also leaving many of the factual disputes unresolved in the public eye.
At the same time, Alan Dershowitz reignited controversy by repeating and expanding on his claim that Jeffrey Epstein functioned as a kind of intelligence asset or “spy,” a characterization he has floated in multiple interviews over the years. Dershowitz has suggested Epstein’s connections to powerful figures and governments explain both his unusual access and the extraordinary leniency he received for so long. Critics argue that framing Epstein as a spy risks deflecting attention from the concrete evidence of abuse and the institutional failures that protected him, turning a documented criminal conspiracy into a murkier story of intrigue that muddies accountability rather than clarifying it.
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At the same time, Alan Dershowitz reignited controversy by repeating and expanding on his claim that Jeffrey Epstein functioned as a kind of intelligence asset or “spy,” a characterization he has floated in multiple interviews over the years. Dershowitz has suggested Epstein’s connections to powerful figures and governments explain both his unusual access and the extraordinary leniency he received for so long. Critics argue that framing Epstein as a spy risks deflecting attention from the concrete evidence of abuse and the institutional failures that protected him, turning a documented criminal conspiracy into a murkier story of intrigue that muddies accountability rather than clarifying it.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Going to talk about mister dirty Dershowitz. I guess he's
made an appearance from the naked volleyball game in Martha's
Vineyard and he sat down for another interview where he's
so graciously told all of us that, look, Jeffrey Epstein
wasn't a spy. Okay, So that's pretty much it, right, folks.
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If Alan Dershowitz has told us something we know it's
the truth, we might as well pack in the investigation.
We might as well not look into it anymore, and
we might as well just jettison any evidence that we
have to the contrary, because well, Alan, I kept my
underpants on. Dershowitz told us, so, folks, this guy is
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an absolute toolbag, Okay, an absolute tool and him lashing
out the way he does all the time, the way
he conducts himself as he's trying to defend himself is
a huge tell. And don't think it got past me
that the second they talked about more indictments coming down
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the pipe that mister Doc brownhare old cripkeeper in underwear
himself started piling on with the unhinged tweets and the
nonsensical rants and the winging it doesn't. It didn't slip
by me. All right. Dershowitz is shook, and he understands
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that the truth is certainly not on his side, at
least from the evidence that we have so far. And
in tonight's article, we're gonna see a little bit more
of Alan Dershowitz's descent into what I can only call
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madness at this point. Our article is from Newsweek. The
author Richard Miniatur for Zenger News headline, Jeffrey Epstein was
not a spy, says former lawyer Alan Dershowitz. Yeah, Okay, Well,
like I said, that's it. Let's pack it all in.
No need to do any more investigating. I mean, really,
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why would Dershowitz ever admit that Epstein was a spy.
Jeffrey Epstein was not a spy or an intelligence source,
says famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz. The longtime Harvard Lawyers School
faculty member, was Epstein's attorney in two thousand and eight
and negotiated a plea agreement that stopped the federal government
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from investigating Epstein. Well, one hundred percent that was the case.
And look, he wasn't just a lawyer for Epstein, Okay,
he was the key principal lawyer here. Him and Gerald
left court were really running the show. They were the
point guards, pushing the rock up the court right, looking
who to distribute the ball to so that they could
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make their move to the hoop and score some points.
And that was Dershowitz's role here, and that is usually
Dershowitz's role. He is a cornerstone type of attorney. And
as much as I think he's a deplorable, reprehensible excuse
for a human, there's no denying that he knows his
way around the courtroom. So you have a guy like
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this as your anchor when you have a big law team,
and he is most assuredly making the moves and finessing
when appropriate. He was the subject of an FBI probe
for allegedly soliciting paid sex from teenage girls and transporting
them across state lines for prostitution and other related offenses.
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I mean Newsweek and Zanger or whoever it is that
ran this originally is so limp wristed folks that they
still say allegedly about Epstein, as if we don't know
he was doing all of that, as if the evidence
isn't mount everest levels high. I mean, it is so
weak to watch these sort of legacy media outlets skirt
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around the truth unless you're a polit opponent. If you're
a political opponent, well forget it, they're gonna go after
you with everything in their arsenal. But if you're a
sex trafficker and you know you're friends with a lot
of the moguls and people who run these media jints,
well you know you're gonna get protected a little. And
we're gonna say allegedly. The Plea deal, which covered Epstein
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and all his alleged accomplices known and unknown to authorities,
was so sweeping that it provoked theories that Epstein was
working for a US or foreign spy service, or that
he at least was a valuable intelligent source. And why
wouldn't it spark questions like that? Nobody gets these kind
of plea deals. Imagine John Gotti getting this plea deal. Yeah,
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we're gonna get you a plea deal here, mister Gotti.
All of your alleged accomplices, known and unknown are going
to be covered under it too. Yeah, right, zero chance
that would ever happen. And I you know what, I
doubt it's ever happened in the history of the judicial
system to be honest with you. But yet Jeffrey Epstein
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and all of his accomplices named known and unknown, catch
this love. Instead of catching this love, these punk asses
needed to catch a fade. Dershowitz spent months with the
accused pedophile and said in an interview with his Anger
News that all the speculation was wrong. Again, let's not
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worry about anything we've heard from other credible sources. Let's
not follow the evidence on our own. Let's not put
the pieces of the puzzle together. Let's just listen to Alan.
I kept my underpants on Dershowitz because he is such
a incredible source here. He is obviously a pillar of
society and the salt of the earth kind of guy.
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I mean, how would anyone, anyone not take what Alan
Dershowitz has to say at face value? I mean, come on,
are you guys crazy out there? Epstein pleaded guilty to
two felonies in two thousand and eight in exchange for
a relatively light eighteen months jail sentence an immunity from
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future prosecution for offenses committed in two thousand and eight
or earlier. And you wonder why he was so brazen.
You wonder why he continued to abuse girls because he
knew he was untouchable. Teflon, Folks, Okay, Teflon. This man
was obviously an intelligence asset. This man was obviously involved
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in a honeytrapped blackmail operation, and he was obviously compiling
information on very powerful people to put into dossier's so
he would have this information to pass on to his handlers.
Now we can argue about who his handlers are until
the cows come home. I've been very clear here on
the podcast that I believe if this was a CIA
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sanctioned operation. Now, as far as the people who were
running it, the parts, the moving parts, from the intelligence aspect,
I don't have any information one way or the other
that would lead me to come to a conclusion. But
I am sure that it was a mixture of foreign agents,
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probably Israeli intelligence and Masad and the CIA, running this
operation to compile this sort of information on powerful people
so that they can manipulate things behind the scenes. Because
if anybody thinks that the intelligence apparatus of this country
and other countries isn't in full control, you have not
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been paying attention. Dershowitz said in the interview that he
was Epstein's lead negotiator with US Attorney for the Southern
District of Florida, Alexander Acosta, and would have known about
any ties between Epstein and any spy agency. That is
incorrect and and just a flat out lie. If Epstein
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was being run by the CIA, the CIA would not
go to his defense attorney, Okay, They'd go directly to
the prosecution, and they'd put a finger on the prosecution
because they don't want to leave any loose ends, right,
Why do they need a middleman? Why do they need
a middleman to go to a federal prosecutor and get
him to finesse things in a way that they want
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him to finesse it, especially if they're saying, look, your
boss is gonna call down here and tell you to
do the same thing, so you better just get on it. Okay,
just do what you gotta do there, Acosta. And for
Dershowitz to act like because he doesn't know, supposedly that
Epstein was being run as an asset, that that's the
ultimate tell I mean, that's the ultimate say so in it, right,
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the be all end all of what occurred, because he
doesn't know. Please, we're talking about the CIA here. We're
talking about spooks who do this for a lit and
they don't leave middlemen around, Okay, they go directly to
the source, especially if that source is also within the
US government. Believe me, I would have known about it,
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he said, I would have used it to my advantage
and to his advantage. Well. The second, anyone like Dershowitz
starts as a sentence with believe me, I do the
absolute opposite. I don't believe a thing he has to say. Okay,
not about this, not about anything else. If Dershowitz was
going to tell me that the sun is going to
rise tomorrow morning, I would be questioning it. Dershowitz said
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he has negotiated plea deals in the past for clients
who intelligence agencies consider indispensable, but those sorts of connections
never came up during any of our negotiations. Yeah, no, shit,
This was a black project, Yomorn, Who do you think
you're fooling here? This was a black project that would
make them look so bad and so horrible if it
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ever got out that they had to have separation, that
they had to have space from them the agency and
the operation, and that is exactly what they did here.
They really covered their tracks. They even used a foreign
intelligence agency as a buffer. Just think about that for
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a minute, folks. And if you think that that would
never occur on American soil, if you think that America
would never be engaged in something like this, then I
implore you to do a search of CIA projects, of
CIA operations, and just take a look at how dastardly
and draconian the CIA has been from the very start.
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Let me tell you why that couldn't possibly be true.
If he had any intelligence connection, the first person he
would have told that would be a lawyers. Dershowitz told
Zenger in a wide ranging videotaped interview that lasted nearly
forty five minutes. Again, that's incorrect, not when the intelligence
agency is the CIA and they don't need Dershowitz. Okay,
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I know you think you're the man dirshy dirsh, dirty
boy dirsh. But the fact of the matter is this,
even you shrivel in the presence of these intelligence services, okay.
And these are the people that put the pressure on
a Costo one way or the other to make sure
that Epstein caught a sweet deal. And not only that
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that the Plea agreement was also hatched so all the
other co conspirators would catch a good deal, so the
enterprise could continue chugging along. Because remember, it's all a
means to an end with these people, and it is
all always about solidifying their own power. I would have
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gone to the government and said, you know, he's an
intelligence agent, don't prosecute him. See, the government understood that
they had to give him a little slap on the wrist, right.
They never thought it would balloon into this. They thought
that they could cover their ass. Look, Jeffrey, you're gonna
have to suffer a little bit here, but after it's done,
don't worry. Things are gonna go back to normal. You're
not even gonna be a sex offender in New Mexico, buddy,
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Don't worry about it. So Epstein takes it, goes to jail,
if you want to call it, that, gets out and
hits the ground running like nothing ever happened. Rumors about
Epstein's supposed connection to intelligence agencies continued to swirl after
his August tenth death, which the New York City Chief
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Medical Examiner ruled the suicide. Allegedly much of the speculation
pointed to Acosta, who made the unconventional plea deal. In
two thousand and eight, Former Vanity Fair journalist Vicky Ward
said an unnamed former White House official told her that
when President Donald Trump's transition team interviewed Acosta for an
appointment as Secretary of Labor, them our federal prosecutor had
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hinted that Epstein was connected to important intelligence work, and
that was why he was hired, right because the person
in the Trump administration thought that he was doing intelligence work.
That's what they were told anyway, Right, So who the
hell knows really what the scoop is? Who knows who
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got to Acosta? And honestly, Acosta needs to be questioned
under oath about all of this. In my opinion, a
subpoena should be issued to him and he should be
brought in as a witness. But of course, like I
always say, set that perjury trap too, and maybe he will,
he'll walk into it. But there's something more here about
this intelligence angle. A guy like Acosta isn't just isn't
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just going to come up with that on his own.
He's not gonna make that up. So this needs to
be explored further and if Acosta isn't willing to talk
on his own, then he must be compelled to share
what he knows about this. While preparing to face a
confirmation vote in the US Senate, Acosta told Trump officials
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not to worry, saying had been told not to intervene
and would be tougher on the former finance Here I
was told Epstein belonged to intelligence and to leave it alone,
a Costa said, according to ward source, and again, Acosta
needs to be brought forward, and we need to get
to the bottom of this, right, We need to talk
to him directly. What did he say, Who told him that?
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Who approached him with that? Because obviously it wasn't Dershowitz, right,
because Dershowitz doesn't know. So it proves my point what
I was talking about, how the CIA would reach out
directly to the prosecutor, not a Costa probably, but whoever
his boss was, and send it down the chain, because
that's how these things work. This is a gigantic bureaucracy here, folks.
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These decisions aren't made in a vacuum. They aren't made
in a little office somewhere. These are decisions that are
made at the very top and Acosta was just a
delivery boy. Ward's account appeared in the Daily Beast, but
she never named her source or provided documents or other
evidence to support her version of events. Dershowitz flatly dismissed
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that uncorroborated account. Of course he did. And the authors
of this article over at Zeger, they're puff piecing this
for Dershowitz. They're framing it as Dershowitz's is innocent here
and if they think they're gonna slide that by with
their bit of gaslighting going on, but it won't work.
We're all too hip for that by now, what are
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we six hundred and twenty articles deep? I don't know
where a Costa got that from, he said. I can't
imagine anybody would use Jeffrey Epstein as an intelligence operated operative.
But who knows. Oh, so you're admitting you don't know.
So you're just throwing more shit at the wall, hoping
it'll stick, hoping people will listen to you without any
evidence provided. Well, mister Dershowitz, go back, listen to this
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podcast from the beginning, read other books from other journalists
and other independent creators, and maybe you'll start to understand
what happened, you, lying son of a bitch. Dershowitz didn't
address a book released four months after Epstein died, in
which a self described former Israeli spy says Epstein was
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an intelligence asset and that he was his handler. And
the words matter here right, in which a self described
former Israeli spy trying to cast doubt on ari Ben
Manash's claims that he was a spy. And they do that.
They try to subvert you, right, subconsciously with their words
in the legacy media and Newsweek is one of the worst.
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Ariy ben Manash made his claims in Epstein Dead Men
Tell No Tales, whose three authors included a former vice
president of American Media who oversaw the tabloid magazines US Weekly, Okay,
star In, Touch, Life and Style Closer, the National Examiner,
Radar Online, and the National Inquirer. Ben Again, what they're
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trying to do here is cast doubt to the authors
of that book. Oh well, they wrote these tabloids. He
was the president of the tabloids. So this is delicious.
You can't believe this. Alan Dershowitz would never do this,
Ben Manash said, Epstein and his longtime girlfriend again people
don't even know what they're talking about over here at Zanger.
Terrible outlet, folks. I don't suggest it. Girlfriend, you mean
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co conspirator, you mean fellow child abuser, you mean general
all around dirt bag. Yeah, okay, So that's what we're
talking about. Gilaine Maxwell ran a honey trap to lure
powerful men by arranging sex with young girls. Young girls, folks,
young girls. They won't even say underage girls in this article.
Oh man, what an absolute dumpster fire of an article,
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and then blackmailing them with hidden camera videos. Epstein and
Maxwell would just blackmail people like that, Ben Manash told
the books authors, and we've talked at length about Ari
Ben Minosh as well and his claims and what he
used to do as far as work. So we know
that Ari Ben Minash is a pretty credible guy here,
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most certainly more credible than Dershowitz or the writers at Zanger.
He also claims to have been the MASAD handler for
Gilaine's father, Robert Maxwell, who died in nineteen ninety one.
Maxwell was a publishing magnate who later won a seat
in British Parliament. Later, he was accused of misdirecting millions
of pounds from his own company's pension funds. After Maxwell's yacht,
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The Lady Gilaine, arrived at a Spanish port without him.
In nineteen ninety one, his body was found floating in
the Atlantic Ocean near the Canary Islands. Robert Maxwell was
such a scuzzball that even the sharks, an oceanic wildlife,
didn't want to eat him. That's how much of a
disgrace and poison this man was that death ruled. The
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suicide is also sheathed in speculation and misery. Ben Manash
offered no documents or other witnesses to support his account.
Dershowitz said he does not doubt Epstein had connections in
high places. He cited a dinner party thrown by Caroline Kennedy,
the daughter of the late President John Kennedy, where the
guests included Dershowitz and his wife, as well as Hillary
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and Bill Clinton. He loves bringing up Hillary and Bill
Clinton like they're these pillars of society. They are not.
They are absolute scumbags, all right, So using them as
a character witness is not a good idea. You might
as well call in Jeffrey Dahmer, all right, And you
might as well call in Richard Ramirez. His character witnesses
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the phone rank he Clinton was president at the time,
and he walked off with the phone and spent probably
fifteen minutes, fifteen minutes talking to somebody. I didn't know
who it was, Dershowitz said. And then he brought his
phone over and said, hey, Alan, somebody wants to say
hello to you. And he hands me the phone and
it's Jeffrey Epstein. Well, there you go, right there. This
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proves what we were talking about earlier about Epstein and
Clinton being buddies all the way back since Clinton was president.
Dershowitz is throwing his boy directly under the bus. So
clearly he Clinton had some relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. We
know that he traveled. We know that he traveled. Clinton
traveled on Epstein's plane, not to the island, but the
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charitable areas I think in Asia and maybe Africa are
raising funds for the Clinton Foundation. Dershowitz said, yeah, you know,
did they have fun on their trip to Thailand when
they all did their little jaunt to Thailand. What were
they doing in Thailand? Everybody had relationships with Epstein. No,
only other dirt bags like you. I kept my underpants on. Dershowitz.
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Only fellow travelers, Okay, normal people understood he was a scumbag,
and normal people who had a brain in their head,
especially after the first arrest, steered clear of his sick,
disgusting ass. And no matter how many other people you
try and drag into this, no matter how many times
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you try and move the spotlight off of your cryptkeeper
looking ass, it is not going to work. Because Alan Dershowitz, you,
my friend, have some very very hard questions that need answering.
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what's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
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Ellen Dershowitz has been a major player on the Epstein
stage for decades now, and still to this day, he
is embroiled in Epstein controversy. He finds himself in a
lawsuit against Netflix, and according to him, that lawsuit was
brought because he was defamed and the things that were
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talked about in that Netflix documentary were simply untrue. Well,
fast forward to today and Dershowitz has dropped those claims
against Netflix. Him and his legal team, Well, they're citing
health issues, but the reality is this was a meritless
piece of litigation. Like usual, the naked volleyball player from
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Martha's Vineyard aka Alan I kept my underpants on. Dershowitz
loves to litigate. He sure loves to threaten these lawsuits,
but how many of them does he go through with?
And that's the tired old shtick this guy has been
playing for way too long. He really you know, it's
worked well for him. He intimidates a lot of people
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because nobody wants to litigate against this guy. But at
his advanced age, him now falling back on the excuse,
oh my health. You gotta think people are paying attention
to what's going on here. And mister powerful Alan Dershowitz, well,
this is pretty much the end of the road for
him professionally speaking. Anyway. I don't see how he can
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come back from this. Who's gonna hire a high profile
lawyer who's claiming that their health is too bad to
go forward with a lawsuits such as this one against
Netflix just another out for him, right, Like the boxer
who quits on his stool. This is basically what Dershowitz
is doing, folks. He's not answering the bell for the
next round. This is Alan Dershowitz's No Moss moment, and
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boy am I here for it. This guy loves to
these lawsuits. He loves to intimidate people they loved, intimidating
Jeffrey Epstein's first survivors. Well, guess what that karma train
is coming back around, mister Dershowitz. And either way you're
finished now, my friend, you're either A too sick to
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litigate cases or B you've done lost your midas touch.
And I'm gonna go with B now. Whenever we see
one of these famous people, these business executives or whatever,
get into some kind of trouble where they're embarrassed or
something like this pops up automatically. We hear about their
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newfound health conditions. Oh well, I have bunions on my toes,
so I gotta retire, When in reality, we all know
what the score is. We all know what the scoop
is and it's no different with Alan Dershowitz. This guy
has been writing checks with his big ass mouth that
is asked can't cash for way too long, and now
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to cry that you're sick so you can't litigate this.
I'm sure the lawyers over at Netflix were cracking up
when they got this paperwork. Oh yeah, sure, Dershy. Dersh
you're just too sick to go on with the case.
Give me a break already. All right, So today's article
is from The Hollywood Reporter and the author is Winston Choe.
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Headline Netflix Alan Dershowitz drop claims over Jeffrey Epstein docuseries.
Dershowitz has dismissed his defamation lawsuit in exchange for Netflix
agreeing to dismiss its free speech claim. The case was
paused a week before the joint dismissals due to issues
with Dershowitz's health. See here's the thing, mister Dershowitz. Netflix
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wouldn't even be suing you if you didn't sue them first.
It wasn't like Netflix woke up one day and they
were like, a, you know what, We're gonna sue Alan
Dershowitz just because and we're gonna defame them. See the
thing is, if he really was defamed here, if he
really didn't do what this documentary is saying, why wouldn't
he go through with this lawsuit? Why wouldn't he see
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it all the way through? Sick or not, you want
your legacy to be this? For me, this just rings hollow, folks,
And I might be way off. Maybe he is sick
as he claims and all of that stuff, but this
certainly rings to me as a guy who knows that
this lawsuit was going nowhere and he was looking for
an out, looking for an off ramp. Netflix and Alan
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Dershowitz have agreed to drop dueling claims over Filthy Rich,
a docuseries exploring convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who has
now deceased. Dershowitz dismissed his defamation lawsuit, while Netflix and
Serious producer Leroy and Morton Productions dismissed their counter claims
against the Hovid law professor, accusing him of trying to
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chill their free speech rights, according to a joint motion
filed Friday in Florida Federal Court. While that's saying something, huh,
considering that Alan Dershowitz is mister frase speach. Oh, everybody
should have frase speech unless the speech is turned against him,
unless people are inquiring about his disgusting, depraved activities, then
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all of a sudden, oh we got a problem here.
It's typical for these kind of people, right, They never
want to be the subject of the same bullshit that
they're involved in on a regular basis. And when they are,
oh boy, the walls come falling down, don't they. And
it's no different for Alan Dershowitz. This is a man
who is used to people cowtowing to him. This is
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a man who's used to people bending over backwards in fear.
And that's all gone. Virginia Roberts stood up to this dude.
And since then, boy, oh boy, have things changed for him.
No longer do we see him making appearances on every
single news station. You know, he still makes his appearances
now and then, but it's not on stations like an
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or Newsmax. Every now and then he'll swindle his way
on the Fox. He used to come on CNN a
little bit, but you know, he's engaged in a lawsuit
with them as well, so forget about that. So this
guy has always weaseled his way in one way or
the other. But I don't think that's gonna happen anymore.
I mean, you already see BBC, who had this moron
come on after the Maxwell verdict and they have to
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come out and make an apology about it. People are
paying attention finally, and it's been decades in the making.
The problem is people like Dershowitz and Epstein and the
rest of them. They have gone away with it for
so long that when their card is pulled all of
a sudden, it's this big deal and everybody needs to
get sued now the kit excuse me. The case was
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paused a week before the two sides resolve the litigation
because of concerns over Dershowitz's health. Dershowitz and his lawyers
did not immediately respond to a request for comment, So you know,
it's pretty open ended, right his health? What does that mean?
Did he have an allergy attack? Did he have a
case of IBS? You know again, that's very vague. Oh uh,
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he has health issues? Well all right, what are those
health issues? The case arises from issues Dershowitz had with
his portrayal in the series, which premiered in May twenty twenty.
His portrayal, There was no actors in the series. Nobody
dressed up to be the Cryptkeeper aka the naked volleyballer
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from Martha's Vineyard. Nobody played the role. This was Alan
Dershowitz being accused credibly by an accuser who has been
believed by several different courts now, several different judges and
the jury. So what is this guy even talking about? Oh,
it's my health, That's why I'm dropping this suit. Does
it shock anybody that this suit has dropped? After Glenn
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Maxwell gets convicted, This fucking guy sees the writing on
the wall. He knows that this was just a ridiculous
piece of litigation, and he knew it was never going
to go anywhere. Dershowitz, who's known for having represented high
profile defendants in criminal cases, accused Netflix of distorting the
narrative and failing to present evidence that he said exonerated him.
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There is no evidence that exonerates you. What evidence are
you going to provide to exonerate you from the charges
that have been laid against you? Frankly, until you can
answer the charges that Virginia has pointed towards you. I
don't want to hear a shit from you. Bro, I
don't want to see you on TV. I don't care
about how sick you are. I don't care about any
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of it. This dude is a scoundrel, has been and
will continue to be one. Netflix shot back with a counterclaim,
arguing that its free speech rights were being illegally threatened.
Pointing to fair reporting privileges, It said that the series
creators relied on public court filings. That's exactly it, and
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that's why I have zero problem talking about this full
What are you gonna do is sue everybody? Give me
a break, man. This guy's an absolute clown, an absolute clown.
You don't want to get sued. Well, here's an idea.
Don't just don't hang out with Jeffrey Epstein. My beef
isn't that he represented Epstein. I've been very clear about that.
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These lawyers, that's their job to represent scumbags. I get it,
one hundred percent. I get it. But if it would
have stopped there, then okay, fine, you would have been
a scuzzball for you know, working out that non prosecution agreement.
But bro, you are accused of taking part in the
actual abuse let's not forget that those are what the
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charges are that are sent in your way. Dershowitz eighty three,
on March tenth move to remotely attend mediation sessions. He
said he's recovering at a New York Hope hospital after
having to undergo an invasive surgery to treat multiple serious
health emergencies that required hospitalization. Now, look, I don't ever
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wish for anybody to get sick, man. I don't have
that kind of animosity in my heart, and I think
that when you live your life like that, you end
up poisoning yourself. Right. But at the same time, I
don't have any remorse that this man is sick. That
this man is ill, I don't have any empathy for him.
You know, his family. It sucks for his family, right,
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something happens to him. I have compassion for his family,
but him himself. I'm sorry. I just can't. I can't
muster it up. With all of the sadness and the
hurt and the wickedness in the world. My empathy meter
is down on zero almost right, it's running in the red.
So I don't have any empathy for people like this.
I can't. I just can't muster it anymore. His doctors
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recommended that he avoid traveling long distances to ensure that
he does not compromise his health. Netflix opposed the request.
It took issue with what it called gamesmanship by Dershowitz,
who has been left unfettered by the rules and orders
governing the conduct of proceedings in this court. So Netflix
was like, look, bro, we don't give a fuck. I
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don't care if you're sick. You better put on a
hospital gown and will you're asked a court homie. That's
basically what they're saying to him, And they're saying that
they don't believe it. They're saying that it's gamesmanship. All
of a sudden, Alan Dershowitz has all of these medical
issues convenient, very very convenient. Hey, Bobby, you want to
go eat at the buffet? You know, guys, I'd really
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love to, but see what had happened was one of
my tooth, one of my teeth fell out, So you
know I can't go. Well, Bobby, you have all of
your teeth? No, no, no, trust me, my teeth fell out.
Oh okay, I guess that's how ridiculous all of this is.
Defendants seek his tax returns. He decides to drop his
claim for economic damages and seek merely nominal damages instead,
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reads the motion because what he was claiming was that
these assertions, these accusations in the documentary was precluding him
from earning a living, from making money, and we all
know that's not the case. Every scumbag in the world's
lined up to try and have Alan Dershowitz as their lawyer.
I am honestly one hundred percent surprised he wasn't involved
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with Maxwell's defense, And if he wasn't a doddering old
fool like Walder Frey at this point, I'm sure he
would have been. Defendants seek to depose the doctor listed
on his initial disclosures as the treating physician who treated
plaintiff after the broadcast streaming of Filthy Rich for severe
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emotional distress to the point of having a mini stroke.
He withdraws him as a witness, but refuses to commit
to withdrawing his emotional distress claims, and Dershowitz will say, well,
I don't want anyone knowing my medical history, or sorry, dude,
why are you litigating. That's how this all works. If
you don't want people to know you shouldn't have been
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hanging out with Epstein. You shouldn't have been doing what
Virginia claims you did. So here's where we're at. Okay,
I don't believe you, Alan Dershowitz. I don't believe anybody
that was hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein. How about that.
Here's what I believe. I believe that these survivors are
telling the truth, and I believe that what Virginia has
to say about you, mister Dershowitz, I believe that that
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is true as well. It would be nice if we
could figure it out in a court of law, but
our law enforcement officials are too busy doing whatever it
is that they're doing. Netflix argued Dershowitz was making tactical
choices to thwart attempts to depose of the case. It
argued that the parties shouldn't bother with mediation at all
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if Dershowitz is not physically present at the session, because
the plaintiff's team will be missing its play caller and
media will be a waste of everyone's time. So if
dershy can't be there, then what's the point. That's basically
what they're saying, and That's why they came to this conclusion,
because Dershowitz did not want to be put on blast.
That's my opinion anyway. I highly doubt Oh, it's medical issues, okay, whatever,
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I guess, you know, he's old. Could be the case.
But I bet if things were going his way, he
would have been there doing the Vince McMahon dance into
the courtroom the days after US District Judge Cecilia Altanaga
paused the case pending Dershowitz's recovery. She cited concerns that
his health might result in further delays. The court will
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not deprive plaintiff of the benefit of his chosen venue,
including significant and required pre trial of vents such as
the in person mediation and thereafter trial, he wrote, Netflix
and Leroy and Morton Productions did not immediately respond to requests. Well, look,
they know the deal. They know that they have dirshy
Shchwitz finished off here. And what it shows other people
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who are being litigated by Alan Dershowitz over this issue
is that they don't have to fear as much as
they thought they did. Alan Dershowitz is not the bulldog
he used to be. The man is old, he's at
an advanced age, obviously a bit unhinged, and he's not
making logical decisions at this point. If he ever did so.
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The litigation days of Alan Dershowitz and the days of
him bowling people over and acting the fool, I think
those days are long over, folks. Dershowitz's lawsuit is one
of several defamation complaints that have been lodged against Netflix
in recent years. This is at least partially because of
its interest in true crime content. The streamer has been
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sued over its portrayal of various people and groups in
series such as Operation Varsity, Blues, Making a Murderer, and Messiah. Look,
people don't want to be talked about, right, I want
to be dragged, So of course they're gonna do their
best to sue and get things from you know, not
going to production or whatever it might be. But the
fact remains, folks. Alan Dershowitz is the kind of guy
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that if he thought he had the advantage, he'd be
pressing that advantage. He knows he does not have the
advantage here. He knows he wasn't defamed. He knows that
everything that was talked about in that documentary well, all
of that stuff was talked about in court documents and
talked about by Virginia herself. So again, I don't really
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get what he thought he was going to accomplish here,
and I said from the beginning that this would end
up being the result. All right, folks, it's gonna do
it for this morning's update. Like usual, we'll be back
with some context, episodes and all that other good stuff
for you. If you'd like to contact me, you can
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all have a great day and I will be back
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later on.
Going to talk about mister dirty Dershowitz. I guess he's
made an appearance from the naked volleyball game in Martha's
Vineyard and he sat down for another interview where he's
so graciously told all of us that, look, Jeffrey Epstein
wasn't a spy. Okay, So that's pretty much it, right, folks.
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If Alan Dershowitz has told us something we know it's
the truth, we might as well pack in the investigation.
We might as well not look into it anymore, and
we might as well just jettison any evidence that we
have to the contrary, because well, Alan, I kept my
underpants on. Dershowitz told us, so, folks, this guy is
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an absolute toolbag, Okay, an absolute tool and him lashing
out the way he does all the time, the way
he conducts himself as he's trying to defend himself is
a huge tell. And don't think it got past me
that the second they talked about more indictments coming down
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the pipe that mister Doc brownhare old cripkeeper in underwear
himself started piling on with the unhinged tweets and the
nonsensical rants and the winging it doesn't. It didn't slip
by me. All right. Dershowitz is shook, and he understands
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that the truth is certainly not on his side, at
least from the evidence that we have so far. And
in tonight's article, we're gonna see a little bit more
of Alan Dershowitz's descent into what I can only call
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madness at this point. Our article is from Newsweek. The
author Richard Miniatur for Zenger News headline, Jeffrey Epstein was
not a spy, says former lawyer Alan Dershowitz. Yeah, Okay, Well,
like I said, that's it. Let's pack it all in.
No need to do any more investigating. I mean, really,
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why would Dershowitz ever admit that Epstein was a spy.
Jeffrey Epstein was not a spy or an intelligence source,
says famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz. The longtime Harvard Lawyers School
faculty member, was Epstein's attorney in two thousand and eight
and negotiated a plea agreement that stopped the federal government
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from investigating Epstein. Well, one hundred percent that was the case.
And look, he wasn't just a lawyer for Epstein, Okay,
he was the key principal lawyer here. Him and Gerald
left court were really running the show. They were the
point guards, pushing the rock up the court right, looking
who to distribute the ball to so that they could
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make their move to the hoop and score some points.
And that was Dershowitz's role here, and that is usually
Dershowitz's role. He is a cornerstone type of attorney. And
as much as I think he's a deplorable, reprehensible excuse
for a human, there's no denying that he knows his
way around the courtroom. So you have a guy like
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this as your anchor when you have a big law team,
and he is most assuredly making the moves and finessing
when appropriate. He was the subject of an FBI probe
for allegedly soliciting paid sex from teenage girls and transporting
them across state lines for prostitution and other related offenses.
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I mean Newsweek and Zanger or whoever it is that
ran this originally is so limp wristed folks that they
still say allegedly about Epstein, as if we don't know
he was doing all of that, as if the evidence
isn't mount everest levels high. I mean, it is so
weak to watch these sort of legacy media outlets skirt
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around the truth unless you're a polit opponent. If you're
a political opponent, well forget it, they're gonna go after
you with everything in their arsenal. But if you're a
sex trafficker and you know you're friends with a lot
of the moguls and people who run these media jints,
well you know you're gonna get protected a little. And
we're gonna say allegedly. The Plea deal, which covered Epstein
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and all his alleged accomplices known and unknown to authorities,
was so sweeping that it provoked theories that Epstein was
working for a US or foreign spy service, or that
he at least was a valuable intelligent source. And why
wouldn't it spark questions like that? Nobody gets these kind
of plea deals. Imagine John Gotti getting this plea deal. Yeah,
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we're gonna get you a plea deal here, mister Gotti.
All of your alleged accomplices, known and unknown are going
to be covered under it too. Yeah, right, zero chance
that would ever happen. And I you know what, I
doubt it's ever happened in the history of the judicial
system to be honest with you. But yet Jeffrey Epstein
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and all of his accomplices named known and unknown, catch
this love. Instead of catching this love, these punk asses
needed to catch a fade. Dershowitz spent months with the
accused pedophile and said in an interview with his Anger
News that all the speculation was wrong. Again, let's not
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worry about anything we've heard from other credible sources. Let's
not follow the evidence on our own. Let's not put
the pieces of the puzzle together. Let's just listen to Alan.
I kept my underpants on Dershowitz because he is such
a incredible source here. He is obviously a pillar of
society and the salt of the earth kind of guy.
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I mean, how would anyone, anyone not take what Alan
Dershowitz has to say at face value? I mean, come on,
are you guys crazy out there? Epstein pleaded guilty to
two felonies in two thousand and eight in exchange for
a relatively light eighteen months jail sentence an immunity from
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future prosecution for offenses committed in two thousand and eight
or earlier. And you wonder why he was so brazen.
You wonder why he continued to abuse girls because he
knew he was untouchable. Teflon, Folks, Okay, Teflon. This man
was obviously an intelligence asset. This man was obviously involved
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in a honeytrapped blackmail operation, and he was obviously compiling
information on very powerful people to put into dossier's so
he would have this information to pass on to his handlers.
Now we can argue about who his handlers are until
the cows come home. I've been very clear here on
the podcast that I believe if this was a CIA
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sanctioned operation. Now, as far as the people who were
running it, the parts, the moving parts, from the intelligence aspect,
I don't have any information one way or the other
that would lead me to come to a conclusion. But
I am sure that it was a mixture of foreign agents,
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probably Israeli intelligence and Masad and the CIA, running this
operation to compile this sort of information on powerful people
so that they can manipulate things behind the scenes. Because
if anybody thinks that the intelligence apparatus of this country
and other countries isn't in full control, you have not
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been paying attention. Dershowitz said in the interview that he
was Epstein's lead negotiator with US Attorney for the Southern
District of Florida, Alexander Acosta, and would have known about
any ties between Epstein and any spy agency. That is
incorrect and and just a flat out lie. If Epstein
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was being run by the CIA, the CIA would not
go to his defense attorney, Okay, They'd go directly to
the prosecution, and they'd put a finger on the prosecution
because they don't want to leave any loose ends, right,
Why do they need a middleman? Why do they need
a middleman to go to a federal prosecutor and get
him to finesse things in a way that they want
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him to finesse it, especially if they're saying, look, your
boss is gonna call down here and tell you to
do the same thing, so you better just get on it. Okay,
just do what you gotta do there, Acosta. And for
Dershowitz to act like because he doesn't know, supposedly that
Epstein was being run as an asset, that that's the
ultimate tell I mean, that's the ultimate say so in it, right,
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the be all end all of what occurred, because he
doesn't know. Please, we're talking about the CIA here. We're
talking about spooks who do this for a lit and
they don't leave middlemen around, Okay, they go directly to
the source, especially if that source is also within the
US government. Believe me, I would have known about it,
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he said, I would have used it to my advantage
and to his advantage. Well. The second, anyone like Dershowitz
starts as a sentence with believe me, I do the
absolute opposite. I don't believe a thing he has to say. Okay,
not about this, not about anything else. If Dershowitz was
going to tell me that the sun is going to
rise tomorrow morning, I would be questioning it. Dershowitz said
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he has negotiated plea deals in the past for clients
who intelligence agencies consider indispensable, but those sorts of connections
never came up during any of our negotiations. Yeah, no, shit,
This was a black project, Yomorn, Who do you think
you're fooling here? This was a black project that would
make them look so bad and so horrible if it
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ever got out that they had to have separation, that
they had to have space from them the agency and
the operation, and that is exactly what they did here.
They really covered their tracks. They even used a foreign
intelligence agency as a buffer. Just think about that for
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a minute, folks. And if you think that that would
never occur on American soil, if you think that America
would never be engaged in something like this, then I
implore you to do a search of CIA projects, of
CIA operations, and just take a look at how dastardly
and draconian the CIA has been from the very start.
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Let me tell you why that couldn't possibly be true.
If he had any intelligence connection, the first person he
would have told that would be a lawyers. Dershowitz told
Zenger in a wide ranging videotaped interview that lasted nearly
forty five minutes. Again, that's incorrect, not when the intelligence
agency is the CIA and they don't need Dershowitz. Okay,
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I know you think you're the man dirshy dirsh, dirty
boy dirsh. But the fact of the matter is this,
even you shrivel in the presence of these intelligence services, okay.
And these are the people that put the pressure on
a Costo one way or the other to make sure
that Epstein caught a sweet deal. And not only that
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that the Plea agreement was also hatched so all the
other co conspirators would catch a good deal, so the
enterprise could continue chugging along. Because remember, it's all a
means to an end with these people, and it is
all always about solidifying their own power. I would have
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gone to the government and said, you know, he's an
intelligence agent, don't prosecute him. See, the government understood that
they had to give him a little slap on the wrist, right.
They never thought it would balloon into this. They thought
that they could cover their ass. Look, Jeffrey, you're gonna
have to suffer a little bit here, but after it's done,
don't worry. Things are gonna go back to normal. You're
not even gonna be a sex offender in New Mexico, buddy,
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Don't worry about it. So Epstein takes it, goes to jail,
if you want to call it, that, gets out and
hits the ground running like nothing ever happened. Rumors about
Epstein's supposed connection to intelligence agencies continued to swirl after
his August tenth death, which the New York City Chief
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Medical Examiner ruled the suicide. Allegedly much of the speculation
pointed to Acosta, who made the unconventional plea deal. In
two thousand and eight, Former Vanity Fair journalist Vicky Ward
said an unnamed former White House official told her that
when President Donald Trump's transition team interviewed Acosta for an
appointment as Secretary of Labor, them our federal prosecutor had
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hinted that Epstein was connected to important intelligence work, and
that was why he was hired, right because the person
in the Trump administration thought that he was doing intelligence work.
That's what they were told anyway, Right, So who the
hell knows really what the scoop is? Who knows who
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got to Acosta? And honestly, Acosta needs to be questioned
under oath about all of this. In my opinion, a
subpoena should be issued to him and he should be
brought in as a witness. But of course, like I
always say, set that perjury trap too, and maybe he will,
he'll walk into it. But there's something more here about
this intelligence angle. A guy like Acosta isn't just isn't
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just going to come up with that on his own.
He's not gonna make that up. So this needs to
be explored further and if Acosta isn't willing to talk
on his own, then he must be compelled to share
what he knows about this. While preparing to face a
confirmation vote in the US Senate, Acosta told Trump officials
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not to worry, saying had been told not to intervene
and would be tougher on the former finance Here I
was told Epstein belonged to intelligence and to leave it alone,
a Costa said, according to ward source, and again, Acosta
needs to be brought forward, and we need to get
to the bottom of this, right, We need to talk
to him directly. What did he say, Who told him that?
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Who approached him with that? Because obviously it wasn't Dershowitz, right,
because Dershowitz doesn't know. So it proves my point what
I was talking about, how the CIA would reach out
directly to the prosecutor, not a Costa probably, but whoever
his boss was, and send it down the chain, because
that's how these things work. This is a gigantic bureaucracy here, folks.
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These decisions aren't made in a vacuum. They aren't made
in a little office somewhere. These are decisions that are
made at the very top and Acosta was just a
delivery boy. Ward's account appeared in the Daily Beast, but
she never named her source or provided documents or other
evidence to support her version of events. Dershowitz flatly dismissed
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that uncorroborated account. Of course he did. And the authors
of this article over at Zeger, they're puff piecing this
for Dershowitz. They're framing it as Dershowitz's is innocent here
and if they think they're gonna slide that by with
their bit of gaslighting going on, but it won't work.
We're all too hip for that by now, what are
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we six hundred and twenty articles deep? I don't know
where a Costa got that from, he said. I can't
imagine anybody would use Jeffrey Epstein as an intelligence operated operative.
But who knows. Oh, so you're admitting you don't know.
So you're just throwing more shit at the wall, hoping
it'll stick, hoping people will listen to you without any
evidence provided. Well, mister Dershowitz, go back, listen to this
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podcast from the beginning, read other books from other journalists
and other independent creators, and maybe you'll start to understand
what happened, you, lying son of a bitch. Dershowitz didn't
address a book released four months after Epstein died, in
which a self described former Israeli spy says Epstein was
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an intelligence asset and that he was his handler. And
the words matter here right, in which a self described
former Israeli spy trying to cast doubt on ari Ben
Manash's claims that he was a spy. And they do that.
They try to subvert you, right, subconsciously with their words
in the legacy media and Newsweek is one of the worst.
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Ariy ben Manash made his claims in Epstein Dead Men
Tell No Tales, whose three authors included a former vice
president of American Media who oversaw the tabloid magazines US Weekly, Okay,
star In, Touch, Life and Style Closer, the National Examiner,
Radar Online, and the National Inquirer. Ben Again, what they're
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trying to do here is cast doubt to the authors
of that book. Oh well, they wrote these tabloids. He
was the president of the tabloids. So this is delicious.
You can't believe this. Alan Dershowitz would never do this,
Ben Manash said, Epstein and his longtime girlfriend again people
don't even know what they're talking about over here at Zanger.
Terrible outlet, folks. I don't suggest it. Girlfriend, you mean
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co conspirator, you mean fellow child abuser, you mean general
all around dirt bag. Yeah, okay, So that's what we're
talking about. Gilaine Maxwell ran a honey trap to lure
powerful men by arranging sex with young girls. Young girls, folks,
young girls. They won't even say underage girls in this article.
Oh man, what an absolute dumpster fire of an article,
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and then blackmailing them with hidden camera videos. Epstein and
Maxwell would just blackmail people like that, Ben Manash told
the books authors, and we've talked at length about Ari
Ben Minosh as well and his claims and what he
used to do as far as work. So we know
that Ari Ben Minash is a pretty credible guy here,
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most certainly more credible than Dershowitz or the writers at Zanger.
He also claims to have been the MASAD handler for
Gilaine's father, Robert Maxwell, who died in nineteen ninety one.
Maxwell was a publishing magnate who later won a seat
in British Parliament. Later, he was accused of misdirecting millions
of pounds from his own company's pension funds. After Maxwell's yacht,
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The Lady Gilaine, arrived at a Spanish port without him.
In nineteen ninety one, his body was found floating in
the Atlantic Ocean near the Canary Islands. Robert Maxwell was
such a scuzzball that even the sharks, an oceanic wildlife,
didn't want to eat him. That's how much of a
disgrace and poison this man was that death ruled. The
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suicide is also sheathed in speculation and misery. Ben Manash
offered no documents or other witnesses to support his account.
Dershowitz said he does not doubt Epstein had connections in
high places. He cited a dinner party thrown by Caroline Kennedy,
the daughter of the late President John Kennedy, where the
guests included Dershowitz and his wife, as well as Hillary
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and Bill Clinton. He loves bringing up Hillary and Bill
Clinton like they're these pillars of society. They are not.
They are absolute scumbags, all right, So using them as
a character witness is not a good idea. You might
as well call in Jeffrey Dahmer, all right, And you
might as well call in Richard Ramirez. His character witnesses
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the phone rank he Clinton was president at the time,
and he walked off with the phone and spent probably
fifteen minutes, fifteen minutes talking to somebody. I didn't know
who it was, Dershowitz said. And then he brought his
phone over and said, hey, Alan, somebody wants to say
hello to you. And he hands me the phone and
it's Jeffrey Epstein. Well, there you go, right there. This
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proves what we were talking about earlier about Epstein and
Clinton being buddies all the way back since Clinton was president.
Dershowitz is throwing his boy directly under the bus. So
clearly he Clinton had some relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. We
know that he traveled. We know that he traveled. Clinton
traveled on Epstein's plane, not to the island, but the
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charitable areas I think in Asia and maybe Africa are
raising funds for the Clinton Foundation. Dershowitz said, yeah, you know,
did they have fun on their trip to Thailand when
they all did their little jaunt to Thailand. What were
they doing in Thailand? Everybody had relationships with Epstein. No,
only other dirt bags like you. I kept my underpants on. Dershowitz.
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Only fellow travelers, Okay, normal people understood he was a scumbag,
and normal people who had a brain in their head,
especially after the first arrest, steered clear of his sick,
disgusting ass. And no matter how many other people you
try and drag into this, no matter how many times
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you try and move the spotlight off of your cryptkeeper
looking ass, it is not going to work. Because Alan Dershowitz, you,
my friend, have some very very hard questions that need answering.
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what's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
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Ellen Dershowitz has been a major player on the Epstein
stage for decades now, and still to this day, he
is embroiled in Epstein controversy. He finds himself in a
lawsuit against Netflix, and according to him, that lawsuit was
brought because he was defamed and the things that were
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talked about in that Netflix documentary were simply untrue. Well,
fast forward to today and Dershowitz has dropped those claims
against Netflix. Him and his legal team, Well, they're citing
health issues, but the reality is this was a meritless
piece of litigation. Like usual, the naked volleyball player from
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Martha's Vineyard aka Alan I kept my underpants on. Dershowitz
loves to litigate. He sure loves to threaten these lawsuits,
but how many of them does he go through with?
And that's the tired old shtick this guy has been
playing for way too long. He really you know, it's
worked well for him. He intimidates a lot of people
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because nobody wants to litigate against this guy. But at
his advanced age, him now falling back on the excuse,
oh my health. You gotta think people are paying attention
to what's going on here. And mister powerful Alan Dershowitz, well,
this is pretty much the end of the road for
him professionally speaking. Anyway. I don't see how he can
(23:30):
come back from this. Who's gonna hire a high profile
lawyer who's claiming that their health is too bad to
go forward with a lawsuits such as this one against
Netflix just another out for him, right, Like the boxer
who quits on his stool. This is basically what Dershowitz
is doing, folks. He's not answering the bell for the
next round. This is Alan Dershowitz's No Moss moment, and
(23:56):
boy am I here for it. This guy loves to
these lawsuits. He loves to intimidate people they loved, intimidating
Jeffrey Epstein's first survivors. Well, guess what that karma train
is coming back around, mister Dershowitz. And either way you're
finished now, my friend, you're either A too sick to
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litigate cases or B you've done lost your midas touch.
And I'm gonna go with B now. Whenever we see
one of these famous people, these business executives or whatever,
get into some kind of trouble where they're embarrassed or
something like this pops up automatically. We hear about their
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newfound health conditions. Oh well, I have bunions on my toes,
so I gotta retire, When in reality, we all know
what the score is. We all know what the scoop
is and it's no different with Alan Dershowitz. This guy
has been writing checks with his big ass mouth that
is asked can't cash for way too long, and now
(24:59):
to cry that you're sick so you can't litigate this.
I'm sure the lawyers over at Netflix were cracking up
when they got this paperwork. Oh yeah, sure, Dershy. Dersh
you're just too sick to go on with the case.
Give me a break already. All right, So today's article
is from The Hollywood Reporter and the author is Winston Choe.
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Headline Netflix Alan Dershowitz drop claims over Jeffrey Epstein docuseries.
Dershowitz has dismissed his defamation lawsuit in exchange for Netflix
agreeing to dismiss its free speech claim. The case was
paused a week before the joint dismissals due to issues
with Dershowitz's health. See here's the thing, mister Dershowitz. Netflix
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wouldn't even be suing you if you didn't sue them first.
It wasn't like Netflix woke up one day and they
were like, a, you know what, We're gonna sue Alan
Dershowitz just because and we're gonna defame them. See the
thing is, if he really was defamed here, if he
really didn't do what this documentary is saying, why wouldn't
he go through with this lawsuit? Why wouldn't he see
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it all the way through? Sick or not, you want
your legacy to be this? For me, this just rings hollow, folks,
And I might be way off. Maybe he is sick
as he claims and all of that stuff, but this
certainly rings to me as a guy who knows that
this lawsuit was going nowhere and he was looking for
an out, looking for an off ramp. Netflix and Alan
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Dershowitz have agreed to drop dueling claims over Filthy Rich,
a docuseries exploring convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who has
now deceased. Dershowitz dismissed his defamation lawsuit, while Netflix and
Serious producer Leroy and Morton Productions dismissed their counter claims
against the Hovid law professor, accusing him of trying to
(26:55):
chill their free speech rights, according to a joint motion
filed Friday in Florida Federal Court. While that's saying something, huh,
considering that Alan Dershowitz is mister frase speach. Oh, everybody
should have frase speech unless the speech is turned against him,
unless people are inquiring about his disgusting, depraved activities, then
(27:17):
all of a sudden, oh we got a problem here.
It's typical for these kind of people, right, They never
want to be the subject of the same bullshit that
they're involved in on a regular basis. And when they are,
oh boy, the walls come falling down, don't they. And
it's no different for Alan Dershowitz. This is a man
who is used to people cowtowing to him. This is
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a man who's used to people bending over backwards in fear.
And that's all gone. Virginia Roberts stood up to this dude.
And since then, boy, oh boy, have things changed for him.
No longer do we see him making appearances on every
single news station. You know, he still makes his appearances
now and then, but it's not on stations like an
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or Newsmax. Every now and then he'll swindle his way
on the Fox. He used to come on CNN a
little bit, but you know, he's engaged in a lawsuit
with them as well, so forget about that. So this
guy has always weaseled his way in one way or
the other. But I don't think that's gonna happen anymore.
I mean, you already see BBC, who had this moron
come on after the Maxwell verdict and they have to
(28:24):
come out and make an apology about it. People are
paying attention finally, and it's been decades in the making.
The problem is people like Dershowitz and Epstein and the
rest of them. They have gone away with it for
so long that when their card is pulled all of
a sudden, it's this big deal and everybody needs to
get sued now the kit excuse me. The case was
(28:50):
paused a week before the two sides resolve the litigation
because of concerns over Dershowitz's health. Dershowitz and his lawyers
did not immediately respond to a request for comment, So you know,
it's pretty open ended, right his health? What does that mean?
Did he have an allergy attack? Did he have a
case of IBS? You know again, that's very vague. Oh uh,
(29:14):
he has health issues? Well all right, what are those
health issues? The case arises from issues Dershowitz had with
his portrayal in the series, which premiered in May twenty twenty.
His portrayal, There was no actors in the series. Nobody
dressed up to be the Cryptkeeper aka the naked volleyballer
(29:34):
from Martha's Vineyard. Nobody played the role. This was Alan
Dershowitz being accused credibly by an accuser who has been
believed by several different courts now, several different judges and
the jury. So what is this guy even talking about? Oh,
it's my health, That's why I'm dropping this suit. Does
it shock anybody that this suit has dropped? After Glenn
(29:57):
Maxwell gets convicted, This fucking guy sees the writing on
the wall. He knows that this was just a ridiculous
piece of litigation, and he knew it was never going
to go anywhere. Dershowitz, who's known for having represented high
profile defendants in criminal cases, accused Netflix of distorting the
narrative and failing to present evidence that he said exonerated him.
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There is no evidence that exonerates you. What evidence are
you going to provide to exonerate you from the charges
that have been laid against you? Frankly, until you can
answer the charges that Virginia has pointed towards you. I
don't want to hear a shit from you. Bro, I
don't want to see you on TV. I don't care
about how sick you are. I don't care about any
(30:42):
of it. This dude is a scoundrel, has been and
will continue to be one. Netflix shot back with a counterclaim,
arguing that its free speech rights were being illegally threatened.
Pointing to fair reporting privileges, It said that the series
creators relied on public court filings. That's exactly it, and
(31:05):
that's why I have zero problem talking about this full
What are you gonna do is sue everybody? Give me
a break, man. This guy's an absolute clown, an absolute clown.
You don't want to get sued. Well, here's an idea.
Don't just don't hang out with Jeffrey Epstein. My beef
isn't that he represented Epstein. I've been very clear about that.
(31:26):
These lawyers, that's their job to represent scumbags. I get it,
one hundred percent. I get it. But if it would
have stopped there, then okay, fine, you would have been
a scuzzball for you know, working out that non prosecution agreement.
But bro, you are accused of taking part in the
actual abuse let's not forget that those are what the
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charges are that are sent in your way. Dershowitz eighty three,
on March tenth move to remotely attend mediation sessions. He
said he's recovering at a New York Hope hospital after
having to undergo an invasive surgery to treat multiple serious
health emergencies that required hospitalization. Now, look, I don't ever
(32:10):
wish for anybody to get sick, man. I don't have
that kind of animosity in my heart, and I think
that when you live your life like that, you end
up poisoning yourself. Right. But at the same time, I
don't have any remorse that this man is sick. That
this man is ill, I don't have any empathy for him.
You know, his family. It sucks for his family, right,
(32:30):
something happens to him. I have compassion for his family,
but him himself. I'm sorry. I just can't. I can't
muster it up. With all of the sadness and the
hurt and the wickedness in the world. My empathy meter
is down on zero almost right, it's running in the red.
So I don't have any empathy for people like this.
I can't. I just can't muster it anymore. His doctors
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recommended that he avoid traveling long distances to ensure that
he does not compromise his health. Netflix opposed the request.
It took issue with what it called gamesmanship by Dershowitz,
who has been left unfettered by the rules and orders
governing the conduct of proceedings in this court. So Netflix
was like, look, bro, we don't give a fuck. I
(33:17):
don't care if you're sick. You better put on a
hospital gown and will you're asked a court homie. That's
basically what they're saying to him, And they're saying that
they don't believe it. They're saying that it's gamesmanship. All
of a sudden, Alan Dershowitz has all of these medical
issues convenient, very very convenient. Hey, Bobby, you want to
go eat at the buffet? You know, guys, I'd really
(33:37):
love to, but see what had happened was one of
my tooth, one of my teeth fell out, So you
know I can't go. Well, Bobby, you have all of
your teeth? No, no, no, trust me, my teeth fell out.
Oh okay, I guess that's how ridiculous all of this is.
Defendants seek his tax returns. He decides to drop his
claim for economic damages and seek merely nominal damages instead,
(34:02):
reads the motion because what he was claiming was that
these assertions, these accusations in the documentary was precluding him
from earning a living, from making money, and we all
know that's not the case. Every scumbag in the world's
lined up to try and have Alan Dershowitz as their lawyer.
I am honestly one hundred percent surprised he wasn't involved
(34:23):
with Maxwell's defense, And if he wasn't a doddering old
fool like Walder Frey at this point, I'm sure he
would have been. Defendants seek to depose the doctor listed
on his initial disclosures as the treating physician who treated
plaintiff after the broadcast streaming of Filthy Rich for severe
(34:46):
emotional distress to the point of having a mini stroke.
He withdraws him as a witness, but refuses to commit
to withdrawing his emotional distress claims, and Dershowitz will say, well,
I don't want anyone knowing my medical history, or sorry, dude,
why are you litigating. That's how this all works. If
you don't want people to know you shouldn't have been
(35:08):
hanging out with Epstein. You shouldn't have been doing what
Virginia claims you did. So here's where we're at. Okay,
I don't believe you, Alan Dershowitz. I don't believe anybody
that was hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein. How about that.
Here's what I believe. I believe that these survivors are
telling the truth, and I believe that what Virginia has
to say about you, mister Dershowitz, I believe that that
(35:30):
is true as well. It would be nice if we
could figure it out in a court of law, but
our law enforcement officials are too busy doing whatever it
is that they're doing. Netflix argued Dershowitz was making tactical
choices to thwart attempts to depose of the case. It
argued that the parties shouldn't bother with mediation at all
(35:52):
if Dershowitz is not physically present at the session, because
the plaintiff's team will be missing its play caller and
media will be a waste of everyone's time. So if
dershy can't be there, then what's the point. That's basically
what they're saying, and That's why they came to this conclusion,
because Dershowitz did not want to be put on blast.
That's my opinion anyway. I highly doubt Oh, it's medical issues, okay, whatever,
(36:17):
I guess, you know, he's old. Could be the case.
But I bet if things were going his way, he
would have been there doing the Vince McMahon dance into
the courtroom the days after US District Judge Cecilia Altanaga
paused the case pending Dershowitz's recovery. She cited concerns that
his health might result in further delays. The court will
(36:40):
not deprive plaintiff of the benefit of his chosen venue,
including significant and required pre trial of vents such as
the in person mediation and thereafter trial, he wrote, Netflix
and Leroy and Morton Productions did not immediately respond to requests. Well, look,
they know the deal. They know that they have dirshy
Shchwitz finished off here. And what it shows other people
(37:03):
who are being litigated by Alan Dershowitz over this issue
is that they don't have to fear as much as
they thought they did. Alan Dershowitz is not the bulldog
he used to be. The man is old, he's at
an advanced age, obviously a bit unhinged, and he's not
making logical decisions at this point. If he ever did so.
(37:24):
The litigation days of Alan Dershowitz and the days of
him bowling people over and acting the fool, I think
those days are long over, folks. Dershowitz's lawsuit is one
of several defamation complaints that have been lodged against Netflix
in recent years. This is at least partially because of
its interest in true crime content. The streamer has been
(37:48):
sued over its portrayal of various people and groups in
series such as Operation Varsity, Blues, Making a Murderer, and Messiah. Look,
people don't want to be talked about, right, I want
to be dragged, So of course they're gonna do their
best to sue and get things from you know, not
going to production or whatever it might be. But the
fact remains, folks. Alan Dershowitz is the kind of guy
(38:11):
that if he thought he had the advantage, he'd be
pressing that advantage. He knows he does not have the
advantage here. He knows he wasn't defamed. He knows that
everything that was talked about in that documentary well, all
of that stuff was talked about in court documents and
talked about by Virginia herself. So again, I don't really
(38:33):
get what he thought he was going to accomplish here,
and I said from the beginning that this would end
up being the result. All right, folks, it's gonna do
it for this morning's update. Like usual, we'll be back
with some context, episodes and all that other good stuff
for you. If you'd like to contact me, you can
do that at Bobby Capuci at ProtonMail dot com. That's
(38:54):
bo bb Y c ap u c Ci at ProtonMail
dot com. Can also find me on Twitter at b
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all have a great day and I will be back
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later on.
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