Mega Edition: Why A Special Counsel Should Be Appointed To Investigate Epstein (12/8/25)

The Jeffrey Epstein scandal stands as one of the most glaring failures of the American justice system, a case where victims were silenced, a secret non-prosecution agreement shielded powerful enablers, and federal custody ended in Epstein’s death under suspicious negligence. Despite civil settlements, oversight reports, and the conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell, the story remains fragmented, unresolved, and tainted by mistrust. The Department of Justice is compromised by its own history in the case, and every unanswered question deepens public suspicion. A federally appointed special counsel is the only mechanism capable of cutting through that distrust—armed with subpoena power, independence from political pressure, and the mandate to follow the evidence wherever it leads.

That need is only magnified by the President’s shocking dismissal of the scandal as a “hoax.” Such rhetoric retraumatizes survivors, emboldens enablers, and corrodes faith in the rule of law. When the highest office mocks the reality of child exploitation, independence becomes not just preferable but mandatory. A special counsel would separate truth from politics, provide finality where there has only been denial, and ensure that victims receive recognition instead of erasure. Without such independence, every decision will remain suspect, every survivor’s voice overshadowed, and the system itself further discredited. The choice is stark: let denial bury justice, or appoint a special counsel to prove that no power, no denial, and no president stands above the truth.


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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. Do you want to know why I think
that we need a special counsel, Well, it's because we
live in a country where the President of the United
States can look the American people in the eye and
call the Jeffrey Epstein scandal a hoax. A hoax. Think
about that for a second. This isn't some petty campaign

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squabble or a partisan grudge match we're talking about. This
is a case where a girls children were recruited, trafficked, abused, discarded,
and silenced. A case where the Department of Justice itself
struck a secret deal in the dark, a deal that
gave Epstein and his co conspirators a free pass while
the victims were shut out, And now, after years of

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survivors clawing their way back into the light, after settlements
from billion dollar banks, after a federal judge himself said
the government violated the rights of those young women, the
President stands there and dismisses it all as fiction. When
the most powerful office in the land mocks the pain
of victims and trivializes one of the darkest scandals of

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our time, the very idea of justice becomes a joke.
Survivors already endured abuse now have to endure the most
powerful man in America telling them their reality never happened.
Institutions that failed, banks, universities think tanks suddenly find cover
in the President's words. Enablers and gatekeepers can shrug off

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questions and say, even the White House thinks it's a hoax,
and the rest of us were left to choke on
the stench of impunity. That is why a special Council
is not just an option, It's now a necessity, because
only a special council stands outside that toxic cloud of denial.
Only a special council has the independence to subpoena records,

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flip witnesses, and drag the truth into daylight, no matter
how ugly it is. Only a special council can give
survivors what the President tried to take away, recognition, validation,
and the knowledge that their voices matter more than the
spin of the powerful. Without that independence, every decision the
DOJ makes will be poisoned by suspicion. Did they drop

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the charge because of the facts or because the President
said it was all a hoax. Now, look, this is
not about politics. It's not about left or right. It's
about whether America still has the courage to look the
truth in the face when it's inconvenient, when it's ugly,
and when it implicates the wealthy and the well connected.
The Epstein scandal is not a hoax. It's a crime,

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it's a betrayal, and it's a test of whether our
justice system can stand taller than the dismissive smirk of
a president. If we fail that test, then the message
to every victim in the country is clear, power wins,
truth loses, and justice was always just a fairy tale.
But if we appoint a special counsel, if we empower

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someone to follow the facts wherever they lead, then at
least we can say we didn't let denial be the
final word. So let's stop pretending that this wound will
heal on its own. It won't. The only way forward
is independence, The only way forward is transparency. The only
way forward is a special council. Because if we can

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muster the will to seek the truth in the face
of presidential gaslighting, then what's left of justice in America
is already gone. For years, that Jeffrey Epstein scandal is
lingered like a festering wound, never fully cleaned, never fully explained.
Each time a piece of truth surfaces, a settlement here
or a dacted document there, it feels less like resolution

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and more like another reminder of how much remains buried.
The public is watched the Department of Justice stumble, the
Court's chastise, and the system stumble again, and still questions
remain unanswered. That's why the argument for a special council
isn't just strong, it's unavoidable. The very origins of this
mess demand in dependents. In two thousand and seven, federal

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prosecutors cut a secret non prosecution agreement with Epstein, shielding
him and even some of his allegedal conspirators. Victims were
left in the dark, deprived of rights guaranteed under a
federal law, and a federal judge confirmed as much. Those
victims had been denied their voice. The Department of Justice

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cannot be trusted to now investigate its own failure. Asking
the DOJ to police itself is asking the arsonists to
write the fire report. The breath of Epstein's crimes makes
the case even more compelling. He wasn't confined upon beach
orm Manhattan. His reach extended to New Mexico, the US,
Virgin Islands, Paris, and beyond. Civil lawsuits against global banks

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have revealed money flows and enablers who look the other way.
Territorial attorneys general and private attorneys of pieced together fragments,
but no one has pulled the threads together. A special
counsel would bring coherence to chaos, wielding subpoena power and
grand jury authority across jurisdictions. Epstein's death and federal custody

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underscored the rot. The department's own inspector General catalog shocking negligence,
guards of sleep cameras, malfunctioning paperwork falsified. Whether that was
in competence or corruption, the stain falls squarely on the
federal government, And because Epstein died on its watch, the
DOJ can no longer investigate this case without suspicion, clinging

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to every conclusion. Only an independent council can step outside
that shadow. I remember, this isn't simply about Epstein demand
It's about the ecosystem that allowed them to thrive. From
financiers to academics, to socialites to scientists, his circle provided
legitimacy and cover some of fay, civil scrutiny, others reputational ruin,

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but few any criminal reckoning, who enabled the recruiting pipeline,
who laundered the money, who obstructed or tampered with evidence
once the walls began closing in. These are questions that
only a prosecutor with immunity deals, wire taps, and the
ability to indict can answer. The victims have waited too long.

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The Crime Rights Victims Act promised them transparency, consultation, and notice. Instead,
they were treated as afterthoughts. A special counsel could flip
that script, building an investigation where victims are engaged from
the start, not betrayed at the end. That would not
guarantee convictions, but it would guarantee dignity, a currency they
were long denied. Some will argue that the department can

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handle it with internal teams, but history shows otherwise. Oversight reports,
civil settlements, scattered prosecutions. Each has left more questions and answers.
The only way to consolidate the narrative to provide finality
is through a single independent authority empowered to say these
crimes were pursued these were not. And here is why

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the regulations governing special councils exist for cases exactly like this.
They speak of extraordinary circumstances and public interest. Epstein's scandal
is extraordinary, not only because of the crimes, but because
of the government's own complicity. The public interest couldn't be
clearer when the most powerful among us exploit the most vulnerable,

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and institutions falter. Independence is the only way back to legitimacy,
and there's precedent. Special counsels have been appointed in matters
involving presidents, national politics, and sprawling conspiracies. If independence is
warranted to protect confidence in cases of political sensitivity, it's

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doubly warranted here where confidence has already been shattered by
past failure. The regulations strike a balance independence with oversight,
freedom to investigate, but accountability through reports and budgets. The
money trail alone screams for independence. Civil discovery has pulled
back the curtain, showing how financial institutions overlooked or outright

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enabled suspicious activity. But civil cases cannot compel testimony with
the force of perjury or offer plea deals in exchange
for cooperation. A special counsel can. Following the money to
its end will require tools that civil plaintiffs simply do
not have Appointing a special council is not about vengeance

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or optics. It's about credibility. Every time a new revelation
emerges from hidden properties to seal depositions, the public recoils
not because Epstein's crimes are surprising, but because the system
still seems incapable of answering for them. A special counsel
would stand apart from those compromises tasks not with managing fallout,

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but pursuing the truth, and this matters for the department itself.
Line prosecutors an age should not have to carry the
mistrust earned by their predecessors. By handing the reins to
a special council, the DOJ shields its career staff from
accusations of bias, freeing them to continue their ordinary work

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without inheriting a deficit of trust they did not create.
And by design, the Epstein scandal is fractured into a patchwork.
A plea deal here, a suicide there, a conviction of
Glenn Maxwell, settlements with banks, reports with inspector generals. Each
thread tells part of the story, but no one has
woven them together without a special counsel that tapestry remains unfinished,

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the holes glaring, the narrative incoherent. A Special Council's closing
report would finally provide the record that Congress, courts, and
the public deserve. It would explain who was charged, who
was not, and why. It would draw lines under questions
that otherwise will never die. In that sense, appointing one

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is not just about accountability, about finality, and the stakes
ripple outward. Epstein's scandal has become a test case for
whether America can police trafficking at the highest levels when
money and power cloak predation in respectability. If the system
cannot deliver justice here, it sends a message that victims

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everywhere cannot rely on it. That's not just a legal failure,
it's also a civic one. Even the specter of conspiracy
theory underscores the need. When people believe institutions have failed,
they fill the void with speculation. The antidote is not
mockery but transparency. A special council, with independence visible from

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the start, offers the only path to conclusions that can
be trusted to stand on their own merits. This does
not mean that every elite friend of Epstein will be indicted,
or that every rumor will be confirmed. I mean, someone
with authority outside the compromised hierarchy will follow the facts
where they lead and explain what they found. That explanation

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itself is the justice victims and the public deserve. Without it,
the wound festers. The Epstein scandal remains a story of impunity,
a man who exploited girls for decades, of institutions that
failed to stop them, and of a justice system that
broke faith with its own promises. Only a special counsel
can cleanse that wound. Only independence can restore even the

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possibility of trust. In the end, appointing a special council
would not erase the failures of the past, but it
would mark a turning point, a statement that the government
is willing to hold itself to account. It would say
to victims and to the public that this time the
process will not be compromised, and that after everything is
the least that the nation is owed. All right, We're

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going to wrap up episode one right here, and in
the next episode we're going to pick up where we
left off. All of the information that goes with this
episode can be found in the description box. What's up
Everyone and Welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles.
In this episode, we're going to pick right back up
talking about why I think that the Epstein situation requires

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a special counsel. When a sitting president of the United
States publicly refers to the Epstein scandal as a hoax,
it doesn't just distort reality, it corrodes the very foundation
of accountability. Such statements are not made in a vacuum.
They ripple outward, shaping public perception, emboldening enablers, and discouraging

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victims from believing that their voices will ever be taken seriously.
This makes the appointment of a special counsel not just desirable,
but absolutely essential. An independent prosecutor becomes the only counterweight
to a narrative that trivializes one of the darkest scandals
in modern history. Look, the President's words carry immense weight.

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When he dismisses Epstein's crimes as a fabrication or a conspiracy,
it sends a chilling message to survivors who have already
endured the indignity of being silenced by prosecutors in the past.
Their trauma is effectively erased in real time by the
highest office in the land. That a rature demands a corrective,

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a figure with authority and independence to prove through evidence
and indictments that this scandal is anything but a hoax.
This rhetoric from the Oval Office also empowers defenders of
institutions that failed. Banks, universities, think tanks, and even government
agencies that look the other way now find cover in
presidential denial. They can shrug off questions, pointing to the

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president's words as justification foreign action. That is precisely why
a Special Council is needed to cut through the haze
of denial and force the facts into the daylight where
even presidential spin cannot obscure them. And the irony is
that dismissing the Epstein scandal as a hoax only deepens
public suspicion that something is being hidden. When people see

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survivors testifying court settlements reached and aim surfacing in civil litigation,
yet here a president calling a fiction, they naturally assume
a cover up. A special Council can resolve that dissonance
by producing findings independent of political rhetoric, restoring a measure
of clarity to a story that has been deliberately muddied.

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In a functioning democracy, words from the presidency should reassure
victims and reinforce the rule of law. Here, the opposite
is true. Survivors are being re traumatized, the public is
being gas lit, and trusted institutions is collapsing. Appointing a
special council is the antidote. A declaration that rule of
law stands taller than any dismissive sound bite from the

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commander in chief. What's more, the president's framing of the
scandal as a hoax conveniently shields powerful allies who orbited
Epstein for years. By writing the entire saga aw off
as a falsehood, he spares scrutiny from those who socialized
with Epstein, traveled on his planes, or benefited from his donations.

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A special council would not have the luxury of hiding
behind political convenience. They would be obligated to follow the facts,
even if those facts are uncomfortable for the White House.
The denial also undermines ongoing prosecutions in civil actions. Victims
fighting in court rooms should not have to wonder whether
the government that is supposed to protect them secretly views

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their case as theater. By installing a special council, the
system separates itself from presidential rhetoric, sending the signal to judges, juries,
and victims that the truth will be pursued regardless of
political messaging. And look, this is not without president. Presidents
have downplayed scandals before, often in the hope of minimizing

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political damage. But in those instances, independent investigators, whether special
prosecutors or councils, were the ones who restored creditability. The
same pattern applies here. Without independence, the official story bends
towards the president's narrative. With independence, it can stand on evidence,
and the danger of calling the scandal a hoax is

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not just the damage it does today, it's the precedent
it sets. If presidents can dismiss crimes of trafficking and
exploitation is political theater. What stops future administrations from trivializing
other scandals, other abuses, other injustices. A special council ensures
that this precedent is broken, that truth is not subject

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to political convenience. The victims themselves cannot be asked to
shoulder the burden. Many have already been ignored, silenced, or
treated as disposable for the president to now dismiss their
pain as part of a hoax is salt in an
open wound. A Special Council represents a counterbalance, a structure
where their testimony is evidence, not fodder for denial. The

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broader culture also feel will the impact when presidential rhetoric
trivializes crimes the sexual exploitation, it discourages the victims across
the country from coming forward. If the most infamous trafficking
case in modern memory can be dismissed with the wave
of a hand, why would an ordinary victim believe their
case will ever matter. Independence in this moment is not

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only about Epstein. It's about reaffirming that all victims deserve justice.
A Special Counsel's appointment would in effect draw a line
between rhetoric and reality. It would say, regardless of what
the President claims, the facts will be investigated, the evidence
will be pursued, and the truth will be written into
the record. That message matters not only for Epstein's case,

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but for the credibility of the justice system itself. The
president's dismissals also complicate congressional oversight. Lawmakers trying to probe
the scandal face an executive branch that shrugs off the issue. Entirely,
But a Special Counsel Uncil has statutory independence, meaning their
work cannot simply be brushed aside by a dismissive sound bite.

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Their findings, once made, must be reported to the Attorney
General and eventually to Congress, ensuring the record cannot be
erased by rhetoric. Moreover, presidential denial risk contaminating future juries.
If people hear the scandal called the hoax from the
highest office, they may be less inclined to believe the
victims in court. This taints the very possibility of fair trials.

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A Special Council, by building cases grounded in overwhelming evidence,
can counteract that effect, ensuring jury see fact rather than politics.
The global dimension makes this denial even more damaging. Epstein's
crime span borders, and international observers watch how the United
States handles them. When the President mocks the scandal, it

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signals to the world that America tolerates impunity for its elites.
A Special Council's work, by contrast, would demonstrate that the
US can rise above partisan trivialization to pursue justice. The
hoax narrative also emboldens disinformation. Already alternative stories about Epstein's swirl,

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some conspiratorial, some defective. When the President fuels that fog
by dismissing the scandal altogether, it gives oxygen to falsehoods.
A special council is the only mechanism capable of cutting
through the noise with hard evidence and legal accountability. And
for the survivors, this rhetoric is not abstract. It's personal.

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They know what happened to them, they live through it.
To hear the President say it's all a hoax is
to hear the most powerful men in the country deny
their very reality. Only an independent investigator, operating above politics,
can give them back the validation they deserve. For the
Department of Justice, the denial creates yet another layer of conflict.

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If the President insists the scandal is fictional, DOJ leadership
may feel political pressure to soft pedal further investigation. By
appointing a special council. The Attorney General insulates the Department
from that pressure, ensuring the work continues regardless of presidential opinion. Ultimately,
the presidential denial makes the case for independent stronger, not weaker.

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Every time he calls the scandal a hoax, he reinforces
why the investigation cannot remain in ordinary channels. At this point,
independence is not just preferable, but it's mandatory if the
nation wants to emerge from this scandal with its credibility intact.
And the choice is clearer. Either the United States allows
the Epstein scandal to be buried under presidential rhetoric, or

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it appoints a special council to prove once and for
all that this was not a hoax, not a fabrication,
but a crime against the vulnerable that demands full accounting.
The survivors deserve that much, the public deserves that much,
and the rule of law cannot survive without it. So
look the moment a president calls the Epstein scandal a hoax,

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the entire machinery of government credibility begins to buckle. It's
one thing for political commentators to downplay or distort, it's
something else entirely when the Oval Office itself turns a
crime against children into a punchline. This is where the
line must be drawn. Without a special counsel, there is
no counterweight strong enough to push back against such coros

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of denial, and this rhetoric doesn't just insult the victims,
it undermines the public ability to trust any institution tied
to the case. If the President says it's fake, then
any decision to prosecute further becomes suspect. Where prosecutors restrained
by facts or by politics, did they decline charges because
evidence was insufficient or because they didn't want to contradict

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the president without a special counsel. These doubts metastasized into
permanent distrust, and the problem is that presidential speech has
global impact. Epstein's network had international dimensions victims from Eastern Europe,
South America and beyond. When foreign governments here the president

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calling the case fiction, it signals that America is unwilling
to confront predation within its own elite. How can the
United States claim moral authority on human rights if its
leader mocks one of the worst trafficking scandals in modern history. Well,
only an independent investigation can salvage that credibility. The denial

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also corrodes the culture of law. Enforcement Agents and prosecutors
should be emboldened to follow leads wherever they go. But
when president mocks the scandal is the hoax, it chills initiative.
Who wants to be the agent who contradicts the president
who wants a risk career suicide chasing a case the
White House has already dismissed. A special council removes that fear,

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insulating investigators from political headwinds. For the survivors, the damage
is the measurable. They've already endured abuse, betrayal, and the
collapse of the justice system in two thousand and eight.
They came forward again in twenty nineteen, only to see
Epstein die in custody, and now they hear a president
telling the world it was all a hoax. Each step

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compounds the trauma. Appointing a special Council is not just
about justice. It's about restoring a sense of recognition to
women who have been denied it for decades. The courts
themselves need clarity. Judges who preside over Epstein related cases
now face a backdrop of presidential denial. Their rulings risk

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being perceived through a political lens favoring the White House
if they dismiss opposing it, if they allow cases to proceed.
A special council cuts through that by presenting the evidence
with prosecutorial independence, making outcomes about law, not politics, and look,
the stakes extend far beyond Epstein. If the system bends

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to present psidential rhetoric. Here than any scandal can be
dismissed as fiction by executive fiat. That precedent is lethal
to democracy. It means the truth is only as strong
as the president's willingness to acknowledge it. A special counsel
would restore the principle that the law stands higher than politics,
higher than denial, higher than power itself. The president's words

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also hand ammunition to enablers who want to escape accountability.
Every financier, socialite, and gatekeeper who helped Epstein now has
the perfect deflection. The president says, it's all a hoax.
With that shield, they can dismiss subpoenas, avoid questions, and
muddy proceedings. Even more dangerous is the chilling effect on

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future victims of exploitation. If the most infamous case of
trafficking in modern history is mocked from the White House,
why would other victims ever come forward. The message is
that power always wins, that testimony will be ridiculed, that
will be denied, And there is also the cross of
effect on public discourse. Conspiracies thrive when official denials collide

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with undeniable evidence. The survivors exist the flights happened, the
settlements were paid, the bank's row checks in the hundreds
of millions. When the President calls all of that a hoax,
it does not erase it. It deepens the public's conviction
that something even darker is being hidden. The argument that
the public will move on collapses under scrutiny. The Epstein

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scandal refuses to fade, precisely because it was never fully investigated.
Every dismissal, every denial, every minimization adds fuel to the fire.
Presidential denial also poisons congress oversight role. Lawmakers attempting to
investigate the scandal face immediate dismissal from the executive branch,

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which waves away the whole matter is fantasy. And then
there is the cross of impact on young people watching
it on. They see survivors dismissed, evidence, ignored, crimes minimized,
all because the accused moved in elite circles. When the
president reinforces that dismissal, it teaches the next generation that
the system is rigged beyond repair, and none of that

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should be about partisanship. The crimes of Epstein transcend politics.
His victims came from across backgrounds, and continents. His network
touched both sides of the aisle. The dismissal of the
scandal as a hoax is not a partisan shield. It's
an insult to the very concept of justice. To allow
presidential denial to stand unchallenged is to accept impunity as normal.

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It means conceding that truth is negotiable and that justice
is optional, and that path leads to cynicism, despair, and
ultimately the collapse of public faith in democracy itself. While
appointing a special council will not magically restore what's been lost.
The failures of two thousand and eight cannot be undone.
The tragedy of Epstein's death cannot be reversed, The survivor

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stolen years cannot be given back. But what can be
done is to demonstrate that denial at the highest level
will not stop the law from moving forward. That's the
power of independence. A special counsel would stand outside the
reach of presidential mockery, driven not by speeches but by subpoenas,
not by tweets, but by indictments. That structural independence is

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the only safeguard left against the erosion of truth. And
make no mistake, denial itself is evidence of why this
mechanism exists. The regulations vision moments when politics and justice
collide so violently that only separation can preserve legitimacy. The
Epstein scandal, dismissed as a hoax by the President, is

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exactly that moment, and in the end, the choice is stark.
Either the United States proves that no one, not even
the President, not even the most connected predator in modern history,
can bury the truth under denial, or it admits that
power will always smother justice. Appointing a special Council is
how the nation chooses the former path. It's the last

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chance to slam the door on impunity and restore faith
that justice, even delayed, can still prevail. And so as
the President mocks and the survivor's wait, the case for
independence could not be clear. This scandal is not a hoax.
It's a crime. It's a betrayal. It's a test of
whether the United States will stand by its victims or

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