Mega Edition: Prince Andrew And The Unsavory Relationships He Fostered (9/24/26)

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And welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. I'm not going
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to spend too much time monologuing this evening considering we're
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all aware at this point about Prince Andrew and his
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newest problem with this Turkish fraudster. Now this episode is
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going to add a little more context, going to talk
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a little bit more about the relationship here, and then
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at the end we're going to talk a little bit
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about Fergie and her refusal to give back the 225,000
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pounds that she received. So, why don't we just jump
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right into this article this evening from the Daily Mail,
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and let's see what Stephen Wynne Davies, Jamie Phillips, and
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Martin Robinson have come up with. Headline, Prince Andrew told
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bankers to call his Buckingham Palace office if they were
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concerned over 750,000 pound payment From alleged fraudster. To call
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my Buckingham Palace office, huh? Well, that's nice. Imagine being
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able to just say, hey, call the royal office to
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check on what I have going on. Don't have to
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take any personal responsibility, none of that. Ah, just call
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the palace. Prince Andrew told bankers to call his Buckingham
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Palace office if they were concerned over a £ 750, 000 payment
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from an alleged fraudster. The Duke of York received payments
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of more than £ 1 million from Selman Turk after they
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met through the Duke's gun smuggler friend, Tariq Katooni, who
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attended Fergie's surprise 60th birthday bash and Eugenie's wedding. The
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payments included a £ 750, 000 wedding gift to Princess Beatrice. Now,
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Sounds like someone who's pretty close to the family, huh?
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Doesn't sound like just a plus one or somebody who
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is on the outskirts. Obviously, him and Andrew have a
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pretty deep relationship. Obviously, they're pretty close. And that shouldn't
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shock anybody that Andrew is associating with the scum of
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the scum, considering, well, fellow travelers and all. According to
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the Telegraph, Mr. Turk told officials, looking into the $ 750, 000 payment,
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that Prince Andrew had authorized him to pass on the
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details of palace aides. Mr. Katooni has previously boasted of
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his influence over the Duke and attended the wedding of
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Prince Andrew's daughter, Princess Eugenie, in 2018. Now look, man.
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How many types of relationships is this guy going to
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get engaged in that are at this level, meaning people
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who are moving in a funky manner? I don't know
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about you folks, but I don't know any gun runners
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or child molesters or abusers or anything like that. But
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somehow Prince Andrew finds himself surrounded by these kinds of
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people on an everyday basis, everywhere he goes, it seems.
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He just happens to attract these kind of people. No
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good people want to be around Andrew. Well, yeah, it
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certainly seems the case. And again, it goes back to
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the whole fellow traveler thing. The convicted smuggler is also
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understood to have previously helped broker secret meetings for the
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Duke with the late dictator, Colonel Gaddafi, and once told
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undercover reporters he played a key role in the release
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of the Lockerbie bomber, Abdulbaset Almagri. Now that's nice, huh?
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Hell of a guy. Get that dude released. I mean,
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for real? Do we forget what the Lockerbie bombing looked like?
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I mean, I'm old enough to remember that. So you
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got this guy working as a go-between to get the
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bomber freed. And at the same time, he's over there
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with Prince Andrew ingratiating himself to Prince Andrew. And Lord
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knows what kind of manipulation he has going on, what
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sort of blackmail he might have over Andrew. Again, I
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don't know that for sure. But when you're dealing with
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information brokers and you're dealing with people on this sort
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of playing field, It is no holes barred, no gloves required.
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Catooney introduced Andrew to Selman Turk, 35, in the early
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summer of 2019, before the pair became friendly and shared
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dinners at the alleged fraudster's South Kensington home. It previously
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emerged that Fergie's surprise 60th birthday party. Which took place
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just months after their introduction. Was partially funded by Mr. Turk.
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The Sunday Telegraph reported. Now we talked about this yesterday.
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And how Mr. Turk was involved with all of this stuff.
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And the question we asked then. And it's a question
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I'll ask now. For what reason? What was Mr. Turk
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receiving in return? My guess is. He was getting the
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favor of Prince Andrew. And Prince Andrew was, you know,
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manipulating things that he could in favor of Mr. Turk.
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That's the only logical explanation here. We know that Mr.
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Turk wasn't doing it out of the kindness of his heart.
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None of these people do that. They don't just show
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up when you're sick or something and say, hey, here's
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a million bucks. Everything is an enigma wrapped in a
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conundrum with these people. And months later, Mr. Turk and
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Katooni took a selfie photograph together during a visit to
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what appears to be Frogmore House, the Royal Residence in Windsor,
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Great Park, in February 2020. Look, they've had them all
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there at the Royal Residence, huh? Gun runners, child molesters,
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human traffickers, rapists, the whole nine. Hell of a place.
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Since their introduction less than three years ago, Mr. Turk
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is alleged to have made payments totaling 1.1 million pounds
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to Andrew, of 250,000 pounds to Sarah, and 25,000 pounds
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to Princess Eugenie. Of the sum allegedly paid to the princess, 15,000
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had been listed as a birthday gift, but it is
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understood to have actually been used to pay for the
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surprise party. So Prince Andrew's out here you know, manipulating
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his relationships and getting people to pay for his daughter's
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birthday party, right? She's a princess. You need other people
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to pay for her birthday party? Maybe if you weren't
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such a scumbag, maybe if you weren't up to your
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neck in sexual assault allegations, you'd have a couple of
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bucks to spread around for your kid's birthday party. But instead,
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you have to get money from a gunrunner, a fraudster, However,
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it is alleged that this money was stolen by Mr.
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Turk from Turkish millionaires Nebahat Eviap Izbelin, who had entrusted
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him with helping her move 87 million out of Turkey
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as she attempted to avoid political persecution. So Prince Andrew,
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scumbag ass, is getting money from a lady who is
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being politically persecuted on the grift. Now, Andrew, he'll say
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he had no idea about any of this. I thought
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the money was on the up and up. I thought
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that Mr. Turk, the notorious gunrunner and scumbag, was a
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legitimate man, and I was just doing the honorable thing
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and hanging out with him. Prince Andrew and his family
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have been named in the high court battle, the Telegraph reported.
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The complex case is ongoing, no trial has taken place,
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and the allegations have not yet been resolved. Mr. Turk
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denies all allegations of wrongdoing. In preliminary hearings, it was
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alleged substantial sums were paid to the Duke and Duchess
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of York, but there has been no suggestion that they
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have any involvement in the allegations. Isn't that nice? You
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can receive a bunch of stolen money and it's no
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big deal. Oh, we didn't know. So maybe that's what
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everybody should say who gets caught up in a RICO case. Oh,
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I had no idea where this money came from. I
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didn't know that this was ill-gotten gains. You mean to
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tell me that the money that Prince Andrew received from Mr. Turk...
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wasn't from ill-gotten gains. Mr. Turk didn't get this money
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from manipulating relationships or from gun running or a bevy
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of other illegal activities that I'm sure he was involved in.
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The party was attended by the likes of Ellie Goulding,
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Robbie Williams, and Julian Fellows. Princess Eugenie has said she
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believed the payments to be gifts from family friends to
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assist with the cost of the surprise bash. Here's an idea.
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If you don't have the money to throw a bash
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for your daughter, then you should probably roll it back
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and not make it a bash. Or go to your mom,
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the queen. She's willing to give you money to pay
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for sexual assault allegations. Pretty sure she'd pay for her
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granddaughter's little soiree here. Unless, of course, it wasn't about
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the money. And it was about building the relationship. We
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all know how Prince Andrew rolls, folks. And we all
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know that he likes to have his hands in the
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pockets of many scumbags. In a statement she said in
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early October 2019, I had received a call from our
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family friend saying that he wanted to make a financial
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contribution towards my mother's birthday party to assist with the
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catering costs. I suggested that any contribution could be made
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directly to the caterers, but in the event provided my
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account details to which two payments were made, totaling £ 25, 000,
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which I then transferred on to the company organizing my
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mother's party. So again, these rich people can't even pay
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for their own parties. You people are richer than God himself.
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And you're out here cavorting with people like Mr. Turk
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all because you're so damn greedy. That's what it comes
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down to, greed. Prince Andrew can pay all this money, 16,000 pounds, 20,000 pounds,
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whatever it is, to go watch a golf game. You
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can't come up with the money to throw your little
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soiree here? Katooni was among 100 guests at the party
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and enjoyed regular access to Andrew with photographs showing the
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Duke sitting near him at the event. Andrew first became
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involved with Katooni in 2005, the same year he was
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caught trying to smuggle a submachine gun from the Netherlands
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to France. Kaituni has previously demonstrated his willingness to trade
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on their friendship and has claimed he could influence Andrew
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into backing commercial projects. Well, that's going to be worthless
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from here on out, right? I mean, Andrew has no
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more say. So that's a wasted relationship. All of that
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money that Kytuny and Turk used to try and lather
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up Mr. Prince Andrew here, all going to waste. Spice
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up your love life. The Libyan once gave Eugenie's sister
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Beatrice an $ 18, 000 diamond necklace. months before the Duke allegedly
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lobbied a British company on his behalf. Sure looks like
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pay for play to me. Sure looks like nepotism to me.
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But what do I know? I'm just some guy sitting
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in his studio, running in his fat yap. Mr. Turk
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currently lives in a multi-million pound flat in a prestigious
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Mayfair property owned by the Queen. I mean, that's just
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a coincidence, right? That the Queen owns the spot that
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this dude's living in has nothing to do with the
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relationship he has with Andrew, huh? How many of us
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out there can afford to live in a spot owned
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by the queen? I'm guessing not too many of us.
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But it's crazy to think that there's all of these ties,
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all of these connections, and Prince Andrew would still be
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out here acting like, oh, I don't know who this
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guy is. He just gave me some money. Just like
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you didn't know who Virginia Roberts was, right, Mr. Prince Andrew?
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He is understood to have been introduced to Caetani in
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early 2019, before then meeting Andrew for the first time
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in May or June, later the same year. Mr. Turk, Caetani,
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and the Duke subsequently met on at least two occasions,
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including a dinner with potential investors at the alleged fraudsters'
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South Kensington home in West London in December of 2019.
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Can you imagine all the grift that was going on there? Boy,
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to be a roach in the rushes and to have
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access to that conversation with all of these morons. The
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only time Andrew and Mr. Turk have been pictured together
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in public was when the latter won an award at
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the Duke of York's Dragon Den-style competition, Pitchat Palace, in
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November of 2019. In a video posted to the Pitch
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Palace Twitter account, he outlined how he was creating a
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new consumer-focused digital bank aimed at millennials named Heyman AI. Okay,
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so basically what this fraudster is saying is that he's
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creating a bank aimed at millennials to pilfer your wealth.
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Because this guy is an obvious fraudster, a scumbag, and
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certainly not somebody I'd be comfortable putting my money with.
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I mean, for real, you're starting a bank, bro? The
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next evening, Heyman AI won the People's Choice Award, and
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he was photographed shaking hands with the Duke who hosted
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the event. But days later, Mr. Turk told an official
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from Ms. Isbellen's private bank that the $ 750, 000 payment was
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a wedding gift. In court documents, Ms. Isbellen, who also
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attended the Pitch at Palace event, has suggested the transfer
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could be connected to the award Mr. Turk won that evening.
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The prince has since repaid the cash after she alleged
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it was a scam. A spokeswoman for the Duke of
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York said, we will not be commenting on an ongoing
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legal matter. So since he paid the money back, it's
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all good. There's no, you know, no penalties for it
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for accepting stolen money or stolen goods. Maybe I should
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just run a fence shop out of my garage. And
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when the cops come, I could just say, oh, I
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had no idea any of this was stolen. I'll just
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pay the money back. I wonder how far that would
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get me. I'm guessing it would get me right into
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a fucking jail cell. Sarah Ferguson has no plans to
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hand back the £ 225, 000 as it was a fee for
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her work as a brand ambassador for a green energy firm,
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sources say. What a bunch of hot air. The Duchess
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of York does not plan to repay the £ 225, 000 she
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received from the company of Selman Turk, whom she regarded
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as a perfectly bonafide banker, it is understood. Perfectly bonafide, huh? Sure,
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just like Jeffrey Epstein, hell of a guy, another person
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who lent you money. I mean, what's next? Who's going
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to lend her money next? Does she have a connection
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to Bin Laden's estate, perhaps? Maybe she can go get
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some money from, you know, insert scumbag here, because she
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has a list of people who she's gotten money from
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who are absolute pieces of shit. Sarah got the payment
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from Alphabet Capital Limited, which the high court heard was
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a fraudulent front for apparent money laundering. In legal documents
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before the court, Turk is claimed to be a con
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man who set up Alphabet to move dirty money around
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the world. He denies the allegation. You know, it's funny
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because London is a hub for money laundering. It's a
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huge place to wash dirty money. And I wasn't even
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aware of that really until a few years ago when
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we first started digging into this. But the deeper you
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dive and the more you look at it, New York
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and London both are just filled with absolute scumbags. The
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Duchess has not issued any statement about the money she received,
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but sources close to her have offered an explanation. They
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say it relates to her work as a brand ambassador
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for U.S. green energy company Pegasus Group Holdings. 225,000 pounds
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for Fergie to be a brand ambassador? Are they hiring?
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I'm looking to be a brand ambassador. I'll take half
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that dough. Turk was suggested as someone who would take
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on the debts and pay the Duchess in full, with
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Pegasus then paying him in installments. Insiders say she knew
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Turk through the Duke and regarded him as a banker
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and a perfectly bona fide person to deal with. A
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spokesman for Sarah said the Duchess was completely unaware of
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the allegations that have since emerged against Mr. Turk. She
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is naturally concerned by what has been alleged against him.
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Pegasus was unavailable for comment. Well, if she was really concerned,
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don't you think she'd be giving that money back? Don't
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you think she'd be falling over herself to try and
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make people whole? Because obviously that money was stolen from somewhere.
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That's how this works. A grifter like Mr. Turk, you
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know he's ganking this money from somewhere. So now, you're
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in possession of ill-gotten gains. And if we lived in
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a world with any justice, if we lived in a
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world where people like you were held accountable, you would
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be in big trouble for that. But unfortunately, that's not
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the reality we live in. We live in a reality
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where these people can do whatever they want, but you
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and I, well, we have to play by the rules
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that they make. And on and on the wheel turns, folks.
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The question is, when are the spokes going to break?
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If you'd like to contact me, you can do that
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at bobbycapucci at protonmail.com. That's B-O-B-B-Y-C-A-P-U-C-C-I at protonmail.com. You can
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also find me on Twitter at B-O-B-B-Y underscore C-A-P-U-C-C-I. What's up, everyone,
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and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. Hope everybody's had
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a great weekend so far. And hopefully you're all enjoying
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your Sunday. Prince Andrew continues to be an absolute embarrassment
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to not only the UK, to not only the royal family,
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but to humanity as a whole. And it seems the
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only person who doesn't realize what an embarrassment this dude is,
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is his mother, the queen. And while the queen has
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enjoyed a bit of plot armor throughout this whole entire deal,
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meaning her reign, it is time now that people are
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starting to call her out because of the situation with
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Prince Andrew. And you're starting to see it more in newspapers.
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You're starting to see it more with pundits. And you're
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going to see a lot more of it moving forward
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because people in general are not willing to just look
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the other way anymore. You know, extraordinary circumstances call for
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extraordinary action, and we have not seen any of that
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from the royal family, and it's going to continue to
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drag them down. And there's an article today, well, it
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was from yesterday, but the article is from The Guardian,
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and the author... Catherine Bennett goes into it a little bit,
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and she talks about how if the Queen can't, you know,
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see the forest through the trees, basically, and realize it's
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time to pack it in with Andrew, perhaps maybe she
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should retire as well. Now, probably not a bad idea.
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95 years old, you've done enough, Queen. 70 years on
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the throne, long reign. Time to pack it in and
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go and enjoy your ducks or whatever it is retired
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kings and queens do. But out here, trying to refurbish
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Andrew's image is not a good look for anybody, and
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especially for the queen. We've talked about it a bunch already.
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The monarchy isn't on stable ground. It's not like, you know,
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they've solidified their reign here and they're looking at a
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thousand years of Windsor rule. That's not what we're looking
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at here. They've already been entangled with drama. They've already
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been entangled with other nonsense. And now you add all
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of this on top of it, plus what's going on
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with the fraud and the Turkish gun runners. Come on, man.
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So it's time for the queen to either get out
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of the way, meaning retire, or to show a little
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bit of backbone and stop trying to refurbish the image
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of her son, Uncle Touchy. All right, this article is
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from The Guardian. And like I said, the author is
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Catherine Bennett. Headline, if you can't see the problem with Andrew, ma'am,
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perhaps it's time to hang up the crown. Now, let's
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just pause to reflect real quick. How often do you
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hear people like people, you know, like Catherine Bennett saying
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things like this, you know, subjects over in England in
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one of these big papers? It's not something you see
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a whole bunch of, at least not in the past.
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But again, people are not very happy with what's going on.
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People are not very happy with the so-called elite. And
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people are starting to wake up in mass from the
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grand hypnosis we've all been afflicted with. And they're starting
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to ask questions about the way things are ordered, how
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things work, and why things are the way they are.
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Because how often are we going to have people like
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Prince Andrew shoved down our throat and just forced to
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accept him? It's six weeks since Prince Andrew settled out
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of court with his accuser, Virginia Roberts, for a sum
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estimated at £ 12 million. Cheap at the price, it was suggested.
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if the money, source unexplained, prevented sexual assault charges and
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a public trial, ruining his mother's platinum jubilee. And again,
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I find it obscene. The whole, oh, it's about the jubilee,
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it's about the celebration. You know what? The queen should
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have a little bit of honor here and say to herself,
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you know what? Having Andrew around is probably not a
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good idea considering I didn't say a word throughout this
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whole thing to support these girls, these women. And now
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you just double down on it? By bringing Uncle Touchy out?
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Whatever's left to be ruined, that is, after mixed results
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from Cambridge's vintage-inspired Caribbean visit, in which only Kate's elaborate
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wardrobe signaled that anything had changed since 1953. Yikes, pretty rough.
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Going pretty hard here on the royal family, but it's
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the truth, right? Why are... the English, the Royals, in
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charge of anything that's going on in a place like
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Jamaica or in the Caribbean. I don't understand. I really
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don't understand it. And the same goes for places in America,
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even places like Hawaii. If they want to have a
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referendum and they want to become their own sovereign state,
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hey man, I'm all for it. Let the people decide.
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Since Andrew testified in the settlement to a hitherto unsuspected
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concern for victims of sex trafficking, along with a newfound
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regret for knowing Jeffrey Epstein, the deal was also welcomed
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as a victory for Robert's fellow survivors. A lawyer for
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Sarah Ransom, one of those abused by Epstein, called the
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settlement a banner day. survivors had been heard and were
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no longer silenced. It's the truth. Finally, they had a
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little bit of restitution, right? A little bit of slap
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back for the scumbags who hurt them. Now, again, it's
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not perfect. Not everybody who is involved here has been indicted. Hell,
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nobody has really. But seeing Ghislaine Maxwell up there is
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a big victory for them. one of the figureheads of
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the organization, the number two in the organization, getting popped,
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it's definitely a victory. But having the queen drag this
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fool up there and shove him in everyone's face, talk
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about regression. These women, probably unfamiliar with correct form concerning
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the titled associates of known sex offenders... could not have
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anticipated that Andrew's discomfiture would be strictly temporary, basically saying, well,
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a couple of weeks is good enough punishment for Andrew,
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but now he's back on the scene. A prince who
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is no longer HRH, owing to some serious sexual allegations,
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should still, as newly demonstrated by the UK's foremost role models,
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be seen at formal events and addressed dukely as Your Grace. Boy,
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she's going hard on the Queen and the Royals here
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with this mockery and sarcasm. And she should. Everybody should.
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There's no excuse for it. You could have left Prince
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Andrew at home. You didn't need to bring him out
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there and put him in the forefront. Should one bow?
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A nod is usually acceptable where a prince has been
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unable to account, as with Andrew. for a photograph of
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him pawing a teenage girl with Ghislaine Maxwell in the background.
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Following a period of reflection, a month is ample, Current
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protocol requires a monarch's son previously accused of sexual assault
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to take precedence in royal ceremonials over siblings who have
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never associated with a known sex offender. Charles's favorites, Jimmy
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Saville and Lawrence Vanderpost, were only posthumously unmasked. See, again, look,
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this isn't the first time, right? We know that Jimmy
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Saville was a sick bastard. We know that he had
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access to children he should not have had access to.
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And we also know that he had the favor of Charles. See,
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the royal family was able to skate when it came
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to Mr. Jimmy, right? Social media wasn't around then. So
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those boys that were being hurt by him, they didn't
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have a voice. They didn't have surrogates on social media
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to take their story and run with it. But nowadays,
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that's The royals, they can't depend on that, right? Because
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people like you and I, we're not going to sit
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around and be gaslighted by these people. Zero chance. We're
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taking a look from afar, and I'll tell you what,
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none of us like what we see. As the Queen's
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escort at Prince Philip's memorial service, Andrew duly enjoyed a
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central role. received by a reverential clerics and a trumpet fanfare,
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then serenaded to a front seat by less valued siblings
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and relations. If only a prior engagement in New York's
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Metropolitan Detention Center had not obliged Ghislaine to send regrets,
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it could have been just like old times. Imagine Ghislaine
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back at the party with them, Jeffrey Epstein accompanying them. Boy,
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the band would be back together. And while the author
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is using scorching mockery here and scorching sarcasm, we're at
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the point where that is needed when we're dealing with
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these people. They should be scorned. They should be mocked.
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And they should be hit with a heavy amount of sarcasm.
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As a massive public affront to Roberts and the other
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women raped by Andrew's friend Epstein, the event could hardly, however,
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have been surpassed. After being silenced for years by their abusers, allies,
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the women last week saw the memorial to Prince Philip Double,
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as dictated by Andrew's leading role, as a further denial
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of their existence. Juliet Bryant, a survivor of Epstein's abuse, said,
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It's not just an insult to the victims. It's a
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complete insult towards humanity. She's not wrong. She's not wrong.
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We talked about this. And when she said it, she
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is not wrong. because what he did, what they did,
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what they're all doing, is an absolute affront to humanity.
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How dare you put this dude front and center, after
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everything we know. The deep public respect and affection for
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the Queen, with an added tenderness that comes of seeing
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her look, often tired, small and alone, meant that this
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perverse choreography was received where, she was concerned, less with
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disapproval than with incredulity. How could this dutiful woman, one
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of the UK's dwindling emblems of national probity, have allowed
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her greedy, notoriously brutish son to reinvent her husband's memorial
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service as a rehabilitation opportunity? She should have been one
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of the country's last protections against epidemic Matt Hancock syndrome,
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the pathological inability to feel shame. Look, this is who
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the royal family always has been. They're just being unmasked
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now for the world to see it. And I know
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there's a lot of people that don't want to accept
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the reality of the situation. And that reality is the
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royal family is just another group, another collection of so-called
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elites that do not give one single... fuck about any
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of you. It's possible that the queen never saw the
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seedy photo. Is the one person who still believes Andrew's
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news night codswallop? That he can't sweat, always wears ties,
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stayed at Epstein's to show leadership. Maybe he was addressing
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mummy all along. My judgment was probably colored by my
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tendency to be too honorable, but that's just the way
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it is. Look, this guy should have been slapped down
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from his position a long, long time ago. But the
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queen has refused to do anything. She has refused to
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take action. And now bringing him front and center, she's
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basically saying that she believes what he had to say
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and that he didn't do what Virginia accused him of doing.
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Now let that soak in for a minute. The monarch
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feels that way, huh? The monarch thinks it's a good
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idea to bring this dude out there front and center.
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As much as her admirers would welcome any relief from
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the cognitive dissonance, this explanation, since it requires a credulity
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alarming in a head of state, obviously requires the queen
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to step down. If she believes Andrew, what would she
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not believe from Boris Johnson? Ha ha ha. boy got
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to get that little a little shtick in at the
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end there huh i'm guessing boris johnson is not one
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of the most favored people over the pond right about
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now more likely though given her involvement in andrew's earlier
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demotion the queen was acquainted with the accusations and with
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andrew's reasons for not repeating in a courtroom his newsnight
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line i have no recollection of ever meeting this lady
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His accelerated redemption came after she witnessed, like everyone else,
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Andrew dodging court papers, Andrew's lawyers, after they'd failed on technicalities,
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resorting to insinuations about his accuser's greed, morals, and false memory. Look,
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it was always a game of technicalities and loopholes. That's
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how these people roll. They know that they can't win
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in court. They don't have the evidence to back up
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their bullshit, so how are they going to win in court?
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Especially when They're not going up against normal folks. They're
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going up against other high-profile attorneys who have resources and power.
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Roberts was even accused of being the harmful one for
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somehow diverting attention from those who have actually perpetrated sexual
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offenses against minors. Only on reaching settlement did Andrew say
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she'd suffered as an established victim of abuse and regret,
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as he'd previously refused to do so, his association with Epstein. Look, man, again,
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I'll say this till I'm blue in the face. He's
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not sorry about what happened. He's sorry that he got caught.
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The Queen presumably knew all of this, and with a
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wide choice of children and grandchildren for Memorial Plus One's,
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picked the son who once facilitated a loan for his
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ex-wife from a sex offender, the son who once sold
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a house for £ 3 million above the asking price. Days
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after the memorial, the names of Andrew and his ex-wife
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would again come up in a bewildering fraud case involving
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a £ 750, 000 wedding gift and a Turkish woman's passport. We've
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talked about this quite a bit the last couple of days,
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and it's worth mentioning. It's worth talking about and it's
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worth investigating. What is his involvement here? And to act
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like he had no idea about this money, it's too
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much for me to accept. To judge by last week,
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the family might have saved the 12 million pounds it
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spent rescuing the Jubilee from Andrew. If he could be
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irreplaceable at Phillips Memorial, despite advice, then every Jubilee event
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must still be at risk. Actually... If he'd defended himself
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in court, then returned to non-royal obscurity, it might have
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done less damage than his Westminster Abbey performance, acting as
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if open invitations to the massage-addicted Epstein households were the
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kind of things that could happen to any pious Anglican. Wow. Wow, wow, wow.
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Blastin' this dude. And it's the truth. This guy, if
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he would have defended himself in court and would have
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brought some receipts to the table, wouldn't have been as
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shunned as he is now. But the problem is this, folks,
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he couldn't do that. He had no receipts to bring
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to the table. Whether the Queen is too blinded by
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her affections to recognize the impact of Andrew's unbanishing, or
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she knows and doesn't care, they're both reasons to retire
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before he causes her further trouble. It might seem a
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poor reward for the years of service, even a cruel
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and unusual punishment, but she has certainly earned the right
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at 95 to spend more time with her favorite son,
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enjoying the conversation that made him such a treasured guest
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in any home owned by Jeffrey Epstein. Yikes. So basically,
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this article is calling for the Queen to hang up
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the crown and saying she's no longer capable of administering
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her duties. And frankly, folks, your boy agrees. All right,
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that's going to do it for this update. Obviously, more
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on the way. You all know the deal by now.
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If you'd like to contact me, you can do that
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at bobbycappucci at protonmail.com. That's B-O-B-B-Y-C-A-P-U-C-C-I at protonmail.com. You can
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also find me on Twitter at B-O-B-B-Y underscore C-A-P-U-C-C-I. The
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link that goes with this episode can be found in
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the description box. All right, folks, until later on, hope
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all of you have a great night. Small business. What's up, everyone,
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and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. Today, we're going
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to hop back across the pond, folks, and we're going
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to talk a little bit more about Prince Andrew and
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some of his associations. Now, they always say, right, you
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are the company that you keep. And if that's the case,
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then Prince Andrew is certainly one of the scummiest smarmy
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as sons of bitches going because he wasn't only just
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palling around with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell the dude
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was hanging out with gun runners financial scumbags people who
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were involved in the diamond game you name it and
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this dude was hanging out with people who were involved
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in it yet he'll run around and he'll tell you
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about what an honorable man he is what a great
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guy he is imagine squandering all of your power and
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all of your privilege by hanging out with scumbag people
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such as this? And think about it. Did he really
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need to do that? He was already wealthy. He already
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had status. It comes down to greed and wanting more.
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People like this have never been told no in their life.
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They have never been admonished for their behavior. They have
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never been told anything that is off of what they
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want to do. And then, when the real world hits them,
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boy oh boy, are they in for a surprise. The
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bad news is, it's very rare that they have a
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meeting with the real world. In Prince Andrew's case, at least,
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he is certainly getting a up-close-and-personal look at it. Because
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while he is not in jeopardy at this point of
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being criminally processed, he is not welcomed in civilized society.
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I don't think that there's any quarter of society at
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this point that would welcome him. Perhaps the so-called elite
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in New York, because remember, the only sin to them
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is being broke. But besides that, I don't think anybody
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in the world wants to see this dude show up
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or wants to associate with this dude at this point.
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And he has nobody to blame but himself. Remember, he
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could have been anywhere with anyone doing anything. But he
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chose to associate with Jeffrey Epstein. He chose to break
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bread with Ghislaine Maxwell. And he also chose to put
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himself in those sorts of positions. So I feel zero
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empathy for him, zero sympathy for him, and in fact,
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I find him to be one of the biggest scumballs going.
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And in today's article from The Sun, we're going to
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talk about some of those other associations that Prince Andrew had.
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So let's jump into this article, like I said, from
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the sun, and let's see what author Anthony Blair has
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to say. Headline, blood money, arms dealers, 18,000 pound diamonds,
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glam models, and Gaddafi dinners. Prince Andrew's bizarre links to
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Libya's tyrannical regime. Now isn't that nice? Always something you
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want to be involved with, right? Not only are you
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Jeffrey Epstein's erstwhile companion... But you're also friends with Gaddafi
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and his son and the Libyan generals and the rest
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of the psychopaths that were running the country. Fantastic group
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of friends that you chose there, Prince Andrew. Prince Andrew
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had three meetings with brutal Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi and
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enjoyed a long-term friendship with a convicted gun smuggler. It
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shouldn't shock anybody. Look, let's be very clear, okay? Countries
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in the West, like the United States... the UK, France,
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they're always involved with these gun smugglers, with these arms dealers,
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because they can't do things on the books, right? It
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has to be done through black ops. So they have
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these gun runners, they have these arms dealers that they
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work closely with who do things off of the books.
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And Prince Andrew and the rest of these people, they
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associate with guys like this on a regular basis. And
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it's funny that they talk about Libya and Prince Andrew
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having such a relationship here considering the rat line that
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was set up in Libya to help run guns into Syria.
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That's for a different podcast for a different day. But
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you see all of the connections, right? And you see
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how all of these people are intertwined. The Duke of
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York's bizarre ties to the North African country would eventually
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bring his prized role as UK trade envoy crashing down
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around his royal ears. And even then, he escaped without
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really being fazed. Oh, they took away my honorific. Ha
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ha ha, I'll still go hang out at Jeffrey Epstein's.
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It's such a joke. And the way that they've punished
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Prince Andrew in the past, that was a joke too.
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And it just emboldened him to continue on the path,
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to continue on doing what he was doing, associating with
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who he was associating with, because he knew there were
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no repercussions. his links to the former Gaddafi regime have
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come under further scrutiny in the wake of the mystery
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over Andrew's money. And again, it really comes down to
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that always, doesn't it? Follow the money. And when you
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follow the money, you're usually ending up in some politician's office.
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In this case, these politicians were, you know, people running
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the regime over in Libya. Royal finances expert David McClure
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has said Andrew's private wealth remains shrouded in mystery 15
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to 20 years after questions were first raised about his lifestyle. Now,
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what I'm about to say here is speculation completely on
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my part, okay? But we know that everybody that Prince
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Andrew was associating with in Maxwell and Epstein's circle were,
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let us say, engaging in the money game. So does
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Prince Andrew, Have money stashed offshore? Does he have some
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kind of LLC or someplace where he's hiding this money? Again,
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I have no idea if that's the case. But if
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history bears out, then that's certainly a possibility. Because all
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of these other people that he was associating with, people
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like Epstein, people like Maxwell, obviously the rest of the
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people in the financial sector, they don't have their money
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parked in a bank like me or you do. They're
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trying to avoid paying fees on it, paying taxes on it,
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and all of that stuff. So it would make sense,
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at least in my opinion anyway, that Prince Andrew would
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be playing the same kind of games. Now, is that
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a fact? Obviously, I don't have any evidence to prove that.
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But it just makes sense, considering all that we know
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of his associations with these other types of people and
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the way these kinds of people do business. Meanwhile, former
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Lib Dem MP Norman Baker said, Andrew has accumulated a
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lot of money over the years that we don't know about.
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He went on, he has clearly been getting money from
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elsewhere for decades. So that raises the question, what was
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he getting that money for? Nothing is free, folks. You
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all know that. Nobody shows up on your doorstep with
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a sack full of dough and says, here's some money
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just because I'm feeling good about myself today. So where
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did this money come from, and why was he getting
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this money? Obviously, they were paying money to him, extra
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money to him, for access, right? Access to the queen,
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access to the royals, whatever it might be. But that's
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why they were in business with Andrew. It wasn't because
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he's this great trade minister, and he's working out all
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of these great deals that benefit the country and everybody else.
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It's because they knew that he could be bought. They
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knew that a few dollars would sway him in whatever
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direction they wanted him to sway. David also pointed out
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Andrew is alleged to have worked as a door opener
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for foreign banks in a number of countries around the
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world for years. And we've seen the shit show with
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the banks and recently with Credit Suisse on top of it.
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We're going to dive into that soon as well and
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talk about that because it was a huge deal. As
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far as the financial portion goes. But these banks. For
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how long. Have been involved in this kind of thing.
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Since the very inception of banks. It's insane. It's crazy.
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And someone like Andrew, that's exactly what he was used for.
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Oh yeah, here's some money to live your lavish lifestyle
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so you can jet set around and hang out with
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beautiful women. But we're going to need you to open
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some doors to these banks. And then after you open
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these doors, we're going to engage in a fuck ton
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of money laundering. Andrew's links to Libya date back around
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20 years when the dude visited an arms fair in
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Jordan with his new equerry, Robert Olney. We all know
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that name because he was somebody that Virginia Roberts' legal
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team wanted to depose in the civil suit. So it
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shows you right here how close he obviously was. He's
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traveling with him to Jordan, you know, right-hand man type
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of shit. So it makes sense that Virginia's team wanted
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to talk to him. A number of countries, including Libya,
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came to buy weapons from the British Army and British
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arms companies. In 2005, Andrew was first introduced to Libyan
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gun smuggler Tariq Khatuni, formerly married to glamorous Dutch supermodel
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Lisa Van Goinga, by an unnamed Middle Eastern sheik. I mean,
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it's insane. It's really crazy that... more people don't understand
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what's going on here, and how these backroom deals are negotiated,
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and how all of these shitbag regimes are basically propped
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up by the countries in the West. And then, if
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they don't play ball, well, it's time for the Arab
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Spring then, right? It's time for some regime change. In Katooni,
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who has U.S. citizenship, would later brag of his influence
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over the Duke of York and help set up secret
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meetings with Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi. So that's nice, right?
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He got Gaddafi all set up. He's linked in with Gaddafi.
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He's breaking bread with him. What does Prince Andrew have
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to do with an arms smuggler? You're a trade minister.
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You're not part of the military industrial complex. What are
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you doing breaking bread with these people? You know what
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he was doing. Fattening his pockets. Shoving money in his
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pockets with both hands. Because he's a greedy grifter, that's why.
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All he ever had to offer was his access. Never
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anything he could offer himself, just to open a few
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doors for other people. And that's exactly what he was
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doing for people like this. In 2005, the same year
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Andrew met Cotuni, the prince's new pal was convicted of
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smuggling a submachine gun into France. So if you're smuggling
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a submachine gun into France... chances are there's probably box
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upon box of weapons that you're smuggling in as well.
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All of these arms dealers, they're pretty scummy people, folks.
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There's no doubt about it. And Andrew breaking bread with them,
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it just goes to show you the kind of person
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he is, and that's the point of this episode. Just
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more building that profile, more context, so you can make
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a proper decision when you're looking at this guy and
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trying to decide if he's a scumbag or if he's not.
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Cotuni spent several years on remand in a Paris jail
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for smuggling the gun before he was given a two-month
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suspended sentence and fined € 10, 000 a year later. He has
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since claimed, somewhat bizarrely, that he was never convicted and
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the crimes were committed by another man who shares his name.
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These people all live in an alternate reality. They all
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think that nothing bad could ever happen to them because
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they're part of the elite, the so-called elite. And you
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got guys like this Katooni dude who is bragging about
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their influence over Andrew while breaking bread at Gaddafi's table.
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It just, how does that look good? And how can
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Prince Andrew even explain that? None of this seemed to
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bother Andrew, who enjoyed a four-day holiday in Tunisia with
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Ketouni in November 2008, shortly before visiting Colonel Gaddafi in Tripoli.
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So even after the dude was sentenced, just like with
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Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew had no problem hanging out with him. Again,
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it shows you the profile of who this man is.
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It shows you the way his brain works. He doesn't
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care that these people are convicted felons. He doesn't care
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what they were convicted of. He cares about how their
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friendship with him can elevate his position, can make him
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a few more bucks and open a door or two
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for him maybe so that in the end he can
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make a few more bucks. Remember, that's what it was
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all about for Prince Andrew. He could never have enough, right?
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His jet-setting life. More money. So he'd make a deal
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with anybody. He didn't give a shit. Prince Andrew lost
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his trade role. Before Prince Andrew lost his trade role,
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Cotuni was invited to Princess Beatrice's 21st birthday party in
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Spain in August of 2009, where he also gave her
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a diamond pendant worth 18,000 pounds. Imagine that. Oh, this
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is just my associate that I hung out with a
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couple of times, sweetheart. Here's an 18,000 pound diamond necklace
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from him, though. These people live in a completely different
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reality than us folks. He is pictured at the party
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with Katooni and a bevy of glamorous women. and Andrew's
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ties to Libya go even deeper. In July 2007, he
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attended a lavish party thrown by an unnamed Libyan businessman
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in the French resort of Saint-Tropez, where he was snapped
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dancing wildly with U.S. socialite Chris von Aspen. Now, we
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talked about that party already. We're not going to revisit that.
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But it sure is pretty odd for somebody who says
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they're not into public displays of affection, huh? For him
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to be out here partying, hugging it up, rubbing on people...
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A year later in July 2008, he was pictured dancing
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with Libyan model Nadia Bojna at another party in Saint-Tropez,
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this one thrown by French wine tycoon Claude A. You
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see how he has all of these connections with all
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of these people and all of these places of power? Again,
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do you think that these people wanted to hang out
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with Prince Andrew because he was such a cool, solid
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dude that brought so much to the table and the conversation?
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They wanted access, and he was willing to give it.
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The first known time Andrew visited Libya was November 2007,
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where he waited three days for a meeting with Gaddafi,
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but faced an embarrassing snub. However, he did get to
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meet the oil-rich country's prime minister, as well as business leaders, politicians,
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and most importantly, the president's son, Saif Gaddafi. Now, I'm
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guessing that good old Muammar was busy with his world
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plans of takeover and how to continue his reign of
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terror and didn't have any time for Prince Andrew's bitch ass.
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Ermias Zandi, as he was known, racked up a cost
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to the taxpayer of more than £ 50, 000 in the course
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of his two-week visit to North Africa, including £ 32, 600 on
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flights and £ 20, 000 on hotels. Must be nice. Must be
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nice to have the English people picking up your bills,
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travel around the world, hang out with dictators, lunatics, psychopaths.
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No problem. English people, pick up the tab. You know,
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you show up and you're like, yeah, this guy behind me,
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he's paying. Finally, in the summer of 2008, Andrew was
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granted an audience with the brutal dictator when he made
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an unscheduled trip to Tunisia as a guest of the
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Tunisian despot's son-in-law, Saker El Matari. The notoriously corrupt Materi's father-in-law,
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President Zayn Ben Ali, was overthrown in a coup in
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January 2011. And again, that's back to the Arab Spring.
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And I could talk about the Arab Spring for days.
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So we won't digress off the path here. But let's
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not talk about it like it was this great thing, okay?
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Now that you can save on cock... Terry fled Tunisia
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following the revolution and was later convicted of corruption in
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absentia by a court in his home country. In June 2011,
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he was first sentenced, along with his wife Layla, to
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35 years in prison for embezzlement and misuse of state funds.
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Fantastic company that Prince Andrew was keeping, huh? I don't
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know about you, but I don't know one arms dealer.
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I don't know one child molester. I don't know one
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sex offender. Prince Andrew sure had a way to gravitate
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towards them, no? Weeks later, he was convicted of possessing
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illegal drugs and weapons and given 15 years in jail.
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In June 2012, he was given a life sentence in
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absentia by a military court over the killing of protesters
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during the revolutions. At Metairie's home, the queen's favorite son
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attended a gala dinner in honor of Gaddafi, who was
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on an official visit. They sure love these kind of dinners.
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Reports say Andrew greeted the dictator warmly, and the pair
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spoke for more than 15 minutes. Oh, I'm sure they
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had a lot to talk about. I'm sure Prince Andrew
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was weaseling his way in, and in return, Gaddafi was
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getting all kinds of concessions from this boob of a royal,
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the Joe Exotic of the Windsor family. Three months later,
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Andrew found himself back in Libya, where this time he
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made a private visit to see Gaddafi. He would return
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in early 2009, staying in Tripoli's five-star Corinthia Bab Africa Hotel.
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Must be nice. You know, why worry about the taxpayers' dollars?
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I'll go stay at this five-star hotel. All good. A
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Buckingham Palace spokesperson said at the time, Andrew has only
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met Colonel Gaddafi officially once. But there may have been
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private occasions because it is the Duke's job to develop
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long-term relations with key individuals. But it is always for
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the betterment of the British interests. That's the only reason
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he's doing it. He works extremely hard at the behest
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of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on behalf of UK companies.
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Oh my gosh, what a bunch of drivel, garbage BS.
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He was there advancing your rights and your future there,
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citizens of the UK. What an absolute joke. You were
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there advancing your own interests, trying to get some more
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money for your own pockets. You don't give a damn
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about the people. The Sun Online has approached Saker El-Materi
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and Tariq Qatuni for comment. Andrew's association with the Gaddafi
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family allegedly saw him court the dictator's favorite son, Saif al-Islam,
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according to the list. The Duke hosted Gaddafi's son at
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a reception at Buckingham Palace. Well, why not? I mean, Maxwell, Epstein,
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Harvey Weinstein, Gaddafi's son. I mean, why don't you just
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invite the Taliban, invite Al-Qaeda, invite, insert scumbag group here,
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and let's just finish the circle off. Saif would later
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face charges of crimes against humanity in the aftermath of
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Gaddafi's overthrow in a bloody coup in 2011. That same year,
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pressure over Andrew's various ties to dictators around the world
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would see his role as UK trade envoy brought to
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an end. Look, right after the statement made about how
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Andrew's doing the people's work, he loses the envoy job?
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It's because he was scumming around, folks. He was fattening
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his pockets. eating at the trough while everybody else was starving.
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Calling for the Duke to lose his role, Labor MP
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Chris Bryant told the House of Commons, Isn't it especially
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difficult to explain the behavior of the Special Ambassador for Trade,
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who is not only a close friend of Saif Gaddafi,
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but is also a close friend of a convicted Libyan
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gun smuggler, Tarek Khatuni? I mean, it's just unbelievable. He
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had all of these associations. It was like a blinking
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red light, and nobody was paying attention. Or, more likely,
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everybody was just ignoring it. But despite the disgrace, Andrew
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continued his association with Cattoni, now 58, and even invited
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him to Princess Eugenie's wedding to Jack Brooksbank. Isn't that nice?
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Hell of a guy that Prince Andrew's still associating with.
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Was he wearing his honorable kit when he invited him over?
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In October 2018, he attended both the private ceremony at St.
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George's Chapel in Windsor, as well as the later black
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tie reception. For his part, Cattoni boasted of his influence
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over the Duke of York and told undercover reporters he
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had played a key role in securing the release of
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Libyan Lockerbie bomber Abel de Bassat al-Megrahi in August of 2009.
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Buckingham Palace has always played down Andrew's friendship with Katooni,
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who also spent a year in prison in Tunisia for
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drug possession, describing him simply as a contact. So it's
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just a contact. I mean, I don't really know him
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or anything like that. I mean, you know. It's such
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a joke. I'm so tired of people like Prince Andrew,
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and it's nice to see the curtains get pulled back
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on this clown. Because it's been a long time coming.
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He's been grifting and using the people of the UK
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for way too long. And it's very nice to see
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the sun shine in and expose this dude for the
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absolute scoundrel that he is. All right, folks, that's going
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to do it for this morning's episode. As usual, context
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episodes on their way. And then tonight we'll be back
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to wrap up the day's news. If you'd like to
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contact me, you can do that at BobbyCapucci at ProtonMail.com.
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That's B-O-B-B-Y-C-A-P-U-C-C-I at ProtonMail.com. You can also find me on
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Twitter at B-O-B-B-Y underscore C-A-P-U-C-C-I. The links that we discussed
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can be found in the description box. All right, folks.