The video argues that Donald Trump's denial of knowing Jeffrey Epstein is false, citing past praise and photos, while alleging a massive cover-up involving missing files and powerful political figures.
0:02In 2002, Donald Trump told New York Magazine, "I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."
0:19In 2019, after the arrest, he said, "I barely knew him. I wasn't a fan."
0:27Both of those statements are on record.
0:32Only one of them is true.
0:4015 years of terrific.
0:4415 years of fun.
0:4815 years of photographs at parties you both owned.
0:55Marilago dinners. Arms around each other. smiling for the cameras in the rooms you built together. Then the world found out what kind of man he was. And suddenly the memory got shorter than it was. The cameras don't forget. And paper doesn't burn. And every word you printed is a lesson you can't unlearn. Ter, >> that's what you said in 2002.
1:25Terrific guy.
1:27>> He liked them young, you knew.
1:33>> Terrific guy.
1:34>> 15 years of knowing who he was.
1:38And when they asked you later, you said I barely knew him. I barely knew him at all. Steven Colbert held the photos one by one by one. Five images of memory that couldn't be undone. The audience went quiet, not from shock of something new, but from the way to watching someone's words come back to undo them.
2:04You called it casual, you called it Palm Beach. You called it nothing special, just a social circle showing. But the man beside you in the photos had a private jet. Had an island, had a list of names. The world is not forgotten yet. And cameras don't forget. And paper doesn't burn. And every word you printed is a lesson you can't unlearn.
2:26>> Terrific guy. That's what you said in 2002.
2:34>> Terrific guy.
2:35>> He liked them young.
2:41Terrific guy.
2:43>> 15 years of knowing who he was.
2:47Then when they asked you later, you said, "I barely knew him. I barely knew him at all."
2:57He banned him from Marilago. That's what the story became.
3:02After the first arrest in 2008, after the headlines came, but the photos are from after 2000 and the quote is from 2002.
3:17And the flight logs are public record.
3:20And the logs don't need anyone's permission to tell the truth.
3:29>> Terrific guy.
3:30>> That's what you said in 2002.
3:34>> Terrific guy.
3:36Terrific guy.
3:38>> He liked them young, you knew.
3:44Terrific guy. 15 years of knowing who he was.
3:49And when they asked you later, you said, "I barely knew him. I barely knew him at all." The photographs are still there.
4:02The magazine is still there.
4:06The quotes are still there. Somebody always knew.
4:13Somebody always knows.
4:21>> 6 million pages reviewed, 3 and 1/2 million released, 2 and 1/2 million went somewhere.
4:33No one is explaining.
4:37The woman who knew what was in them was fired the next morning.
5:06There is a room somewhere in a building with a lock where 2 and 12 million pages are waiting for a knock that may never come.
5:18There is a woman who read them, who prosecuted Maxwell, who put her behind bars across six felony counts and received an email effective immediately.
5:31You're done.
5:33They called it article two. They called it the president's right. They called it no reason needed in the middle of the night. The files are in a room. The room has a lock. The lock has a key in the wrong hands. The files are in a room where the light never comes. Where the names are protected by the powerful ones. And somewhere a woman is keeping about a dry. She knows every name in the pages they hide. She knows what Maxwell said when no one challenged her lies.
6:10She knows and she's waiting for the right time.
6:18Epstein advised Theo, told him how to grow, how to weather bad press, which way the winds blow. Theo fund advance 15 million clean. Built the sanity seat, built the presidency, built the wall between the files and everything they mean. Palanteer got the contracts, the circle close complete. The man who took the money is now two heartbeats from the seat where decisions about the files get made.
6:52They called it article two. They called it president's right. They called it no reason needed in the middle of the night. The files are in a room. The room has a lock. The lock has a key in the wrong hands. The files are in a room where the light never comes. Where the names are protected by the powerful ones. And somewhere a woman is keeping the powder dry. She knows every name in the pages they hide. She knows what Maxwell said when no one challenged her lies. She knows and she's waiting for the right time.
7:362 and 1/2 million pages.
7:402 and 1/2 million reasons.
7:442 and 1/2 million names.
7:48No one was meant to see.
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