Epstein ALLEGED FINAL NOTE REVEALED
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0:00 Let's get to this Epstein suicide note,
0:02 alleged suicide note, which was um released by the court.
0:05 Let's go and put D1 up on the screen.
0:07 This is from the New York Times.
0:10 Okay, so here's the note on the right.
0:12 You can see the uh the handwriting there.
0:14 And uh I'm going to give you like the punctuation and stuff as well just because
0:17 I think it's significant in terms of analyzing
0:19 whether or not this is a a real product.
0:22 Um "They investigated me for months, found nothing." all caps,
0:26 the note begins, adding that the result was charges going back many years.
0:30 "It is a treat to be able to choose one's time to say goodbye.
0:33 What you want me to do?" {dash} {dash} {m-dash} there.
0:36 "Bust out crying?" the note reads, "No fun." all caps, "Not worth it." all caps.
0:42 Mhm.
0:42 So, the backstory here is that this note was,
0:46 according to Epstein's former cellmate,
0:48 who was a former cop who uh killed four people,
0:52 was convicted of killing four people.
0:53 He maintains his innocence.
0:55 In any case, he was put, for some reason, in the same cell with Jeffrey Epstein.
0:59 Seems kind of crazy to start with.
1:01 In any case, that's what happened.
1:03 Um and he says that he found this note
1:06 tucked into a graphic novel that was Jeffrey Epstein's.
1:10 It was written on like yellow paper, he said,
1:12 and he opened the book to read and he found it there.
1:15 Uh it has been sort of caught up in court proceedings.
1:18 Uh what's this guy's name?
1:19 Tar- Tartaglione?
1:21 Um it's been caught up in his court
1:23 proceedings and was sealed because of his own proceedings.
1:27 There was now this motion to, "Hey, let's release this thing cuz it's a uh
1:30 subject of public interest." and so it was released.
1:33 Tartaglione and his lawyers claim that they
1:36 verified that this is truly from Jeffrey Epstein, but we don't know how.
1:41 We've been given no evidence of that.
1:43 So, that's what we That's what we have.
1:46 that he found the note in a graphic novel.
1:49 I would actually love to know which graphic novel.
1:50 After Mr.
1:51 Epstein was taken out of the cell after the apparent suicide attempt.
1:55 "I opened the book to read it, and there it was.
1:57 It was written on a piece of yellow paper ripped from a legal pad.
2:00 The medical examiner, remember then ruled his death a suicide.
2:04 Also, this was not the actual alleged suicide.
2:07 This was an attempted suicide that they claim happened.
2:10 And Tartaglione is I think he's the former cop.
2:13 Yeah, he's the former cop who it was
2:15 awaiting trial at the time for quadruple homicide.
2:19 Just to be clear.
2:21 I will do the most boneheaded thing of all time.
2:24 I asked AI Claude, does this fit with Epstein's writing style?
2:30 All right, so with that with that caveat that this is
2:33 the lowest tier commentary you can offer and I apologize.
2:36 He said, this is what Claude says.
2:38 What I can say, the note style, fragmented, dramatic,
2:42 heavy use of caps and exclamation points is unusual for a suicide note.
2:46 It reads more like someone venting frustration than someone
2:49 in a final and a reflective state of mind.
2:52 In terms of Epstein's writing style, what they say is that because it's
2:56 mostly legal documents and correspondence with associates,
2:59 not just casual personal prose,
3:00 it is hard to establish a classic a clear stylistic fingerprint.
3:05 So, there you go in terms of what Claude
3:08 thinks of how it fits with the alleged suicide note.
3:12 I mean, if I'm being honest, it just seems kind of fake.
3:15 It may you know, this is my own
3:17 personal opinion speculation like it seems fake to me.
3:20 Just doesn't fit with a lot of his I've read thousands of his emails
3:26 between the Epstein files and those hacked emails that Ryan and I had access to.
3:31 I feel like I'm pretty familiar with his writing style.
3:34 The M-dash thing in particular is weird.
3:36 That said, people write very differently by hand
3:40 necessarily than they would type and Claude makes
3:42 a good point that he's corresponding with mostly
3:45 with his teams of lawyers and other people,
3:47 not as many of his personal communications that were in there.
3:49 So, I don't know for sure.
3:52 It does feel like the grandiosity of himself, definitely,
3:56 but the level of like humor and other things,
3:59 uh you know, alleged within it, bust out crying, like I don't know.
4:03 I I I could be wrong.
4:04 I'm not sure I'm buying it now, personally.
4:06 That's just That's just my opinion.
4:08 Yeah, me neither.
4:09 I mean, and we also should just say,
4:10 like uh Tartaglione has a bit of an incentive here,
4:15 because and he even said at some point, like, you know,
4:17 in case they thought that it was me that did this to him.
4:20 And so, that's also should be taken into account
4:24 that the person that allegedly found it would have
4:27 a reason for reducing such a note to get
4:30 any sort of suspicion that he did something here,
4:33 you know, off the off the table, so.
4:35 Yeah.
4:35 There you go.
4:35 Okay.
4:36 Um all right, we also had uh some interesting developments with regard to Mr.
4:41 Howard Lutnick.
4:42 Little bit of upset from both Republicans and Democrats.
4:46 Let's actually put D5 up on the screen first.
4:48 So, Lutnick testified behind closed doors about his relationship with Epstein,
4:53 what he knew, blah blah blah.
4:54 And so, um this is kind of fascinating.
4:57 James Comer, who was a Republican,
4:58 actually admitted that Lutnick had not been 100% truthful about being
5:03 on Epstein's Island ahead of this interview
5:06 with the Oversight Panel on Wednesday.
5:09 So, this was for a closed-door transcribed interview
5:13 as part of the Oversight Panel's investigation into Epstein.
5:17 After the fact, a number of the Democrats who were
5:20 part of that interview were extremely frustrated and disgusted with Lutnick,
5:24 and um you know, said outright that they thought he
5:26 was lying during that interview that they had with him.
5:30 Let's go ahead and take a listen to what Ro Khanna had to say.
5:32 This is D2.
5:34 Well, now we know why that interview was not videotaped.
5:39 Uh if Donald Trump had seen the video transcript,
5:43 he would have fired Howard Lutnick.
5:45 Uh uh it was really embarrassing.
5:48 He was asked very straightforward questions about
5:53 whether he regretted misleading the American people.
5:56 I mean, he said that he would never see uh Epstein again uh in 2005.
6:03 And everyone knows that he took his wife and kids to see Epstein in 2012.
6:07 And yet, it was just contortions and lies
6:11 and no acknowledgement that he misled the American public.
6:15 And then, uh he's raised even more serious concerns about the investigation.
6:20 He originally had said that uh Epstein
6:23 engaged in blackmail and uh recorded videotapes.
6:27 Now, he's saying, "Well, he was wrong.
6:29 He was just speculating uh and Epstein actually didn't engage
6:33 in blackmailing." This raises the question of what the cover-up is.
6:37 Did someone tell him to say that?
6:39 Uh I've not heard that uh he is uh that Epstein ever engaged in blackmail.
6:44 Why is Howard Lutnick changing his testimony, changing his story?
6:48 Uh he's lost all credibility uh and really it's a a shame
6:52 that the American people uh don't get to see uh what he did there.
6:56 And you'll recall, of course,
6:57 Lutnick famously gave that interview where he told this elaborate story about
7:01 my wife and I from the very first moment that we met Jeffrey Epstein,
7:05 we were disgusted and we said we would never have anything to do with him.
7:08 And then, lo and behold, the emails come out and they'd gone
7:10 to the island and maintained a relationship, etc.
7:12 So, Rowe is pointing out that he's still is trying
7:15 to avoid grappling with the fact that he just, you know,
7:18 clearly outright lied in that original telling of his disgust and how
7:22 they vowed they would never have anything to do with Jeffrey Epstein.
7:25 Uh James Walkinshaw also had some pretty uh strong comments after the fact.
7:28 This is the congressman who represents Fairfax County,
7:31 uh replaced Gerry Connolly after Gerry Connolly died.
7:34 Let's go ahead and take a listen to that.
7:35 I hope today that we would have heard some remorse,
7:39 some contrition from Secretary Lutnick
7:42 for flat-out lying to the American people.
7:45 Instead, what we've heard thus far is hours of testimony
7:49 where he's attempting to redefine the meaning of the word I.
7:54 He claims that when he said, "I would never be in a room again
7:58 with Jeffrey Epstein," he meant only him and Jeffrey Epstein.
8:04 Epstein was so gross to him, so disgusting,
8:09 that he wasn't willing to be in a room with him,
8:12 but he was perfectly okay with his wife and family being in a room with Epstein.
8:17 He's lying.
8:19 And today's transcribed interview is part
8:21 of the ongoing cover-up because the American
8:24 people deserve to see the video of what's taking place in there.
8:29 They deserve to see the sweat on the secretary's brow as he
8:32 struggles to answer basic questions about his lies to the American people.
8:37 So, anyway, Saagar, they were apparently none too impressed with what Mr.
8:40 Lutnick had to say behind closed doors.
8:42 Shocking.
8:42 Yeah, really shocking.
8:44 All right.
8:44 In terms of Lutnick, no, I mean, Comer even said it straight-up.
8:47 He's like, "Yeah, he didn't tell the truth." Well, he wasn't 100% truthful.
8:52 What percent truthful was Jamie [laughter] Comer?
8:55 There's like, remember when Andrew Schulz interviewed Trump and Trump was like,
8:58 "I'm mostly truthful." Andrew was like,
9:00 "What is What do you mean mostly?" [laughter] Anyway.
9:03 All right.
9:04 Well, what do we have standing by?
9:05 Glenn Greenwald?
9:06 Let's get to it.
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