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    The Epstein Chronicles

    Jeffrey Epstein was a multi millionaire who had political and business ties to some of the most rich and powerful people in the world. From businessmen to politicians at the highest levels, Epstein broke bread with them all.

    Yet for years the Legacy media and the rest of high society looked the other way and ignored his behavior as multiple women came forward with allegations of abuse.

    Even after he was convicted and subsequently received a sweetheart deal those same so called elites welcomed him back with open arms.

    Now after his death and the arrest of Maxwell, the real story is starting to come together and the curtain has begun to be drawn back and what it has revealed is truly disturbing.

    From Princes to Ex Presidents, the cast of scoundrels in this play spans continents and political affiliations leaving us with a transcontinental criminal conspiracy possibly unlike any we have ever seen before.

    In this podcast we will explore all of the levels of Jeffrey Epstein and his criminal enterprise.

    From his most trusted assistants to obscure associates, we will leave no stone unturned as we swim through the muck searching for clarity and answers to some of the most pressing questions of the case.

    From interviews with people directly involved in the case to daily updates, the Epstein Chronicles will have it all.

    Just like our other project, The Jeffrey Epstein Show, you can expect no punches pulled and consistent content. We have covered the Epstein case daily(everyday since October 1st 2019) and will continue to do so until there are convictions. With a library of well over 1k shows, you can expect a ton of content coming your way including on scene reporting from the Maxwell trial and from places like Zorro Ranch.

    Thank you for tuning in and I look forward to having you all along for the ride.

    (Created and Hosted by Bobby Capucci)

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    Tyle Robinson Preliminary Hearing (Day 6 Part 1) (10/25/26) Oct 25, 2026
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    Day six of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing, held September 1, 2026, centered on closing arguments and the prosecution’s claim that the evidence easily cleared Utah’s probable-cause standard. Deputy Utah County Attorney Ryan McBride argued that the state had built its case through four overlapping categories of evidence: surveillance footage placing Robinson at Utah Valley University, DNA recovered from the rifle authorities identified as the murder weapon, Robinson’s alleged admissions after the shooting, and circumstantial evidence establishing motive, means and opportunity. Prosecutors also leaned heavily on Robinson’s alleged messages to Lance Twiggs, including statements that he had gone on a “mission” to kill Charlie Kirk and had “had enough of his hatred,” along with politically charged engravings found on ammunition. The state maintained that the evidence established not only that Robinson was the shooter, but that Kirk had been targeted because of his political expression. Prosecutors characterized the case as overwhelming and argued that the remaining factual disputes belonged before a jury rather than being resolved at the preliminary-hearing stage.
    The defense concentrated much of its closing argument on the aggravating circumstance that could keep the aggravated-murder charge death-penalty eligible: whether the shooter knowingly created a great risk of death to someone other than Kirk. Attorney Staci Visser stressed that there had been one shot, one bullet and one person struck, arguing that prosecutors were stretching possible dangers—such as a miss, ricochet or pass-through bullet—into proof that another person had actually been placed within the legally required “zone of danger.” Richard Novak separately challenged the state’s evidence concerning political motivation and whether Robinson could reasonably have known children were present. Prosecutor Chad Grunander answered that argument by describing the shot as “ballistic roulette,” emphasizing that Kirk was surrounded by security personnel, a questioner and thousands of spectators and arguing that a slight error in aim could easily have killed someone else. The fundamental dispute at closing was therefore not simply whether the state could identify Robinson as the alleged shooter, but whether prosecutors had established the aggravating circumstances and enhancements necessary to carry the entire case—including its potential death penalty—forward to trial.
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    Tyler Robinson Preliminary Hearing Transcript (Day 5 Part 7) (10/25/26) Oct 25, 2026
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    Day five of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on the defense effort to weaken the prosecution’s DNA evidence. The defense called ATF DNA Section Chief Caitlin Oliver, who had performed testing on evidence including the rifle prosecutors said was used to kill Charlie Kirk and a Dremel tool recovered from Robinson’s home. Oliver acknowledged that DNA testing could not establish when or how genetic material had been deposited on an object, that secondary transfer was possible and that some of the evidence contained mixtures from multiple people. She also testified that several samples had been completely consumed during testing, meaning they could not be independently retested in their original form, and confirmed that investigators’ elimination samples had not always been available to rule out possible contamination. Prosecutors countered by emphasizing that the ATF laboratory was accredited, its testing methods were validated and widely accepted, and Oliver’s analysis found evidentiary support for including Robinson as a possible contributor to DNA recovered from numerous areas of the rifle, including the stock, grips, butt plate, trigger, trigger guard, bolt and fore-end. The defense’s point was not that the DNA testing had been fabricated, but that prosecutors had portrayed statistical findings as more definitive than the science itself allowed.
    The final day also became consumed by a dispute over courtroom cameras after Robinson’s alleged handwritten confession note had accidentally appeared on the public livestream for several seconds the previous day despite Judge Tony Graf ordering that it not be broadcast. Robinson’s attorneys argued that repeated violations threatened his ability to receive a fair trial and asked Graf to reconsider allowing cameras in the courtroom. Graf responded by prohibiting additional exhibits from being displayed publicly for the remainder of the hearing, although he later allowed an enhanced surveillance compilation from Utah Valley University to be shown inside the courtroom to Charlie Kirk’s family. That video allegedly tracked Robinson’s movements around campus, including a figure prosecutors identified as Robinson reaching the roof, moving into what the state described as a sniper position and then fleeing toward the wooded area after the shooting. Robinson declined to testify on the advice of his attorneys, the defense rested, and prosecutors presented no rebuttal evidence. Instead of immediately arguing whether Robinson should be bound over for trial, both sides were given time to file written briefs, with oral arguments scheduled for September 1 before Graf decided whether prosecutors had established probable cause for the case to proceed.
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    Virginia Roberts And Her 2nd Supplemental Response To Maxwell's Discovery Request (Part 3) (10/25/26) Oct 25, 2026
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    In her April 29, 2016 second amended supplemental discovery response, Virginia Giuffre pushed back aggressively against Ghislaine Maxwell’s effort to obtain an enormous range of information about her personal life, allegations, relationships and communications. Giuffre argued that many of Maxwell’s interrogatories violated the Southern District of New York’s local discovery rules because they went well beyond basic identification of witnesses, damages and relevant documents and were being used prematurely as a substitute for depositions or document requests. She repeatedly objected that Maxwell’s demands were overly broad, unduly burdensome, irrelevant, invasive and, in some instances, designed to harass or intimidate her. Maxwell sought materials concerning Giuffre’s communications with Jeffrey Epstein, Maxwell, Alan Dershowitz, Prince Andrew and others; photographs and video involving those people; records surrounding her attorneys, family, marriage and Australian naturalization; writings about Epstein and Maxwell; and records connected to Giuffre’s advocacy organization Victims Refuse Silence. Giuffre also invoked attorney-client privilege, work-product protection and other privileges where applicable while maintaining that she had already produced thousands of pages of responsive material.
    Giuffre nevertheless agreed to continue producing non-privileged responsive records, repeatedly noting that she had already turned over documents Bates-numbered GIUFFRE000001 through GIUFFRE005353 and would supplement those productions. At the same time, she drew hard lines around particularly sensitive material, withholding privileged documents, information connected to ongoing law-enforcement investigations and photographs revealing the faces of her minor children. She also argued that Maxwell was demanding some information that was already within Maxwell’s or Epstein’s possession while Maxwell herself was asserting privilege over related material. One of Maxwell’s broadest requests sought virtually every communication from 1998 forward concerning Maxwell, Epstein, Dershowitz, Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton and other identified individuals; Giuffre objected that such a demand swept far beyond what was reasonably necessary for the defamation case. Taken as a whole, the filing showed how fiercely the two sides were battling over discovery in 2016: Maxwell was attempting to probe nearly every aspect of Giuffre’s allegations, history and relationships, while Giuffre was cooperating with document production but arguing that Maxwell’s lawyers were using discovery to intrude into areas that had little legitimate connection to the claims being litigated.
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    Virginia Roberts And Her 2nd Supplemental Response To Maxwell's Discovery Request (Part 2) (10/25/26) Oct 25, 2026
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    In her April 29, 2016 second amended supplemental discovery response, Virginia Giuffre pushed back aggressively against Ghislaine Maxwell’s effort to obtain an enormous range of information about her personal life, allegations, relationships and communications. Giuffre argued that many of Maxwell’s interrogatories violated the Southern District of New York’s local discovery rules because they went well beyond basic identification of witnesses, damages and relevant documents and were being used prematurely as a substitute for depositions or document requests. She repeatedly objected that Maxwell’s demands were overly broad, unduly burdensome, irrelevant, invasive and, in some instances, designed to harass or intimidate her. Maxwell sought materials concerning Giuffre’s communications with Jeffrey Epstein, Maxwell, Alan Dershowitz, Prince Andrew and others; photographs and video involving those people; records surrounding her attorneys, family, marriage and Australian naturalization; writings about Epstein and Maxwell; and records connected to Giuffre’s advocacy organization Victims Refuse Silence. Giuffre also invoked attorney-client privilege, work-product protection and other privileges where applicable while maintaining that she had already produced thousands of pages of responsive material.
    Giuffre nevertheless agreed to continue producing non-privileged responsive records, repeatedly noting that she had already turned over documents Bates-numbered GIUFFRE000001 through GIUFFRE005353 and would supplement those productions. At the same time, she drew hard lines around particularly sensitive material, withholding privileged documents, information connected to ongoing law-enforcement investigations and photographs revealing the faces of her minor children. She also argued that Maxwell was demanding some information that was already within Maxwell’s or Epstein’s possession while Maxwell herself was asserting privilege over related material. One of Maxwell’s broadest requests sought virtually every communication from 1998 forward concerning Maxwell, Epstein, Dershowitz, Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton and other identified individuals; Giuffre objected that such a demand swept far beyond what was reasonably necessary for the defamation case. Taken as a whole, the filing showed how fiercely the two sides were battling over discovery in 2016: Maxwell was attempting to probe nearly every aspect of Giuffre’s allegations, history and relationships, while Giuffre was cooperating with document production but arguing that Maxwell’s lawyers were using discovery to intrude into areas that had little legitimate connection to the claims being litigated.
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    Virginia Roberts And Her 2nd Supplemental Response To Maxwell's Discovery Request (Part 1) (10/25/26) Oct 25, 2026
    Show notes

    In her April 29, 2016 second amended supplemental discovery response, Virginia Giuffre pushed back aggressively against Ghislaine Maxwell’s effort to obtain an enormous range of information about her personal life, allegations, relationships and communications. Giuffre argued that many of Maxwell’s interrogatories violated the Southern District of New York’s local discovery rules because they went well beyond basic identification of witnesses, damages and relevant documents and were being used prematurely as a substitute for depositions or document requests. She repeatedly objected that Maxwell’s demands were overly broad, unduly burdensome, irrelevant, invasive and, in some instances, designed to harass or intimidate her. Maxwell sought materials concerning Giuffre’s communications with Jeffrey Epstein, Maxwell, Alan Dershowitz, Prince Andrew and others; photographs and video involving those people; records surrounding her attorneys, family, marriage and Australian naturalization; writings about Epstein and Maxwell; and records connected to Giuffre’s advocacy organization Victims Refuse Silence. Giuffre also invoked attorney-client privilege, work-product protection and other privileges where applicable while maintaining that she had already produced thousands of pages of responsive material.
    Giuffre nevertheless agreed to continue producing non-privileged responsive records, repeatedly noting that she had already turned over documents Bates-numbered GIUFFRE000001 through GIUFFRE005353 and would supplement those productions. At the same time, she drew hard lines around particularly sensitive material, withholding privileged documents, information connected to ongoing law-enforcement investigations and photographs revealing the faces of her minor children. She also argued that Maxwell was demanding some information that was already within Maxwell’s or Epstein’s possession while Maxwell herself was asserting privilege over related material. One of Maxwell’s broadest requests sought virtually every communication from 1998 forward concerning Maxwell, Epstein, Dershowitz, Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton and other identified individuals; Giuffre objected that such a demand swept far beyond what was reasonably necessary for the defamation case. Taken as a whole, the filing showed how fiercely the two sides were battling over discovery in 2016: Maxwell was attempting to probe nearly every aspect of Giuffre’s allegations, history and relationships, while Giuffre was cooperating with document production but arguing that Maxwell’s lawyers were using discovery to intrude into areas that had little legitimate connection to the claims being litigated.
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    Mega Edition: Jeffrey Epstein And The Crimes That Were Ignored (10/25/26) Oct 25, 2026
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    For years, the Jeffrey Epstein case was treated as something that could be contained, compartmentalized and pushed to the margins despite the scale of what was already known. Epstein received an extraordinary non-prosecution agreement in 2007, pleaded to state charges in 2008, served a notoriously lenient sentence with work release, and then returned to a life surrounded by wealth, influence and powerful connections. There were journalists, survivors and attorneys who kept pressing the story, but the broader political and media establishment never treated Epstein’s network with the urgency it deserved. Even after his 2019 arrest exposed the failures of the earlier deal, much of the attention remained episodic, focused on sensational names and individual scandals rather than sustained accountability for the institutions, financiers, prosecutors and associates who had enabled him. For years, there was no serious bipartisan movement to tear open the full record, no lasting political cost for ignoring the case and little appetite among powerful people to ask questions that might lead back into their own circles.
    That changed once Epstein became politically useful. As his name became a potent campaign weapon and a way to attack opponents, politicians who had shown little interest in the case suddenly discovered an appetite for transparency, document releases, hearings and public outrage. The problem was not that renewed scrutiny was unwelcome; it was that so much of it arrived only after Epstein became valuable as partisan ammunition. The survivors had been asking for answers long before candidates began invoking Epstein from campaign stages, and the documentary record had been sitting there long before politicians decided there was electoral advantage in demanding disclosure. That history matters because accountability cannot be credible if Epstein is treated as a prop when convenient and forgotten when the cameras move on. The real test comes after the speeches and campaign ads are over, when the same people who promised transparency are expected to subpoena records, confront institutions, follow the money and pursue the names and evidence wherever they lead.
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    Mega Edition: Bill Clinton And The Epstein Related Congressional Transcript (Part 10-12) (10/25/26) Oct 25, 2026
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    Bill Clinton’s February 27, 2026 testimony before the House Oversight Committee finally forced him to answer under oath about a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein that had generated questions for decades, but the proceeding hardly delivered the kind of exhaustive accounting the public had been promised. Clinton insisted that he had “done nothing wrong,” knew nothing about Epstein’s abuse and never witnessed anything that caused him concern, effectively asking lawmakers to accept that his repeated contact with Epstein, travel aboard Epstein’s aircraft and proximity to Ghislaine Maxwell never exposed him to anything suspicious. That explanation deserved considerably more scrutiny than it received. Clinton had not volunteered for the deposition either. He resisted the committee’s subpoena, failed to appear for a scheduled January 13 deposition and only agreed to testify after a bipartisan contempt resolution advanced against him. Yet when he finally appeared, even some lawmakers who had spent months demanding answers quickly described him as cooperative and candid. The central problem remained unresolved: Clinton’s defense depended heavily on what he claimed not to have seen, not to have known and not to remember, while the documentary record established that his association with Epstein was substantial enough to demand far more than a polite acceptance of those denials.
    The congressional process itself also exposed the weaknesses that have plagued nearly every official examination of Epstein’s network. Rather than methodically reconstructing Clinton’s relationship with Epstein against flight records, photographs, visitor records, witness accounts and contemporaneous communications, the deposition became entangled in the same partisan warfare that repeatedly consumes the Epstein investigation. Republicans emphasized Clinton while Democrats complained that Donald Trump had not been subpoenaed, and Chairman James Comer immediately used Clinton’s answers to make political claims about Trump rather than keeping the focus exclusively on Epstein and the unanswered questions surrounding Clinton himself. Clinton’s testimony therefore produced another familiar outcome: a powerful person denied knowledge of Epstein’s crimes, lawmakers divided themselves into political camps, and very little was done to independently test how plausible those denials actually were. Clinton’s appearance was historically significant because Congress compelled a former president to testify, but significance should not be confused with accountability. After years of questions about one of the most prominent men in Epstein’s orbit, the public was still largely left with Clinton’s version of events and a congressional process that appeared more interested in scoring partisan points than aggressively determining whether that version could withstand sustained scrutiny.
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    Mega Edition: Bill Clinton And The Epstein Related Congressional Transcript (Part 7-9) (10/25/26) Oct 25, 2026
    Show notes
    Bill Clinton’s February 27, 2026 testimony before the House Oversight Committee finally forced him to answer under oath about a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein that had generated questions for decades, but the proceeding hardly delivered the kind of exhaustive accounting the public had been promised. Clinton insisted that he had “done nothing wrong,” knew nothing about Epstein’s abuse and never witnessed anything that caused him concern, effectively asking lawmakers to accept that his repeated contact with Epstein, travel aboard Epstein’s aircraft and proximity to Ghislaine Maxwell never exposed him to anything suspicious. That explanation deserved considerably more scrutiny than it received. Clinton had not volunteered for the deposition either. He resisted the committee’s subpoena, failed to appear for a scheduled January 13 deposition and only agreed to testify after a bipartisan contempt resolution advanced against him. Yet when he finally appeared, even some lawmakers who had spent months demanding answers quickly described him as cooperative and candid. The central problem remained unresolved: Clinton’s defense depended heavily on what he claimed not to have seen, not to have known and not to remember, while the documentary record established that his association with Epstein was substantial enough to demand far more than a polite acceptance of those denials.
    The congressional process itself also exposed the weaknesses that have plagued nearly every official examination of Epstein’s network. Rather than methodically reconstructing Clinton’s relationship with Epstein against flight records, photographs, visitor records, witness accounts and contemporaneous communications, the deposition became entangled in the same partisan warfare that repeatedly consumes the Epstein investigation. Republicans emphasized Clinton while Democrats complained that Donald Trump had not been subpoenaed, and Chairman James Comer immediately used Clinton’s answers to make political claims about Trump rather than keeping the focus exclusively on Epstein and the unanswered questions surrounding Clinton himself. Clinton’s testimony therefore produced another familiar outcome: a powerful person denied knowledge of Epstein’s crimes, lawmakers divided themselves into political camps, and very little was done to independently test how plausible those denials actually were. Clinton’s appearance was historically significant because Congress compelled a former president to testify, but significance should not be confused with accountability. After years of questions about one of the most prominent men in Epstein’s orbit, the public was still largely left with Clinton’s version of events and a congressional process that appeared more interested in scoring partisan points than aggressively determining whether that version could withstand sustained scrutiny.
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    Mega Edition: Bill Clinton And The Epstein Related Congressional Transcript (Part 4-6) (10/25/26) Oct 25, 2026
    Show notes
    Bill Clinton’s February 27, 2026 testimony before the House Oversight Committee finally forced him to answer under oath about a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein that had generated questions for decades, but the proceeding hardly delivered the kind of exhaustive accounting the public had been promised. Clinton insisted that he had “done nothing wrong,” knew nothing about Epstein’s abuse and never witnessed anything that caused him concern, effectively asking lawmakers to accept that his repeated contact with Epstein, travel aboard Epstein’s aircraft and proximity to Ghislaine Maxwell never exposed him to anything suspicious. That explanation deserved considerably more scrutiny than it received. Clinton had not volunteered for the deposition either. He resisted the committee’s subpoena, failed to appear for a scheduled January 13 deposition and only agreed to testify after a bipartisan contempt resolution advanced against him. Yet when he finally appeared, even some lawmakers who had spent months demanding answers quickly described him as cooperative and candid. The central problem remained unresolved: Clinton’s defense depended heavily on what he claimed not to have seen, not to have known and not to remember, while the documentary record established that his association with Epstein was substantial enough to demand far more than a polite acceptance of those denials.
    The congressional process itself also exposed the weaknesses that have plagued nearly every official examination of Epstein’s network. Rather than methodically reconstructing Clinton’s relationship with Epstein against flight records, photographs, visitor records, witness accounts and contemporaneous communications, the deposition became entangled in the same partisan warfare that repeatedly consumes the Epstein investigation. Republicans emphasized Clinton while Democrats complained that Donald Trump had not been subpoenaed, and Chairman James Comer immediately used Clinton’s answers to make political claims about Trump rather than keeping the focus exclusively on Epstein and the unanswered questions surrounding Clinton himself. Clinton’s testimony therefore produced another familiar outcome: a powerful person denied knowledge of Epstein’s crimes, lawmakers divided themselves into political camps, and very little was done to independently test how plausible those denials actually were. Clinton’s appearance was historically significant because Congress compelled a former president to testify, but significance should not be confused with accountability. After years of questions about one of the most prominent men in Epstein’s orbit, the public was still largely left with Clinton’s version of events and a congressional process that appeared more interested in scoring partisan points than aggressively determining whether that version could withstand sustained scrutiny.
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    Mega Edition: Bill Clinton And The Epstein Related Congressional Transcript (Part 1-3) (10/24/26) Oct 25, 2026
    Show notes
    Bill Clinton’s February 27, 2026 testimony before the House Oversight Committee finally forced him to answer under oath about a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein that had generated questions for decades, but the proceeding hardly delivered the kind of exhaustive accounting the public had been promised. Clinton insisted that he had “done nothing wrong,” knew nothing about Epstein’s abuse and never witnessed anything that caused him concern, effectively asking lawmakers to accept that his repeated contact with Epstein, travel aboard Epstein’s aircraft and proximity to Ghislaine Maxwell never exposed him to anything suspicious. That explanation deserved considerably more scrutiny than it received. Clinton had not volunteered for the deposition either. He resisted the committee’s subpoena, failed to appear for a scheduled January 13 deposition and only agreed to testify after a bipartisan contempt resolution advanced against him. Yet when he finally appeared, even some lawmakers who had spent months demanding answers quickly described him as cooperative and candid. The central problem remained unresolved: Clinton’s defense depended heavily on what he claimed not to have seen, not to have known and not to remember, while the documentary record established that his association with Epstein was substantial enough to demand far more than a polite acceptance of those denials.
    The congressional process itself also exposed the weaknesses that have plagued nearly every official examination of Epstein’s network. Rather than methodically reconstructing Clinton’s relationship with Epstein against flight records, photographs, visitor records, witness accounts and contemporaneous communications, the deposition became entangled in the same partisan warfare that repeatedly consumes the Epstein investigation. Republicans emphasized Clinton while Democrats complained that Donald Trump had not been subpoenaed, and Chairman James Comer immediately used Clinton’s answers to make political claims about Trump rather than keeping the focus exclusively on Epstein and the unanswered questions surrounding Clinton himself. Clinton’s testimony therefore produced another familiar outcome: a powerful person denied knowledge of Epstein’s crimes, lawmakers divided themselves into political camps, and very little was done to independently test how plausible those denials actually were. Clinton’s appearance was historically significant because Congress compelled a former president to testify, but significance should not be confused with accountability. After years of questions about one of the most prominent men in Epstein’s orbit, the public was still largely left with Clinton’s version of events and a congressional process that appeared more interested in scoring partisan points than aggressively determining whether that version could withstand sustained scrutiny.
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