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Tara Palmeri (0:00)
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V (0:23)
So here's my first question. Thanks, everybody, for joining us. We're here with Tara Palmeri, longtime Palmer, excellent journalist, expert on the Epstein stuff, which is a rough beat to have, but we appreciate that you're out there doing it. Do you think that it's like getting a more fair shake now because younger people are in powers and they're not afraid? Cause millennials aren't on the list, man. It's all boomers and older Gen X people who were alive and doing the bad stuff at that time. And. And now you have the House Oversight Committee representative who's a millennial, and he's like, I don't give a fuck. Put it all out. Get everybody whatever.
Tara Palmeri (1:06)
Yeah, no, you're exactly right. Because this is, like I've said, this is a scandal that affects both parties. And it's the older generation, it's the good old boys club, the ones who thought they could get away with this kind of behavior for so long. And I think that there is a part even of the Democratic Party that's sort of like, let's clean out the warts, get rid of these, the cobwebs. Let's do this. And that's why you're seeing that from leaders like Ro Khanna, Eric Swalwell, the younger ones. I mean, believe me. And you would know this just from looking at even Virginia Giuffre's depositions, the names that have been revealed, George Mitchell, Bill Richardson, you know, these, these are prominent Democrats. I mean, they're dead now. But Bill Richardson was critical in brokering, you know, so many deals, international deals for the Clinton administration. And, you know, Senator Mitchell was from Maine. He's a Democrat. And so these are just a few of the many names that are associated with the Democratic Party that have been brought into this. And I always say we have to always remember that President Trump was a Democrat then. He was giving money to Hillary Clinton and Schumer and in the 90s and.
V (2:18)
The pallet around New York City.
Tara Palmeri (2:20)
Right. And also, you know, the culture was, was really was. This was way pre. Me too. You know, maybe not definitely a period of time when women were starting to ascend in the workplace, but people were unsure how to deal with them. But so it's so obvious that these young girls that came from, you know, mostly disadvantaged backgrounds, they weren't seen as people, they were seen as party favors. I mean, that was what Virginia Giuffre said. She was passed around like a fruit platter. And she's the survivor that accused Prince Andrew of sexual assault. And the crown and a historic settlement paid her millions and millions of dollars for that. So you know, it had to be.