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Mark Halperin

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Next Up with Mark Halperin
Political Scandal Double Standards, the "Epstein Class" Divide, and Trump’s Cultural Impact, with Andrew Sullivan

Lots of people in public life have done things wrong that they don't get asked about.

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Political Scandal Double Standards, the "Epstein Class" Divide, and Trump’s Cultural Impact, with Andrew Sullivan

Or if they get asked about it, they lie about it.

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Political Scandal Double Standards, the "Epstein Class" Divide, and Trump’s Cultural Impact, with Andrew Sullivan

Howard Lutton, a Commerce Secretary, was asked, what about your relationship with Epstein?

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Political Scandal Double Standards, the "Epstein Class" Divide, and Trump’s Cultural Impact, with Andrew Sullivan

He gave an answer to a podcaster, said it ended.

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Political Scandal Double Standards, the "Epstein Class" Divide, and Trump’s Cultural Impact, with Andrew Sullivan

I met him once.

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Political Scandal Double Standards, the "Epstein Class" Divide, and Trump’s Cultural Impact, with Andrew Sullivan

It was at his apartment, his home in New York.

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Political Scandal Double Standards, the "Epstein Class" Divide, and Trump’s Cultural Impact, with Andrew Sullivan

It was gross.

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Political Scandal Double Standards, the "Epstein Class" Divide, and Trump’s Cultural Impact, with Andrew Sullivan

Never met him again.

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Political Scandal Double Standards, the "Epstein Class" Divide, and Trump’s Cultural Impact, with Andrew Sullivan

Now we know he did meet him again and went to Epstein's Island, exchanged phone numbers, strategized, were in at least one business together.

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Political Scandal Double Standards, the "Epstein Class" Divide, and Trump’s Cultural Impact, with Andrew Sullivan

So there's, do you get asked?

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Political Scandal Double Standards, the "Epstein Class" Divide, and Trump’s Cultural Impact, with Andrew Sullivan

And then do you tell the truth?

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Political Scandal Double Standards, the "Epstein Class" Divide, and Trump’s Cultural Impact, with Andrew Sullivan

And a lot of times people will say, well, we could forgive smoking marijuana.

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Political Scandal Double Standards, the "Epstein Class" Divide, and Trump’s Cultural Impact, with Andrew Sullivan

We could forgive having an extra mile affair, but the people who decide these things, well, you can't lie about it, okay?

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Political Scandal Double Standards, the "Epstein Class" Divide, and Trump’s Cultural Impact, with Andrew Sullivan

So this is a wild west now.

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Political Scandal Double Standards, the "Epstein Class" Divide, and Trump’s Cultural Impact, with Andrew Sullivan

This is a wild west from 1992 to today,

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Political Scandal Double Standards, the "Epstein Class" Divide, and Trump’s Cultural Impact, with Andrew Sullivan

None of you would be surprised if anybody running for president or in the Trump cabinet or President Trump himself, you wouldn't be surprised if anything got asked by somebody, whether it's somebody who works for an old media legacy organization or somebody who works for Howard Stern or a podcaster.

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Political Scandal Double Standards, the "Epstein Class" Divide, and Trump’s Cultural Impact, with Andrew Sullivan

There's nothing that any of us would be surprised about if it got asked.

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Political Scandal Double Standards, the "Epstein Class" Divide, and Trump’s Cultural Impact, with Andrew Sullivan

But not everything get asked, right?

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Political Scandal Double Standards, the "Epstein Class" Divide, and Trump’s Cultural Impact, with Andrew Sullivan

President Trump, of all the things he's been accused of, personal, political, financial, there's some combination of not enough hours in the day to ask him, but also some questions people don't want to ask.

Next Up with Mark Halperin
Political Scandal Double Standards, the "Epstein Class" Divide, and Trump’s Cultural Impact, with Andrew Sullivan

Even now, even in the Wild West, this is where the happenstance comes in.