Michael Tracey
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1,212 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 20 Feb
Michael Tracey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But like, you know, obviously that is not the case for me, but I can withstand it because I'm used to the torrent of vitriol.
But most people I think probably would be dissuaded from taking a certain angle on a certain subject if that's what they had to endure.
I mean, I wish I could get some better digs, but... Yeah.
I try to be rigorously evidence-based as well, myself.
So I don't discount the idea that something could theoretically come out that would undermine some of the assumptions or conclusions that I've derived from my research and reporting on this.
So I think that's a healthy epistemological habit to always be open to the possibility of something that's in contravention of your prior assumptions being presented to you.
Quick factual clarification on that.
Although it wasn't an enormous story at the time.
You can find coverage in the New York Times in July of 2008 after Epstein pleaded guilty to the two state-level prostitution charges.
We didn't have the full scope of the information, obviously, about what he was accused of or the nature of the non-prosecution agreement, but a Google search would have yielded that at that time.
When the incredibly overrated Miami Herald series by Julie K. Brown, which is just rife with errors and mischaracterizations.
became this sensation across the media landscape.
And Julie K. Brown was showered with all these accolades from all these bogus journalism industry organizations.
Even though, for example, I caught her fabricating quotes in her book, Perversion of Justice, which was based on the initial Miami Herald series.
Yeah, but Michael, I don't think that you would most clownish people in the journalism landscape.
That was overturned on appeal.
The Supreme Court rejected it.
Yeah, I mean, this is a misconception.
The non-prosecution agreement was never overturned.
Ghislaine Maxwell's argument includes, let me just finish.
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